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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Illustration from "The living world: a complete natural history of the world's creatures" by J.W. Buel was first published in 1891 (I just scored a copy!)

I'm obsessed with these deep sea creatures that are based on rumors heresy and globsters from fishing nets:

I also have some choice words about the inaccuracy of the section on ants.

A colorful, cluttered Victorian illustration of "wonderful fishes of the sea" there are angler fish, eels, sharks, and a diver in an old style suit. Many of the creatures are bizarre and unreal looking.
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RE: social.vivaldi.net/@sesivany/1

Oooooooh.

It just hit me.

Wikipedia was born in the US. That's why there is the Wikimedia Foundation which controls the project, keeps everything inside its infrastructure, and is the single point of contact for the project.

OpenStreetMap was born in Europe. By the words of Jiří, our DNA is different: we provide the data and do the absolute minimum, allowing hundreds of companies flourish on our data. E.g. there are no official routers or search engines.

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It is so nice to have it clearly light and pre-sunset outside at shortly after 5pm. A++ would recommend, even with the snow. (It's better than dark at 5pm with snow, which was our option earlier in the year.)

On checking, I see it's been this way since the 10th, I just didn't notice before now. Perhaps because it was only barely past 5pm until less than a week ago.

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You wouldn't use a navigation app that deliberately took you to the wrong address or a calculator that gave you the wrong answer - so why do we accept similar behavior from our social media feeds?

We follow our friends, family, local businesses, and the creators we are interested in to see when they post something new, but so often their posts are not shown to us and other content is inserted into our feeds instead.

frequency.leaflet.pub/3md26xqn

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@wsvincentWill Vincent Hi Will, big fan of your reading list, inspired me years ago to read more and start one myself!

I just saw that you read a staggering 22 books already this year and if you had the time, I'd love to know more about how you manage to cram that amount of reading into your day-to-day, how long you take for a book (very focused reading evidenced by e.g. your notes in "Everything and More") and how you choose the next one.

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SHOW US YOUR SCREENS
Live Hack Night
Tuesday, January 27th, 19-22h

@offline
offline.place

There will be an open projector and speakers for anyone who wants to share their screens with a ≤10 minute performance, demo, presentation, etc.

Please prepare your presentations offline. There is no internet connection at offline – even cell reception is unreliable.

+++ More info, address & sign-ups: pads.offline.place/p/show-us-y

Poster by andricspaeth.com/

:boost_ok:

SHOW US YOUR SCREENS
Live Hack Night
Tuesday, January 27th, 19-22h
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note that i'm not even claiming that these differences result in differences of quality. it's not "gcc is worse but that's actually better", it's "there's differences in process choices that result in different outcomes while still being of the same quality"

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