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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Kote Isaev @koteisaev@mastodon.online
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@malwaretechMarcus Hutchins :verified:
Considering that ruzzia does not have functional nuclear arsenal, their attempts to sabotage Ukraine defence simply look as Kremlin operatives at work, and for me, 99.99% billionaires are exist as result of various criminal activity, as there is no a legal way to become billionaire in a lifetime. There are literally few luckies on planet who become billionaires due pure luck, as Bill Gates or Ray Kroc.
I suspect that some become billionaires as part of KGB/FSB operations cover-up.

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nightdream @nightdream@sfba.social
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For my fellow Cassandras.

The author talks about anti-alarmism in the mainstream media and among liberals (failure to recognize an actual emergency in progress - e.g. refusing to see MAGA as a real threat) as driven by men's gender insecurity and need to distance themselves from behavior that is female coded.

tl;dr

Cassandras are more likely to:
-be women
-belong to a minoritized group in some meaningful way
-have spent considerable amounts of time among conservative populations
-be clear, critical thinkers who can connect the dots between different types of bad behavior

newrepublic.com/article/204254

The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned

Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?

newrepublic.com · The New Republic

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🫧 socialcoding.. @smallcircles@social.coop
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🫧 ™

Why is mostly always flat lists, persisted as rows in most basic datastores?

Instead why aren't they 😋 juicy metadata-hung 🍒 nuggets, sparkling in rich semantic tapestries, discovered in lush forests of , where insights and knowledge can be gleaned? Fruits that lure us to explore, be more connected to others.

🍓 Personal vaults!

Tech's there..

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Explore a ?
and hybrids?
's local-1st?

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A.B. Murrow @abmurrow@hachyderm.io
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Shared by GNOME

Today, I redeemed a virtual gift card from my credit card rewards from the year, and donated the sum to:

- Wikipedia @wikipedia
- The GNOME Foundation @gnome
- The Internet Archive @internetarchive
- Servo @servo
- KDE @kde

I currently support on a monthly basis

I'm also planning on supporting @elementary on a recurring basis in the new year

If you have a little bit of money at the end of the year, please consider supporting FOSS projects you use or appreciate! This is how we empower the next generation of open computing.

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steph @urschrei@mastodon.social
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Modern computers are fast: using FlatGeoBuf as the on-disk format, georust’s new Voronoi module can generate and save a Voronoi diagram from all 2,693,630 valid UK postcode centroids in ~10 seconds without jumping through any code optimisation hoops. The actual Voronoi generation takes just over 5s. That's single-core performance on an M2 Pro, and includes round-tripping the coordinates from WGS84 -> OSGB36 -> WGS84. If you exclude the projection work, it’s well under 10s total.

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Priestess of Shrek :shrek: 🔞 @salmon@girlcock.club
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Shared by phildini

You might remember from primary school The Mitten, a Ukrainian folktale illustrated by Jan Brett, about a bunch of animals that try to climb inside a single mitten in the winter. The illustrator has a delightfully HTMLy web 1.0 website www.JanBrett.com

I just thought folks here would appreciate this :3

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Natasha Jay 🇪🇺 @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
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TIL: that weird, liminal space between Christmas and New Year, when no one knows quite what day it is, or what they’re supposed to be doing?

In Norway 🇳🇴 there is a word for this time period: romjul, literally "space christmas"

Happy space christmas folks ...

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Natasha Jay 🇪🇺 @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
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TIL: that weird, liminal space between Christmas and New Year, when no one knows quite what day it is, or what they’re supposed to be doing?

In Norway 🇳🇴 there is a word for this time period: romjul, literally "space christmas"

Happy space christmas folks ...

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Natasha Jay 🇪🇺 @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

TIL: that weird, liminal space between Christmas and New Year, when no one knows quite what day it is, or what they’re supposed to be doing?

In Norway 🇳🇴 there is a word for this time period: romjul, literally "space christmas"

Happy space christmas folks ...

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Furthering @Furthering@convo.casa
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Shared by phildini

May your muscles unclench
May your breathing be even
May your sleep be uninterrupted
May your heartbeat be steady
May your weariness lift
May your stress dissipate
May you benefit from a regulated nervous system
May you find peace in the moment

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk@toot.community
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The Dutch words ‘zolder’ (“attic”) and ‘solarium’ (“tanning salon”) are doublets: they both stem from Latin ‘sōlārium’ (“roof terrace”).

Dutch ‘solarium’ comes from English, which in turn borrowed it from Latin in the nineteenth century.

‘Zolder’ entered the language at least fifteen centuries earlier: it was borrowed from spoken Latin into Proto-West Germanic, the distant ancestor of Dutch, English, German and others.

Here’s number 9 in my series: Dutch doublets from Latin.

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GamerMomLuna 🌙⭐ @GamerMomLuna@dice.camp
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Soon we'll start seeing posts of all the things people are proud of accomplishing in 2025, and what they're hoping to do in 2026.

I'm here to tell you, if all you did was survive 2025, that's an accomplishment worth celebrating. Life is hard, and getting through a year is tough. I'm proud of you.

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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Team/single dude behind Blacksky announces plans to ship an open payments app based on ATProto tech. I am very curious about this, as Rudy has managed to build at least one thing nobody else succeeded at, but also skeptical because:

- Blacksky works well but has not (yet?) lived up to its promises on independence/uncensorability

- I know people who tried to create payment processors and the hard part is preventing the upstream from censoring you, not building web apps.
bsky.app/profile/rude1.blacksk

Rudy wants revolution. (@rude1.blacksky.team)

https://blackskyweb.xyz/anniversary/

bsky.app · Bluesky Social

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Sharon Gascoigne @sharongascoigne@mastodonapp.uk
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My Mum finally received her diagnosis after suffering a heart attack on Sunday.

The angiogram indicates that the attack caused one of her arteries to become completely blocked, so it looks like she will be having a heart bypass at some point.

She has been so well cared for over at the QA hospital in Portsmouth since she was transferred on Monday.

I'm more concerned about my Dad as he's started to have a few falls in recent weeks. Just off to see him and walk their dog now. Fortunately my brother lives near Portsmouth so he can get in and see Mum, so I'm not heading over the Solent every day.

Not the Christmas that we'd planned for, but it could be worse!

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