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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sirocyl @sirocyl@treehouse.systems
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Shared by Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

@77nnTiTiNoNero :__: @catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

I managed to break Google TTS in a similar manner with a very long string of '88888888' on repeat, and had some fun making an ambient phonepunk spooky track out of it.

You should see: web.archive.org/web/2025010618

🔉 web.archive.org/web/2025010618

I broke Google TTS.

Content notice: Spooky audio, some possibly annoying binaural telephone noises. Mixed for stereo separation. Listen through headphones or a good room-size stereo monitor. Using psychoactive substances while listening is not a good idea whatsoever. I take no responsibility for you having such a bad trip. I uh, put the transcript of the call from "I broke IKEA" into Google TTS, including all the 8's I cut out from that audio (it was 2:24 before editing, just for comparison.) I was fighting with the API sometimes, it would 400 out because my "sentences" were "too long" or "produced too much audio", lol. Got some fun results, so I threw this together. Hope it turned out alright. Thanks to this post for the idea: https://cohost.org/SnepShark/post/5195186-real-i-broke-ikea [https://cohost.org/SnepShark/post/5195186-real-i-broke-ikea] For a transcript, see the original post, "I broke IKEA." [https://cohost.org/sirocyl/post/2891449-i-broke-ikea]

web.archive.org · sirocyl on cohost

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William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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"And so we arrive at a debased mentality that refuses to recognize the humanity of others. This is why Good was denied medical assistance from a physician who observed the scene and came forth to help.

Good could not be seen as a life worth saving."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat


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lucid.substack.com/p/renee-nic

Renee Nicole Good, Enemy of the State

Authoritarians do not accept the democratic ideas of peaceful assembly or legal observation, and anyone can become an enemy of the state

lucid.substack.com

William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

"This is a blunt statement, but it is important to understand what we are dealing with. This is where dehumanization leads. It starts with those who are the targets of many autocrats, such as non-Whites, immigrants, Muslims, and members of the LGBTQ community, and extends in time to anyone who does not accept having their rights taken away and their free speech silenced."


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William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

"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

The Mad King’s Madness Deepens

Trump wants war, war and more war – even against Americans

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Emelia @thisismissem.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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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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たくみん＠回復中 @takumin3211@misskey.seitendan.com
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第一候補

【VRChat向けワールド】ヌックのある家 - かなめりぜ不動産 - BOOTH
https://booth.pm/ja/items/5838750

【VRChat向けワールド】ヌックのある家 - かなめりぜ不動産 - BOOTH

木の温かみを感じられるヌックのある家です。 大きすぎず小さすぎず、サイズ感にこだわって作りました。 Android（Quest）にも対応しています。 ※ヌックとは：こぢんまりとした居心地のいい空間のこと ヌックをミラーで閉じるとオープンな空間からプライベートな狭い空間に早変わり！ VRC Light Volumesに即座に対応可能なパッケージも用意！ 対応手順のざっくり概要は商品画像をご覧ください。 【サンプルワールド】 https://vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_80a45cb4-84ee-41ba-9aea-92fc26f232f8

booth.pm

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Euromaidan Press @EuromaidanPress@mastodon.social
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Shared by Chao-c'

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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William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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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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William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

"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


/21

lincolnsquare.media/p/minneapo

Minneapolis Is not Safer | Michael Fanone & Maya Maya

ICE is not law enforcement, and they are putting our lives in danger.

www.lincolnsquare.media

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Anil Dash @anildash@me.dm
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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

How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

anildash.com

Link author: Anil Dash@anildash@me.dm

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William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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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


/21

lincolnsquare.media/p/minneapo

Minneapolis Is not Safer | Michael Fanone & Maya Maya

ICE is not law enforcement, and they are putting our lives in danger.

www.lincolnsquare.media

William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

"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


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wired.com/story/maga-trump-rew

MAGA Is Already Rewriting the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

The federal government’s narrative of the Minneapolis shooting conflicts wildly with video footage of the incident shared online.

www.wired.com · WIRED

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Ctrl B @CtrlBGames@mastodon.social
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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

How to store ordered data in arrays - a free Swift for Complete Beginners tutorial

Learn Swift coding for iOS with these free tutorials

www.hackingwithswift.com · Hacking with Swift

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin@c.im
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

When it’s so fucked in the USA that literally every country is calling out the lies.

Our fascism and murderous regime is now making Korean and UK news.

bsky.app/profile/lorennacleary

LorennaCleary.bsky.social (@lorennacleary.bsky.social)

When it’s so fucked in the USA that literally every country is calling out the lies. Our fascism and murderous regime is now making Korean and UK news.

bsky.app · Bluesky Social

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spew @spew@hj.9fs.net
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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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