What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales by Claudia Schwabe, 2025

The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales provides a comprehensive guide to fairy tales across literatures and cultures. It offers an expansive overview of contemporary themes and issues throughout the intersections of the fields of fairy-tale studies, literary studies, and cultural studies.



The first part considers global formations of the canon, and acts to decolonize the field of fairy-tale studies, highlighting the diverse national histories and traditions of the fairy tale worldwide. It demarcates the complex history of the field of fairy-tale studies and demonstrates how the genre is rooted in different oral stories and narratives passed down in cultures around the globe throughout time. The second section outlines important critical approaches, including recent developments shaping fairy-tale studies today such as disability studies, diversity, ecocriticism, inclusivity, and intersectionality. Part three explores how fairy tales have been articulated through a wide range of forms and combinations of textual, visual, and sound media. This section foregrounds the versatility and adaptability of the fairy tale and, more specifically, how it intersects with different art forms and genres, including literature, illustrations, performing arts, and media outlets. Section four addresses sociocultural concerns in transnational fairy-tale cultures and literatures examining the connections between fairy tales and multivocal influences in modern adaptations and postmodern reimaginings, the undoing of colonization and appropriation, feminism, politics and activisms, the canon, and controversies over authenticity.This interdisciplinary collection draws on international perspectives from folkloristics, ethnology, ethnography, cultural and social anthropology.
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Hovav Shacham @hovav@infosec.exchange
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

ACM is now showing an AI “summary” of a recent paper of mine on the DL instead of the abstract. As an author, I have not granted ACM the right to process my papers in this way, and will not. They should either roll back this (mis)feature or remove my papers from the DL.

Screenshot from the "premium" version of the ACM Digital Library site page for the Pixnapping paper (ACM CCS 2025), showing an AI-generated summary instead of the paper abstract.
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Lindsey Kuper @lindsey@recurse.social
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A thread about my students and all the cool stuff they did this fall!

- Clara has come up with a cool idea for a senior thesis. She's been studying linguistics and is interested in gestural languages (think sign languages), and she wants to create a gestural programming language where you program using a motion-sensing input device, like a Wiimote (with which she already has experience with existing APIs).

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Whypost Fedi Client @whypost@silicon.moe
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Shared by :prideflag_demigirl:​:texmoji_ko_nonbinoko:​서버메이드 깐프

I’m happy to announce WhyPost, a Flutter-based app currently available as a beta release.
WhyPost lets you connect multiple Fediverse accounts in one app, including Mastodon, Akkoma, Pleroma, GoToSocial, and Friendica.

Download (Beta):
codeberg.org/whypost/whypost-m

The app already supports creating posts, replies, reposts, comments, editing profiles, and deleting posts.
There are still bugs, so feedback is welcome via our Matrix room.

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mhoye @mhoye@mastodon.social
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Shared by Glyph

YEARS

YOU SPENT YEARS BRAGGING THAT YOU HIRED THE BEST ENGINEERS IN THE WORLD

ONLY THE VERY BEST

BUILDINGS FULL OF 10X ENGINEERS

AND YOU GAVE THESE BRILLIANT GENIUS OUTLIER CODE MONSTERS TOOLS YOU SAID WILL MAKE THEM EVEN 10X MORE PRODUCTIVE

IT WILL 10X YOUR 10X

AND FIRED THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SO YOU COULD AFFORD THEM

AND THEY TRIED THOSE TOOLS AND DON'T WANT THEM

AND DON'T USE THEM

WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU

MOTHERFUCKER WHAT DOES IT TELL YOU

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/mic

A dartboard with only a few darts hitting it, with many misses beside it.

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

Report: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying.

arstechnica.com · Ars Technica

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Silverkey | 은열쇠 @silverkey.social@bsky.brid.gy
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Shared by 잇창명 EatChangmyeong💕🦋

X가 최근에 있던 트위터 상표권 문제를 의식했는지 조용히 약관을 업데이트 이 새로운 약관은 2026년 1월 15일부터 시행되며 다음과 같이 명시 하고 있음 "본 약관의 어떠한 내용도 귀하에게 X 이름 또는 Twitter 이름 또는 X 또는 Twitter 상표, 로고, 도메인 이름, 기타 고유한 브랜드 기능 및 기타 소유권을 사용할 수 있는 권리를 부여하지 않으며, 당사의 명시적인 서면 동의 없이 사용할 수 없습니다."

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vtpyqvwce4x6gpa5dcizqecy/post/3ma52sswa3k2z

TechCrunch (@techcrunch.com)

X's new terms of service say that no one can use the Twitter name, trademarks, logos and more without written consent. https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/x-updates-its-terms-to-lay-claim-to-the-twitter-trademark-after-newcomers-challenge/

bsky.app · Bluesky Social

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Al Sweigart @AlSweigart@mastodon.social
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Shared by Glyph

If you already have everything you need for Christmas, don't tell people that. Just tell them you'd really like some nice chocolate, coffee, candle, bottle of wine, or socks.

Give people an easy win. Let them buy some crap for you. Free them from this accursed duty that the season burdens them.

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삐라따 PIRATA @pirata.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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Shared by 시아란 🌌 Private

"저러다 손가락 잘린다 ㅋㅋ" [진지한 대답] 무기를 접촉시킨 상황에서는 '느낌'을 통해 상대의 의도를 파악할 수 있기 때문에 어쩌구 저쩌구.... [훌륭한 대답] 쟤는 초능력자라 괜찮다.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:c5pvs7m3vx6vk2j4dnpgsxu4/post/3ma46wtg7vk2f

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geeknews_bot @geeknews_bot@sns.lemondouble.com
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AI가 형식 검증을 주류로 만들 것이다
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- *형식 검증(formal verification)* 은 코드가 명세를 항상 만족함을 수학적으로 증명하는 방법으로, 오랫동안 연구 중심의 한정된 영역에 머물러 있었음
- seL4 마이크로커널 등 일부 대형 시스템이 형식 검증으로 개발되었지만, *높은 난이도와 비용* 때문에 산업 현장에서는 거의 사용되지 않았음
- 최근 *LL…
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https://news.hada.io/topic?id=25129&utm_source=googlechat&utm_medium=bot&utm_campaign=1834

AI가 형식 검증을 주류로 만들 것이다 | GeekNews

형식 검증(formal verification) 은 코드가 명세를 항상 만족함을 수학적으로 증명하는 방법으로, 오랫동안 연구 중심의 한정된 영역에 머물러 있었음seL4 마이크로커널 등 일부 대형 시스템이 형식 검증으로 개발되었지만, 높은 난이도와 비용 때문에 산업 현장에서는 거의 사용되지 않았음최근 LLM 기반 코딩 보조 도구가 구현 코드뿐 아니라 여러 언

news.hada.io · GeekNews

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안시, 찌스케 그리고 쮜쉬키볼셰비키 @ansie.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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아니 걍 뭐든간에 사람들아...남이 뭘 갖고있거나 만든 걸 내거에도 쓰고싶어진다면 ‘네거 좀 좀 써도 돼?’ 라고 물어보는 게 막 그렇게 어렵냐...? 걍 진짜 가장 기초적인 예의같은거잖아...저 물음은 유치원생들끼리도 하는거잖아... 저작권이 뭐 그렇게 거창하게 어렵고 불도저같이 내거라고 우기기만 하는 권리가 아니고 내가만든 거 님이 쓰고싶으면 상의라는 절차 거친 뒤에 써주세요라고 길게 설명하는 내용이다 좋은 취지로 책 내놓는거 다들 흔쾌히 허가해줬을텐데...그냥 냅다 쓰고나서 문제제기당해서 서로 기분 상하고...뭐여 이게

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tymoty 🇪🇺 @tymoty@f.cz
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Nemůžu vědět, "jak to je". Nemůžu vědět, "jak to bude".

Odtud: Věřím.

Můžu konstruovat možnosti.
Sestrojovat?
Strojit?
Tvořit.
Nalézat.
Dělat.
Představovat.
Stavět?

A když jich mám nějakou přehlédnutelnou sadu.
Volební lístek.
Můžu volit.
Zvolit.

Toto můžu dělat sám.

Moje meta-volba.
Meta-snaha:

Dělat to s někým.
S určitým člověkem.
Trvalým.
Trvalým třeba v řádu pěti let.

Dvojicování dělat ve třech (skoro) disjunktních.
(Skoro) oddělených.
(Skoro) nezávislých.
Dvojicích.
Nejméně ve třech.
Tři pětileté dvojice stačí.
Tři je lepší než víc než tři.

---
Nemůžu vědět.
Je v nemuzu_vedet_00.txt .

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ophiocephalic 🐍 @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social
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Shared by Abhinav 🌏

Every time there's news from Mozilla we see a lot of takes around here along the lines of: they're clueless, their heads are in the sand, they don't know their userbase.

Alternative interpretation: We're looking at another case very much like Bluesky - a corporation with somewhat-openwashed branding which knows exactly who their userbase is, hates it, and wants a different one.

The rationale is clear enough; the browser is just a massive opportunity for datamining. The "AI" startups can only dream of controlling a browser with even the marketshare of Firefox. In that light, it's no use having a userbase of technically competent, privacy-aware dissidents who can work around the extractive dark patterns. Let's face it people, we're not profitable to surveillance capitalism

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