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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Ich arbeite schon sehr lange bei und sehe, dass hier gerade eine Panikwelle durchzieht, man die App jetzt plötzlich boykottiert, weil Threema verkauft wird. Vielleicht darf ich das mal einordnen:

Ich habe viele Jahre mit den drei Gründern zusammen an Threema gearbeitet. Ich habe den Verkauf an Afinum 2020 miterlebt und später den Rückzug der Gründer in 2024. Derzeit wird Threema an Comitis verkauft - auch ein Private Equity Unternehmen, genau wie Afinum damals. Wenn's also nur um den Verkauf geht, gibt es erstmal eigentlich keinen Grund zur Panik.

Aber: Es ist eine Änderung. Auf jeden Fall gilt es, das kritisch zu betrachten und zu beobachten. Auf jeden Fall sollte laut geschrien werden, sobald Enshittification stattfindet! Bitte, macht das! Und ich wäre mit Sicherheit unter den ersten Personen, die aus Protest gehen würden, sollte Threema mal die eigenen Werte aufgeben.

Aber warum diese Aufregung jetzt, weil Threema gerade von Private Equity A an Private Equity B verkauft? Das verstehe ich nicht.

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Why is there a bench inside the lake? 9 times designers outsmarted the city

STREET ART UTOPIA @streetartutopia@streetartutopia.com

We usually think of art as something to look at from a distance, but what if it’s something you can sit on, walk through, or use to knock on a door? Across the globe, visionaries are proving that functionality and creativity aren't mutually exclusive. These aren't just decorations; they are urban upgrades that transform the "gray" of daily life into moments of pure surprise. From a 12-speed bicycle that guards a garden to a building that breathes through thousands of plants, here is how […]

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most english prefixes have a single, unchanging meaning (more or less, don't @ me about "inflammable"). anti-blah is always in opposition to blah. pre-blah is always before blah.

the "girl" suffix is an outlier. the "girl" in "girlboss" (assertive, independent) has little in common with the "girl" in "girldinner" (hasty, improper), which has little in common with the girl in "girlfriend" (partner who is a woman). the "girl" prefix is exceedingly useful for creating new distinguished categories, but unlike other prefixes, it has no fixed meaning. i therefore propose we use the "girl" prefix to distinguish words with competing definitions:

  • a "roguelike" is no longer "a game like rogue". to refer to these "traditional" or "old school" roguelikes, we can use the term "girlroguelike".
  • the kudzu-like spread of US english has corrupted "truck" to mean "ute caricature". what the brits call a "lorry", the rest of us should call a "girltruck".
  • one of computer chips, poker chips, potato chips (hot), potato chips (cold), or golf chips will become "girlchips".
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Just saw this on a post on LinkedIn

creepylink.com/

It is a URL shortener that makes your links as suspicious as possible. Simply amazing

For example:

google.com/

got turned into:

capitalone.c1ic.link/Z8gfcH_cl

I'm pretty sure every healthcare organization I've ever received an SMS from is already using this technology

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It's perpetually funny to me (in a bleak way) that almost everyone in Microsoft Teams "meetings" that I wind up attending has their video off, their mic muted, and talks purely through the chat window (me included). It's far easier. And faster, we've had entire conversations in text before the audio people could catch up.

Basically the headline features, and no one wants to touch them.

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Before I use a third-party Go package, I like to know its transitive dependencies. I can't just look at go.mod, because it lists dependencies for all the packages in the module, not just the package I'm importing. So I made a little web page that runs `go list -deps` to get the real dependencies of a package: https://sourcespotter.com/deps/
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