What is Hackers' Pub?

#Sloperator

A highlight of last year was attending @OpenSauceLive and meeting tons of amazing makers and content creators. If you can make it Jul 18-19, in San Mateo CA, it's worth it.

'Super' early bird pricing ends tomorrow... https://opensauce.com/tickets/

-17C 🚲 ➡️ +80C 🧖

Celebration of Light by Kimmo Jarvinen

#photography
#winter
#ice
#plants
#light

oh boy, here I got shitposting again

현재 과학이 정의하는 "주의력(Pay of attention)"에 대한 소개와, 이에 따른 숏폼 비디오의 주의력 저하 효과에 대한 영상. 대체로 숏폼 비디오 그 자체보다는 그것을 무제한적으로 스와이프하는 경우에 "주의력" 저하가 관찰되었다고. 놀랍게도 트위터도 스크롤링이지만 해당하지 않았다고 한다. 영상 내에서도 언급하지만 뇌를 오토파일럿 모드로 만드는 것이 영향의 주된 원인이라고. What the actual science says about "brain rot" youtu.be/tdIUMkXxtHg?...

What the actual science says a...

socrates, plato, and slavoj žižek

Our upcoming Point-Free Way skill docs make it even easier to build Swift applications, with or without our libraries!

In this week’s video we use them to define a new database table and migration in seconds: https://www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep349-tour-of-sqlitedata-assets

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ Treats only after workout.

“冬に思い出す夏が一番いい　 なんでも一番遠い時が一番きれいなんだ”

— (via murasakiing)

"Remembering summer in winter is the best. Everything is most beautiful when it is far away."

Photo by Inge Kersten

#quotes
#Japanese
#photography
#winter
#flowers

1992 Warp Records "Artificial Intelligence" sampler is free on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaysR-sashY feat. Polygon Window (aka Aphex Twin), Autechre, foundational IDM

My first new feature for the year: pointing stick options!

https://github.com/elementary/settings-mouse-touchpad/pull/263

What a weird situation this has been. https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/01/07/freeland-resigning-as-toronto-mp-on-friday/

#canpoli

youtu.be/QWfxKrs2FAo?...

ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE:

https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/

FreeBSD is started up by the program 'init'. The first thing init does when
starting multiuser mode (ie, starting the computer up for normal use) is to
run the shell script /etc/rc. By reading /etc/rc and the /etc/rc.d/ scripts,
you can learn a lot about how the system is put together, which again will
make you more confident about what happens when you do something with it.

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115857113266974416

Having been down this road, I am now 100% Team Discourse as a Discord exit for communities who don't require fully real-time communication. And for those who do, Discourse still has options. And as far as moderation, there's very little in the same league.

https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/

Which type of FreeBSD swag item do you prefer?

We’re planning our 2026 event merch and would appreciate your input. Vote and let us know what you’d be excited to pick up!

RE: https://aoir.social/@aram/115860593690344021

I wish this was mandatory.

#ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in #AI continues

There’s a well-worn pattern in the development of AI #chatbots. Researchers discover a #vulnerability and #exploit it to do something bad. The platform introduces a guardrail that stops the attack from working. Then, researchers devise a simple tweak that once again imperils #chatbot users.
#privacy

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/chatgpt-falls-to-new-data-pilfering-attack-as-a-vicious-cycle-in-ai-continues/

By "confidently claiming that one blurry clip shows evidence of domestic terrorism, the Trump administration is asking the public to disbelieve their own eyes... Who needs AI manipulations when your preferred angle will do the job well enough?" — @miasato.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy www.theverge.com/tech/858710/...

MAGA wants you to believe ther...

ぷえぷえ

とはいえ何かの数字にできるようなものじゃないので測定せよって言われるだけなんだけどね #ダークモード

たくさんらくがきしたね​​

옛그림

중국 사람들한테 이재명의 외교가 꽤 충격이었던 모양. 프로파간다에도 잘 써먹고 있음.

Windows special device names are cursed: https://chrisdenton.github.io/omnipath/Special%20Dos%20Device%20Names.html This is the subject of two recent Werkzeug CVEs. #windows #python #flask

某ヘ社無料プランなくなってしょんぼりよね。営業力しか持ってない人には無料プランがユーザーだけじゃなく某ヘ社にももたらしてた価値が見えないんだよね。 #ダークモード

@zkatkat

Basically all of .NET is tainted, as mandated by Microsoft:
- Runtime: <https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3A%40copilot+is%3Amerged>
- Sdk: <https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3A%40copilot+is%3Amerged>

Some of you were asking how I use pi, so here is me demoing how I built a little tank computer game over Christmas with pi and Opus without looking at the code. https://youtu.be/ANQ1IYsFM2s

전두환처럼 ‘사형’ 나오나···특검, 윤석열 내란 결심공판 앞두고 구형량 고심 www.khan.co.kr/article/2026... "윤 전 대통령에게 사형을 구형하면 사회 혼란만 더 부추길 수 있다는 우려" 그러니까 자꾸 고심한다, 전두환보단 못할 것이다 어쩌고 하는게 다 떠보기에 가깝다고 생각. 심지어 선고도 아니고 구형인데, 구형에서 벌써 무기징역 소리 나오고 있다는 거.

전두환처럼 ‘사형’ 나오나···특검, 윤석열 내란 결심...

Windows special device names are cursed: https://chrisdenton.github.io/omnipath/Special%20Dos%20Device%20Names.html This is the subject of two recent Werkzeug CVEs. #windows #python #flask

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It's taken me a couple of months to get everything just so and it's involved a lot of code spelunking, but my new website is finally live.

https://www.puppethead.com

I'm using Ignite from @twostrawsPaul Hudson, which is more powerful than I expected. There is so much capability in it that is unfortunately under-documented. But I find it fun to use!

Okay, well, not everything is done. I haven't yet figured out how to get colors correct in dark mode, so that's disabled for now. There is also some planned future content, which I now have a space for.

Brown hyenas and their furry ponchos. 👌

[ #art #throwbackthursday ]

FreeBSD is started up by the program 'init'. The first thing init does when
starting multiuser mode (ie, starting the computer up for normal use) is to
run the shell script /etc/rc. By reading /etc/rc and the /etc/rc.d/ scripts,
you can learn a lot about how the system is put together, which again will
make you more confident about what happens when you do something with it.

寝るぞな​​​​
金曜もがんばりましょー

The monthly SWICG GeoSocial Task Force meeting is about to start if you have thoughts on location data use cases and the social web.

https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/ed630a3d-7581-4053-9978-75949ad42f2a/20260108T130000/

#geoSocial #GeoSocialTF #SWICG

Gonna visit my friend in prison tomorrow. She’s been there in over a month now. Mind you, she didn’t commit any crime, anything at all. To take someone’s freedom and lock them up is supposed to be the harshest punishment we have. But here it’s people that haven’t done anything wrong. It’s just that Sweden decided to be better off without them. So they have to sit and wait and hope their lawyers maybe work miracles and avert deportation.

Which type of FreeBSD swag item do you prefer?

We’re planning our 2026 event merch and would appreciate your input. Vote and let us know what you’d be excited to pick up!

#FediArt52 2. Shadow

#drawing #babylon5

저는 차에 물을 안 넣구요 차를 그냥 씹어먹어요 (15년째 주식임)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:msjb5rmnahqvjgacib6gcmwq/post/3m5nf5ilq4c2t

'Gedreht' #FotoVorschlag #photography

Fedora Linux 43 election results

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053333/ #LWN

After I chat with some people, I realized I have issues in understanding their concept of nostalgia.

It's some kind of magical thinking.

Something is cool, fun or worth the time/expense because it's old. Time passing imbues qualities into things.

A clone, a reproduction, something functionally identical, does not possess these qualities.

I would understand a "it doesn't have the same repairability or understandability" in regards to an FPGA implementation. I'd understand "it's just a more capable machine wasting cycles pretending to be something it's not" of an emulator.

1/..

As I suspected it probably would be, my bug bounty submission of using an AI email summarizer was closed as being 'infeasible' and an 'acceptable risk' with AI.

But still - I think it's an interesting finding, so I have written it up thus: https://mike-sheward.medium.com/recruiting-google-geminis-email-summarizer-as-a-phishing-aid-417055295ba7

TL;DR = I discovered how you can use Google Workspace's Google Gemini Email Summarizer to make a phishing attack seem more convincing, because it summarizes hidden content.

#infosec #ai #llm

@zkatkat PLEASE do this