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.

Deutsches Technikmuseum @deutschestechnikmuseum@mastodon.social
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Shared by Eugen Rochko

Hi Fediverse! Hallo Mastodon! Wir sind das Deutsche Technikmuseum und !
Auf 28.500 Quadratmetern Ausstellungfläche geht's bei uns um die Frage, wie Technik unser Leben prägt. Von historischen Maschinen bis zu Zukunftsthemen wie Klimawandel, KI oder Verkehrswende. Hier teilen wir Einblicke ins Museum und Geschichten aus unseren Ausstellungen und Sammlungen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch mit euch!

Ein silbernes Flugzeug hängt an einer Metallkonstruktion an einer Gebäudefassade. Darunter befindet sich eine Aussichtsplattform, an der am Geländer der Schriftzug "Deutsches Technikmuseum" und "Einfach für Dich" angebracht ist. Auf der rechten Seite sind grüne Zweige, im Hintergrund blauer Himmel.
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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
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From the earliest days of social media, social media bosses have been at war with sociability. To create a social media service is to demarcate legitimate and illegitimate forms of sociability. It's a monumental act of hubris, really.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/bil

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Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar, perched on a legless nude Ken doll body; its eyes are psychedelic pinwheels. Behind the figure is a group shot of child laborer miners from the 1910s, glitched out, blue tinted, and covered with scan lines. The background is a psychedelic swirl of moody colors. They stand atop a filthy checkerboard floor that stretches off to infinity.
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workers.coop @workers_coop@social.coop
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Shared by Danny Garside

"What if salaries are not solely decided by the market but by the people who do the work and by how much they think they’ll need for a living? What if people could change their roles within a team without the fear of earning less or having less say? Would it enable more collaboration instead of just advancing individual career paths?"

- @doro of @VillageOneCoopVillage One Cooperative toot.village.one/@VillageOneCo

Village One Cooperative (@VillageOneCoop@toot.village.one)

We’re wrapping up our mini-series of member interviews with today’s newsletter. Meet @doro, our design strategist, who is also co-founder of our co-op: https://www.village.one/garden/newsletter/015-member-interview-doro-schwartzmann

toot.village.one · Village One Mastodon Instance

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Vary, el del sombrero, en NeoPaquita 🍉🐀🦩🔻 @VaryIngweion@neopaquita.es
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Shared by Wouter Tebbens ⁂

Leo en el sitio de los IA-Bros:

«La IA es la tecnologia más poderosa de la historia de la humanidad». y añade «más que Internet o la imprenta».

Que no se diga que los IA-bros no son exagerados.

Mientras ese señor dice sus burradas, ahí están, mirándole desde las alturas, tecnologías infinitamente más poderosas que la IA, como son...
* CRISPR
* el GPS
* Internet (por mucho que el paisanin diga que no)
* La esterilización
* Los semiconductores
* La radio
* Los antibioticos
* Las vacunas
* La cloración de agua
* La filtración
* El proceso de Haber
* La lavadora
* El refrigerador
* La corriente alterna
* La imprenta
* La máquina de vapor
* La acuñación de moneda
* La navegación a vela
* El acueducto
* La escritura
* La metalurgia
* El agua corriente
* El tejido
* El calzado
* La cestería
* La alfareria
* El molino
* El jabón
* La rueda
* La agricultura
* La ganaderia
* La cocina
* La industria lítica
* La puñetera domesticación del fuego

¿En serio alguien puede ser tan extraordinariamente ingenuo como para creer de forma sincera que un predictor de texto probabilístico, un loro estocástico que falla más de lo que acierta, una herramienta evidentemente defectuosa cuyo único éxito real depende de la publicidad y cuya aceptación por el público es únicamente dependiente de la intromisión en la vida cotidiana, una herramienta que no soluciona ningún problema real, y que crea nuevos problemas mientras se vende como solución a necesidades que no existen, va a ser más "poderosa" que la agricultura o la industria lítica?

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MarvinFreeman @MarvinFreeman@mastodon.online
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Instead of reciprocal tariffs, Europeans should announce they will no longer honor US patents and copyrights. Or, wouldn't honor US intellectual "property" on its current absurd terms.

Tariffs on US goods would hurt European consumers. Dispensing with copyrights and trademarks from the US wouldn't. If the US retaliated, the balance of pain would still favor the Europeans.

The US billionaires supporting Trump make their money from intellectual property.

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brad sucks @bradsucks@mastodon.social
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Unused “Naturally” seal I made for my very human album last year (full band w/live drums instead of me playing/sequencing everything.) I thought it’d be fun to have something like the certifications on organic food but for art that doesn’t use generative AI

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Journeys In Film @JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social
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Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy by teaching Black History today and all year round. We recommend our collection of classroom-ready lesson plans for teaching with award-winning Black History films across the curriculum. For grades 4-12.

journeysinfilm.org/film/black-

@histodons

Collage of film posters for Hidden Figures, Just Mercy, Queen of Katwe, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, The Tuskeegee Airmen, and Summer of Soul. Additional text says: "Black History is History. Teach with Film. Journeysinfilm.org."
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Nigel Pugh (he/him/they) @nspugh@toot.wales
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Billionaires are pissing all over us, nature, planet & democracy!!

❌ Their wealth grew by 80% since 2020

❌ The 12 richest have more wealth than the poorest half of humanity

❌Elon Musk is the first ever person to have over half a trillion dollars wealth

❌ They're 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than ordinary people

❌ 9 of the world’s top 10 social media companies are run by just six billionaires

oxfam.org/en/research/resistin

Example of democratic erosion:
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May Likes Toronto @mayintoronto@beige.party
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There's a new scam happening where fake 2SLGBTQ+ conferences are spinning up and reaching out to advocacy organizations for endorsements, likely to harvest personal information on individuals who'd apply. If you work with other targeted minority groups, please be careful.

Via Celeste Trianon: (full text posted below)
linkedin.com/posts/celestetria

This was previously a scam in the more intolerant countries, and is now in Canada and likely the US. xtramagazine.com/power/politic

Scam alert! A new conference, "Canvoos Montreal", is soliciting endorsements from queer rights organizations in Montréal. I received the below email from them earlier today, soliciting the… | Celeste Trianon

Scam alert! A new conference, "Canvoos Montreal", is soliciting endorsements from queer rights organizations in Montréal. I received the below email from them earlier today, soliciting the endorsement of the organization I’ve founded, Juritrans. At first glance, this seems interesting. However, their email seemed suspicious (ChatGPT-like phrases, “sales” email, etc.). So I checked. It gets darker. One fact of the Internet is that any website’s domain name (for example, “example.com” is a domain name) must be registered before use. This record — often known as a WHOIS record — allows one to have insights into the website, such as its owner and when it was first registered. Turns out, Canvoos Montreal’s domain name was registered only two days ago. Additionally, its website uses generic drawings pulled from Pride organizations in the United States, and seems to be translated into French entirely using Google Translate: in the context of a website, “home” is translated to «accueil», not «maison»! I couldn’t find any other presence of Canvoos Montreal anywhere on the internet, nor in the Quebec business registrar; no individuals were mentioned on the conference’s website either. This leads me to the obvious conclusion: this is an evolution of the “LGBTI conference scam” that was first documented in the news last year. Fake conferences, in the queer context, are non-existent conferences, designed to dupe LGBTI+ activists from the Global South into paying “registration fees” for a non-existent event. The usual formula is an announced conference, whereas activists from the Global South are invited as delegates or speakers, travel expenses covered, but then are made to pay a registration fee, in an unrefundable manner (e.g. Western Union or wire payment). By the time they apply for a visa to visit Canada, it’s too late, the conference doesn’t exist and they’ve lost out on their money. Whilst this scam has been reported by Xtra Magazine last year (https://lnkd.in/eyJi-bRs), soliciting local queer organizations to endorse such conferences is a new, particularly low way of getting unsuspecting non-profits to participate in such scams. Non-profit organizations should be extremely cautious if ever they’re invited to be involved with a little-known or otherwise unfamiliar conference. As for individuals invited to unfamiliar conferences, if you’re required to pay a registration fee in spite of having travel expenses paid for, that’s a massive red flag. If you have good reasons to doubt something’s legitimacy, be cautious! Dignity Network Canada Open Digital Literacy and Access Network (ODLAN)

www.linkedin.com

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まっく @mac4229@voskey.icalo.net
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「ズボンの隙間から見えるのがポイントだよ！
　結構可愛いの穿いてるでしょ？」
「……ごめんなさい、手が滑ったわ」
「ぴゃあ！つづみちゃん！！」
ゆかきり「「うおでっか」」

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kim_harding ✅ @kim_harding@mastodon.scot
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Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defence policy.

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.

gizmodo.com · Gizmodo

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@treehouse.systems
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there should be a term of art for software (or more generally technology) that you use because it solves some kind of very complex problem that you just can't get solved otherwise, and as a result you become very eager to exuse any and all user-hostile behavior of the technology, no matter how bonkers it is

examples: TeX, Linux, C++, [your favorite ECAD package], [your favorite MCAD package], SystemVerilog, ...

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid@mastodon.social
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Join me this week on the Qasim Rashid Show as I invite two amazing guests to the show. Congresswoman Jayapal returns to discuss the work her and other Democratic leaders are doing to meaningfully counter ICE fascism.

And Dr. Nirav Shah—public health expert and principled progressive—joins from Maine. He's running an inspiring campaign to center the needs of working families.

Listen in now. Become a free or paid subscriber on Ghost for more conversations like this.
lets-address-this-with-qasim-r

Episode 206: Stop ICE and Protect Public Health

An interview with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on stopping ICE and Maine Gubernatorial Candidate Nirav Shah on protecting our public health On Episode 206 of The Qasim Rashid Show: I invite two amazing guests to the show. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal returns to discuss the work her and other Democratic leaders are

lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io · Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid

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