What is Hackers' Pub?

Wassen der Plural Chaos?

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@liaizonwakest ⁂ @Codeberg

"Ask everybody in the picture whether they agree to be photographed or filmed. Inform them if you want to publish the picture anywhere. It follows that shots from the stage towards the audience and long shots in the hackcenters, assemblies and the other public areas are not possible! Please note that we might ask photographers and film teams to leave if they don’t respect this."

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/infos/fundamentals-and-faq.html#photos-videos

Clearly didn't happen here, please delete the post.

시차적응을 좀 해야겠어

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Please feel free to ask if you have any questions about using this place! There's no such thing as a silly question, it's fine to ask about anything however simple.

I'm especially keen to help new or non-technical people on here 🙂 And yes I am a human being, I don't use AIs!

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@fasterandworseStephen Farrugia

Also, interesting to see that in his first point about "normalising AI", he's pretty explicit about people inside his organisation not wanting to use it, and "normalisation" here means pushing the internal adoption of an unwanted tool, top down. Quite remarkable. Thanks for the link!

I understand (yet don't agree) on the social media ban for children some countries have implemented and others are discussing.

However, if we look at the state of some societies right now, I don't think it's just kids who need to stay away from platforms like Facebook, X and TikTok.

Of course, the real problem is not "social media" but rather the companies who run these corporate controlled, rage bait algorithm fueled money makers.

[사설] 청소년 극우화, 미디어 리터러시 교육으로 막아야 www.tokipul.net/ceongsonyeon...

[사설] 청소년 극우화, 미디어 리터러시 교육으로 막아...

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Linus stalks prey in his natural habitat (the living room.) #CatsOfMastodon

あーガチで年末年始休み一週間もないの気が狂いそうや

At the heart of every issue is a coalition of rich dudes trying to dodge liability

one of the most helpful heuristics for spotting grift: a promise of value or money without requiring value* from you. beware this. we all want the 'exchange rate' to be as low as possible but as it ➡️ zero the more likely it is you'll just get fools' gold — *whether time, effort, skill or insight

2 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years [pdf]

Link: https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/03/pi_2025.04.03_us-public-and-ai-experts_topline.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46412411

With Rayhunter, we can find out how cell site simulators are being used, and protect ourselves and our communities from this form of surveillance. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

消費期限切れの牛乳を​​​​

그러고 보니까 장르는 다르지만 팝픈뮤직이 있기 전에 팝픈트윈비가 있었는데..... 뭔가 관련이 있는 걸까? 아니면 그냥 우연?

New on the blog: TIBtv Has Landed 🌕

https://robertafidora.com/news-press/blog/tibtv-has-landed

#Music #Musicians #Fediverse #FediMusic #Electronic #Blog #MusicBlog

RE: https://toot.cafe/@nolan/115798093439377010

I'm seeing more and more web devs vibe coding apps for personal use. Or at least using LLMs to help quickly build something that only they and their family members will use.

This is interesting for https://Dropserver.org, which should be ideal for hosting such apps. The apps run in a sandbox so a fumble on the LLM's part is not going to be a big problem. It has user management built in, so you can spare the LLM from building that for you. And backups, restores, moving the hosted app around is designed to be snagless.

I try to remember I’m lucky. I work for a true mission-driven company. A non-profit, but big enough to not deal with the non-profit problems largely. I’m compensated well. I don’t feel like I’m contributing evil to the world. I feel like I am helping to make people’s lives better, even if it’s still stuck in a capitalist framing.

And I remind myself how rare that is.

When I think of rage quitting over some annoying thing, I remember how rare that combination is in this toxic timeline.

the guy with a flamethrower burning down your house shakes his head and says that fire is inevitable
he tells you that you should not be a luddite
that you should stop standing in the way of progress
that you should buy one of the fireproof suits he sells
like everyone else did
when he burned down their houses

Excited to see some new projects implementing #ActivityPub and joining the #fediverse in the final stretches of 2025:

Accounts on new server implementations I have come across the last days are #Agora (test account here: @flancian@flancian@anagora.org) and #SquidCity (test account: @lobsters)

Ah meh, the new `Observations` isn't back ported and requires macOS 26.

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“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
- Frank Herbert, Dune (1966)

#ai

루카리오의 바디라인은 반칙임

Google's 'AI Overview' Wrongly Accused a Musician of Being a Sex Offender https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/28/035234/googles-ai-overview-wrongly-accused-a-musician-of-being-a-sex-offender?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

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みすきーに移住してきました！
色々描いてます、よろしくねー。

Browser makers' goal is to have an LLM use their AI browser to browse AI generated slop. Forever.

Finally I can rest in peace ☺️

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?

https://github.com/ghall89/otto

Bart Darby

i don't want to be a youtuber as a business but if i were a mid-size youtuber i'd definitely treat it like being an athlete in terms of "this income is only going to last for a decade at most and could go away at any moment"

아 이거 나... 방금 요기한거 그대로 탈 났나? 머리 아프로 속 미묘~하게 울렁거리는데 당장 다제스를 먹다

와 그럼 어세피라이트로 도트 찍고 파츠 나눠두면 픽셀오버에서 본심어서 움직이고 셰이더 먹일 수 있네? 혁명적이다;

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. #Castopod helps. #Peertube does it for on demand video. #Owncast does it for live video. #Azuracast for radio. #Ghost 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.

의외로 이순신 장군님이 먹어본 적 없는 음식 불닭볶음면

そろそろ風呂からあがらねばならない​​

흐음 픽셀오버 사용법 알겠다 본 심는건 스파인이나 라투디랑 비슷하고 셰이더는 세팅해두면 되게 괜찮게 나오네 아래는 상자에 본 심어서 본만 움직여도 상자 따라오게 만든거

@liaizonwakest ⁂ @Codeberg @dantescanline @trinetraत्रीनेत्र:toluene @FediverseSymbolFediverse Symbol ⁂ @n0toose Epic

네...

Of course

#Trump says he spoke to Vladimir #Putin just hours ahead of meeting with #Ukraine leader Volodymyr #Zelensky.

“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].

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-zelensky-ukraine-news-12-28-25?cid=ios_app