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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.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @Wtebbens@social.coop
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@lopalasiLorena Jaume-Palasí thank you for your critical reflections. I understand the "Digital Independence Day" proposal as a call to people to change one digital dependency a time, one day a month. Indeed EU countries are not colonies of the USA as European countries did in the Global South and still do. But we can see many forms of neocolonialism. In concrete in the digital age we see how a dozen big tech corporations from the US dominate in Europe, extracting only for cloud services approx 250 billion €/yr

Lorena Jaume-Palasí @lopalasi@dair-community.social
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Shared by Wouter Tebbens ⁂

@WtebbensWouter Tebbens ⁂ ain’t that a relativization of colonialism? And again, if we take a closer look, does your description really depict the political and economical dynamics in the EU or rather distract from our own role as EUsians in the current status quo, in which the EU is most certainly not dominated, but dominating party. Just look at our technical infrastructures, the range and scope of our laws, the raw materials deals, which EU companies are involved and profiting etc etc

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David Gerard @davidgerard@circumstances.run
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I said previously: "No tech from blockchain dates later than 2001. Crypto added nothing." circumstances.run/@davidgerard

Both here and on bsky, I got crypto fans saying "ah ah ah zero knowledge proofs!" These are indeed used in Monero (money laundering coin) and assorted failed money laundering coins!

However, claiming *credit* to cryptocurrency for ZKPs seems implausible.

I'm actually looking into this and I can find shit that isn't proposals for other failed money laundering coins.

Closest a proponent got was, well, cryptocurrency *funded* it. (No examples, just the blank statment.)

So I'm asking those claiming cryptocurrency drove ZK proof research and uses: which papers with which effects and which resulting products are you thinking of? With checkable details. Thanks.

David Gerard (@davidgerard@circumstances.run)

Statements of the form "the AI bubble will crash but the *technology* will remain" are vacuous. Stop making them. The useful tech is the transformer, which already existed and was useful. Generative AI brings no new usefulness to the table, even in business terms, without a VC-funded bubble. The same guys were making the same vacuous statement about bitcoin and blockchain. No tech from blockchain dates later than 2001. Crypto added nothing. Whether AI or crypto, it's a dumb statement shallow people make thinking it makes them sound smart. and if you follow up with "but it's useful to meeeeeeeeee" I'll just block you. Assume I've heard your excuse and it's bad. I can't think of a single excuse of the "AI is here to stay" form that survives the crash. Here's a catalogue: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/ai-is-here-to-stay-is-it-though-what-do-you-mean-stay/ even "the maths will remain" isn't for sure. ML as a research field has been heavily corrupted by LLM money, down to accepting spinning a roulette wheel in methodology. ML is headed for one doozy of a replication crisis, if they don't just throw out most of the past few years. Start over at 2022, maybe. AI is a room full of VCs who've gone from wondering who's the bagholder to wondering if they're *all* the bagholders meanwhile Jensen is driving off in a dumptruck filled with all their actual dollar money, whistling a jaunty tune.

circumstances.run · GSV Sleeper Service

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Jonathan Kamens @jik@federate.social
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Shared by Jim DeLaHunt

You may have heard that the maintainer of med-mastodon.com, a large, prominent Mastodon server, recently decided to shut down the server without warning, leaving his users with no access to their data.
This could happen to you at any time.
If you care about this, you should be backing up your data regularly.
Here's a post I just wrote about how to do that, and about what you can do with your backed-up data.

blog.kamens.us/2026/01/02/the-

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Wary Jerry @jerry@infosec.exchange
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RE: infosec.exchange/@jerry/115832

I seem to have cornfused many people yesterday, so to clear the air:

Yes, I know that last year was the first time FIFA ever gave out this award

Yes, I am aware that it was invented and awarded by the head of FIFA to curry favor with Trump, who was still in shock that he was passed over for the Nobel Prize

Yes, I’m aware that the main thing this award represents is corruption.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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초무 @chomu.dev@bsky.brid.gy
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일단 가장 큰 문제점이 뽑뽀를 못 시킨다는 점이다 루카리오가 다른 푸키먼과 뽑뽀를 아무리 시도해봤자 머리가 도넛 모양이 아닌 이상 뽑뽀를 하지 못 할 것이다... 특히 동종 개체 간의 뽑뽀는 상상조차 못 해볼 것이다 뽑뽀조차 하지 못하는 루카리오들은 진화를 한 순간부터는 뽑뽀도 할 수 없는 몸이 되어버렸다는 절망과 외로움에 사무쳐 죽을 것이다... 너무나 슬픈 이야기인것인것인것인것이엇따,,,

a couple of cartoon characters...

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Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk@mastodon.social
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I gave a lightning talk at a bunch of conferences in 2025 about some of the exciting new things coming in Python 3.14, including template strings.

One thing we can use t-strings for is to prevent SQL injection. I illustrated this with xkcd 327 aka “Little Bobby Tables”.

I localised most of the slides for the PyCon I was at, including this comic. Here they are!

hugovk.dev/blog/2026/localisin

Localising xkcd

hugovk.dev · Hugo van Kemenade

Link author: Hugo van Kemenade@hugovk@mastodon.social

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wet forest moon folklorist @seachanger@alaskan.social
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Shared by Stefan Bohacek

“There’s this myth building around cars that we had this love affair, and it was the inevitable march of progress that got us all behind the wheel. But at the outset, that was not the case at all.

There was deep, deep resistance, and we’ve forgotten that because none of us know a world without cars. Getting people to understand that this was not inevitable is the first step toward changing our future trajectory”

archive link: archive.ph/naYtf
mastodon.social/@TheWarOnCars/

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robb @dlx@mastodon.social
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I wish Swift had `folder` visibility. Sometimes I need cross-file access but don’t want to make something API without the overhead of just one more target, bro, I promise, just one more Package.swift

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Unixorn - 90% Snark by weight @unixorn@hachyderm.io
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I set up a cluster with on over the holiday break.

I documented how to set one up on my blog at unixorn.github.io/post/homelab

@homelabRun your own homelab

This is part one of a series.

Creating a Talos kubernetes cluster with a Cilium CNI on Proxmox

I’ve been meaning to set up a talos cluster in my homelab for a while and set one up over the holiday break. Here’s how I did it.

unixorn.github.io · unixorn.github.io

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もちもちずきん🍆 @Yohei_Zuho@mstdn.y-zu.org
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Pixelfed.Tokyo
Philosophy.Cafe
mstdn.y-zu.org
どれも金にならないけど私にとってはかけがえのない宝物なんだよな

Pixelfed.Tokyo

Pixelfed.Tokyoは東京にサーバーを置くPixefedサーバーです。自由でオープンなイメージシェアの場を広く提供する目的で維持・管理されています。 Pixelfed.Tokyo is a Pixelfed server located in Tokyo, Japan. It is maintained with the aim of providing a free and open forum for image sharing.

pixelfed.tokyo · Pixelfed.Tokyo

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BS @everblue1223.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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Shared by 초무

뉴욕 타임즈가 언뜻 인도적인 타이틀을 내건것 같아도 ㅋㅋ "첫째" 희생양??? 지난 수십년간 미국이 세계 곳곳에서 무슨 짓을 했는지 모두 모를거라 생각하나?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uabkr6tn7ru4b4e5e6udleuf/post/3mbkvw2vvf224

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Aaron Rupar @aaron.rupar@threads.net
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STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump said the US is going to 'run Venezuela.' Under what legal authority?

RUBIO: We want a better future for the people of Venezuela

STEPHANOPOULOS: I'll ask again -- what is the legal authority?

RUBIO: We have court orders

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采子 @nut_saiko@misskey.io
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blender初心者すぎて思ってもなかったショートカットキーとかがちゃがちゃ押し間違いながら満身創痍で帰ってきたときのクリスタの""家""感がすごい　blenderも別荘くらいになれるように頑張りたい​:meowmeltcry:​

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