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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Ever wanted a PicoGUS or PicoMEM but for PCMCIA? yyzkevin's PicoPCMCIA adds modern WiFi networking, Sound Blaster, GUS, CD-ROM, and storage to any computer with a PCMCIA slot. He's getting closer to launch and is now taking deposits for the first run of cards. yyzkevin.com/picopcmcia/

Both the Sound Blaster and CD-ROM emulation on the PicoGUS originally came from this ambitious project so it's awesome seeing it get close to done!

A PCMCIA card with a label saying "YYZ Credit Card Adapter for Everything" in the style of the PCMCIA cards that IBM made back in the 90s. A small wifi antenna, SD card slot, and dongle connector are on the card's edge.
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Anyone using Cloudflare as a domain name registrar?

I went to try them. It seems impossible to transfer in a domain without hosting your DNS with Cloudflare.

I have my own name servers. I don't need theirs.

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one of my favorite youtube channels is the one that does us political commentary via eurobeat remixes (and also makes normal eurobeat remixes sometimes)

cw us politics if you click the link, youtu.be/yXSg_PPd-g0

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I can say, however, that I've reunited with an "old friend" who is still in great shape. Before I get dozens of replies about it being insecure: in theory, it is, but it's not accessible from the outside. It's isolated within its own network and is only able to connect and fetch backups for 'extreme disaster recovery' (only at specific times, restricted by specific firewall rules). It served its purpose today, and tomorrow, it might be even more useful.

18:33:01 up 3188 days, 4:47, 1 user, load average: 5.09, 4.73, 4.74

Debian, Btrfs, and zero internal dust.
It's kept in a sterile, extremely protected room.

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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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