What is Hackers' Pub?

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ When I was like 12 or 13 I modified one of those locks to be the power button thinking it would be so cool to have a computer that could only be turned on with a lock. The rest of my family unfortunately, didn't think so.

@zkatkat Hi Kat, please could I ask if the LLMs in question are specific to the major players, or whether it’s LLMs in general?

I can understand if it were against the likes of Anthropic, Google, OpenAI due to what we know about how they operate and the resources involved in their training of models, but if the latter, is there a line where some model of LLM would ever be seen as acceptable?

That is, if a model could be trained fully using green energy, not impacting any communities, respecting copyrights and robots.txt when crawling (i’m being deliberately simplistic as I don’t know enough about this all to speak with any sort of authority) and then be able to run locally on people’s machines for inference - would this be acceptable? Or is it the technology itself that is the concern, that an LLM may never be seen as fully trustable given how they function?

Did a quick link roundup for Doll's Verification-Driven Development. Very interesting approach. levon003.github.io/2026/01/07/v...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dzvxvsiy3maw4iarpvizsj67/post/3mbmuvjo76c2c

Verification-driven developmen...

Baby tuxie #JellyBellyFriday 🐱 #FosterKittens #cats #CatsOfMastodon

今天是侄女出世D17，一早助產士就來教洗澡啦！助產士指導要在澡盆裡放多一點水，讓嬰兒可以漂浮，引導她回想起在子宮內的情景，從而愛上洗澡。洗澡水裡還放了母奶！我在台灣聽說的是清水或摻一點嬰兒專用沐浴露，但沒聽說用母乳的，真是豪華母奶浴啊。從照片看起來，侄女的確喜歡漂在水上的感覺，睜大了亮晶晶的雙眼，看著鏡頭或是幫她洗澡的大人。

晚上弟弟的朋友來訪，是瑞士人，育有一個可愛的小女孩，他們也帶來另一個包巾，弟弟大表感謝。但我無法用英文流利交談，兼之生理期很沒精神，就窩回房間吃飯了。也許這是弟弟的朋友第一次吃到台灣的家常菜（如圖，只有烤肋排是特別為他們準備的），他們還試著喝了一點弟妹的月子藥湯，希望他們喜歡（？）。

今天是我月經的第一天，一大早就行動緩慢，月亮碟片還一直放不好，洗了兩條內褲後決定用弟妹的衛生棉。不知道可以推給生理期嗎，在這種狀態下和朋友聊天又說了令她難過的話，我到底有什麼毛病——

#2026德國月嫂

Ich halte den #ÖRR grundsätzlich für eine sehr große Errungenschaft 👍

Um so mehr empört es mich, dass unter JEDEM Beitrag auf tagesschau.de UNBEZAHLTE (!) WERBUNG (!) für Apps des Meta-Konzerns platziert wird, die schon für unzählige Skandale verantwortlich waren und offenkundig eine Gefahr für die Freiheitlich demokratischen Grundordnung darstellen. Das ist das Gegenteil von digitaler Souveränität!

Müssen wir uns das als Gebührenzahler:innen eigentlich gefallen lassen? Ich sage: Nein! Wenn sich genügend Menschen finden, die das kritisieren, wird @tagesschau handeln.

Erster Schritt: Gib diesem Post hier einen ⭐ (und gerne auch einen ). Viele Sterne stärken das Argument.

Weitere Schritte erfolgen dann durch die #DiDaySupportCommunity.

#DiDay #DUT #DID

NetBlocks, an organization that monitors internet status in various parts of the world, wrote in a recent update about the internet situation in Iran:
"It has now been 24 hours since the nationwide internet shutdown in Iran, and connectivity has dropped to about 1% of normal levels. This ongoing digital blackout violates the fundamental rights and freedoms of Iranian citizens and causes the government's violence to remain hidden."
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Iran #iranprotest

If Andrew "bunnie" Huang didn't exist, I'd swear he was a character out of a(n extraordinarily technologically well-informed) cyberpunk novel. Every time I interact with this legendary hardware hacker, he blows my mind with some project or insight that permanently alters how I think about tech.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/09/quantity-break/#so-many-chips

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Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear

Link: https://lend-me-your-ears.specr.net
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556210

Een aanrader voor wie af en toe de weersverwachting in de regio wil zien zonder tracking of reclame: https://nl.fedimeteo.com/

Het mooiste? Je volgt hier op Mastodon het account van de plaats het dichtste bij je. #weer

Maker: @stefanoStefano Marinelli

I’ve added the last missing piece to the pack CLI upstream 🎉

https://github.com/buildpacks/pack/pull/2510

With this in place, the next official release should be usable for creating a FreeBSD port without patches (fingers crossed).

In the meantime I’m still working on end-to-end testing on FreeBSD 15 with Podman.

Slow progress since the last update, but progress nonetheless.

#CloudNativeBuildpacks #FreeBSD #Podman

I spend too much time trying to figure out "why is the LLM doing this?" and it makes me feel conspiratorial

ANYWAY I think reddit's image categorization system has linked images of keyboards to "foone" and that's why it showed me some guy's dick, because he took it in front of his computer desk

Since yesterday I want to give another try to #UngoogledChromium
I imported my #Firefox bookmarks into Ungoogled-Chromium and I use the excellent software @floccusFloccus bookmark sync to backup my bookmarks and tabs.
For the moment, it’s a good move. Everything runs smoothly.

I've built something useable. Maybe you need that, too.

#OpenBSD Clients with moonlight-qt
#proxmox hypervisor with libegl and #radeon GPU
#debian VMS with #virgl GPU in proxmox and sunshine streaming server

Now you can play your games running only on linux on OpenBSD. This also works good over the internet/VPN.
The actual intention was building remote desktop capable vms, because 3d Desktops (GNOME), high Display resolution, modern browsers and spice protocol dont give a smooth experience these days. This also works now.

#unigineheaven is at 99% native performance. The GPU is shareable to many VMS.
Can't wait to see how amdgpu native driver context passthrough is coming out when it's available.

#introduction Music teacher in the northeast US with two orange cats. I love all things music, crafty, and education. I couldn’t snap a photo while I was listening to SE this morning but here I am trying to figure out Mastodon like an old person who can’t use tech.

そもそもAIを使う前にやるべきことが多い気がする

Why is SendGrid emailing me about supporting ICE?

Link: https://fredbenenson.com/blog/2026/01/09/why-is-sendgrid-emailing-me-about-supporting-ice/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555615

FensterFreitag

#fensterfreitag #fotografie #photography #street #rotterdam #schwarzWeiss #abstract

Best in Show gets applause. Worst in Show gets a full video. Our CES Worst in Show awards, presented with Back Market, is now live on YouTube. Grab popcorn and watch us lovingly dismantle some truly cursed tech.

Full Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxZgILm95BU

居眠りしてたンゴ…
遡りは起きてからにしましょうね​​
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A team of content creators, not wearing any kind of uniform jumped out of the car and filmed the arrests.

Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, threatens to stop all free services for all Italian users in a post on Musk's Everything App.

Edit: Link to the post:
https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2009654937303896492

@stefanoStefano Marinelli (because you're the only Italian I know here)

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

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

Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines

Link: https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/2009654937303896492
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555760

When you've made modifications to a file in vi(1) and then find that
you can't write it, type ``<ESC>!rm -f %'' then ``:w!'' to force the
write

This won't work if you don't have write permissions to the directory
and probably won't be suitable if you're editing through a symbolic link.

If you have sudo(8) installed and permissions to use it, type
``<ESC>w ! sudo tee %'' to force a write.

なんか今日あんまりお仕事してない気がするけど、たくさんメール返したので​​
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That face, though.

#CatsOfMastodon

Any thoughts about not having System Settings as a default dock item? You can get there both from Quick Settings and from secondary-clicking the wallpaper these days.

See the reply here for a poll

https://github.com/elementary/dock/pull/562

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠

Dear Mayor of Cats,

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pivBe5dYA0Q

Santokumesser、日本語とドイツ語とくっついてドイツ語の単語になるのすき

三徳包丁、multipleみたいな名前にならなくてしっかりsantokuと呼ばれてるのめっちゃすき

オイラはしゅいろさんの影響もあって、重い毛布をポチった！
今日の午前中に届く！​​

もっとも、いきなりハグラビのブランケットはちと重たそうだったので、もうちょっと軽いニトリの製品ですが（苦笑）

RE: https://misskey.io/notes/ahahqvx7ce4d0549

Oooh... my Retrowave OPL3 finally shipped. 👀

One of the ways I'm dealing with AI slop at work is that when I'm giving feedback on the work I'm making sure to never assign the responsibility of the bad code to the AI. I'm directly saying that "this change that YOU made needs to be corrected". I'm always assigning the output of the AI to the person who put me in the position of reviewing the work. It is their responsibility to read the code that they're trying to review, they are responsible for 100% of the code, so they also get 100% of the blame when it's bad. If a change is confusing or nonsensical I'll ask "why did YOU make this change?". I'll never ask why an AI made a change, that we cannot know. All we can know is why someone thought it was acceptable to ship garbage, and we can assign them the responsibility for the garbage that they're willing to ship

My web publishing mindset is so strong that when I'm designing and writing something to be printed out, I struggle with not being able to link to things.

One of the ways I'm dealing with AI slop at work is that when I'm giving feedback on the work I'm making sure to never assign the responsibility of the bad code to the AI. I'm directly saying that "this change that YOU made needs to be corrected". I'm always assigning the output of the AI to the person who put me in the position of reviewing the work. It is their responsibility to read the code that they're trying to review, they are responsible for 100% of the code, so they also get 100% of the blame when it's bad. If a change is confusing or nonsensical I'll ask "why did YOU make this change?". I'll never ask why an AI made a change, that we cannot know. All we can know is why someone thought it was acceptable to ship garbage, and we can assign them the responsibility for the garbage that they're willing to ship

OMG, this from @naomikritzer, yes

(Original source: https://bsky.app/profile/naomikritzer.bsky.social/post/3mbv3ratzvc2m)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115865363292467208

this by Leah McElrath:
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3mbz26fcjz22u

confirmed my #auntifa tingly senses:

beautiful women smoking cigarettes became THE THING in 1920s #movies, especially after 1927 when talkies were invented. the technology was patented. talkies needed to be subsidized, so they became defacto ads for the gringolarchy; producing “the white gaze”.

these pics from #Iran scream white gaze.

REMEMBER: the #petromafia want #Venezuela and #Iran. images like these are grooming y’all for an invasion.

BREAKING NEWS: My growly grumps are *sharing* a blanket 🙀‼️

That's right: Ser Bites-a-lot and Miss Hiss.

(They *never* do this without competitive growling)

May the wonders never cease.

(Unfortunately I fear this is a temporary situation - a truce prompted by cold room and snow outside. Normal hissing duties to commence shortly)

#CatsOfMastodon

At no point was I prepared for where this sentence was going

👀 We don't have a REPL in Unison, so what do we use instead?

Watch expressions!

https://youtu.be/xfKO_tGpBxM?si=YVVR035W0Nuw3QV9&utm_source=mastodon

ICE’s budget now rivals the militaries of nations around the world and that money is building an enormous domestic surveillance machine. Learn about the surveillance tactics they’re using and how you can protect yourself and your community. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/ice-going-surveillance-shopping-spree

ビル・アトキンソン氏が死去　AppleのUIを確立した伝説的エンジニア - ITmedia NEWS https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2506/08/news022.html
MacPaintで現代のAppStoreのアイコン描いてるスクショが突然登場して、フイルムエストTV見てる気分になった

The folks from the University of Utah were on Utah regional TV talking about the UNIX V4 find. It was good to put some faces and voices to the names involved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-3RJaKcw_4

Fighting Food Poisoning With A Patch

https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/fighting-food-poisoning-with-a-patch/

Le mot "Interopérabilité" génère, depuis plusieurs années, beaucoup d'intérêt parmi les acteurs de la transition et de la coopération. Cependant ce mot (et d'autres: SSO, passerelles, portabilité...) colporte toutes sortes d'illusions que nous mettrons en lumière lors d'un webinaire le 22 janvier à 18h. Ce sera bien sûr l'occasion de reparler du Réseau Social Universel, qui place l'interopérabilité au cœur de son architecture.

Inscription gratuite sur https://grist.reconnexion.coop/o/equipe-operationnelle/forms/rZ6i3z2eBZKHgU6RfFZtkd/4

When you've made modifications to a file in vi(1) and then find that
you can't write it, type ``<ESC>!rm -f %'' then ``:w!'' to force the
write

This won't work if you don't have write permissions to the directory
and probably won't be suitable if you're editing through a symbolic link.

If you have sudo(8) installed and permissions to use it, type
``<ESC>w ! sudo tee %'' to force a write.