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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Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy

"In Sept, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared at the U.N. that his country will cut its carbon emissions by as much as 10% in a decade, not by using less energy, but by doubling down on wind and solar.

To many, the continued growth of renewables now seems unstoppable—a prospect that has led Science to name the renewable energy surge its 2025 Breakthrough of the Year."

Not AI 😎
science.org/content/article/br
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COVER of Science magazine 18 Dec 2025
Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. See page 1208.

Photo: George Steinmetz
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토스가 비호감인 이유
대출 해주고(토스뱅크) 대출 중계해주며(토스 앱) 수익 내는 금융앱에서 이런 빚 탕감 광고를 내보낸다.
광고야 물론 할 수 있다만, 쉽게 대출을 받게 해서 수익을 챙기는 플랫폼에서 “토스에서 쉽게 돈 빌리고, 돈없으면 토스에서 하는 광고대로 개인회생/파산 하면 그만 아니야?” 라는 인식을 조장하는 것 같아서 굉장히 위험하다고 생각한다.
금융앱일수록 금융 관련 광고는 더 신중하게 집행할 필요가 있지 않을까..

불타는 달러 지폐를 들고 있는 손의 이미지와 "3억 빛 당감가능?"이라는 문구가 있는 광고 화면.
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The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services.

The Going Dark initiative, or ProtectEU as the Commission now calls it, wants to “enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner”. This is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt.

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The EU Commission and several member states are also looking for new rules on data retention. In a new ”Presidency outcome paper”, the member states discuss metadata retention: which websites you visit, and who is communicating with whom, when and how often. The ambition is “to have the broadest possible scope of application” and this time some member states also want the proposal to include VPN services.

Mullvad has spent the last three years opposing Chat Control 2.0 – even though the law would have affected our business positively.

We will continue to fight Going Dark with full force, regardless of whether VPNs are included or not. If VPNs are included, and if Going Dark becomes law, we will never spy on our customers no matter what.

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The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services.

The Going Dark initiative, or ProtectEU as the Commission now calls it, wants to “enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner”. This is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt.

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Trying to track down a famous satirical quote (maybe attributed to Stalin?!), along the lines of, "If the people choose the wrong leader, the leader must elect a new people"

Not quite that (obvs) but close.

Anyone know what I'm thinking of?

ETA: it's "Would it not be simpler, if the government simply dissolved the people and elected another?" (Brecht)

Thanks, @timo21Timo!

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The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.

axios.com/2025/12/18/tiktok-sa

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This is an incredible thread. I could not imagine a better analogy than Bluesky-v-Twitter to illustrate why the "AI is inevitable" line of argument fails.

Bluesky is the new Twitter, not an alternative to Twitter. It's *already* turning into exactly the kind of no-queers-allowed hellhole that Musk *explicitly* turned Twitter into. That analogy doesn't support Anil's argument, it completely *refutes* it.

bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/

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omasanori強く周知情報です。

「毎年恒例の〈書物復権〉共同復刊、2026 年は第30 回を数えます。復刊の候補にあがったのは118 点119 冊と、充実したリストをそろえることができした。参加各社がそれぞれの出版の歴史のなかで、この後も読者に届けたいと考えている各分野の基本書です。ぜひ、ご覧のうえリクエストいただき、1 点でも多くの復刊の実現にご協力ください。応募期間は2026 年2 月28 日まで、ぜひ皆さまから多数のリクエストをいただけますようお願いします。また今回も、通常では復刊が難しい少数の要望にも応えるべく、個別の注文に対応するオン・デマンド版での復刊も実施いたします。」

【書物復権2026】10社共同復刊 第30回 ― リクエストで名著がよみがえる!応募締切:2026年2月28日 | 紀伊國屋書店 - 本の「今」に会いに行こう
store.kinokuniya.co.jp/event/fukken2026/

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生成AIはたしかに凄いのだが結局計算にかかる膨大な物理コストに対して本当に見合った成果が出ているのか?と言われるとどうなんすかね、と思っている 目眩ましになるデカい成果やスケールメリットが出続けないとどこかで「(うちはAI入れても大した成果は出なかったし)人間雇ったほうが安いし環境にも良いですよね」ってなり、本当に恩恵を受ける人々だけが高い金を払って使う市場になるのではないかと

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:fediverse: Equivalências fediversais

As mais populares são essas de escrever pouquinho:

- Twitter → Mastodon
- Twitter → GoToSocial
- Twitter → Sharkey
- Twitter → Snac
- Twitter → Hollo
- Twitter → Akkoma

Sim, não faltam alternativas para microblogging. Mas tem mais coisas:

- Instagram → Pixelfed
- Facebook → Friendica
- Reddit → Lemmy
- Reddit → kBin
- YouTube → PeerTube
- WordPress → WordPress com plugin ActivityPub
- Blogger → WriteFreely

Sem anúncios, rastreadores, algoritmos nem bilionários perversos por trás. Só pessoas voluntariamente hospedando esses serviços para a comunidade.

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👋 🇨🇦 👋 🇨🇦
You can help Protect the Rights of Trans Canadians in Alberta and Sask. by signing the parliamentary petition 🏳️‍⚧️

"The Constitution Act, 1867 provides the federal government, through section 90, with the authority to disallow certain provincial legislation in order to protect constitutional principles and minority rights; and
The use of extraordinary constitutional powers to limit Charter protections warrants careful federal review and response."

ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet

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「ほとんどのプログラミングは 「大工仕事のようなプログラミング」 とでも呼ぶべきアプローチで行われます。(……)プログラミングには別のアプローチがあります。それは 「教育のようなプログラミング」 とでも呼ぶべきものです。」

(2022-08)教育のようなプログラミング
zenn.dev/nfunato/articles/jp-programming-as-teaching

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