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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"For Trump, ICE’s violent lawlessness is a feature, not a bug. Sending armed, masked, poorly trained, masked and out-of-control armed thugs into blue cities is, in effect, a war on Americans, just as January 6th was a war on American institutions. In effect, Trump would rather savage his own people than be held accountable for his actions."

~ Paul Krugman


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paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the

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Little surprised this didn't wait on private data in the PDS repos, and instead here your drafts would be stored with Bluesky, not your PDS host. (though for most user's their PDS host and Bluesky are one in the same)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t6xqfwencuwg4sjm5uhloc7r/post/3mbypkqtz7c2n

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During the final moments of Maduro’s rule, Russian forces meant to protect him simply disappeared. Despite forming his elite security ring, they didn’t fire a shot as US troops entered Caracas.

While Cuban defenders died fighting, Russian troops melted away.

Russia didn’t lose Venezuela in a battle. It walked away without a fight — confirming the fears of many of its allies: when the pressure rises, Moscow will not stand by them.
euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/09

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"They are now propagating on official government websites from the Oval Office to the Department of Homeland Security to the National Park Service to the Centers for Disease Control. We now must accept that nothing we read on official government websites can be trusted. ...

If we trace the chain of events that caused ICE agents to be deployed to Minneapolis in the first place, they are anchored in Trump’s lies."


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"Everything that this administration has done thus far has been premised on a lie. They got into office on a lie. And this crackdown on undocumented immigrants is based on a lie that we are being invaded. And so U.S. citizens are dying. And at this point, it shouldn't matter whether it's a U.S. citizen, not a U.S. citizen."

~ Maya May


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lincolnsquare.media/p/minneapo

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I've been working on this one for a while. The multi-trillion-dollar AI industry? Their *most advanced platforms* are controlled by a plain text format that John Gruber made up for his blog, and then bounced off of a 17-year-old Aaron Swartz, before sharing it with the world for free. *That* is the internet. Here's the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world. anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-ma

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"Everything that this administration has done thus far has been premised on a lie. They got into office on a lie. And this crackdown on undocumented immigrants is based on a lie that we are being invaded. And so U.S. citizens are dying. And at this point, it shouldn't matter whether it's a U.S. citizen, not a U.S. citizen."

~ Maya May


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lincolnsquare.media/p/minneapo

"When Trump was asked to provide evidence to back up his claim that Good had 'viciously' run over the agent, he showed New York Times journalists a video that didn’t show the agent being run over. When this was pointed out, Trump responded: 'Well, I … the way I look at it,' before the Times reported that he appeared to trail off."

~ David Gilbert


/22

wired.com/story/maga-trump-rew

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@twostrawsPaul Hudson Hello.

Thanks for the course. Im on day three and have hit a little hiccup. On this page hackingwithswift.com/quick-sta

There is a code snippet that says

let presidents = ["Bush", "Obama", "Trump", "Biden"]
let reversedPresidents = presidents.reversed()
print(reversedPresidents)

I get this returned.

ReversedCollection<Array<String>>(_base: ["Bush", "Obama", "Trump", "Biden"])

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks

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It took me five days to understand the yoneda lemma, it has a lot of moving parts. Here's my own proof of the contravariant functor version. Alt text is the pdf. Enjoy!
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한글이 과학적인 문자라고 하지만 컴퓨터하는 사람들은 한글때문에 머리아프긴 해요ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
유니코드 공간도 많이먹고, 폰트도 만들기 어렵고, 한글 입력기도 만들기 어렵고, 검색이나 토크나이징, 정렬....

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@EUCommissionEuropean Commission Dear EU, I must say that your handling of this situation is an utter disgrace. For some time now, you have been attempting to implement mass surveillance, also known as 'chat control', in the name of protecting children. Yet when it comes to protecting children, you talk of 'spicy mode' and 'childlike images', but you do very little. In case you haven't realised, 'spicy mode' is the regular mode, and those are explicit images generated from pictures of real children.

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We are very well aware of the fact that X for Grok is now offering a spicy mode showing explicit sexual content with some output generated with childlike images:

📌 A detailed request for information on Grok has been sent to X, and we are reviewing the company’s responses.

📌 X has been ordered to retain all internal documents and data concerning Grok’s features until the end of 2026.

The Digital Services Act is very clear:

In the EU, all platforms have to get their own house in order.

@EUCommissionEuropean Commission Dear EU, I must say that your handling of this situation is an utter disgrace. For some time now, you have been attempting to implement mass surveillance, also known as 'chat control', in the name of protecting children. Yet when it comes to protecting children, you talk of 'spicy mode' and 'childlike images', but you do very little. In case you haven't realised, 'spicy mode' is the regular mode, and those are explicit images generated from pictures of real children.

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In other news, Twitter has turned off the image generator for the Grok AI system to all except paid subscribers.

theguardian.com/technology/202

This follows the headlines and investigations by multiple national regulatory bodies about Grok stripping clothing off in images of women and children.

So in other words, Twitter has said it will only allow their AI service to make CSA images and revenge porn, if you agree to pay them.

It's overdue now. Ban Twitter.

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