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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.

earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Jupiter from the Webb Space Telescope

This infrared view of Jupiter by Webb is illuminating. High-resolution infrared images of Jupiter from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) reveal, for example, differences between high-floating bright clouds -- including the Great Red Spot -- and low-lying dark clouds. Also clearly visible in the featured Webb image are Jupiter's dust ring, bright auroras at the poles, and Jupiter's moons Amalthea and Adrastea.




The footprint of large volcanic moon Io's magnetic funneling of charged particles onto Jupiter is also visible in the southern aurora. Some objects are so bright that light noticeably diffracts around Webb's optics creating streaks. Webb, which orbits the Sun near the Earth, has a mirror over six meters across making it the largest astronomical telescope ever launched -- with over six times more light-collecting area than Hubble. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; Processing: Ricardo Hueso (UPV/EHU) & Judy Schmidt
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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What is the SDF?

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is a Kurdish-led, multiethnic alliance of armed groups that was formed in 2015 during Syria’s civil war. While it includes Arab, Assyrian and other local factions, its backbone is the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which played a central role in the fight against ISIL (ISIS).
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雪椿 @fictitious@g0v.social
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美國的憲法第四及第五修正案就是為了保障所有人的隱私權──即使他／她犯了極度令人髮指的罪行。

不過，我們今天對隱私權已經有不同的想法了：我們很樂意在社群媒體上分享內心的祕密、信念、希望和情緒，給任何一個認識的人，甚至常常是陌生人。

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雪椿 @fictitious@g0v.social
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有百分之四十五的保守派共和黨人士認為最高法院傾向自由主義，只有百分之九認為它很保守；而傾向自由主義的民主黨人則正好相反：百分之四十八認為最高法院偏向保守，只有百分之十五認為它走向自由主義。

很顯然的，這些數字應該足夠讓我們思索。其實我們對於司法公平性的評斷，並不是根據事實。

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Iris @iris_meredith@mastodon.social
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So, it turns out that 2025 (and the last two years) fucked me up badly enough that I have Helicobacter Pylori-related gastritis. Now I have to do two weeks on the really strong antibiotics.

Good to at least have an answer, though

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妮可 @niconicotenshi@g0v.social
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我有時候覺得政治上的事情好難在你只同意一部分的時候做出選擇，有時候有的人作為個體可能有很多樣化的想法，但因為你選了某個人上台，就得替那個政治人物做出的每一個決定背書，有時候更誇張的是你作為一個區域的選民就算選了其他人，但不是你選的那個人上任你也得承受後續的所有結果。這種時候就會好想說我想真正認識一個人、認識他多樣的想法，但政治現實就是很殘酷。

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Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ @xgranade@wandering.shop
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Are you feeling brave today? Do you have a working Python install that you like, but not so much that you aren't too worried about fucking it up? Want to run an untrusted wheel from a random HTTPS link?

[edit: Thank you all! I think I've got a bead on some issues that I need to go fix, but this is a lot of progress, thank you so much!]

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초무 @chomu.dev@bsky.brid.gy
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일본에 곰이 많은 이유 임진왜란/일제강점기 때 끌려간 한국인들이 한국에서만큼 마늘을 섭취하지 못하다 다시 곰으로 돌아가서 그럼 너희들도 곰으로 돌아가지 않게 조심해

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7fbikvxjgwiomstwwnd2gp42/post/3mcq32i5qfs2t

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초무 @chomu.dev@bsky.brid.gy
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일본에 곰이 많은 이유 임진왜란/일제강점기 때 끌려간 한국인들이 한국에서만큼 마늘을 섭취하지 못하다 다시 곰으로 돌아가서 그럼 너희들도 곰으로 돌아가지 않게 조심해

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7fbikvxjgwiomstwwnd2gp42/post/3mcq32i5qfs2t

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: shared the below article:

Expanding collections on delivery

julian @julian@activitypub.space

<p><a href="https://mitra.social/users/silverpill">@<bdi>silverpill@mitra.social</bdi></a> (and others) reference this line from the spec re: delivery:</p> <blockquote> <p>If a recipient is a Collection or OrderedCollection, then the server MUST dereference the collection (with the user's credentials) and discover inboxes for each item in the collection.</p> </blockquote> <p>— <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#delivery" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#delivery</a></p> <p>Was there a specific use case/story that corresponded with this directive?</p> <p>The only commonly addressed collection I can think of is a followers collection, and:</p> <ol></ol>

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A Stone in the River @astoneintheriver.net@astoneintheriver.net
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Foul and Fowl

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ICE continues to terrorize the Twin Cities, particularly Minneapolis. You have probably seen video and heard stories. Another person was shot this last week. DHS is saying he attacked them and then tried to run away so they shot him in the leg. Video and witness evidence is now coming out that reveals the situation may have been completely different—surprise! Don’t believe any story coming from the federal government regarding what is happening here. 

ICE is operating outside the law. They detain U.S. Citizens. ICE detained a 17-year-old kid working his shift at my neighborhood Target. He is a U.S. citizen and had his passport in his pocket, but ICE refused to verify this until 8 miles later when they then dumped him out of their SUV in a Walmart parking lot.

Then there is Garrison Gibson, a legal Liberian immigrant. ICE unlawfully busted down his front door with a battering ram after he refused to leave the house or open the door because ICE did not have a signed judicial warrant. Gibson was home with his wife, daughter and niece.

There are confirmed reports of ICE blocking in the cars of observers and then charging them with obstruction. ICE is also going to protesters’ houses trying to intimidate them and making threats. Then they are using tear gas on peaceful protesters and others who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. One family’s car was tear gassed and their 6-month-old baby who was in the car stopped breathing and had to be rushed to the hospital. Now they have to pay hospital bills and make extensive repairs to their car. A Judge ruled Friday that ICE is not allowed to use tear gas on peaceful protesters. Not sure that will even mean anything.

Meanwhile Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General, has issued an alert regarding DHS digital surveillance and how to protect your privacy. The state, Minneapolis, and St Paul are suing the Federal government citing constitutional violations of the first and tenth amendments. And the Department of Justice has launched investigations of Governor Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on the grounds that they are impeding operations of the federal government. However, Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good, is not being investigated or charged with anything by the federal government.

But Minnesotans will not be silenced. If anything there are more and more people out on the streets and providing mutual aid. Monday night James and I did a virtual ICE Watch training from States at the Core via Defend612. There were 1,700 people on the call. They continue to offer trainings every few days. They made it a point to say that what is happening has nothing to do with immigration. Immigration is the excuse the Trump administration is using to intimidate and militarize cities in order to consolidate authoritarian power. I have not gone out on neighborhood patrol–it’s a bit challenging to do by bicycle in winter–but I carry a whistle with me whenever I leave the house and keep a lookout for ICE so I can make reports to my rapid response group.

People here are standing up against heavily armed and sometimes poorly trained agents. They are fighting back with video documentation, whistles, car horns, peaceful protest that includes marching in the streets singing, and ok, sometimes throwing snowballs. People are also pouring water on streets and sidewalks where ICE is gathering making some real ice. There are lots of videos and photos going around of ICE agents slipping and falling.

We are now getting an arctic blast, it is that time of the year here. Temperatures are going sub-zero F / -17C. I saw someone report today that they were at Duluth Trading Company behind a couple men who were spending $5,000 on cold weather gear.

Apparently, defense tactics are working because The New Republic is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security is having trouble finding agents willing to come to Minneapolis. There are currently 3,000 agents in the state, mainly centered in the Twin Cities. Now Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act. There are 1,500 active-duty military troops on standby in Alaska ready to invade my state. It is a great irony that the President is interested in protecting protesters in Iran while suppressing protests in his own country.

I have a friend who is Vietnamese and a U.S. citizen who is worried she will be stopped by ICE. I have another friend who is a citizen and immigrant from Brazil who is also terrified.

If you are wondering what you can do to support Minnesota, advocate with your electeds to stop funding ICE and to stand up against the Trump administration. If you are looking to make a monetary donation to help support the immigrant community here, some good groups are Isaiah, Neighborhood House, Minnesota Immigrant Rights Committee, and ACLU Minnesota. Stand With Minnesota has additional lists of places who are supporting people with rental assistance, food, diapers, and other supplies.

As if all that isn’t enough, Jake Lang, white supremacist and pardoned January 6th insurrectionist, came to Minneapolis yesterday and held a rally downtown outside city hall. There were more counterprotestors than there were people at the rally. He was sprayed with silly string, but things got a bit out of control when people began pelting him with snowballs and water balloons. Lang is now claiming on social media that he was “lynched” and stabbed. He did not go to any hospital afterwards and photos show him leaving the rally with scrapes and bruises but no apparent stab wounds.

Fowl

I think I have mentioned here a few months ago after Mrs. Dashwood, the last of the original Dashwood chicken flock, died, that James and I had decided we are not going to welcome any additional chickens to our dwindling—now 2 chickens—flock. I’ve been feeling a little sad about that because I enjoy sharing my life with chickens, but we decided since we don’t keep them for their eggs, the growing expense of taking care of them just wasn’t worth it.

Then two weeks ago I got an email from Eggplant, the place we bought the Dashwoods and the Nuggets, letting me know that chick orders are now open. I clicked, just to look at the pictures. Honest! But gosh darn, if those birds aren’t adorable and beautiful. I started thinking maybe…and floated the idea to James.

He frowned but said he would think about it.

A week later I checked in with him on his thoughts and he said he was fine with it but not all that interested. I said we both had to actually want them. He said he’d think about it some more.

Early in the week I checked in again and he said he was a go! Friday I placed our order for two chicks, a speckled Sussex (James’s choice) and a pearl onyx (my choice). They will be The Witches. James has already named the Sussex Nanny Ogg after one of the witches in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books. I have named the pearl onyx Baba Yaga who lives in a chicken-legged hut. We will be welcoming the baby chicks on April 3rd.

It’s nice to have something good to look forward to.

I’m behind on comments and blog visiting—been kind of distracted! But I am endeavoring to catch up over the next days.

Enjoy this Woody Guthrie song to send you on your way: All You Fascists Bound to Lose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcKwGS7OSQ

ICE grabs the wrong man and leaves him stranded in a Walmart parking lot like nothing ever happened

Jonathan Garcia was just a teenager trying to work his shift at Target.

wegotthiscovered.com · We Got This Covered

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Atsushi Tadokoro @tadokoroatsushi@threads.net
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Threadsの1日あたりのモバイルユーザーの使用量が、ついにXを越えたとのこと。もうXはいろいろオワコンですね…

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-daily-mobile-users-new-data-shows/

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunch

Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies

techcrunch.com · TechCrunch

Link author: Sarah Perez 💙@Sarahp@mastodon.social

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