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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Code is a liability (not an asset). Tech bosses don't understand this. They think AI is great because it produces 10,000 times more code but that means it's producing 10,000 more liabilities. AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our high-tech society:

pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/eco

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/100

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A shredder, shredding a giant US$100 bill. Benjamin Franklin's head has been replaced with a cliched 'hacker in a hoodie' illustration. The machine's faceplate bears the Claude Code wordmark. The background is the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

Image:
Cryteria (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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I'm having trouble eating in the morning these days. One thing I can reliably eat is a cookie. I'm pulling up recipes for breakfast cookies and so many of them are like NO SUGAR NO BUTTER. Listen I want to be healthy but I also need life to be worth living ok

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It's nice when a project gets to a state where it's so mature it doesn't really need a constant stream of changes/improvements. I don't spend much time on Projectile (github.com/bbatsov/projectile) these days, because I think it's in a pretty good shape overall, but occasionally there are bursts of activity like today. (several PRs merged)

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"Resilience" has become a dark pattern. Ordinary resilience is a good thing, the ability to recoup from a setback.

"Resilience" as capitalist society frames it is the imperative to endure an endless series of existential challenges and remain produtive.

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글치.. 누군가에게 상처되는 행위를 했거나 정말 부끄러운 행위를 했다고 하더라도 그걸 자각하고 반복하지 않기 위해 노력한다면(그리고 그걸 실천한다면) 그걸로 된 거라고 생각해요 누구나 모를 수 있고 누구나 실수를 하니깐

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흑백 보는 외국인들이 후덕죽 요리사님을 어디서 또 할아버지라는 말 배워와서 haraboji 라고 부르던데 외국인들아 제발 harabeoji 라고 써줬으면 좋겠다 부탁 좀 한다

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@andrewstroehlein *child sexual abuse material (CSAM)

Sex requires consent
Children cannot consent
Sexual imagery featuring any child is abuse material, not porn. There is no 'child porn'.

I think this is important because phrases like this, and 'sex trafficking' or 'sex pest' minimise the crime (rape and other abuses) and obscure perpetrators. We can and should hold media and commentators to account.

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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.

ipetitions.com/petition/restor

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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."

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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.

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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. 🎉

techcrunch.com/2026/01/01/what

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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.

ipetitions.com/petition/restor

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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。

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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)
apps.apple.com/jp/app/zonepane
🔽 ダウンロード (Android)
play.google.com/store/apps/det

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