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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On the one hand, I fully understand why Apple is finally going Adobe and doing a subscription for the creative apps. On the other hand, I don't know if I can see this as having enough value for me to want to pay $130 a year when I use these apps almost entirely on the Mac.

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To learn more about what your system is doing, take a look at systat(1). For
example, to get various statistics related to virtual memory usage, process
scheduling, device interrupts, system name translation caching, and disk I/O,
enter the following:

systat -vmstat

Other values are icmp, icmp6, ifstat, iostat, ip, ip6, netstat, pigs, sctp,
swap, tcp, or zarc. You can switch between displays using :<display> and exit
back to your shell by typing

:quit

-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>

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From my perspective, the ATProto social graph would be more useful as a "find your friends" across apps, not necessarily auto-follow. Rather than sending all your contacts to every app, you can choose which of your apps to "recommend" follows from.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2zmxikig2sj7gqaezl5gntae/post/3mccyl3mao22h

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Huang isn’t alone among tech executives complaining about AI criticism. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently griped that discussions around AI need to move past the concept of “slop” low-quality AI-generated content flooding the internet.
My guy, have you seen the state your operating system is in

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This message is intended for Canadian admins who are running public instances large and small. If you are an admin, please share with your counterparts. If you are a member of a Canadian instance, please send this to your admin.
A small group of us (Note: really, really small) are in early discussions on how to encourage our government - individual politicians & federal, provincial, and municipal departments - to move their social media presence to Mastodon. This would involve an awareness campaign targeting politicians, party HQs, and departments/agencies.
We are asking for input from admins to help us create a future state vision for this project, and provide us with advice or ideas on how to bring it to a reality. I will set up a web call within the next 3 weeks and hopefully you can participate. We are not asking you to contribute beyond input. Please DM me and I will add you to the invitees.



(hashtag for this project)

CC: @ZebKingZeb King 🇨🇦

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Don't forget, LLMs are an attempt to rent-seek on things that are just basic cognitive abilities, providing you keep using those abilities.

Even ignoring all the other ethical problems with it (and you really shouldn't), do you really want to offload things like "writing", "reading", "drawing", etc, to the same kind of companies that have brought you great innovations like surveillance capitalism and the gig economy?

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Google is trashing the Tenor API frustratingly, which means GiphyMaubot will need to be updated (despite being called Giphy, it also supports tenor and tenor was the more reliable one)

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

github.com/TomCasavant/GiphyMa

Looks like potentially I can use klipy.com/developers as a drop-in replacement

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RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1

Oh well. They got to Moxie also. 🙁

It’s a travesty of a headline because “it just works” is not the topic of the article. How this LLM “works” any better than any other LLM is not discussed. Like Signal, it’s e2e encrypted. It’s private. But the privacy violations aren’t the reason LLMs do or don’t “work.” The privacy violations are by-the-by. Taking them away doesn’t mean the LLM’s results or performance will change.

This LLM will still be confidently—and now very privately and privacy-preservingly—wrong.

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