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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[기간한정 퀘스트] 모카를 팝니다

본진으로
판스온2:뉴제네시스 라는 게임을 해요 (사진은 제 딸이에요)
이 계정에선 뉴제네 플레이 일지를 포함한 덕질 얘기를 주로 합니다
그 외 취급장르 :
소닉, 마호야쿠, 진여신 등
동인CP 언급도 하고 가끔 OC 얘기도 해요-!!

일상얘기만 하지않고
덕질얘기를 어느정도 하시는 분이면 좋겠구
서로의 마리모가아닌
맘찍/리액션으로라도 교류를 하실 분을 모시고 싶어요!

맘찍이나 리액션 주시면 살펴보고 찾아가겠습니다
:blobcatawwreverse:

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Apparently Samsung is putting ‘AI’ (and ads) in fridges. I am certainly not opposed to innovation and think that a lot of technologies that haven’t changed much for a long time have room for improvement (if you grew up in the US or Europe, try using a Japanese toilet and you’ll understand). But the frustrating thing is that there are a lot of useful things that a fridge could do with some computing power and a bit of electrical control that they don’t and which don’t need ‘AI’. Some examples:

  • It could talk to a smart meter to run the compressor when electricity is cheap and keep a reservoir of chilled coolant for when electricity is expensive.
  • It could automatically close the door if I leave it open for more than a minute and don’t first put it into ‘I am cleaning the fridge now’ mode.
  • It could record (with bar code or image recognition - the latter of which you could even market as ‘AI’ because apparently computer vision is ‘AI’ now) when I open things like milk or juice so when a thing says ‘consume writhing 5 days of opening’ and I can’t remember when I opened it, it can tell me.
  • It could then warn me if I’ve left something that will spoil in the fridge.
  • It could track when I remove / replace things so ‘are we nearly out of X’ is a question I can answer from my phone / tablet / laptop when organising a food order, without having to go and check.

All of these are features I would actually find useful. The last ones require a bit of clever computer vision and good UI design, the earlier ones are just applications of mature technology.

And I would actually pay more for these features (and the first one would likely save me more money over the lifetime of the fridge than the price delta, so everyone wins [except oil companies, but that is a feature in itself]).

I could write a similar rant about pretty much every piece of electrical equipment I own. All of these have a load of trivial improvements that could be made if you start by asking the question ‘how do people use this and how do we improve it?’ Rather than ‘how do we add {an app,AI,this week’s buzzword} that marketing wants in the next generation?’

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Apparently Samsung is putting ‘AI’ (and ads) in fridges. I am certainly not opposed to innovation and think that a lot of technologies that haven’t changed much for a long time have room for improvement (if you grew up in the US or Europe, try using a Japanese toilet and you’ll understand). But the frustrating thing is that there are a lot of useful things that a fridge could do with some computing power and a bit of electrical control that they don’t and which don’t need ‘AI’. Some examples:

  • It could talk to a smart meter to run the compressor when electricity is cheap and keep a reservoir of chilled coolant for when electricity is expensive.
  • It could automatically close the door if I leave it open for more than a minute and don’t first put it into ‘I am cleaning the fridge now’ mode.
  • It could record (with bar code or image recognition - the latter of which you could even market as ‘AI’ because apparently computer vision is ‘AI’ now) when I open things like milk or juice so when a thing says ‘consume writhing 5 days of opening’ and I can’t remember when I opened it, it can tell me.
  • It could then warn me if I’ve left something that will spoil in the fridge.
  • It could track when I remove / replace things so ‘are we nearly out of X’ is a question I can answer from my phone / tablet / laptop when organising a food order, without having to go and check.

All of these are features I would actually find useful. The last ones require a bit of clever computer vision and good UI design, the earlier ones are just applications of mature technology.

And I would actually pay more for these features (and the first one would likely save me more money over the lifetime of the fridge than the price delta, so everyone wins [except oil companies, but that is a feature in itself]).

I could write a similar rant about pretty much every piece of electrical equipment I own. All of these have a load of trivial improvements that could be made if you start by asking the question ‘how do people use this and how do we improve it?’ Rather than ‘how do we add {an app,AI,this week’s buzzword} that marketing wants in the next generation?’

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The December edition of Trunk & Tidbits is posted.

It was a quieter month in terms of commits due to the holiday period, but some solid progress was made. Plus, the latest stable releases, end-of-life for Mastodon 4.2, and news about

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/01/

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Maintenance announcement done :flan_hacker:

We will be updating Exquisite.social to Mastodon (glitch) 4.5.4 later today. We'll start at 22:00 CEST. There will be some downtime involved, although we do not expect it to take more than 5 minutes.

Apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for bearing with us :flan_heart:

Update @ 22:03 CEST: Done. Happy Tooting! :flan_bunny:

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Maintenance announcement done :flan_hacker:

We will be updating Exquisite.social to Mastodon (glitch) 4.5.4 later today. We'll start at 22:00 CEST. There will be some downtime involved, although we do not expect it to take more than 5 minutes.

Apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for bearing with us :flan_heart:

Update @ 22:03 CEST: Done. Happy Tooting! :flan_bunny:

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My son is in the first year of middle school. Here in Switzerland, the highest mark is 6. I went to school in Italy, where 6 is just a pass and the highest mark is 10.

So, every time he comes home with a 5.5, I know it's a great mark, but in the back of my mind I just can't shake the feeling that: “he should try harder”

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高市の首相公邸のバリアフリー化をしなかったことについて、みんなツッコミ入れてるから改めて言うことないけど、この人たちって金をかけて良い部分とかけると悪い部分の認識がまるで反対なんだな。ある意味、すごいよ。バカの意味で

nitter.net/takaichi_sanae/stat

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I went to trans swimming last night and it was amazing.

Trans swimming happens weekly in two public swimming pools in London, one in South London, one in North East London. Each sets aside a pool for trans and gender diverse swimmers, we get our own changing room, and we have 90 minutes allocated in the evening where the pool is exclusively ours.

It is amazing.

I've been multiple times, but seeing the joy on every face to swim regardless of top surgery scars, bulging bikini bottoms, or even topless (pre surgery mascs and early HRT femmes).

But no one cares about the bodies... This is what makes it amazing. People just swim, splash, do handstands, snog, do lengths... It's just this really amazing safe space.

I can't describe how big a deal it is to feel this safe, and to have this space, and to do an activity that has such fear associated to it (trans person in a public pool and changing rooms).

If there's trans swimming near you, go swim! If you're near or in London, join us! If you're in London DM me for the WhatsApp group details for trans and gender diverse swimming.

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[기간한정 퀘스트] 모카를 팝니다

본진으로
판스온2:뉴제네시스 라는 게임을 해요 (사진은 제 딸이에요)
이 계정에선 뉴제네 플레이 일지를 포함한 덕질 얘기를 주로 합니다
그 외 취급장르 :
소닉, 마호야쿠, 진여신 등
동인CP 언급도 하고 가끔 OC 얘기도 해요-!!

일상얘기만 하지않고
덕질얘기를 어느정도 하시는 분이면 좋겠구
서로의 마리모가아닌
맘찍/리액션으로라도 교류를 하실 분을 모시고 싶어요!

맘찍이나 리액션 주시면 살펴보고 찾아가겠습니다
:blobcatawwreverse:

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[기간한정 퀘스트] 모카를 팝니다

본진으로
판스온2:뉴제네시스 라는 게임을 해요 (사진은 제 딸이에요)
이 계정에선 뉴제네 플레이 일지를 포함한 덕질 얘기를 주로 합니다
그 외 취급장르 :
소닉, 마호야쿠, 진여신 등
동인CP 언급도 하고 가끔 OC 얘기도 해요-!!

일상얘기만 하지않고
덕질얘기를 어느정도 하시는 분이면 좋겠구
서로의 마리모가아닌
맘찍/리액션으로라도 교류를 하실 분을 모시고 싶어요!

맘찍이나 리액션 주시면 살펴보고 찾아가겠습니다
:blobcatawwreverse:

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