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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My last salaried job was at a company that built blockchain technology. No, it wasn't for cryptocurrency. The goal was to use blockchain to create a fully peer-to-peer, decentralized game. I found it a technically interesting goal. I've always been fascinated by decentralized technologies, which is also why I'm drawn to ActivityPub. Another thing that attracted me was the promise that this technology would be implemented as 100% open source. I had always wanted to work on open source full-time, so I accepted the offer.

However, once I started working there, I found myself increasingly disappointed. The organization gradually filled up with so-called “crypto bros,” and the culture shifted toward prioritizing token price over technical achievement. I and a few close colleagues believed that introducing partial centralization to the fully decentralized system—whether to defend the token price or to rush a release—was not a “minor compromise” but a “major corruption.” The rest of the organization didn't see it that way.

One of the most painful things about being in that organization was the fact that the technology I was creating was not only unhelpful to society, but was actually harming the environment and society. At the time, I felt like I was working for a tobacco company—knowing that cigarettes harm people's health, yet turning a blind eye and doing the job anyway.

I'm no fan of cryptocurrency, but I still think blockchain has technically interesting aspects. However, blockchain has already become socially inseparable from cryptocurrency, and even if blockchain is technically interesting, there are very few domains where it's actually useful. Furthermore, the negative environmental impact of blockchain technology is a problem that must be solved for it to be taken seriously. In its current state, when I weigh the harm against the utility, I believe the harm overwhelmingly outweighs it.

Anyway, I have now completely said goodbye to blockchain technology. I feel at ease now that I don't have to live with that guilt anymore. I also came to realize that engineers must consider not only the technical interest of a technology but also its social impact. So for now, I want to focus on ActivityPub. I find it both technically interesting and socially meaningful!

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아.. 이런 거였구나 환승 이별 당한다는 게.
어쩐지 인상이 너무 확 바뀌어서 아예 딴 사람이 됐다 싶었는데.

일단 나는 당해 본 적이 없어서 어떤 느낌인지 감이 안 오네..
심지어 환승연애 비슷한것도 안 당해봄..

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有一部老片Spy Games《間諜遊戲》,是勞勃瑞福跟布萊德彼特演的,裡面美軍入侵中國蘇州監獄,接走兩個人(布萊德彼特演的中情局前幹員,跟他的女友),當時覺得這個劇本也太誇張了,不過美軍現在還在執行這種劇本,真是不可思議。這次特殊行動差不多也是播放一部電影的時間。

查了一下,電影是2001年的。當時的美軍是從澎湖空軍基地出發的,劇情設定真有趣。

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@codinghorrorJeff Atwood timed the market on this as close to perfectly as you could have.

(I hope that some small part of that (noble, laudable) commitment to giving away half his wealth includes "everyone else who worked at SO never needs to worry about rent or groceries ever again".)

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11584307

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我一直覺得 ipfs 很有意思,可以讓任何人協助保存原始文件,而不是 copy 一份之後再重新上傳。

不過跟 Gemini 討論後,原來 ipfs 還會涉及到網站治理權以及被遺忘權,所以在尊重網站管理者與原作者的前提下,並不可以將創作內容預設以 ipfs 形式發佈,除非原作者與網站同意。

而且即使將內容以 ipfs 形式發佈,若無法散播 CID,或是無法證明 CID 就是原始內容,那也是白搭。

也許讓內容以 NFT 形式記錄是一個好的解方。由原作者以自己的意志將內容以 ipfs 形式發布,並將 CID 刻錄在 NFT 上,在乎的人就會去領取或購買 NFT,並根據上面記錄的 CID 去領取或釘選內容。這樣也能解決 ipfs CID 難以紀錄、傳播與證明的問題。

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Murder of the dancefloor

Renata Cloud @blog@renata.cloud

You have heard it, you have seen it - nightclubs are closing down, the party scene is dying. The reasons given for it are many - young people can't afford going out because it's expensive, or they don't drink that much anymore. I'm going to propose something else entirely: what if nightlife is dying because social media killed the fun of dance parties? When you go to a nightclub, in the 2020s, what you see is groups of people dressed up, with phones in their hands, constantly posing for […]

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Cross-posting is coming to NodeBB!

julian @julian@community.nodebb.org

<p><strong>tl;dr</strong> — cross-posting is coming to NodeBB in v4.9.0. It will be internal-only for now, as we work through social issues with federated cross-posting. Existing category sync and auto-categorization logic in NodeBB now utilises cross-posts instead of moving or ignoring categorized topics, respectively.</p> <h3>Some history</h3> <p>For the past couple months, I've been mulling over the idea of cross-posting, and how this would work in a federated forum context.</p>

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There’s a number of people, especially Linux enthusiasts, that kind of go around with this very USian customer-is-always-right mentality and judge things other people make as if everything in the world has to be made specifically to cater to them

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8BitDo’s new wireless Xbox controller has swappable ABXY button switches. You can also change the joysticks and D-pad on this extremely customizable controller that’s launching later this year www.theverge.com/tech/848331/...

8BitDo’s new wireless Xbox con...

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'중산층'의 기준도 한국은 다른 나라에 비해서 물질적인 것에만 집중되어 있는 것도 그렇고, 23개 국가 24000명 이상의 성인을 대상으로 입소스에서 설문조사를 했는데, "한 사람의 성공을 나타내는 최고의 지표가 돈인가?"라는 질문에서 전체의 57%가 아니라고 답한 반면에, 중국 한국 한정으로는 70%가 예라고 답한 결과도 있다고 합니다. 가치 추구보다는 물질적인 것에 목맴 + 삶이 팍팍해지니까... '돈이 안 되는 것'을 경시하는 풍조가 심해지면서 도덕심 교양 함양 등도 등한시 된 것이 크지 않나 싶네요.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:26cwbhrythd3dghfalxpezxs/post/3mbokdegcfk2n

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Iōng siⁿ-thih tiáⁿ, it-tēng ē ū bô-sòe-lī chú kah chhàu-hé-ta, siuⁿ kú bô iōng siⁿ-sian ê chêng-hóng.
用鑄鐵鍋,一定會有不小心煮到臭火焦、太久沒用生鏽的情況。

M̄-koh tio̍h sǹg án-ne mā bōe iàu-kín, kā chhàu-hé-ta ah-sī siⁿ-sian ê só͘-chāi lù tiāu, tiōng-sim chhī iû tio̍h ē-sái ta̍uh-ta̍uh-á ho̍k-goân--ah.
但就算如此也不要緊,把臭火焦或生鏽的地方刷掉,重新上油就可以慢慢地復原了。

Hi-bāng lîn-seng mā ē-sái chhiūⁿ siⁿ-thih tiáⁿ kāng-khoán.
希望人生也能像鑄鐵鍋一樣。

三個鑄鐵炊具:湯鍋、平底鍋、吐司夾
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演算法這門科技,是需要有數據資料才能夠運作的。而這些數據資料的來源,就是我們這些天天上網、天天餵資料給它的使用者們。演算法的出現,確實改變了我們的生活;而另一方面,演算法所帶來的焦慮,同樣也對我們的生活造成了影響。演算法承諾會替我們做決策、會對我們的想法和慾望做出最佳估測,並進而介入了我們的生活,於是某種「演算法心態」便於焉誕生了。所謂的「演算法心態」,不僅僅只涉及演算法的運作模式而已,它同時也指涉著社會大眾對於演算法科技的高度依賴。即使我們對演算法鋪天蓋地的影響力有所不滿,但我們依舊依賴演算法,讓它代替我們自己做決定。

——《扁平時代》9786267645048 凱爾.切卡,衛城出版 2025。

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This makes the rounds now and then and there's always something in it that's kind of surprising. Voltaire might have met Blackbeard. There was a window there where Kierkegaard could have shaken some sense into Edgar Allan Poe. Catherine The Great and Ivan The Terrible could have had kids who were only OK.

vis.social/@infobeautiful/1158

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