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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RE: mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/

JUST SO WE ARE CLEAR:

GOING TO THE POST OFFICE TO PERSONALLY HAVE YOUR VOTE POSTMARKED DOES NOT SOLVE VOTER SUPPRESSION

THIS IS A POLL TAX.

what of the cost to people who don’t have a post office nearby?

what of the cost to people who don’t have easy transportation to a post office?

what of disabled people who cannot go personally to get that postmark?

because the next step is to say exactly that: your vote won’t count if somebody else gets the postmark for you.

THIS IS JIM CROW FASCISM

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I was asked by a family member why it was taking so long to paste something large into a new Microsoft Word document on their computer, I sarcastically replied it was because it takes a while to upload it all to the copilot AI nonense first. And then I realized accidentally I might be right...I disabled copilot in Word and it went back to being instant again

So that's cool that Microsoft seems uploading everything you paste into a new Word doc to their servers now.

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With 2025 complete, I can finally declare the most popular bloggers of Hacker News:

1. @simonSimon Willison - 20,117 points
2. @geerlingguyJeff Geerling - 10,813 points
3. Sean Goedecke - 10,804 points
4. @briankrebs - 10,699 points
5. Neal Agarwal - 8,936 points

refactoringenglish.com/blog/20

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I think what most techy/Linux/dev people need to realise is that the absolute majority of Windows users have never had to install Windows in the first place. Same for most Mac users.

They don't need to worry about partition tables or mount points or even the idea that an image might be corrupted.

Heck, even today showed me the limits of my own techy knowledge *live on air* and I thought I knew enough from my own tinkering over the last few months on very modern hardware that was never designed to run Linux.

If you really want the Year of the Linux Desktop, you really need to consider the majority of computer users who will space out if you mention going into the BIOS or using the Terminal or what booting from UEFI means.

If you've never had to do family & friends tech support you are *rare*.

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human interface guidelines peaked at apple macintosh os 8 platinum theme. look at these buttons just aching to be poked, but they don't just chocka down like a hard plastic keycap; they flip inverted like a translucent pop-its fidget toy

all of the advancement in graphics hardware since this point in the past should have been real time 3d models to produce the most authentic rendering of these buttons in today's high resolution displays or with the color reflections cast by other windows etc

an illustration from Apple Mac OS 8 Human Interface Guidelines (1997-09-02). An example of a Cancel / OK dialog box is shown, with the user mid-click on the OK button. both rounded-rectangle buttons look like they are made of beveled plastic which squish down inverted when you touch them like a pop-its silicone fidget toy. the "default" button is lined with a little ridge to indicate that's the one that will be triggered if you just press return. both buttons have a solid black outline to make them visually distinct from the panel they're carved into, which also has a beveled edge.
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