What is Hackers' Pub?

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

I can't believe anyone else thinks this is remotely like butter

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

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If you're into this DOS gaming thing we're doing, you can join us at our website https://www.dosgameclub.com where we have forums where we discuss all the games. You can also suggest new games for us to feature in the future.

Besides our Ko-Fi at https://ko-fi.com/dosgameclub you can now also buy merch and support the show that way! Buy our stuff at https://shop.dosgameclub.com

We use these funds to pay for our server, which hosts the website & podcast, as well as our own Mastodon instance.

I struggle to promote my own work but promoting this is getting easier all the time, because I have to keep raising the same issues in conversation over and over again: https://blog.glyph.im/2025/08/futzing-fraction.html

Anna's Archive backed up Spotify. They got 99.9% of metadata, and 300TB of music representing 86 million tracks - original 160kbps OGG for tracks with popularity>0, and re-encoded 75kbps for popularity=0. absolutely wild project.

the metadata in particular is a hugely useful data source. MusicBrainz catalogues 5 million unique ISRCs (like ISBNs but for music releases), whereas this archive has a whopping 186 million.

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

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

Available now from a Node Package Market near you! 🌽

https://delucis.github.io/sweetcorn/

Sweetcorn is a small Node.js library for dithering images using classic techniques. It includes 30+ algorithms and a dedicated Astro image service to make it easy to dither any image in an Astro site. (I’d love to add support for other frameworks — if you know how, let me know!)

loong64 がDebian に入ったらしい

loong64 is now an official architecture https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/12/msg00004.html

Ports/loong64 - Debian Wiki https://wiki.debian.org/Ports/loong64

Loongson - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson

what do you mean "the near-complete source code to Princess Maker 1 and 2 was quietly uploaded to GitHub a few months ago and nobody noticed"

https://github.com/ritsuro/PrincessMakerPC9801
https://github.com/ritsuro/PrincessMaker2xPC9801

it seems to be with the permission of whatever remained of Gainax and/or whoever holds the copyright, but with a few conditions (the source code is MIT-licensed, but it is also requested that it not be used for commercial purposes without explicit permission)

the main omissions appear to be:
- music/sound drivers (a different programmer holds the copyright, so it's not part of this release)
- ending scripts (no spoilers!)
- internal development tools
- EXELOAD for PM2 is in a separate repository => https://github.com/ritsuro/exeloadPC9801

every so often I’ll think of a new keyword for the ACARS Drama list and just randomly scream it out

“hey honey have you seen…”

“OMG!! TIRADE”

Girlhood in Afghanistan

‘The winning image of Hajira is a symbol of the quiet but unwavering resilience of millions of Afghan girls who have been denied access to secondary education for more than four years.’

Photograph: Elise Blanchard/UNICEF Photos 2025

#photography
#Afghanistan
#education
#girls

I am so happy that Sophie Campbell is doing… … whatever it is Sophie Campbell is doing with the Supergirl line https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:g5mhja55ztoq3uu2m6egupdv/post/3mahajen55k2f

💾 NEW PODCAST 💾 In October we looked at Halloween Harry, also known as Alien Carnage.

Zombies, jetpacks, flamethrowers, there's a lot to like here for action game fans. But how long can we talk about a game that's pretty straight-forward??

Pretty long it turns out 😅

https://www.dosgameclub.com/halloween-harry/

#dosGaming #retroGaming #podcast

@tickyJessica🏳️‍🌈

USER: Why can't we have [feature Q]

BLUESKY: It's not possible because this is a distributed system and that makes implementing that feature very hard

USER: But Mastodon has had the feature since 2017

BLUESKY: Anyway here's a DM system, a bookmark system, and a find-by-contacts feature that bypass the distributed system and work off a centralized server we run

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#git

I managed to sign a whole bunch of commits with the wrong id, and I wanted to preserve the commit and author date

these two commands do the same and sign each commit with the id specified in the local .git/config or the global ~one

git rebase -i --root --committer-date-is-author-date --exec 'GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=$(git log -1 --format=%cd) GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=$(git log -1 --format=%ad) git commit --amend --no-edit --reset-author -S'

or

git rebase -i --root --committer-date-is-author-date --exec 'GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=$(git log -1 --format=%cd) git commit --amend --date="$(git log -1 --format=%ad)" --no-edit --reset-author -S'

the rebase flag --committer-date-is-author-date works in tandem with the environment variables in the exec commit

if i only rebase one commit a time eg. HEAD~1, then I can omit the --committer-date-is-author-date

みんな二度寝を諦めたのか朝食会場が長蛇の列だったので断念

atproto is so bad lmao

I don't think I'll stop using Firefox anytime soon.
Yes, their management are fucking idiots and it's annoying that I'll have to disable new AI features whenever they release them..

But the alternative is to use something Chromium-based, which would make Google's domination of web technology absolute - and Google is 100x more evil than Mozilla ever could be.

I hope this fucking bubble pops before Mozilla fucks up Firefox so badly that it becomes completely unusable

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昨日は配信楽しかった

#Plushtodon The Family Portrait

Australian rainbow lorikeets in #Adelaide, South #Australia

Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Shutterstock

#photography
#birds
#parrots
#RainbowLorikeets

This use of AI is going to straight up kill someone. Yes please guess the ingredients of my food, said no one with food allergies.

Also, Mr LLM, that is clearly gailan, not bok choi. You had one job.

みんな大好きMD-11

#マストドン飛行機部

You have reached the end of the internet

Link: https://hmpg.net/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337656

Moi?

It’s been a good year for red squirrels, at least in #Scotland: a rewilding project led by the charity Trees for Life has seen their range increase by more than 25% in 10 years. This year alone, Trees for Life has relocated 259 red squirrels to woodland habitats where the species was missing, mainly in the northern and northwestern Highlands.

Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

#photography
#rewilding
#conservation
#squirrels

C'est parti pour le party de Noël #Qlub à la scène du Chalet-Bar 🎶🎄✨

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やるべきことがたくさんあるので延々と寝ています。ぐう。

C'est parti pour le party de Noël #Qlub à la scène du Chalet-Bar 🎶🎄✨

Flora, a two-year-old Albanian bear, was rescued from illegal captivity by the animal welfare organisation Four Paws. After a four-day journey across Europe, she and her travelling companion Erion, a rescued lion, have arrived at their new homes in Germany and are doing well.

Photograph: Four Paws

#photography
#AnimalRescue
#bears

정치권 쿠팡 혼내기? “시늉에 가깝다” www.khan.co.kr/article/2025... "쿠팡은 국회 청문회에서 한국어도 할 줄 모르는 외국인 신임 대표를 증인으로 내세웠다. 국민의힘 계열 출신으로 대관 업무를 하는 B씨는 이를 두고 “대관들의 조언을 받았을 것이고, 이후 대응도 계산된 것”이라고 했다."

정치권 쿠팡 혼내기? “시늉에 가깝다”

Granule, a statically-typed linear functional language with graded modal types https://lobste.rs/s/vdexco #plt
https://github.com/granule-project/granule

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그리고 또 개밥이 뽑은 뒤로 약간 미쳐있

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A well-fed unicorn

A one-horned rhinoceros grazes at Kaziranga national park, Assam, #India
Photograph: Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

#photography
#rhino

RE: https://mastodon.social/@louisc/115753605954112249

You could download this thing, cancel your Spotify subscription, and just send 1€/month to your top ten artists, and they’d still be better off.

Now, where do I get a 300TB hard disk? 🤔

그리고 또 개밥이 뽑은 뒤로 약간 미쳐있

Normally I find comic books to be impenetrable, but this is apparently the only way I'll ever get any Doctor Aphra. So, here I go

A snow leopard at the Changtang national nature reserve, in southwest China’s Xizang autonomous region.

Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock

#photography
#leopards

Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qzgvxxgvo
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339031

Legendary lunch

Monkeys fill up at the Huaguo Mountain scenic area in Lianyungang, #China. The mountain is the fictional home of the Monkey King in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, later adapted as the 1970s TV programme Monkey.

Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock

#photography
#monkeys

@dotmeow.meow ∙ see ya around ^-^' I've noticed some wording LLMs commonly use present on the kickstarter, can you please confirm no LLMs were used? i imagine there weren't, but unfortunately nowadays my alarm bells go off

examples:
- This isn't about charity — it's about building kinship-based infrastructure.
- You're not just backing - you're making .meow possible.

thank you <3
meow mrow, i backed the kickstarter :3

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

Stray Children gets it