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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Just had someone leave feedback on my F/OSS project saying “maybe that's fine if a product is focused on your Chinese community.”

I'm Korean. Every single piece of documentation is in English. There's nothing in Chinese anywhere in the project.

This kind of microaggression is exhausting. As a non-white maintainer, you deal with these assumptions constantly—people who feel entitled to your labor while casually othering you based on your name.

It chips away at your motivation. It makes you wonder why you bother.

https://github.com/dahlia/optique/issues/59#issuecomment-3678606022

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Just had someone leave feedback on my F/OSS project saying “maybe that's fine if a product is focused on your Chinese community.”

I'm Korean. Every single piece of documentation is in English. There's nothing in Chinese anywhere in the project.

This kind of microaggression is exhausting. As a non-white maintainer, you deal with these assumptions constantly—people who feel entitled to your labor while casually othering you based on your name.

It chips away at your motivation. It makes you wonder why you bother.

https://github.com/dahlia/optique/issues/59#issuecomment-3678606022

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Just had someone leave feedback on my F/OSS project saying “maybe that's fine if a product is focused on your Chinese community.”

I'm Korean. Every single piece of documentation is in English. There's nothing in Chinese anywhere in the project.

This kind of microaggression is exhausting. As a non-white maintainer, you deal with these assumptions constantly—people who feel entitled to your labor while casually othering you based on your name.

It chips away at your motivation. It makes you wonder why you bother.

https://github.com/dahlia/optique/issues/59#issuecomment-3678606022

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Just had someone leave feedback on my F/OSS project saying “maybe that's fine if a product is focused on your Chinese community.”

I'm Korean. Every single piece of documentation is in English. There's nothing in Chinese anywhere in the project.

This kind of microaggression is exhausting. As a non-white maintainer, you deal with these assumptions constantly—people who feel entitled to your labor while casually othering you based on your name.

It chips away at your motivation. It makes you wonder why you bother.

https://github.com/dahlia/optique/issues/59#issuecomment-3678606022

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altbot v2.4 is here!!

just pushed a pretty significant update, swapped out the old gemma3 27b model for qwen3-vl:30b-a3b-thinking and holy shit the difference is noticeable

the cool thing about this model is it's very dynamic, simple images get quick, concise descriptions without overexplaining everything. and with complex images, it takes its time and actually thinks through what it's looking at. you get better alt-text without wasting compute on stuff that doesn't need it.

basically: smarter where it counts, efficient where it doesn't.

oh and here's the part that made me double-check my math: electricity usage dropped by MORE THAN 10x. complex images that used to cost ~0.950 Wh now only use ~0.092 Wh. this is thanks to MoE (mixture of experts) architecture, despite being a 30b parameter model, it only activates 3b worth of parameters at a time. so you get way better results while using a fraction of the power.

been testing this for a bit now and honestly really happy with the results. descriptions are more accurate, less hallucination-y, and the model describes way better than before.

as always, altbot is fully open source and processes everything locally, no data gets sent to third parties. your images stay private.

if you wanna support continued development:
ko-fi.com/micr0byte
💜 github.com/sponsors/micr0-dev

source code: github.com/micr0-dev/Altbot

thanks for helping make the fediverse more accessible :3

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From a past forum post I've read: the biggest problem with #telemetry is not even necessarily about privacy. The problem is that it's not human; telemetry is simply data. Data that for all the user knows could just be rigged. You can't scream and curse at data when it's being used to justify removing a feature you like or need. But you can call for someone's figurative head in a community-built #opensource project that doesn't use telemetry and the developers there will feel it.
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All dentists recommend flossing, but very few people actually do it — there is now this new thing on the market called a water flosser, which I recently acquired, and it's a great way to floss!

waterpik.co.uk

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글쎄, 생성형AI의 전력소비 문제는 이미 현재 2년 전 대비 1/100 이하로 줄어들었고 지금도 계속 줄어들고 있음. 전체 소비전력량이 늘어난 건 사용량이 그 이상으로 폭증해서 그런 거고. 또 AI의 수준을 말씀하시는데, 한 측면에서 보면, 이제 기계번역의 질은 전문번역가가 아닌 어지간한 대학원생이나 교수가 지좋대로 한 번역은 뺨 때릴 정도 수준까지 올라옴(농담이 아님). 강AI의 시대는 아직 멀었다지만 어지간한 부분에서의 인간 대체는 이미 충분히 이루어지고 있는 실정.

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@juniorstu A lot of years ago I heard about some decentralized Web 3.0 services like Diaspora and even touched them — but there were no interesting things to read and no interesting people to subscribe, so I continued to use Twitter and other centralized platforms.

Then, since 2022, some of these platforms became not so welcoming place to communicate — state-controlled trolls, just a morons and a stream of apocalyptic news leave no place for interesting things. And some of these platforms were simply blocked by state, since they are competed with official propaganda.

At the same time a read a blogpost of @vas3k about Web that couldn't be so simply blocked, not depends on some corporate entity, etc: vas3k.blog/blog/unstoppable_we

Thusly, I started to think about since it was described as a one of the biggest federated thing — it should provide me a way (as I think) stay independent from corporations and companies with their lies about "human approach" and "customer-oriented services" (stares to fucking NameCheap :drgn_knife_angry: ). If my Mastodon instance admin decide to go crazy or just be forced by state to ban all Russians — well, when I simply migrate to another server, without this madness.

So, I selected the mas.to server using the instructions from aforementioned blogpost. And I used it for some time, learning how Fediverse works, by the way.

First of all, I tried to type some hashtags for Emacs, Thinkpad and FreeBSD and found a lot of interesting people and a lot of interesting discussions — so my timeline became filled with interesting toots very quickly.

Also, I discovered an extremly useful (compared to other social networks, lol) feature to hide all unwanted toots by word filters. So, finally I was able to clear my timelines from any unwanted toots.

After near a year I found, that all cool kids have a small separate servers where they write about cool things. At this time I already found that mastodon server should be selected carefully to have a local timeline readable — on the mas.to, since it was located in the USA, there were a lot of USA news in it's timeline. Which is obviously wasn't interesting for me.

I already know @stefanoStefano Marinelli and know about mastodon.bsd.cafe instance and as for BSD user — my next step was obvious :drgn_happy_blep:

Unstoppable Web

Второй пост за месяц, чот нелегальное началось. Во-первых, хочу сказать спасибо тем, кто переподписался по почте. Из 25к+ человек в телеграм-канале это сделали примерно 2к подписаны, что около 8%, но я уверен, это самые лучшие 8%. Теперь тут новая илита! Так что даже пришлю вам рассылку одновременно с ранним доступом на Патреоне (точнее его остатках). Во-вторых, в прошлом посте про Веб 3.0 я обещал написать чуть более прагматичный гайд по всему этому децентрализованному интернету, если вдруг вас как и меня разразит желанием начать это всё пробовать и немного повыживать в кибер-пустошах. Чтобы хоть как-то отвлечься от войны и продолжать наносить человечеству хоть какую-то пользу, я весь месяц ковырялся во всём децентрализованном, до чего только получается дотянуться. В этом посте я решил скомпилировать свой опыт и использовать его как стартовую площадку для рассуждений — а что делать дальше? Мы создали в телеграме мастермайнд-группу, куда можно врываться и обсуждать вопрос вместе. Ссылка есть в посте. Возможно, даже придумаем и запилим какой-нибудь проектик в области неубиваемого веба. Если доживём, конечно.

vas3k.blog

Link author: vas3k@vas3k@mastodon.online

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じゃあ、お土産に月に置いてあるハッセルブラッド持って帰ってきますにゃ

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