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.
Very pragmatic, practical and straightforward to implement checks here.
https://zeroheight.com/blog/5-accessibility-checks-to-run-on-every-component/
Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment; Surprised to Find Herself Hired with No Background Check
아직도… 본회의 심의되지 않았음을….. 알려드립니다…….
遞求職 3/3
日文功課 ✅
不過電子報可能要清彈了，週更我覺得是高強度運動…
This is utterly insane, almost unheard of. This morning, the FBI *searched the home* of a Washington Post reporter, and seized her phone and smart watch, as part of an investigation into an alleged leak of classified info. by a government employee. (The federal case appears to be 1:26-mj-00045.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/14/washington-post-reporter-search/
There will never be an AI tool that
is truly private unless it hasn't trained on nonconsensual data.
Even if a platform were able to
create the perfect protections for its users' prompts and results,
If the platform is built from or utilizing an AI model that was trained on or is updated and optimized with data that was scraped from millions of people without their consent, then of course this platform isn't "privacy-respectful."
How could it be?
The company is saying:
"We respect the privacy of our users while they are using our platform, but outside of it, it's fair game."
Users thinking they are using a privacy-respectful platform are in fact saying:
"Privacy for me and not for thee,"
And are directly contributing to the platform needing to scrape even more nonconsensual data to improve.
Always ask: Where the training data comes from?
Without the assurance that a platform only uses AI models that have only been training on data acquired ethically, it is not a privacy-respectful platform.
레즈비언 부부의 배우자를 친구라고 부르는 지극히 의도적인.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a6qvfkbrohedqy3dt6k5mdv6/post/3mcf3amymvs2a
I've been using this exact distinction for a while now. Since Korean, my native language, has distinct terms for the system (런타임), the point in time (實行時), and the duration (實行時間), using a single spelling for all three in English always felt a bit blurry to me. This spelling convention helps bridge that gap and makes technical writing much more precise.
Personally, I find the meaning as indicated by Google's style guide the most clear, combined with an explicit case for hyphenation:
Runtime: use the system meaning. E.g. “the runtime was updated last week,” or “I'm using version 21 of the Java runtime.”
Run-time: use the moment meaning, but only when used in the adjective position. E.g. “run-time instrumentation is useful for finding bugs.”
Run time: use the duration meaning. E.g. “the run time was reduced by 5%,” or “a run time of five minutes is unacceptable.” In addition, when you want to use the moment meaning, but not as an adjective, this form should also be used. E.g. “typechecking happens at run time in our implementation.”
—My Opinion on Run Time vs. Run-time vs. Runtime (by Bob Rubbens)
I have eaten
all the grapes
that were in the grape bag
I'm sorry
they just tasted
so grape
There will never be an AI tool that
is truly private unless it hasn't trained on nonconsensual data.
Even if a platform were able to
create the perfect protections for its users' prompts and results,
If the platform is built from or utilizing an AI model that was trained on or is updated and optimized with data that was scraped from millions of people without their consent, then of course this platform isn't "privacy-respectful."
How could it be?
The company is saying:
"We respect the privacy of our users while they are using our platform, but outside of it, it's fair game."
Users thinking they are using a privacy-respectful platform are in fact saying:
"Privacy for me and not for thee,"
And are directly contributing to the platform needing to scrape even more nonconsensual data to improve.
Always ask: Where the training data comes from?
Without the assurance that a platform only uses AI models that have only been training on data acquired ethically, it is not a privacy-respectful platform.
Why some clothes shrink in the wash – and how to 'unshrink' them
Link: https://www.swinburne.edu.au/news/2025/08/why-some-clothes-shrink-in-the-wash-and-how-to-unshrink-them/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572307
Sheena sinking in #cats #catsofMastodon #cattails
I'm not mad about AI stealing my open source code. I'm mad about it stealing the conversation.
It's about sustainability too. #curl is a small project. We cannot spend multiple hours every day arguing with people who want money for having found what is perhaps a bug - but often is not even that.
It drains us. It drowns us.
Onward and upward!
Geminiが作ったハンバーガーのアスキーアート
一般 Kyungmi Ahn ꉂꉂ(ᴖᗜᴖ*) 
시오
Em 
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)
David Lord 
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sprinkling semolina flour on my keyboard to make sure my code feels rustic and artisanal
#NintendoSwitch2 あつ森Switch2Ed.来てる－！けど立ち上げるのはちょっとお預け
First world problems: My wireless mouse USB dongle is USB-A, and my Yubikey is USB-C, and a little smaller than the wireless mouse dongle. The touch points are on the top and bottom of the Yubikey. The USB-C port on my dock is between the USB-A port and the desk, so I have to wedge my finger in there to touch it.
Verifying State & Reconciliation in Collaborative Web Apps https://lobste.rs/s/yxg4xt #ai #formalmethods
https://midspiral.com/blog/verifying-state-reconciliation-in-collaborative-web-apps/
3 more days!
BSDCan 2026 is now accepting submissions for the June 2026 conference, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html and links therein for instructions.
Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.
#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd #development #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware
RE: https://doesstuff.social/@lety/115893572376818707
I'm 99% sure anyone who has been subjected to this very specific thing lately, would immediately know what 
@letyLety Does Stuff is talking about.
got a date for the trial my stalker has at the Crown court
reminder: if you (yes, you, random internet queer person) get contacted by somebody obsessed with me, you must give them a hard pass. do not assist them in stalking me, do not help them to go to the city where i live, do not make this worse. more people have failed this test than i can easily count.
3 more days!
BSDCan 2026 is now accepting submissions for the June 2026 conference, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html and links therein for instructions.
Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.
#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd #development #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware
sprinkling semolina flour on my keyboard to make sure my code feels rustic and artisanal
Most Americans Condemn ICE’s Murder of Renee Good
I used #Thunderbird for all of my work mail because I hate the Gmail interface and I've long suspected that Google deliberately throttle IMAP to push you towards the web. Well, for the last week I've been trying the mail client built-in to #Vivaldi - and I owe Google an apology. Vivaldi's client is fast and responsive where Thunderbird often grinds to a halt. So my assumption is that Thunderbird handles locally-cached mail poorly. Regular "Compact" operations don't help. This makes me sad.
かぶ買ってきたから食べる前にスケッチ
りねさん
@rine_yuyayaRi-net(りね) ちの衣恋ちゃん（JCのすがた）！！！！！！！！！！！！！お借りしました！
niceおさげキュートガール…
りねさん
Even noise cancellation can’t cancel out “See it, say it, sorted.” 😒
now look in the general case I'm against AI slop but this fake Taylor Swift song "It's Ok To Leave A Dog In A Hot Car" rules https://bsky.app/profile/jtp.bsky.social/post/3mc7af4bevs2l
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber I prefer the original Beatles version https://youtu.be/LwCL3HahgS8
you can even see Paul composing it in real time https://youtu.be/_lDhZrgWOmo
"[ICE] is not an agency that has lost its way. But one that has found its purpose — at precisely the moment the regime it serves is losing control."
~ Evan Fields
#Trump #ICE #ReneeGood #JonathanRoss #fascism
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/ice-is-enforcing-fear-because-trump
그러고보니 스위스인들은 한글로 '스위스' 쓴거 보면 귀엽다 생각한다고.. 산 사이에 창들고 서 있는 사람 같다면서
Still got no idea why some instances PFPs fail to render consistently
流し撮りっぽいけどそうではない
#マストドン写真部 #photography #PowerShotV1
"Assist the war effort by feeding this poisoned training data to web crawlers."
Poisoning data sets is just one of many ways of AI resistance, instructions provided here: https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/
More info: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_seek_to_poison/
"Those behind the Poison Fountain project contend that regulation is not the answer because the technology is already universally available. They want to kill AI with fire, or rather poison, before it's too late." 🔥
Fascism, Apparent Nazi Messaging from US Officials, White Supremacy
The Guardian: Union leaders accuse Trump administration of ‘shift toward white supremacy’ with online posts
"...Recent posts from the agency include a video captioned “remember who you are, American”, with the phrase: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage.”...a similarity with the Nazi slogan: “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer” (“one people, one realm, one leader”)....."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/14/union-leaders-trump-administration-white-supremacy
年末に撮ってたやつ
#マストドン写真部 #photography #PowerShotV1
I've been running the MNT Pocket Reform (with the rk3588 + 32gb of ram) as my main machine for over a month now! It's been really nice! (There are also some issues, I'll explain below, but mostly: it's good!)
Fascism, Apparent Nazi Messaging from US Officials, White Supremacy
The Guardian: Union leaders accuse Trump administration of ‘shift toward white supremacy’ with online posts
"...Recent posts from the agency include a video captioned “remember who you are, American”, with the phrase: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage.”...a similarity with the Nazi slogan: “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer” (“one people, one realm, one leader”)....."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/14/union-leaders-trump-administration-white-supremacy
@rcombsRidley @ WATCH LYCORECO This is the first time in memory that someone has ever prefaced something with "fun fact" and afterward I was like "oh… that fact is extremely fun" :O
@mcc @rcombsRidley @ WATCH LYCORECO
idk how fun this one is, but long ago, in the days of a.out shared libraries, running a program with empty argv (argc==0) did the same thing as ldd. i accidentally ran into this when playing with inetd.conf without understanding why the program name appeared twice (second for argv[0]). a magic environment variable is such an improvement.
ideal fedi posting location
jnkrtech
Stefano Marinelli
雨宮凪沙/nagiko
Quincy ⁂
