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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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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Shared by Maho 🦝🍻

One of the hardest things about being an immigrant is I don’t know what to do with ‘rugged individualism’.

I am considered one of the most ‘westernized’ and ‘independent’ people in the society I come from (people think it’s too much.. moving to a whole other country? Too independent) but

Even I really struggle with some of the daily manifestations of hyper individualism that surrounds me.

A friend had just visited a developed Asian country and wondered why it wasn’t full of homeless people. I said well it’s probably that East Asian homelessness looks different, but there’s probably an element of.. you don’t want to be the person who people say let your second cousin die and starve on the streets. The social shame, I tried to explain. Also, if it’s a warm or religious place, they have food.

I felt it was very similar to what I saw my parents grasping with when they visited me. On BART, kids were making loud sounds. My parents glared at them. Nothing happened. They were confused. I had to explain to them that.. there is just no social shame. Glaring at them doesn’t mean anything, they just think you’re weirdos. It isn’t anyone’s business that they’re making loud sounds.

So while I think there are pros to some community consciousness, I also think the people who want to sell a vision of ‘collectivist societies are better’ are also failing to account for the patriarchal bs that comes with it. We take care of our elderly because we are shamed by it, but it is largely the mothers and grandmothers doing the work.

But what I’ll never, ever get used to is this: the idea that in some places, poor people, sick people, elderly people, deserve to be cast aside and deserve no help. That’s a level of cruelty I do not wish to understand.

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone@hoosier.social
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Hey I actually think encouraging civic involvement (including but not limited to voting) really is a big deal and the ultimate cure for the cycle we're in.

You know what makes the cycle worse? Poopooing efforts to get people involved. Acting like our problems aren't solvable. Both-sides-isms. Easy, knee-jerk cynicism about baseline principles of democracy. Mocking people for trying to find common ground where they can.

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Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst@hachyderm.io
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Shared by Paolo Melchiorre

We unit test code's correctness—so why not unit test performance as well?

Having thought about the problem a little, here's my suggestion for a first step: testing big-O scalability.

pythonspeed.com/articles/big-o

Unit testing your code’s performance, part 1: Big-O scaling

Your software’s speed needs some form of testing; big-O scaling is a good starting point.

pythonspeed.com · Python⇒Speed

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Wladimir Mufty @wlaatje@social.edu.nl
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Shared by Paolo Melchiorre

🇪🇺 The Commission would like to hear your views…

The European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy will set out:

A strategic approach to the sector in the EU that addresses the importance of open source as a crucial contribution to EU technological sovereignty, security and competitiveness

This call for evidence is open for feedback…

ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r

European Commission - Have your say

European Commission - Have your say

ec.europa.eu · European Commission - Have your say

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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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Gov Walz, on ICE committing murder:

“I have a very simple message: we do not need any further help from the federal government. To Donald Trump and Christie Nome, you've done enough.”

Sheeeez. I’ve lived in MN long enough to speak rudimentary passive-aggressive, and to recognize that quote as a beaker of rhetorical acid right to the face.

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Levka @LevZadov@kolektiva.social
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Shared by wakest ⁂

"Iranian anarchists: Uprising is 'genuine self-organisation by ordinary people'

Interview with members of Anarchist Front, a collective spreading information about events in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan

The uprising in Iran has been ongoing for over a week. It is not only an economic protest, but also a practical revolt against the entire logic of state power. People have disrupted control of the streets, destroyed the symbols of repression, and stood against bullets. This is precisely anarchy in action: paralysis of the government machine from below, without the need for immediate replacement with new power.

The regime responded with direct shooting, raids on hospitals and mass arrests, but the crackdown has failed so far. Sporadic and floating tactics (burning cars, breaking cameras and blocking dispatch routes) have moved power from the centre to the sidelines and created a space for real self-management: mass donation, hospital defense, and direct display of information without intermediaries.

To find out more, we sent some questions to the Anarchist Front, a collective spreading information about events in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan."

freedomnews.org.uk/2026/01/05/

Iranian anarchists: Uprising is "genuine self-organisation by ordinary people" - Freedom News

Interview with members of Anarchist Front, a collective spreading information about events in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ …

freedomnews.org.uk · Freedom News

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