What is Hackers' Pub?

London–Calcutta Bus Service

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%E2%80%93Calcutta_bus_service
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46554462

자 어그로 이정도 끌었으면
일단 저에게는 5일전 백업 데이터가 있습니다

I was born too late and never got to design a physical box for my software, so I did a fake one for the “What's new" window in Hand Mirror.

This update is almost ready, if you like to make videos or write about this stuff get in touch!

今天看到的影片，一個移民二代想保留廣東話，分析廣東話逐漸勢微的原因，然後提出他們社群構思的音標、輸入法以及字體，真的看的很開心
祝福百年之後香港還能聽到廣東話、台灣還能聽到台語客語以及各種原民語

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Y2a9C0Qus

서버장 하면서 상처 안 받기란 쉬운 게 아니다

太ったにゃんぷっぷーを揉む仕事​​

RE: https://misskey.io/notes/ah96k66bdr5g0c6e

なんか写真投稿しろ

はい...

In Musk's latest masterful gambit, instead of putting a stop to the wave of sexual abuse imagery generated by Grok, he's attempting to monetize it instead by only letting paying subscribers generate images in replies. This isn't curbing abuse, it's profiting off it https://www.404media.co/x-premium-grok-paywall-images-ai-generator/

나는 돼지

I Cannot SSH Into My Server Anymore (And That’s Fine) https://lobste.rs/s/e7lpyy #devops
https://soap.coffee/~lthms/posts/i-cannot-ssh-into-my-server-anymore.html

RE: https://front-end.social/@stephaniewalter/115865759108300385

Official diagnosis isn't available to everyone for a whole variety of reasons(financial, ability/disability, transport issues, availability of specialists, the option for diagnosis isn't available in their country/country doesn't recognise the condition, it's not safe to be officially diagnosed etc etc), but that doesn't mean accommodations aren't still needed.

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블스에서 디엠 보낼때 사용자를 못 찾으면 이런 귀여운 임티가 나온다고 왜 아무도 알려주지 않았나요

으 메디방 광고 넘 짜증나.. 취직하고 나면 클튜 일시불 사던지 해야지

We are officially proud painters of an optimistic picture. Thanks for the shoutout, @9to5Mac!
https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/08/most-iphone-users-are-still-running-ios-18-with-ios-26-adoption-slow-report/

for your consideration: john goodman meow singing

Well, slap my 12 faces and call me a dodecahedron, it's the first Reading List of the year: Reading List 352! https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/reading-list-352/

@zkatkat NetBSD seems to have a relatively strong policy against AI. I don't know how different the BSD kernels are from one another, but maybe it's worth citing NetBSD as an alternative to Linux:
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ParadeGrotesque/115843466278318637
https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

Where’s the lie

X has become the Everything App that Elon always wanted, if “everything” means all the tools you need to fuck up someone’s life, in one place.

This is the culmination of years and years of rampant abuse on the platform.
https://www.404media.co/grok-ai-sexual-abuse-imagery-twitter/

The foxxo

New from me: X is A Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/a-power-problem-not-a-platform-problem/

Morgendämmerung

#photography #twilight #snow #urban

New from me: X is A Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/a-power-problem-not-a-platform-problem/

How wolves became dogs

Link: https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/how-wolves-became-dogs
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46500798

옛날사람그림보면서 이사람도 20-21세기에 태어났으면 씹덕그림그렸을까 생각하는 버릇은 평생못고치겠지

[속보] "美대법원, 트럼프 관세판결 오늘 선고 안해" <로이터>
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https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260110000400071

#news #뉴스

집에 가고 싶다..​​​​

[쇼츠] 인터넷 끄고 조준 발포…'벼랑 끝' 이란 정권 초강수 송고2026-01-09 18:16 www.yna.co.kr/amp/view/AKR...

[쇼츠] 인터넷 끄고 조준 발포…'벼랑 끝' 이란 정권...

Citation Needed — @molly0xfffMolly White’s crypto newsletter and scumbag review — is always great, but the year-end summary of the past half-decade of grifting and corruption and moral turpitude from the highest levels of government and finance is a blistering howl of rage.

https://www.citationneeded.news/the-year-of-technoligarchy/

I wrote up my highlights of maintaining Rust code in 2025. 850 PRs submitted across rustls, Hickory DNS, Quinn and many other projects. Thanks to all of my sponsors -- looking forward to 2026!

https://dirkjan.ochtman.nl/writing/2026/01/09/reviewing-2025.html

Das ist... drastisch, aber sie hat ja einen Punkt.

🤔 I haven't scheduled Office Hours yet for today.

Who is in, or should we start back next week?

구글포토를 삭제하는건 생각보다 아주 귀찮습니다. 구글은 한번에 삭제할 방법을 제공하지 않고 구글 워크스페이스에서도 서비스를 비활성화 할 수는 있지만 데이터가 제거되지는 않습니다.

https://github.com/mrishab/google-photos-delete-tool/tree/master

... 이런 어이없는 방법을 사용해야만해요.

年に一度花火が上がる日が来ました​​

#스운완 #근육은_인생의_파트너 흐어... 왠지.. 넘 피곤해서 힘든 운동이였어요...ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 아 왜이리 힘들었지 오늘 암튼, 퍼펙도 해냈어요 하나~

Even if Greenland isn’t officially on U.S. President Donald Trump's acquisition list, he appears intent on claiming it before leaving office. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/01/09/world/the-greenland-alarm-is-sounding/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #greenland #us #donaldtrump #denmark #eu #europe #rareearths #venezuela

I'd like to ask some of the less-technical folks that follow me to read this and tell me if it makes sense to you?

https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specification

(I'm trying to make it less intimidating to newcomers)

Software Heritage endorses United Nations Open Source principles https://www.softwareheritage.org/2026/01/07/software-heritage-united-nations-open-source-principles/

RE: https://front-end.social/@stephaniewalter/115865759108300385

Official diagnosis isn't available to everyone for a whole variety of reasons(financial, ability/disability, transport issues, availability of specialists, the option for diagnosis isn't available in their country/country doesn't recognise the condition, it's not safe to be officially diagnosed etc etc), but that doesn't mean accommodations aren't still needed.

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其實想學好歷史，好簡單，唔使搞咁多野：

第一步，揀一個自己有興趣歷史領域，例如係通史或斷代史，國家史或地方史等之類，揀好之後就去搵出名學者 (學者A) 嘅著作黎睇。

第二步，睇完之後，就搵唔同背景或呢位出名學者嘅論敵 (學者B) 著作黎睇，睇下另一種切入點係點寫呢個歷史，同埋點反駁第一位學者嘅觀點。透過呢個方法去擴闊個歷史觀。

第三步，再搵唔同背景或學者A/B/both 嘅論敵 (學者C) 著作黎睇，同樣都係為左睇下另一種切入點係點寫呢個歷史，同埋點反駁其他人觀點，從而擴闊個歷史觀。

之後每一步都係咁，簡單講，學問嘅野，就係不斷嘗試推翻自己所學，然後先會學得多野。推得翻，即係學到個更有價值嘅野，好事黎；推唔翻，會鞏固左原來所學嘅野，都係好事黎。學問好複雜，但追求學問個方法，就好簡單。

X Is a Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem

Happy 2026 everyone. The world’s richest man runs a subscription service to remove the clothing from photographs of children, and I don’t know how to write about it. It’s been just over a week and the global order has already drastically changed, in ways that affect everything, including how open social protocols understand themselves.

Remember 2023 and 2024? When every time Musk did something bad, people got excited because that would lead to Elon Musk Events, with signup waves to Mastodon and Bluesky? And when ‘bad’ was understood be frivolous things like DMs not working? Now in 2026, when ‘bad’ means generating CSAM and NCII on-demand at industrial scale, it’s crickets, and there is no initiative at all to leave the platform anymore. Society is going through the motions of vocal condemnation, pointing at agencies who should enforce something, but then not enforcing anything. It is clear now that actually leaving X is a step too far and unthinkable.

On January 3rd, US forces bombed Caracas, captured Maduro and his wife, and killed at least 80 people. Trump posted photos from a makeshift situation room at Mar-a-Lago showing the raid being monitored in real time. In the situation room photos, visible on the big screen behind Defense Secretary Hegseth, was an X feed showing search results for ‘Venezuela’. Another photo showed the OSINTdefender account on the screen. Few things illustrate the current role of X in our society as well as the heads of the most powerful military in the world, monitoring the X account of OSINTdefender while the CIA director sat next to them in the room.

Grok’s latest update allows people to generate sexualized images of women and children on demand, at industrial scale, generating multiple such images per second. Everyone is aware that this is happening, and continues to happen, as nobody is willing to stop it. Musk’s attitude is to use the crying-laughing emoji on complaints is an indication of how serious he takes the issue. Politicians have universally condemned it in words, calling it unacceptable. What is so maddening, however, is that their actions say otherwise. Governments all around the world are very clearly afraid of picking a fight with Elon Musk and a belligerent US regime.

This fear by politicians is further accentuated by the raid on Venezuela and Maduro’s kidnapping, which shows that the US is now a rogue state that does not care in the slightest about adhering to any forms of law. With realistic further threats being made to annex Greenland by the US, it is in fact understandable why politicians are afraid to take actions against the richest man in the world. When the UK said it might potentially think about enforcing its own laws against X, a US congresswoman threatened to sanction not just Starmer but ‘Britain as a whole,’ calling enforcement ‘a political war against Elon Musk.’ X is both protected by US state power, as well as being a source of US state power.

This widespread societal resignation of ‘guess our government communications now happens on a deepfake porn site’ is maddening, but also points to a deeper issue. We’re used to describing X as a platform, and analyse X accordingly. The photos of X being on the big screen while coordinating the Maduro raid is an indication that X acts as the infrastructure for power, the glue that connects the neo-royalty.

But the refusal of governments around the world to do anything about the CSAM and NCII generation machine, and how other countries get bombed and their leaders kidnapped because it creates content for X, shows that X is about power, and less about a platform.

When Elon Musk took over Twitter late 2022, alternative open social networks gained prominence, and platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky presented themself as alternatives to Twitter’s function as the digital public square. Both networks understood that there was an issue with the idea of having a single platform as a public square, and thus did not copy Twitter fully, but put their own spin on it.

The fediverse and Mastodon focused on there not being a single public square at all, but instead many digital places and communities that interconnect with each other. For Bluesky the solutions were aimed at giving users more control, with composable moderation and custom algorithmic feeds.

What this framing missed however is that Twitter also stopped being the digital public town square, in the years since Musk’s acquisition. Instead, it became the internal coordination space for a political faction that now controls state power. People still treat X as if it is still 2015, pretending it is the town square and using it for everything from talking about sports news to keeping up to date on pop culture. This lends validation and legitimation to X’s new role, facilitating the power of the neo-royalty.

The neo-royalty is the small network of political, capital, and tech elites centered on Trump, and X is their coordination infrastructure. Because they are rapidly gaining power around the world, and are in full control of the world’s military hegemon, you cannot separate yourself from this power infrastructure that X has become. Leaving X does not insulate or protect yourself from the warping effects it has on global power. This goes for both the large geopolitical aspects (see Greenland), and the local impacts, as the Somali families in Minnesota who lost their childcare funding because of a viral X video weren’t on X.

The implicit theory behind the open social web was that platform quality would determine outcomes. Build something that’s better, and in combination with the incumbent getting worse, this would lead to such difference in quality, user experience and safety that at some point people would switch from X to alternatives like Mastodon or Bluesky. This theory held up for a while in 2023 and 2024. In 2025 it started to falter, as Musk aligned himself with Trump, the signup waves to the alternative platforms effectively stopped. In early 2026, this theory is now really over, because X has fundamentally changed. Mastodon and Bluesky are not in competition anymore with the platform X, because X has changed. It changed from being a platform to the power structure for the neo-royalty, with the public square shambling along as a zombie, animated by everyone who still treats X like it’s 2015.

You cannot out-compete ‘where the ruling faction radicalizes and coordinates’ by having better moderation policies or algorithmic choice. X is not a platform problem anymore, it is a power problem, and building a different platform does not solve the power problem.

Other countries will need to leave the platform to untangle themselves from this dependency, and reduce its legitimacy. But the functioning of the neo-royalty is such that other governments taking actions against X will be taken as an offensive action by the US regime, that will likely trigger extensive retaliation. No country seems to be willing to be the first one to move to take action and thus take the brunt of the counter-offense of the regime.

We’re now at a strange stand-off, where it is extremely clear it is unacceptable what X is doing, and governments make a lot of noise about how upset they are, without daring to pull the trigger on taking action. Everyone is waiting on everyone else to take the first move.

This leads to three possible outcomes:

• no government dares to take action, and they keep to calling things “completely unacceptable” while accepting the actual situation. Things stay as they currently are, and the world keeps sliding into a more dangerous and harmful place.
• One government takes action against X, and the US regime retaliates so hard that no other government will dare to do meaningful enforcement against the massive harms created by X.
• One government takes enforcement action against X, creating a permission structure for other governments to also take actions.

All three options have a meaningful impact on the open social web. For the first two outcomes, it further cements X as the place of power for the neo-royalty, further cementing its dominance in the political sphere. This position of power is also what prevents the alternative open networks to become a place of political power in it’s own right. The third option, of mass enforcement, is what creates an opening for open social networks to not just be an alternative, but to be a source of political power as well.

I do not know what the outcome will be, and with how rapidly the world has been changing I do not know which option is likely either. It’s easy to be highly cynical, and that point of view has been extensively validated over the years, but I do choose to hold to hope that we can build a better, more ethical, social internet out of the toxic waste ground of the current state of the internet.

#148 #nlnet

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/a-power-problem-not-a-platform-problem/

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&str https://lobste.rs/s/jo3dnh #performance #rust
https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2026-01-09-fourteen-ref/