What is Hackers' Pub?

Exactly one year ago, on 30th December 2024, I laid the foundation of FediMeteo.

I took a VM, installed FreeBSD, and set up the first jail to support Italy. The goal was to create a tool for my own use, support a few countries, and announce it.

Unexpectedly, the enthusiasm was incredible. That pushed me to keep going, support more countries and cities, and turn it into what it is today.

FediMeteo now supports 38 countries and 2,937 cities, with more than 7,700 followers in the Fediverse alone, not counting the many people who follow via RSS feeds or visit the web pages.

If you are curious to read the story and some technical details, you can find it here:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/

Today is also Tuesday, a #ThankYouTuesday, so I want to say thanks to:

* OpenMeteo - @openmeteoOpen-Meteo 🌤🌍 - for providing accurate, high quality data, without which FediMeteo would be far less useful

* @grunfinkThe Real Grunfink - creator of snac, who made all of this possible using very few resources, on a 4 euro per month VM

* FreeBSD, which thanks to the efficiency of the OS and its jail implementation made it possible to run this service in a stable and efficient way with minimal effort

* FediFollows - @FediFollows - that periodically spreads the word about cities, countries, and the enthusiasm around the project

*All of you*, who suggested, encouraged, corrected, and celebrated this project

And forward toward supporting more countries and other interesting features already in the works.

Happy birthday, FediMeteo! 🎉

#FediMeteo #HappyBirthday #Meteo #Weather #FreeBSD #snac #snac2 #OpenMeteo #Fediverse

中東方面もけっこう寒くなるらしく戦争のあるところは大変そうよね…

I did not give permission to whomever is painting hamburgers out of edible wax to try and trick me by making me think that hamburger is what I will get when I fork over $15 at a drive through. I did not give permission to anyone trying to language-hack my brain Snow Crash style until I buy their product, sign up for their service, give them my money.

So out of the blue I got a request for access to a 10 year old Google Docs file. This request also came from someone who actually might be interested in that file, so I contacted him. Turns out he was making **exercise schedules** and had asked Google Gemini for help, and Gemini decided it needed access to my document on a new government law (from 2015). So be careful out there!

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Wikimedia Performance via @jpariseJon Parise https://lobste.rs/s/0td0ng #performance
https://performance.wikimedia.org/

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아니 이사할 때 누가 책에 커피라도 흘렸나 ㅡㅡ

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there should be a dataset somewhere of flux images you can write with a greaseweazle that represents all/most of the floppy format it supports.

for testing compatibility with other tools.

OR DO I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING MYSELF?

Des acteurs du numérique européens (dont Mastodon, Ecosia, Nextcloud) appellent à boycotter les entreprises états-uniennes à partir de dimanche 4 janvier.
https://euractiv.fr/news/en-allemagne-des-hackers-lancent-une-campagne-pour-reduire-lemprise-technologique-americaine/

털짐승씨는 정말 이번에 내가 한국간 사이에 버림받았다고 느낀 모양이구만 내가 돌아온 이후로 이유없이 엄청 앵기는데 ... 시터분이 못살게군것 같진 않고 ... 말이 안통하니 어쩔수없다 -_-

ah, PGP/GPG, the "free as in mattress" gift that keeps on giving.

Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US

Link: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4110681/foreign-tech-workers-are-avoiding-travel-to-the-us.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436949

If you play D&D or read a book or watch a movie or play a video game, you're giving consent to have your feelings manipulated. That consent is revocable — you can stop playing, put the book down, turn the movie off. There's real and serious issues with how that consent is negotiated and communicated, whether your consent is informed, and the like. I don't want to gloss over those, only note that there is some form of revocable and conditional consent offered.

Des acteurs du numérique européens (dont Mastodon, Ecosia, Nextcloud) appellent à boycotter les entreprises états-uniennes à partir de dimanche 4 janvier.
https://euractiv.fr/news/en-allemagne-des-hackers-lancent-une-campagne-pour-reduire-lemprise-technologique-americaine/

PSA I guess: "No means no" applies to much more than just sex. If you ask if someone wants to do something, and they say no, then don't be pushy and say things like "oh come on, it's fun!" or repeatedly push them to do the thing. Maybe they know themselves better than you do?? If you're disappointed that they don't want to do the thing, then that's a you problem. All consent should be informed and enthusiastic regardless of the context.

good morning to what a year, huh? #NYE #year2025 #picard @startrekStar Trek Social Club

大晦日に毎年再掲するやつー​​

Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

Link: https://loss32.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424173

잠많이 깻다...ㅠㅠ 일단 뜨신우유 마시는중... 불면증 진심 에바야

Trading RAM like you'd do drug deals

Trading RAM like you'd do drug deals

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ The "¿Qué?" is doubly funny cuz the question in spanish would be "Is cabbage salad a salad?"

What it's like to live with me, @GargronEugen Rochko gets pranked on the daily.

#Plushtodon

big thank you to the snail man doing blastbeats at congress and fuck you to the people who censored and tried to disrupt the sessions on palestine #39c3

What it's like to live with me, @GargronEugen Rochko gets pranked on the daily.

#Plushtodon

Librarians get it ...

Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite

Link: https://hackerbook.dosaygo.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435308

Learn how we utilize Gen AI at Buttondown (spoiler: we don't.)
https://buttondown.com/blog/generative-ai

the real sign of becoming middle-aged is when you start writing unit tests for even "simple" code

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exo-openでatrilにPDFを開いてもらうと同じPDFはひとつのウインドウでしか開けないみたいなので遠くのページを同時に参照するためにFirefoxでも同じPDFを開いています。ウインドウ内で分けて閲覧できるのはAcrobatだったっけ…

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*picks up 200A power supply*

*pulls a face*

*puts down 200A power supply*

*removes metal wedding ring*

*picks up 200A power supply*

The H-Watch is an opensource, long-lasting health monitoring wearable. Utilizing integrated NB-IoT technology, it offers direct, secure cloud connectivity. Although built with off the shelf components, its design focuses on low power consumption and on board intelligence. With an average power draw of just 5.9 mW, it achieves a 9-day battery life, which extends up to 20 days with its built-in solar harvester. The whole project is opensource.

https://github.com/ETH-PBL/H-Watch/

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I see a lot of help to using LLMs in some circumstances and admit they have some real productivity gains, but the insistence that if I don’t use them pervasively I will be “left behind” simply pisses me off

おはよう

We used to be a real country

朝だぞ！！！！！！起きろ！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！
布団剥がすぞ！！！！！！！！！！

FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service

Link: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436889

をはよう​​

Had an absolute blast at #39c3. All these events are special but the scale of Congress is overwhelming. And always a pleasure to hang out with lovely friends at @c3nocCCC Internetmanufaktur™ and @freeside.

I wasn't prepared for how hard it would be to find people, sorry if I didn't see you!

I suspect it won't be 9 years before I'm back next time...

I picked up a spare RPi4 from home over lunch, installed X on it (the hard way), and now I have a semi-working kiosk running on it.

Between this https://www.raspberrypi.com/tutorials/how-to-use-a-raspberry-pi-in-kiosk-mode/ and some LLM guidance, I have a working proof-of-concept running on a TV in my office.

美国最大的斩杀线就是被迫回国

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