What is Hackers' Pub?

Reddit - The heart of the internet https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/14fic8s/catholicsm_and_the_developmentally_handicapped/?tl=ja
カトリックと発達障害者

I've been reading about what really helped people who had problems with "AI Psychosis" and one tip jumped out at me:

Open a second window and tell it exactly the opposite of each thing you say.

This helps to expose the sycophancy and shatters the illusion of sincerity and humanity.

Thought it was worth sharing. And frankly, it's exactly such an exercise that made me disgusted with the tech. "It just says ANYTHING is wonderful and genius. I'm not special."

In Information geometry you study geodesics in spaces of probability distributions - paths with the property that samples drawn at time t+dt could most plausibly have come from the distribution at time t. It's what you use when you want to boil proverbial frogs without them noticing, or transition your population into Nazis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_geometry

I keep thinking about the stress expended by small sites responding to the Online Safety Act. Trying to make sense of unclear guidance and do their best, already thinking about user safety. And then I think about X deciding to openly generate masses of CSAM and the lack of action taken against them.

Wind and Snow

#WavyWednesday #Photography

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115751067284225457

Here's a thread of how "Year In Posts" looks like.

Hidden under "Settings" 🙈

#PhanpySocial changelog ✨

🗓️ Experimental "Year In Posts"
🐛 Bug fixes

🔗 https://phanpy.social/
💬 https://matrix.to/#/%23phanpy:matrix.org

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115751067284225457

#PhanpySocial by @cheeaunChee Aun 🤔 continues to be my favorite Mastodon web client. This new feature is just one of many reasons why.
https://phanpy.social/#/yip

Not sure where to start with Mastodon? Here's some new year coverage from @TechCrunch that provides a great overview. 🫶🏻

Want to learn even more? There's a fantastic community ready to help you level up your Fediverse skills. 🎉

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/01/what-is-mastodon/

Friends, at a time when science is under attack and people are economically hurting, the scientific community should work to make access easier not harder. @ACMAssn for Computing Machinery, Association for Computing Machinery, is doing the complete opposite by introducing paywalls that didn't exist.

Features that were previously free and open to the public are now "Premium
Access" features.

If you are opposed to this measure, join me in signing this petition asking the ACM to stop.

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/restore-fully-free-and-open-access

そういえば、昔、mstdn.jpにリレー（連合リレー）参加を打診したことがあるんだけど、流量がどうとかではなく、規約上参加は難しい、という結論だったんだよね。

ThreadsのActivityPub参加も、当初目指していた機能・相互に交流できる状態が、負荷や実装上の難しさじゃない理由でいろいろと実現できなくなってしまったらしく。

ZonePane for iOS v4 をリリースしました！

✓ iOS版も Misskey に対応しました！
✓ クロスポストで Misskey にも投稿できるようになりました！
✓ アプリ内ブラウザでURLを開くように改善しました
✓ カスタム絵文字検索を高速化しました
✓ Bluesky、Mastodonの機能もいくつか改善しました
✓ その他、細かい不具合の修正を行いました

🔽 ダウンロード (iOS)
https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/zonepane-for-bluesky-mastodon/id6747976082
🔽 ダウンロード (Android)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zonepane&hl=ja

アカーシャはこういう顔してることが多い

#Reading is the doppelgänger of thinking and #learning. https://fortune.com/2026/01/06/americans-reading-less-books-habit-embraced-by-billionaires-ultra-wealthy-bill-gates-oprah-winfrey-gen-z-consequences/#

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115854312836282687

Vivaldi Social has been upgraded to Mastodon v4.5.4

うーんこれはたしかにちょっとお粗末くん

https://gigazine.net/news/20260107-macos-tahoe-menu-icons/

また明日会いましょうね。

Congratulations to Ellen Zhong and Mohammad Seyedsayamdost on being selected for an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund award!

Zhong, assistant professor of computer science, is working with Seyedsayamdost, professor of chemistry, to develop a new AI system to transform how scientists identify small molecules.

Their work is one of four Princeton research projects to be selected for funding this year: https://bit.ly/44Zc1x9

https://www.reddit.com/r/excatholic/s/iVZu4z1oAh
何故カトリックは発達障害の人を惹きつけるのか
検索したそのままのスレッドが立っていた

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macOS Tahoeのメニューに表示されるアイコンはデザイン的に一貫性がなく醜悪との指摘
https://gigazine.net/news/20260107-macos-tahoe-menu-icons/

#gigazine

If you want to hear Venezuelans' perspective on what's going on in VE – you know, the perspective that should be the one that actually matters… – here's a recording of a great session from yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzSmb_1odIY

And if you're seeking a reliable English language VE news source, this was recommended:
https://www.caracaschronicles.com/

I am immensely grateful to these folks for making the effort to explain stuff, in English, at a time when I can only imagine spoons are in extremely short supply.

The National Weather Service used AI to generate maps - and it generated fake towns like "Orangeotild" and "Whata Bod"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026/01/06/nws-ai-map-fake-names/

This was probably the web page I’ve visited the most in 2025 https://vim.rtorr.com/ (it's my favorite vim cheatsheet)

#vim #neovim

피곤해

There is a fresh new security release of Mastodon: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.4

All our customer instances run the upgraded version.

Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD

Link: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/09/404081/sugar-papers-reveal-industry-role-shifting-national-heart-disease-focus
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526740

We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole

Link: https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/abandoning-stackoverflow/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527471

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System

Link: https://www.schmidtsciences.org/schmidt-observatory-system/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525542

@mcc The iTunes T&C once included this:

I am now in immense danger, haha

So apparently I sell HVAC systems now?...

[$] 2025 Linux and free software timeline

Last year we revived the tradition of publishing a timeline of notable events from the previous year. Since that seemed to go over well, we decided we should continue the practice [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1051808/ #LWN

이런게존재하는구나..

Wind and Snow

#WavyWednesday #Photography

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In memory of Laye Condé, 07.01.2005 murdered by german police.

[Stack Overflow] Now everyone can chat on Stack Overflow

catswords-jsrt-rs provides minimal ChakraCore bindings for Rust.

https://github.com/gnh1201/catswords-jsrt-rs

#rust #opensource #javascript

Halifax Examiner with some news from the near future.

https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/the-arrest-of-mark-carney-will-bring-peace-prosperity-and-freedom-to-north-america/

#news #canpoli #cdnpoli

catswords-jsrt-rs provides minimal ChakraCore bindings for Rust.

https://github.com/gnh1201/catswords-jsrt-rs

#rust #opensource #javascript

Just FYI: this is part of the damage being done by extractive AI companies. Their scraper bots routinely DDOS us, and they multiply to take up as much bandwidth as is available. We are having to put a huge percentage of our developers’ time into just keeping the site alive rather than building its future. They are actively destroying everything worthwhile about the internet. @helloKnowledge Commons https://hcommons.social/@hello/115854618561953712

what happens if denji eats the Fear Itself Devil

In the aftermath of Github banning or suspending dozens of popular accounts, the eroge modding community wonders if they should move to platforms like GitGoon instead.

https://www.404media.co/github-ban-suspension-adult-modding-games-illusion/

“npm install our project dependencies. Download this 5GB file onto your five year-old laptop. Install docker. Build and start the containe—”

You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

A #ThankGNU! to Antoine Thonnard, Cody Rygg, and Christopher Rorvick for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

Zum Schutz vor US-Invasion: Dänemark verstreut Legosteine an Grönlands Küsten https://www.der-postillon.com/2026/01/legosteine-groenland.html

A great tool for scanning CSS to find old hacks that you almost certainly don’t need anymore.

https://www.alwaystwisted.com/relicss/

US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year

Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-07/us-job-openings-decline-to-lowest-level-in-more-than-a-year
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527533