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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Today, Europe faces a parallel dilemma: how to respond when its most powerful ally directly threatens an EU and NATO member state.

Europe is edging toward another Munich agreement moment, with concessions dressed up as stability and peace a euphemism for appeasement. The events in the coming weeks will largely determine the very future of Europe.

theconversation.com/trump-want
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For the past three years, we've been working on tools and protocols to monitor the health of the Tor network. 🩺 This work aims to strengthen the Tor network's resilience and resistance to relay attacks. These tools recently underwent a third-party audit, and here are the results! blog.torproject.org/code-audit

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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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A few folks have asked about the new Dell 52” 6kish display. It's interesting but I have a feeling its DPI is in a super oddball zone that'd look kind of terrible on Mac. Price is also pretty crazy. This is a super niche display, not really sure who its for but not me.
youtube.com/watch?v=rmiB2NnXgPU

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@zkatkat thanks for hosting this discussion, it helped clarify some things that were previously quite vague for me

especially that the structure of a project matters much more than its licence

it strikes me that the projects that have been successful under capitalism (in that they serve their users well and their contributors are able to make a living) have a good diversity of orgs that are active users of the software, so that the people involved have a decent choice of places to work

the asf fairly deliberately tried to structure itself to support projects which operate like that, albeit not entirely successfully

the rhetoric around free software and open source has very often minimized that aspect of how projects work in practice, or even denied it outright by claiming that contributors are doing it in their spare time

which has done younger programmers a disservice by talking up false narratives of what careers in open source look like

compounded by ways of doing open source such as npm or github that are far less community-oriented than the prominent projects when i started out decades ago

there’s a lot more small-project open source than there used to be, and i don’t know of any practical examples of ways to make them sustainable other than luck; and even medium-sized projects are pretty precarious

and yeah this mostly reflects that living under capitalism is precarious

i love the idea of collectivist community-oriented projects that take a firm ethical stance

the sustainable projects that i know of mostly got there by luck, but i wonder if there are lessons to be learned that could increase the chances of replicating the trick deliberately…

dunno, except i’m pretty sure there are more useful examples from outside software of how to organise people :-)

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I really hope that the folks behind @AsahiLinux know how much I appreciate their work.

I recently started backing them on Open Collective. They appear to be actively working on adding new features, and I've even seen demos of the M3 now popping up on other platforms. They're well worth your support if you'd like to see support for alternatives to macOS on Apple Silicon grow.

opencollective.com/asahilinux

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I now highly recommend Great Wolf Lodge New England for the discerning trans traveler. None of the waterpark staff even blinked an eye at me. I think I heard one (1) little girl say "why is that boy in a girls suit" to her mom when I got in the pool and the response was "she's swimming like us!" and that was the end of the convo

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