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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the fun part of fence gates is that what's going on is that the posts flanking the gate come from the gate block itself, not the fence blocks

gates connect to fence blocks, and when they do they superimpose a post onto the fence block, outside its own block space

so the posts on the sides of the gate belong to the gate block, not the actual fence block

kind of a little hack, but it works really well

it's never too early to add quality of life features, so today i added a hold open/closed feature to doors in block game

if you press and hold the alt button (F by default) on a door it will toggle its state until you release the button or get too far away

very convenient for auto closing doors behind you! no pressure plates required

and if the door is already open holding F will keep it closed until you let go of the button

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Soooo... There's already some big stuff in the works for 2026:

The Social Web Foundation (@swf) has kicked off a project to bring real end-to-end encryption to the Fediverse. It's a big undertaking, with real financial backing from the @sovtechfundSovereign Tech Agency

Check out the announcement: socialwebfoundation.org/2025/1

And, I'm very excited that is one of the projects selected to participate in the work alongside the @bonfire team.

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the UNIX v4 tape reminded me of this story by Ali Akurgal about Turkish bureaucracy:

Do you know what the unit of software is? A meter! Do you know why? In 1992, we did our first software export at Netaş. We wrote the software, pressed a button, and via the satellite dish on the roof, at the incredible speed of 128 kb/s, we sent it to England. We sent the invoice by postal mail. $2M arrived at the bank. 3-4 months passed, and tax inspectors came. They said, “You sent an invoice for $2M?” “Yes,” we said. “This money has been paid?” they asked. “Yes,” we said. “But there is no goods export; this is fictitious export,” they said! So we took the tax inspectors to R&D and sat them in front of a computer. “Would you press this ‘Enter’ key?” we asked. One of them pressed it, then asked, “What happened?” “You just made a $300k export, and we’ll send its invoice too, and that will be paid as well,” we said. The man felt terrible because he had become an accomplice! Then we explained how software is written, what a satellite connection is, and how much this is worth. They said, “We understand, but there has to be a physical goods export; that’s what the regulations require.” So we said: “Let’s record this software onto tape (there were no CDs back then—nor cassettes; we used ½-inch tapes) and send that.” Happy to have found a solution, they said, “Okay, record it and send it.” The software filled two reels, which were handed to a customs broker, who took them to customs and started the export procedure. The customs officer processed things and at one point asked, “Where are the trucks?” The broker said, “There are no trucks—this is all there is,” and pointed to the tape reels on the desk. The customs officer said, “These two envelopes can’t be worth $2M; I can’t process this.” We went to court, an expert committee examined whether the two reels were worth $2M. Fortunately, they ruled that they were, and we were saved from the charge of fictitious export. The same broker took the same two reels to the same customs officer, with the court ruling, and restarted the procedure. However, during the process, the unit price, quantity, and total price of the exported goods had to be entered—as per the regulations. To avoid dragging things out further, they looked at the envelope, saw that it contained tape, estimated how many meters of tape there are on one reel, and concluded that we had exported 1k to 2k meters of software. So the unit of software became the meter.

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hey y'all. my daughter allissa, who the world is just pointlessly cruel to this year, just had her backpack stolen while we were on a train. it had her laptop, which she needs for school.

if you can spare anything at all for a girl in need this hannukkah, anything at all helps right now. here's her donation links and also mine if those platforms don't work for you

https://itzzen.net/donate/
https://liberapay.com/changeling/donate
https://ko-fi.com/translunar

#mutualaid #transmutualaid #autisticmutualaid @mutual_aid
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올림푸스 M.ZUIKO 75mm F1.8 판매합니다

최강의 인물용 렌즈이며, 환산 150mm 화각입니다.

렌즈 본품 + JJC 호환 후드 같이 드리며, 사용감 있습니다.

60만원에 판매하며, 직거래는 포항 인근에서 가능합니다.

편하게 문의 주세요!

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