What is Hackers' Pub?

Pediatric brain cancer research: cut.
Faster chemical safety testing: cut.
Training doctors to treat addiction: cut.
Six scientists spoke about the devastating impact of 2025’s federal science funding cuts on their work, on their colleagues and on society. https://theconversation.com/this-year-nearly-broke-me-as-a-scientist-us-researchers-reflect-on-how-2025s-science-cuts-have-changed-their-lives-271282

This is what I mean by freezing fog btw folks. #motorcycle

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Artikel ini menegaskan bahwa visi besar pemerintah penting, tetapi jangan sampai melupakan rakyat yang sedang berjuang bertahan hidup akibat bencana. Janji masa depan tidak boleh menutupi kebutuhan mendesak hari ini.

At some point in 2026, I want to migrate ALL of the Linux coverage I wrote at Forbes between 2018 and 2021 over to the new https://linuxforeveryone.net.

While the majority of it is outdated, I'm scared it will just disappear someday. And some of it was damn good writing!

It deserves to be preserved -- and not locked behind gross paywalls.

Backing up Spotify via @aksAkseli ​ https://lobste.rs/s/ikae1r #programming
https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

I am seeding the original Unix tape with a 40Gbit/s connection. If you want it fast, grab the torrent at archive.org.

I say this as a person who has lived for decades -outside- of heterosexual couplings, yet also surrounded by them, of course.

I see women almost every damned day be ignored or worse by people -socialized- (brainwashed/indoctrinated, etc) to become…jerks as humans. And I do greatly appreciate people who do not succumb to that.

and yes, women get brainwashed to overvalue males and dismiss women too..

they generally aren't socialized to become -such- abusive, dismissive jerks about it, though.

Being against #TERFs isn't being against women; it's opposing oppression. It's against the most despicable people. Deal with it.

If you are keen on attending next year's conference and require financial support, please consider applying for the "Paul Schenkeveld Travel Grant" for 2026.

You can do this by contacting the board before February 1st, 2026, stating who you are, what you are doing with BSD (😈⛳🐡), and why you should receive the grant.

This grant is in recognition Paul's accomplishments and in memory of his work and dedication to the BSD community, the EuroBSDCon Foundation is offering a travel grant in his name.

Paul was one of the few - if not the only one - to have attended all EuroBSDCon conferences since their inception in 2001. Besides his many contributions to BSD in general and the EuroBSDCon conferences in particular, he established the EuroBSDCon Foundation in 2010 to ensure continuity for many more conferences.

The EuroBSDCon Foundation Board will consider all valid submissions in its sole discretion and communicate its selection by March 2025. The selected person will receive travel expense reimbursement and hotel accommodation during the conference as well as free entrance to the conference and social event.

More information can be found on: https://eurobsdconfoundation.org/travel-grant.html

The 2026 edition will be held in Brussels, Belgium.

#RUNBSD also in 2026!
#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

それも美味しそうだなぁ​​ #misskey写真部

a statement from Waterfox team:

"... browsers are operating systems of their own, and a browser’s job is to be a good steward of that environment. AI, in its current form and in my opinion does not match that responsibility.

... The core browsing experience should be one that fully puts the user in control, not one where you’re constantly monitoring an inscrutable system that claims to be helping you.

Waterfox will not include LLMs. Full stop."

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/

a statement from Vivaldi team:

"Today, as other browsers race to build AI that controls how you experience the web, we are making a clear promise:

We’re taking a stand, choosing humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship. Without exploration, the web becomes far less interesting."

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring

a statement from LibreWolf team:

"As there seems to have been recent confusion about this, just a quick "official" toot to then pin: we haven't and won't support "generative AI" related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it "slipped through". As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP."

https://chaos.social/@librewolf/115716906957137196

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finally finished my nonbinary sweater
#knitting #nonbinary

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今日もあったかいねぇ

I know a few people on here as well as myself will FEEL this cartoon.

Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches?

Link: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/why-do-people-leave-comments-on-openbenches/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337134

I have missed so many mentions and private mentions lately, and I have no spoons to reply at this time. My greatest apologies if this includes one of yours

"You good? You need a ride?”
Naw, I’m skating across the US.
"Holy shit!”

https://youtu.be/XFPZYeFmXCs

“I needed something that was more exciting than drinking. There's not many things more exciting than drinking, especially the way I used to do it.”

#skateboarding #crosscountry

Neo Nazi group attack the CBC. CBC counterattacks by not just countering the one silly claim, but by exposing the entire group & who hosts their hateful podcasts

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/second-sons-leaders-livestreams-9.7022853?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

#politics #spiffy #Canada

Women on the right are learning a hard truth. They are lionized when supporting the patriarch and obeying the party line.
But as soon as there’s any mold-breaking, the turn is incredibly rapid and vicious. There is no tolerance for disagreement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/opinion/gop-women-misogyny-problem.html?context=audio&smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Unix V4 tape read was successful
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115747843169814700

#bitsavers

One quick way to lose my respect is to say "we don't know whether AI is gaining consciousness"

WITH A STRAIGHT FACE.

Oh. My. God. Yes we do. Large language models are not intelligent. They are not conscious.

If this is difficult for you (or someone you know) to understand, please read the book AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor.

#ai #chatgpt #llm #artificialintelligence #openai #marketing #capitalism #gemini #technofeudalism

@Em0nM4stodonEm

What I have learned from people who have lived through dangerous times is that you believe you have nothing to hide, but as fascism creeps even the most innocuous thing can be used to harm you.

Cat?

This is how your email finds me..

(Darcy)

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon

I'm Irish. When you see Irish characters, or Ireland, written about by British people for a British audience, it's all just... wrong. They get so much wrong, at best. At worst, it's ridiculously offensive and racist.

I'm a trans woman. Same thing happens with cis people.

#trans #ireland #irish

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This might be the most perfect meme in Canadian politics right now.

#StephenHarper #Conservatives #CPC #LPC

@necedemalis.bsky.social I get a DM from bridgy! I don’t know if this will get to you or not though

아니 진짜, moduli space랑 실용 대수기하하는 쪽은 대체 왜 페이퍼에 그림만 넣거나 수학적 설명을 제대로 안하는거야?
지도교수가 어떻게 가르쳤길래 이렇게 페이퍼가 엉망이지

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO https://www.limitedrungamessettlement.com/

After crunching over 100 contributions yesterday, Django HealthCheck is back under my maintainership. 🎷

Thank you @frankFrank Wiles and everyone over at REVSYS for your care, unrivaled community support, and for passing the torch. 💚
https://github.com/codingjoe/django-health-check
#Django #Python #Docker

И встретишь ты, когда не ждёшь,

И обретёшь, не там, где ищешь.

Ты просто так вперёд идёшь

И просто так ты дышишь.

И встретишь ты когда-нибудь

И обретёшь, уж не тоскуя,

Заканчиваешь длинный путь,

Ну, а сейчас… всё в холостую.

И встретишь ты, когда ни в чём

Тебе помочь никто не сможет,

И обретёшь, когда лучом

Солнце коснётся твоей кожи.

И встретишь, больше не беги

С извечным криком:"Я не верю!"

Ты обретёшь, когда шаги
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Автор: Алиса Мочалова

#poetry
#Russian

Happy #Caturday! Here’s the obligatory “how it started…” post for our new housemate, who is doing quite well as a now-inside cat. But it was a stormy Halloween when he came to the door.

The argument shouldn't be:
"I don't have anything to hide, so you can surveil me,"

Instead, it should be:
"I don't have anything to hide, so you shouldn't surveil me."

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #HumanRights

Happy Solstice y'all

The argument shouldn't be:
"I don't have anything to hide, so you can surveil me,"

Instead, it should be:
"I don't have anything to hide, so you shouldn't surveil me."

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #HumanRights

I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking. Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals… All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it. We CAN change things.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kvy3zcb6uitmemz2jss6kjil/post/3m7z2yhajps2q

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a small and pretty fast constant time base64 codec in javascript https://github.com/escodb/buffer/blob/main/lib/codec/base64.js

Another busy day

I'm doing my part for @dotmeow.meow ∙ see ya around ^-^'
:3

The ‘Hidden’ Microphone inside the Sipeed NanoKVM

https://hackaday.com/2025/12/20/the-hidden-microphone-inside-the-sipeed-nanokvm/

Dare to be inconvenienced.

We have been trained to prioritize "seamless" experiences over ethical ones. But every convenience has a hidden cost, whether it is labor rights, environmental impact, or the erosion of privacy.

Efficiency is a metric for machines, not for a meaningful life. When we stop choosing products solely for their convenience, we reclaim our agency. We choose local over global, human over algorithm, and sustainable over instant.

What would happen if we stopped using services that do very little good for society, even if it means taking the long way around?

#EthicalLiving #Intentionality #SlowWeb #noai #DigitalSovereignty #deGoogle #privacy #privacymatters #humanscale #degrowth #EthicalConsumerism #SupportLocal #AntiConsumption #LaborRights #SimpleLiving #Mindfulness #LowTech