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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Synthetic Video Host on YouTube

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I've noticed a very, very, very small number of YouTube channels using AI technologies to create Synthetic Video Hosts.

I'm mostly neutral on AI. And even positive on AI with some use-cases.

I even think using AI technologies to create virtual people (rather than using 3D graphics tools) is useful, too, for certain use-cases.

But —

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new year update on what I'm using: and -fe as desktop clients, my own and a bit of on iOS, hosting this and other official accounts on , account on iosdev.space is super useful for ios dev, random posting on universeodon.com (basically where I started in the , in retrospect I would have picked something with a shorter domain), love using and , and thanks to all the admins out their hosting my test accounts!

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I've just published version 2.86 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. Once again, most of the work has been done by fellow developers because they are the best. It includes the following changes:

Truncate RSS titles at UTF-8 character boundaries (contributed by lxo).

Link contacts to single-user people pages. Also, user's posts are shown (contributed by lxo).

Added emoji reactions (contributed by violette).

Mastodon API: Fix for some client notifications (contributed by violette), fix for a status visibility error (contributed by fruye).

If the query variable terse of a public post page is set to anything, no header is shown.

Fixed search failures when the query string has any leading blank.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.



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Okay the world and my inbox is too much.

This year, I’d like to read at least:
- one [achievable goals!] nonfiction book
- one novel that is neither SFF nor mystery.

Ideally books that will not make me feel even worse about reality.

Who’s got a rec in either category you love that I may love?

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Spend enough time in certain circles (*cough* LinkedIn *cough*), you’ll no doubt come across a rather peculiar line of argumentation extolling the world-changing virtues of the slop machines.

We are told that these services aren’t to be lauded merely on the merits of what they can do for us in the course of performing creative work, but also for this reason: armed with access to these services, you can Take Down The Man.

And by "The Man", they mean…artists.

WTAF 🤪

buttondown.com/theinternet/arc

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yesterday I was talking to someone from cl*udfl*re and they mentioned the "three sites" they'd banned, and the third one was 8chan
but since it was noisy I thought they said "HN" and I was momentarily really happy that amongst the transphobia site and the nazi site, their horrible employer had banned hacker news.

sadly, it was not to be

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I wrote a photo essay with 20+ of my favourite tech museums in the world, and tried to figure out what makes a great museum in the process.

I am very curious what tech museums you like – and why!

(Will work on any device, but worth checking out on the biggest screen you or your neighbour might have.)

aresluna.org/fav-tech-museums/

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Maybe you want to boycott U.S. products. Or you’re concerned about security and privacy. Or you’ve seen the Trump administration retaliate against political enemies by cutting off their access to U.S.-based digital services and don’t want to be vulnerable to the same sanctions.

Whatever the reason, you may find this very useful. threads.com/@parismarx/post/DT

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latam, war, Greenland, domestic violence as a metaphor

it still feels infuriating how when one year ago when Trump started talking of invasion everyone was like "blustering", "impossible", "distraction from Epstein" etc. and I was like, this is war, this is how war happens, there's a process until you get a country to bomb and what he's doing *right now*, these statements, these are parts of the process, we're going to see war. and now that several ships have been blown up in violation of every norm and nobody did anything, now that he has bombed the capital of a lat-am country and kidnapped the president with the express purpose of appropriating resources and nobody did anything, *now* people act as if they never called me crazy/doomer/news-obsessed etc. for saying, this is war, we're going to war.

I guess at least *now* people aren't doubting anymore that Greenland and Canada are on the menu too, though you did call me crazy when I said "this is real" the very first time Trump started joking about Greenland and Canada. look, if the boyfriend of your friend starts joking about punching him if he runs his mouth again, you have to understand that his joking is already the process that leads to backhand slaps happening. the violence doesn't happen overnight. the violence is built, and the words is how you build it.

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Maybe you want to boycott U.S. products. Or you’re concerned about security and privacy. Or you’ve seen the Trump administration retaliate against political enemies by cutting off their access to U.S.-based digital services and don’t want to be vulnerable to the same sanctions.

Whatever the reason, you may find this very useful. threads.com/@parismarx/post/DT

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I can't honestly say I have any sympathy for people who feel betrayed by , considering that GitHub has always been a platform.

If you are a coder, why on Earth would you ever host your FOSS code on a non-FOSS system??

It's a recipe for betrayal. Andreesen Horowitz invested $100M USD in GitHub all the way back in 2012, and *now* you're upset??

ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteachin

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