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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More good news for the shortest day

In July Helsinki marked an entire year without a single traffic death. The Finnish capital, which has a population of 690,000, achieved the feat through lower speed limits, improved street design and investing in pedestrian and cycling infrastructure. More than half of Helsinki’s streets have a speed limit of 30km/h (18-19mph) and roads have been narrowed with trees.

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“If Israel Gets To Undermine Our Rights, Then We Get To Undermine Israel”

by Caitlin Johnstone in Caitlin’s Newsletter on Substack

@palestine@fedibird.comPalestine_Group
@Palestine@masto.aiPalestine فلسطين :verified:
@palestine@lemmy.ml

“Turn about is fair play. These freaks don’t get to stomp out our rights and poison our society for the advancement of the most evil agendas in the world and then expect zero resistance or opposition to this. That is not a thing”

open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj

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M.2SSDを一般市民に取り付けさせる訳にはいかなかったのでSSDをmicroSDの形にした結果がアレであり故にSSDと同じ値段感になっているのだ

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“If Israel Gets To Undermine Our Rights, Then We Get To Undermine Israel”

by Caitlin Johnstone in Caitlin’s Newsletter on Substack

@palestine@fedibird.comPalestine_Group
@Palestine@masto.aiPalestine فلسطين :verified:
@palestine@lemmy.ml

“Turn about is fair play. These freaks don’t get to stomp out our rights and poison our society for the advancement of the most evil agendas in the world and then expect zero resistance or opposition to this. That is not a thing”

open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj

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stay away from Crowdbucks, it's a fairly obvious scam from a vibe coding bro, attempting to affinity-fraud the fediverse

social.treehouse.systems/@pndc
s.basspistol.org/notes/agipgkl

EDIT: and from a few months ago social.chinwag.org/@mike/11506

the guy is Charles Iliya Krempeaux, his past history is an assortment of dodgy Canadian fintechs and being a "startup entrepreneur", this is his attempt to monetise the fediverse. when it goes south, he's rich enough to leave you dangling. as those foolish enough to sign up have discovered, it already doesn't actually work.

on the plus side, it isn't literally crypto. on the minus side, it just smells like it.

@pndc (@pndc@treehouse.systems)

My attention has been drawn to CrowdBucks (https://crowdbucks.fund/). It's being portrayed as an open-source distributed blah blah Fediverse payments system please use us uwu. But the code is undocumented, and the website is detail-free and just pushes you to create an account on *their website* using your Mastodon account for auth. I've declined to do this so don't know what happens next. From what I can tell, it's just a way to make them a middleman in Stripe payments. So, what value does it add over just using Stripe directly? Do they take a cut? The classic crypto exchange "you failed our KYC checks" 100% cut? If I can indeed host it locally, again, why would I choose to use it instead of Stripe directly? It feels a bit crypto-adjacent, but AFAICT it is not related to the shitcoin of the same name. The code does at least appear to be written by a human rather than AI. AI bothers to add comments :) (I didn't clone the repos and explore it fully as it's hosted on the end of a bit of wet string. I just randomly sampled some source files in the forge web interface, so I might have missed something important.) But it all feels a bit off. When a developer comes up with something that they think is world-changing, you usually can't shut them up about it and they will explain it in so much detail that your ears will seal up in self-defence. But for this project? Tumbleweed. I wonder if @davidgerard@circumstances.run might be interested in having a nose around.

social.treehouse.systems · Treehouse Mastodon

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Good morning internet.

Just in: computers made snail mail (letters) obsolete somewhere. And it’s in Denmark.

If we consider 1965 as the year that electronic mail started to take its actual shape and fulfill its function… Then it’s roughly a 60 years cycle between the time the technology is out, and the time it replaces its direct legacy predecessor system.

Here I speak purely in terms of core function, regardless of size or capex… And no allusion whatsoever to hubris and new born technologies that have been force fed to the public by barely-adult post-teenagers, without the slightest idea of real world innovation cycles, and an infinite appetite for endless cash, or else we are doomed to live in the stone age of the pre-smartphone era.

Mind you, email is a very well understood and robust stack that predates the modern internet to some extent, and the web by a large margin.

Hats off to the Danish postal services, for what I imagine being 4 centuries of efficiency.

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