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.

In case you missed it, there's a website that makes it as easy as possible to join Mastodon (and other Fedi platforms):

➡️ fedi.garden

The featured general server changes regularly, and for people who want choice there's a full list of over 100 servers sorted into categories.

All of the servers are listed with permission of their admins, and promise to comply with specific standards of moderation and technical reliability at fedi.garden/about-this-site

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Dare to be forgotten.

We have all been trained to think if we did not document it, it did not happen. We have turned our actual lives into content, constantly performing for an audience that isn't even really watching.

There is freedom in the undocumented. If you stop worrying about how a moment looks, you will start noticing how it actually feels. You no longer ask, "How will this look?" and instead ask, "How does this feel?"

Privacy is not just having secrets. It is having a life that belongs to you and not a data center. Some things should not be for sale. Some things are better when they are just yours.

What if the most important thing you did today was something nobody ever found out about?

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Not feeling at all into festivities this year.

Ended the work year on medical leave for / . Not visiting family, because my gorgeous Phoebe-cat has end stage renal disease and is declining; I am devastated and constantly worrying. All friends are away doing their own things, and usual social activities are on pause until mid January.

So anyway I’m around to chat to anyone else who is feeling isolated or down.

@lonelinesscorpsLonelinessCorps group

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Dare to be forgotten.

We have all been trained to think if we did not document it, it did not happen. We have turned our actual lives into content, constantly performing for an audience that isn't even really watching.

There is freedom in the undocumented. If you stop worrying about how a moment looks, you will start noticing how it actually feels. You no longer ask, "How will this look?" and instead ask, "How does this feel?"

Privacy is not just having secrets. It is having a life that belongs to you and not a data center. Some things should not be for sale. Some things are better when they are just yours.

What if the most important thing you did today was something nobody ever found out about?

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What's something that you're grateful to your younger self for?

I was thinking today how grateful I am that, despite growing up in an anti-intellectual environment, I was so drawn to art that despite others trying to dissuade me, I spent time studying it.

It's been one of the great richnesses of my life to heave learned about art.

I'm trying out because I'm genuinely curious about what other people might thank their younger selves for.

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Younger family member who works for a big tech company is here for the holidays. He is working everyday finishing up writing end of year peer review evaluations. Apparently everyone at the company has to generate 30+ extensive evaluations of their coworkers. This is done using a special version of ChatGPT which cranks our long beautifully worded reviews based on a few prompts. These then go to the respective managers who use ChatGPT to summarize the results for each employee. Seriously 🤦‍♂️

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Happy Holidays to all who celebrate,
in one way or another! 🎄✨

Whether it's spending time with your family, your chosen family, your friends, your partner(s), resting by yourself, treating yourself with some candy canes while at work, or posting on the Fediverse with us! :awesome:

No matter the reason for our social gatherings, they all play an essential role in strengthening the human bonds that unite us, and building communities.

Take this time to dream of a future where humanity values empathy, community, equality, consent, and solidarity above all 💚

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RE: mastodon.social/@mcc/115775746

Related to the quoted toot: I want to judge everyone describing themselves as Caucasian, but I only learned of its origin a year or two ago reading about Tolkien’s implicit racism jamesmendezhodes.com/blog/2019

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