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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RE: doesstuff.social/@lety/1158935

some of y'all have been priv mentioning me guesses as to what i'm talking about before voting and my favorite so far has been:

“is this supposed to be an analogy for how the trump administration has been attacking, kidnapping, and victim-blaming marginalized groups”

good to know who's taking home gold in the olympic mental gymnastics

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RE: doesstuff.social/@lety/1158935

some of y'all have been priv mentioning me guesses as to what i'm talking about before voting and my favorite so far has been:

“is this supposed to be an analogy for how the trump administration has been attacking, kidnapping, and victim-blaming marginalized groups”

good to know who's taking home gold in the olympic mental gymnastics

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Poslední tři roky byl Leo Steiner vrchním ředitelem sekce národních a evropských programů na ministerstvu pro místní rozvoj. Právě tento útvar rozhodoval o tom, zda se subvence vyplatí. A jako takový přestal posílat evropské peníze Babišovu holdingu Agrofert. Že jde o správný krok, potvrdily v následných sporech soudy.
irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/zaraz

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I recently came across an interesting video about a method for identifying AI-generated art. I thought it was worth sharing:

youtube.com/watch?v=Xxui8MoUJ5k

TLDW: Increasing the saturation and luminosity of an AI-generated image reveals artefacts, even in solid-coloured areas.

However, I'm not sure how reliable this method is, since a very similar effect can be observed in JPEGs with medium to high compression. I'd love to hear from anyone who can shed some light on this (pun not intended)!

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ActivityPub standardization is back! The just announced a new Working Group to evolve and and related standards! This is extremely good news. It's not like all the world's federated social media protocol problems were already solved! lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/p

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There's still time to submit to which is on at the end of this month. It's a safe, virus-free online conference for sharing ideas about Free and Open Source Software and Culture.

Participating in @fluconf is free, and anyone can submit something: a video, an article or blog post, a livestream, a song, a poem or whatever fits the conference themes.

No AI/LLM slop. Just humans sharing ideas.

Read more here:

fluconf.online/

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今天是弟媳產後D23,在昨天外出用餐的美麗閒暇之後,我們又回到日常。今天我請求弟弟和弟媳幫我看一組超貴的德國品牌輪針組;主要是在附近的手作店舖沒看到架上有陳列,我就改打網購的主意,發現手作店的官網雖然有賣,但價格是€189和台灣售價沒差很多,網路上有其他商店賣到€148這樣的低價,請弟媳幫我確認應該不是詐騙網站(她的德文比我弟又好上不少,也在慕尼黑生活更久,更懂這裡的「民情」)後,我就請弟弟幫我下單。弟弟很阿莎力地刷了他的卡,說算是對我的感謝之情。

來這裡後,我常想這個問題:負責大部分家務的那個家人,要如何才能不覺得自己被當成幫傭?而當那麼多人說會將幫傭當成家人,又是怎樣才真正讓人感到「被當成家人」?在我來之前,弟弟就曾訴說負責每日餐食是多麼辛苦,我實際參與後,覺得廚房工作真的讓人感到一整天彷彿都在為了「吃」這件事在勞動,而一個飄飄然忘了想「下一餐是什麼」,就會讓生活節奏掉拍。(今天中午我就因為忘記準備,買了麥當勞來吃)在外食、外送如此昂貴的國度,家務的計價應該更高,因為負擔確實更重。

台灣的便宜人力讓家務更容易外包,這裡的昂貴人力卻迫使人們更花時間在生活。

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Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that break service status.

I've refactored the init scripts for Sidekiq, Puma, and Streaming to be fully production-grade:

- Clean privilege dropping (no su wrappers)
- Native signal handling for log rotation
- Correct PID tracking & status reporting.

I published the scripts and the reasoning behind them in my Codeberg gists:

codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src

I use those to run a Mastodon instance and they're working great so far!

:freebsd_logo: ❤️ 🦣

Screenshot showing the service status of several Mastodon services on FreeBSD
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"an extraordinarily interesting video that touches on a load of great topics"

No, really! Someone just wrote this comment about my conversation with Marco.

This gives you an idea what it would be like to work with me. What do you think?

(Watching myself is nerve-wracking and sometimes even cringe, but I'm really quite happy with this one!)

youtube.com/watch?v=j0NjFsb-at8

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It seems that py/cryptography's thoughts about OpenSSL (cryptography.io/en/latest/stat) are doing the rounds at the moment.

I've not touched OpenSSL directly in a long time. In fact, it appears that the 10-year anniversary of that (imperialviolet.org/2015/10/17/) passed by a few months ago!

So I've no direct comments on the piece but, a long time ago, I was in the position where I was landing changes in both OpenSSL and NSS (Mozilla's TLS library). OpenSSL was somewhat famous for having bad code. And, indeed, if you looked at it back then the functions were full of single-letter variable names with pointer arithmetic everywhere and context-free, somewhat scary comments. It wasn't outside the norm for 1990s C code, but I understand why people recoiled.

In contrast, if you looked at NSS code, it looked good! Consistent formatting (before clang-format), good naming, good comments.

But NSS had a PKCS#11 abstraction layer and, even after years, I never could understand how the control flow worked there. I would have to single-step in gdb every time to figure out where an operation grounded out into actual code. I was reminded of that when reading py/cryptography's descriptions of OpenSSL 3.0.

I had a pet theory at the time that, because OpenSSL was repulsive on the surface, it inhibited people enough that they couldn't add much deeper complexity. But NSS, with its invitingly clean-looking code, was understandable and then people had enough capacity left over to add deeper complexity.

There might be something to it, although you shouldn't discount the fact that entities who are willing to fund cryptography libraries often have demands that are contrary to clean code. Things like FIPS compliance and compatibility with a zoo of different accelerators and bespoke needs.

So rather it might have been that old OpenSSL was old OpenSSL because it was mostly unfunded. That meant that it looked pretty ragged, but also there weren't so many demands in tension with good design.

NSS was funded by interests that really cared about PKCS#11 compatibility so that you could use a super-expensive, certified-everything HSM with it. When OpenSSL got shocked into switching to a higher-funding model, that brought lots of those same sorts of competing interests, and then the incentives pointed towards adding slow, impenetrable layers of abstraction all over.

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This style of management is way too common in the tech industry. I call it Star trek management.

We've all seen it. Captain calls down to engineering. "How long to get the warp core back online" and engineering replies "12 hours sir". "You've got 1" comes the response from the captain.

And there's a place for that sort of thing. When you're dead in the water and the Borg might come back to attack at any minute.

But, for it to be routine is just bad management

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mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/115

Stefano Marinelli (@stefano@bsd.cafe)

UPDATE: I just had a talk with two of the owners (whom I've known for years) and one of the young developers who was on yesterday's call. She confirmed that this manager's behavior was unmanageable. High-strung and narcissistic, he had apparently been let go from his previous company due to his inability to work with colleagues and owners alike. It seems he was even trying to boss the owners around. To make a long story short, the entire sysadmin team threatened to quit if I stopped collaborating with the company. As a result, the owners summoned the manager in the late morning, and he resigned. They are reverting to the previous management structure (led by one of the owners). They might drop a few projects, but they said they prefer returning to a more "human" way of running the business - which is what always set them apart in the past. I told them I'll think about it. If things are truly as they say (and I have no reason to doubt them yet), I'll propose a 6-month trial collaboration to see how things actually evolve. I'm aware it's easy to "pass the buck" - was it really just the manager's fault, or are the owners using him as a scapegoat now that things went south? However, given our history, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for now. UPDATE: One of the company owners (whom I've known for many years and is a good person) has asked to speak with me in about fifteen minutes. I've agreed. I'm curious to see what he has to say. I'll update this post after the call. Original post: Yesterday I lost a client. And I couldn't be happier about it. It's a long-standing client, but the management changed a few months ago. On Monday, they requested an emergency intervention, which I handled immediately. On Tuesday (yesterday, evening), they asked for a non-urgent enhancement to be closed by Wednesday evening. I explained that due to various reasons (including urgent family matters), I wouldn't be able to finish the task before Friday. That's when the lecturing started: they told me they set tight deadlines even for non-emergencies because "that's the proper way to do things", and anyone working with them must respect them without exception. I requested a video call to clarify. I explained that the work requires nearly a full day and that I simply couldn't close it by Wednesday. Even the physical time required to copy the data exceeded their deadline. But the new management believes that by applying pressure, you can overcome anything. Even the laws of physics. Their response was sarcastic: "Our requests take priority, even if you are dying". I smiled and reiterated that I had no other way. "We will therefore have to find a new consultant who respects our timing", they said. My response: "Okay. Our agreement expired on 31st December. I was waiting for a renewal, but it never arrived. Meaning, I have no legal obligations toward you. You have the data, the passwords, everything. Have a great day.". The manager, annoyed and failing to understand the implications, replied: "Fine, we’ll look for someone younger with fewer family ties to manage.". This morning, the phone rang. It was the manager, asking me to reconsider. His tone remained contemptuous, so I told him my decision was final. Two minutes later, I got a call from their biggest client - the one responsible for over 50% of their revenue. They had been notified I was leaving and informed the company they would also leave if I was no longer the one supervising their machines. I called the manager back, friendly, trying to see if they were willing to change their attitude - to move from peremptory orders to requests between human beings. He started talking about "suing for damages" if they lost their main client because of me (to be clear: I am not taking that client for myself). I don’t know how this story will evolve, but right now, I'm just enjoying a breath of fresh air outside my window. #IT #FreelanceLife #WorkLifeBalance #ToxicManagement #TechLife #Consulting #SelfEmployed

mastodon.bsd.cafe · BSD.cafe Mastodon Portal

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- 캐시태그 • 해시태그처럼 쓰지만 주식과 관련된 이야기를 할때 사용할 수 있습니다. • 게시물에 , 등 원하는 태그를 달아 사용할 수 있습니다. (한정적 지원으로 모든 문자에서 적용가능하진 않음) •캐시태그를 탭하면 다른 사람들의 전문성 없는 분석을 확인할 수 있습니다. (2/2)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/post/3mcibiyf7fs2r

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📢 블루스카이 v1.114 업데이트 - '라이브 중' 베타 기능을 모든 사용자에게 확대 제공 • 이 실험적 기능을 통해 아바타에 임시 '라이브' 배지를 추가할 수 있으며, 이를 통해 다른 사용자들이 현재 Twitch에서 생방송 중임을 알 수 있습니다 그리고 이 배지를 클릭하면 스트림 페이지로 바로 이동 가능합니다. • 베타 기간 동안 '지금 생방송 중'은 현재 Twitch 링크로만 제한됩니다. 베타 운영을 통해 얻은 경험을 바탕으로 다른 스트리밍 플랫폼 지원도 추가될 예정입니다. (1/2)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/post/3mcibezwvxk2g

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:BoostOK: Please share
I need your help: For an investigation into dating app algorithms, I am looking to get in touch with developers and others who work/have worked for such providers and would be willing to talk to me. Anonymous responses are also welcome. Questions include: What mechanisms are used to keep users on the platform? What ideas/constructs of partnership/matching are embedded in the algorithm? Please share widely! Thank you❤️
Anonymous and other contact options: see bio.

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