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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Hi larger community. I joined from the forkiverse thing and I'm seeing some posts critical of the new influx of participants. Perhaps you're worried we don't really get you or value the community so I wanted to give a little background you may not know. Before this “experiment” episode there was a much older episode that started things.

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> An understanding of READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() is important for kernel developers who will be dealing with any sort of concurrent access to data. So, naturally, they are almost entirely absent from the kernel's documentation.

XD

lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1053142

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Age verification is spreading like cancer.

First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting VPNs and app stores behind 🇬🇧🇦🇺

What’s sold as “online safety” means via IDs checks or face scans.

Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.

We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!

👉 More: tuta.com/blog/age-verification


First they came for Adult sites
And I did not speak out
Because I was not interested in Adult sites
Then they came for Social Media
And I did not speak out
Because I was not interested in Social Media
Then they came for the VPNs
And I did not speak out
Because I was not interested in VPNs
Then they came for chat apps
And I did not speak out
Because I was not  interested in chat apps
Then they locked the whole web behind ID verification
And there was no one left
To speak up against this
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6yo: mum what’s cancer?
Me: hooboy okay, well… *goes into simple but plentiful detail about cell growth and such which he listens very patiently to*
6yo: oh okay. Thanks! *goes to play with his little brother*

Not entirely sure what brought that on… but I also don’t want to ask!

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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.

This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.

justthebrowser.com

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Have you seen what entered the public domain this year? The Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law has a great list, which includes these books among many others:

Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage (the first novel featuring Miss Marple)
Carolyn Keene (pseudonym for Mildred Benson), the first four Nancy Drew books, beginning with The Secret of the Old Clock
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison

Nancy Drew! Dorothy Sayers! Agatha Christie! All books I’ve read, often many years ago.

But the one that most grabbed my attention was one I’ve not seen mentioned on other reporting: Elson Basic Readers (the first appearances of Dick and Jane). I grew up with Dick and Jane, although not this edition.

I paged through and saw that, yes indeed, the dog Spot was there, too. But there’s also a cat named Little Mew, which I don’t remember seeing in any of the books I read.

List: web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdo
Book with Dick and Jane: archive.org/details/elsonbasic

A page from an Elson Basic Reader from 1930 which shows a girl running toward the steps of a building. Under the drawing it says:
Jane 
See Jane.
See Jane run.
Run, Jane, run!
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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.

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