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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No idea if the CLI app I'm writing will be useful to anyone, including myself. But it's been a fun exercise, and I intend to keep working on it.

It's been a great way to get better at writing Swift, though I'm still not sure my code is all that great – maybe that's my crippling self-doubt talking?

github.com/ghall89/otto

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Maybe we need a better term, but all media should be decentralized. Like a website. Anybody can put it up and anybody can access it, nobody in between. Podcasts are like that. helps. does it for on demand video. does it for live video. for radio. for articles. There are others.

But our biggest need at the moment is in consumption. Better tools for those who want to access this stuff, manage it and handle recommendations. Great app developers.

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Of course

says he spoke to Vladimir just hours ahead of meeting with leader Volodymyr .

“I just had a good & very productive telephone call with President Putin of Russia prior to my meeting, at 1:00 P.M. today, with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump said the Zelensky meeting would occur at Mar-a-Lago’s main dining room, with reporters watching [just in case you thought it wasn’t just for show].

cnn.com/politics/live-news/tru

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Hi everyone, I wanna tell you about a really cool person I’ve learned about recently - Wendy Carlos. (Thread: 1/3)

Carlos was born in 1939 and is currently 86 years old. She helped develop the first ever commercial , Moog, in 1964. She created the scores for iconic movies including A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), and Tron (1982). She even won three awards in 1970 for her album Switched-On Bach. (First trans woman to ever win one!)

She was also one of the first public figures to disclose that she underwent a feminizing gender-affirming surgery (she got the procedure in 1972, went public in 1979).

Photo of Wendy Carlos surrounded by keyboards, electronic music equipment, and holding a Sphynx cat in her lap. Wendy is a white woman with shoulder length brown hair with an endearing and awkward smile.
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That's Late Stage Capitalism for you:

"More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found.

The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels – the top 100 in every country – and found that 278 of them contain only AI slop.

Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63bn views and 221 million subscribers, generating about $117m (£90m) in revenue each year, according to estimates.

The researchers also made a new YouTube account and found that 104 of the first 500 videos recommended to its feed were AI slop. One-third of the 500 videos were “brainrot”, a category that includes AI slop and other low-quality content made to monetise attention.

The findings are a snapshot of a rapidly expanding industry that is saturating big social media platforms – from X to Meta to YouTube – and defining a new era of content: decontextualised, addictive and international.

A Guardian analysis this year found that nearly 10% of YouTube’s fastest-growing channels were AI slop, racking up millions of views despite the platform’s efforts to curb “inauthentic content”."

theguardian.com/technology/202

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Earlier this month I set up some test infrastructure using @pointfreecoPoint-Free's SQLiteData that uses SQL's query plan and explanation stuff (well, Claude did because I didn't know it existed) for snapshot testing my queries. Now I know if an index stops being applied, or if vm steps, sorts, table scans change.

It's been quite revealing to see how what I would assume are unrelated changes impact the amount of work that SQL has to do, and I feel like I've learned quite a bit in the process.

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Förespråkar ett suveränt EU som global maktfaktor. Mitt fokus ligger i skärningspunkten mellan handel, försvar, digital självständighet och konkurrenskraft.

Jag tror på starka nationer i ett enat EU – där Sverige är en drivkraft, inte passagerare. Ser fram emot skarpa diskussioner!

🇨🇦 Championing a sovereign EU as a global power. Focusing on trade, defense, digital strength and competitiveness. Strong nations in a united Europe.

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This is a camera photo of a YouTube Short I published, playing back on my TV's YouTube app.

I do not look like this. I don't look this young and I'm not trying to. My face isn't remotely this smooth. My skin has blemishes, and freckles. My eyebrows are coarser.

YouTube's stupid AI upscaler has clearly made a pass, and I dislike it. I dislike it very much.

Man with gray beard wearing a headset and a black "Linux For Everyone" T-shirt, seated in a living room with framed landscape art behind him.
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