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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Linux desktop voice control has a gap. Talon costs money. Other tools are X11-only or cloud-dependent.

So I built EasySpeak.

youtube.com/watch?v=dl5m2Zo1oIE

github.com/ctsdownloads/easysp

- Free and open source (GPL-3.0)
- Fully local — no cloud, no accounts
- Wayland-native
- "Hey Jarvis, open downloads"

Built for RSI, accessibility, or anyone who wants to talk to their computer.

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これ、そんなに批判されるような内容かな。「新しくもなんともないだろ(昔から大国は力でなんでもしてきただろ)」はそうだし、だからこそ批判する必要があるのにこれでは現状追認じゃんっていうのは、まあそりゃそうといえばそうかもしれないけど、批判・批評がこれまでも(おそらくはこれからも)権力にたいして無力であったと嘆くのも、批評家としてはそう思うことくらい自由じゃないの。 https://x.com/hazuma/status/2007479562461163555

東浩紀のツイッターのスクリーンショット。2026年1月4日。
「アメリカのベネズエラ攻撃はあまりにめちゃくちゃだが、もはや国際社会はまったくこれを抑止できないわけで、それが新しい現実なんだろう。イスラエルについても然りで、正義とか法とかについて話しても虚しい。いまや大国はなんでもできる。」
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Morning thought: What if the earth had a massive ocean sized air pocket hiding in the crust somewhere that gradually opened up and released causing the oceans to recede by a hundred feet, which in turn cause the coastlines to expand around the entire world over the course of a year?

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Social media fucks with our heads because here, those two places are the same.

And that is not about control. It's about user interface choices.

Specifically, when I step on my soap box and announce the contents of this thread loudly to passers-by, your experience of it is me breaking down your door, standing next to your sofa, and shouting this in your face.

In other words, you're in a safe, accepting environment, in which you open yourself to affirming interactions, while I'm actively...

... prepared for non-accepting interactions.

This is because the norm for user interfaces for social media makes no distinction between the "places" in which I produce content and you consume it.

Contrast this to e.g. blogs. You can consume them on your sofa just fine, via an RSS feed, just like you might subscribe to a physical newspaper. But when you want to react to this, you have to go to the speaker's soap box and comment there. Or you have to step on our own soap box, and phrase your...

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Expert systems are inevitable

Don’t get left behind, Flash is the future

Java Applets will replace all other software

Cryptocurrency will obsolete fiat currency

Better claim your stake in the Metaverse

By 2015, we will all have self-driving cars

Pen computing is going to end keyboards on laptops

You’ll look so stupid if you miss out on NFTs

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[Veille 📣] How We Lost Communication to Entertainment
ploum.net/2025-12-15-communica

Je me sens vraiment lié à cette réflexion de @ploum .

Oui, le Fédivers est pour moi un outil qui permet de connecter différentes plateformes entre elles, oui le but est justement de ne pas avoir besoin d’un compte différent par service.
Je rejoins parfaitement le constat de l’aspect "consommation" de certains des services du Fédivers, et j’aimerais que ça ne soit pas le cas.

Faites des flux RSS, faites des blog, faites du mail !

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I mean you can block him and you'll never see anything he says again. But alas! You cannot stop people from talking about you! If only you could silence anyone you wanted, cutting them off from the people who do support them. Wouldn't that be great?

@cy see, this is a bad faith read of a serious post. It's entitled, dismissive, and sarcastic. I assume it's meant to get a rise out of me, and it would also serve to signal to anyone else reading this that being entitled, dismissive, and sarcastic is acceptable behavior in this space. It's not.

For posterity, you know it's not about whether I have to see your reply, because that's not what I said. I said it's about whether I have to carry your reply, and show it to everyone who comes by as though it had equal merit to the actually thoughtful and constructive replies it's sitting next to.

If I had better tools to moderate my own threads, I might be able to give you a chance to apologize and correct your behavior. But I don't have those better tools. I can only block you, to prevent further bad behavior. So that's what I'm doing.

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On Tuesday, January 13, 2025 there will be happening 5th Mobile Hackday in Prague.

The event focuses on Linux on mobile devices, kernel development, and practical hacking around mobile platforms.

The day will include short lightning talks on topics such as:
* sending Linux kernel patches using b4
* what makes a high-quality commit (in the kernel and beyond)
* a NixOS Mobile demo

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When I was a kid my parents gave me a set of Childcraft books of which one was a book on art:

archive.org/details/lookagainc

One of my favourite works in it was "Square of Three" by American artist Reginald Neal:

chrysler.emuseum.com/objects/2

So I thought I'd write the shader. It's fun to stare at random parts for extended periods of time...

shadertoy.com/view/tcKfWG

A black and white image of fine lines filling a square space arranged in a way that suggests a 3x3 grid of squares, each containing a nest of squares. It squirms about all over the place due to optical illusionary effects.
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I am Anubis. You probably know who I am. I am a guide and protector. On here, however, I shall, most likely, talk and post about various topics which I am interested in. I am, of course, interested in Ancient Egypt and mythology, but also art, philosophy and religion. I am currently trying my hand at creating various (albeit very simple) emoji. I also enjoy music, writing and reading. I will, most likely, also share various jokes. Additionally, it is likely that I will also talk about various everyday events and technology and language.

I do not, as of yet, have my own website. However, I shall be working on creating on in the foreseeable future.

Feel free to talk to me if you wish, but please introduce yourself and state the reason for your wishing to talk to me. I am not the best at small talk.

Additionally, I would appreciate it if you could boost this post so that our newly-created instance can get some help with federation.

:jnpw: :anubispaw:

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Stupid shit that aligns with our biases going viral is definitely not something the fediverse is immune to. Threads about this story *did* have the occasional critical reader questioning it, but 99% of the responses were jumping head-first into the rage bait. (And yes, free-lancer exploitation platforms need to go away—but giving up on truth isn't going to accomplish that.)
theverge.com/news/855328/viral

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On Tuesday, January 13, 2025 there will be happening 5th Mobile Hackday in Prague.

The event focuses on Linux on mobile devices, kernel development, and practical hacking around mobile platforms.

The day will include short lightning talks on topics such as:
* sending Linux kernel patches using b4
* what makes a high-quality commit (in the kernel and beyond)
* a NixOS Mobile demo

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