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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.

Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.

No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.

This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.

So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.

I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?

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Seit fast einer Woche auf Mastodon und mir wurde gerade erst so richtig bewusst, wie toll es eigentlich ist, dass meine Timeline wirklich mir gehört und nicht von einem angelernten Nutzungsprofil kuratiert wird.

Ich hab mich dabei erwischt, bei Interaktionen schon automatisch an mögliche Auswirkungen auf meinen "Algorithmus" zu denken.

Was für eine Erleichterung!
So als wäre ich aus einem Albtraum aufgewacht.

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Remember, when something in the news upsets you, you are *not obligated* to spend the next hour hunched over your phone reading live updates and social media hot takes.

You *can* stay informed without succumbing to this urge -- an urge deliberately conditioned into us for decades by the 24-hour news cycle and exploitative for-profit social media.

Step away from your screens, let your psyche absorb the blow, and read about it in a newspaper tomorrow morning if you like. You have permission!

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theres 360 degrees in a circle and 365 days in a year. these numbers aren’t the same. but they’re so close. it would be so satisfying if each day meant moving one degree in our orbit of the sun. but no, it’s off by five. aaaaargh! surely i can’t be the only one who is annoyed by this, right?

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高市首相は周りに馬車馬のように働いていただき、ワークライフバランスという言葉を捨て、働いて働いて働いて働いて働いて、参りますと豪語し世間と政界ははしゃいでいるが、国民は働いて働いて働いて働いて馬車馬のように働いて税金を搾り取られて、こんな状態だっていうのに有ろう事か労働に殺されている国民だっているんですけど

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„Wir sind zu oft und zu schnell krankgeschrieben in Deutschland“

(Söder)

Wenn dem wirklich so ist, sollte man die Ursachen untersuchen. Nicht auskuriert? Chronischer Stress? Umwelt? Was sorgt dafür, dass Menschen sich krank fühlen? Zu wenig Zeit der Arztschaft zu schauen? Schwurbel? (Offene Frage)

Was vorgeschlagen wird: Lohnfortzahlung kürzen. Halbkrank arbeiten geht auch!!!1!!

So spielt man den Rest auch noch kaputt im Hamsterrad.

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정말 도트로 이렇게까지 맘앑 받아보는게 구 트위터에서부터 지금까지도 정말 처음이었구, 산책중에 마음이 확 들어서 찍은 사진으로부터, 이렇게 26년 첫 도트로 수많은 분들의 마음에 들게되어 너무 감격스럽네요 🥹 더 열심히 도트를 찍어보겠습니다. 스라 탐넘 상관없이 가장 예쁜 풍경 사진을 올려주세요! 맘에 드는거, 순서 상관 없이 시간 날 때마다 이거다! 싶은 것 부터 쫌쫌따리 찍어서 가져와볼게요!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iedqo77lvvvgcer4n6woh2sy/post/3mbgv4mqexc26

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Like, this is a serious question. A skill isn't vibes, there has to be something that you can actually learn, complete with that connects that skill to output. Maybe the theory behind that skill isn't as rigorous as a scientific theory, but if it's entirely absent, if you have no way of knowing a real skill apart from vibes? Then yeah, you've just got vibes.

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🇪🇺🫂 It's amazing to see the EU Civil Protection Mechanism working in such critical times.

❣️ European countries have offered aid resulting so far in 24 patients being transported to hospitals in 🇧🇪, 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪, and 🇮🇹.

💪 Burns Assessment Teams from 🇫🇷 and 🇮🇹 are supporting hospitals🇨🇭 in Valais & Lausanne by providing highly specialised burn care expertise. So far, 21 countries have offered help: 18 for treatment, 9 for transport and 6 offered the experts.

civil-protection-humanitarian-

European Civil Protection Badge
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정말 도트로 이렇게까지 맘앑 받아보는게 구 트위터에서부터 지금까지도 정말 처음이었구, 산책중에 마음이 확 들어서 찍은 사진으로부터, 이렇게 26년 첫 도트로 수많은 분들의 마음에 들게되어 너무 감격스럽네요 🥹 더 열심히 도트를 찍어보겠습니다. 스라 탐넘 상관없이 가장 예쁜 풍경 사진을 올려주세요! 맘에 드는거, 순서 상관 없이 시간 날 때마다 이거다! 싶은 것 부터 쫌쫌따리 찍어서 가져와볼게요!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iedqo77lvvvgcer4n6woh2sy/post/3mbgv4mqexc26

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Heya! I just released XenoAtom.Terminal github.com/XenoAtom/XenoAtom.T, a modern replacement for System.Console for .NET CLI/TUI apps. 🎉

It keeps a familiar Console-like feel, but adds the terminal-native stuff System.Console doesn't cover well: ANSI/VT styling + markup, unified async input events (keys/resize/mouse/paste), restore-on-dispose scopes (raw/cbreak, alternate screen, hide cursor…), clipboard, a rich ReadLine editor, & testable backends, built on top of XenoAtom.Ansi ✨

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生まれて初めてグランカストマってところでお昼寝した。快活CLUBと異なりドリンクは有料だが、その代はりカレーとうどんが食べ放題といふネット個室&漫画ラウンジ。フリータイム(12時間)で2310円。都内(上野)にしては普通に破格。地下の大浴場とサウナは無料で使ひ放題で、なんとタオルと服もくれる。だがホテルではない。

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"The ceasefire did what it was meant to do – make Gaza invisible"

"It became clear to me that the real goal of the ceasefire was not to stop the violence or death, nor to protect people or limit bloodshed & genocide."

"The real goal was to stop the world from talking about Gaza.. the crimes being committed there.. the daily suffering of people."

"Mass death in Gaza continues."

aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/

@palestinePalestine_Group .

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That was a pretty uneventful affair, which is good. The Cosmic liveslak I tried worked well, a much better experience than before. Furthermore very much up to date, the first patch to version 1 already included. Had only to install grub (included, but not activated) and uninstall some standard liveslak packages. But that goes with every Slackware install, so no biggie. Cosmic-greeter behaves a bit quirky also, but that goes for all Cosmic installs. Next week: tweaking.

Neofetch of Cosmic 1.0.0.1 on Slackware Current
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