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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📆 Open till January 26!

The EU will get an online database that allows anyone, especially researchers/journalists, to learn about online political advertising.

The archive will collect political ads to create transparency around their source and funding.

Technical specifications are currently being developed.

Public feedback on that is welcome until January 26: ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r

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📆 Open till January 26!

The EU will get an online database that allows anyone, especially researchers/journalists, to learn about online political advertising.

The archive will collect political ads to create transparency around their source and funding.

Technical specifications are currently being developed.

Public feedback on that is welcome until January 26: ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r

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The next session of Club is scheduled on this Saturday 17th January at 2:30 PM IST. Join us this time for a tech and design focused session. We'll co-work on our personal websites, try new designs, squash bugs, or just do some long-neglected digital housekeeping.

If you don't have any programming experience, don't worry! We'll help you with any technical questions you might have about building your personal website, blog, or participating on the IndieWeb. If possible, we'll pair you up with a buddy who can help you out with the technical and design side of web development.

Bring:
1. Your laptop (+ charger)
2. Ideas for new features/designs you want to add to your website (or just a list of enhancements you want to make)
3. If you're new to programming, come with questions so we can find you answers!

As usual, we will end the meetup with a writing prompt and a focused writing session. Register to confirm your attendance at blr.indiewebclub.org.

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TIL the way piano keys are laid out is not well documented on the internet, and not even standardized!

This site explains the problem... but neither of the solutions it proposes are what actually happens as far as I can tell.

datagenetics.com/blog/may32016

On both my KORG and my Yamaha keyboards, the key giveaway is that C# and D# are significantly further apart than F# and G# (and G# and A#). You can easily feel this if you slide your finger on top of D and G/A.

I don't have a good way to measure exactly, but just looking closely at my keyboards, I think what actually happens is roughly:

  • F through B are laid out as in "Scenario #1" on that site.
  • Then, KORG and Yamaha do two things:
    • Yamaha has C=F and E=B, and places C# and D# at the same relative positions to C and E as F# and A# are to F and B, which leaves D an oddball white key: its "stem" is much wider than that of the other white keys. Also maybe F is a bit weird?
    • KORG cheats more: They split the difference between the CDE stems (which are slightly wider) and the gaps around C# and D# (which are now positioned slightly closer together than Yamaha's, but still further apart than F# and G#).
  • For both designs, I believe the underlying mechanism/sensors are evenly spaced across the octave, and the mismatch (most prominent at the boundary between E and F) is just handwaved away (sensors are not on the centerline of keys).

I wonder if this correct, and what other solutions are out there in the wild?

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知人 = 지인 , 그냥 아는 사람
友達, 友人 = 친구, 友人 이 조금 더 격식차린 느낌.
親友 = 인생의 친구.
仲間 = 친구 무리의 범주에 든 사람.
友達에도 개인 연락처 공유와 거리감에 따라 다양한 층위가 있으니 주의하십시요.
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any suggestions for a Unix GUI (preferably KDE or at least Qt) Mastodon client? i'm trying Tokodon at the moment, it seems to work fine, but the UI is fairly basic... it doesn't seem to support multi-column ("advanced") view.

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