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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.

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Agency of Fear by Edward Jay Epstein, 2018

President Bush has made the war against drugs the number one issue on the contemporary American political agenda. In this revised edition of his classic book, available for the first time in paperback, Edward Jay Epstein argues that the president has adopted the strategy of his forebear, Richard Nixon, in using the drugs war to blame foreigners for the crisis in America’s cities, and to provide a smokescreen




 for unrelated political activity designed to bolster executive power. 

The drugs crackdown has seen an almost hundredfold increase in the federal budget for narco-politics in the fifteen years since Agency of Fear was first published, while statistics on drug-running have been massaged. Epstein points out that, despite the massive budgets and public relations brouhaha, drug importation, as measured against wholesale price, has in fact grown.
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Lol, even the open source LLM projects are banning vibe coded contributions: github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/

They had previously had a policy of "all AI assisted contributions need to be human reviewed before submitting them", but got too many people breaking that rule and submitting fully vibe coded contributions, and even trying to use their chatbots to answer questions about the PRs, so are now actively using the AGENTS.md file to instruct the chatbots to not write code for them and warn them about the policy.

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The Manipulated Mind by Denise Winn, 1983

Brainwashing, Conditioning & Indoctrination

By breaking down so-called brainwashing to its individual elements, this book shows how social conditioning, need for approval, emotional dependency and much else that we are unaware of, prevent us from being as self-directed as we think; and, conversely, which human traits make us the least susceptible to subtle influence.





Ever since American prisoners of war in Korea suddenly switched sides to the Communist cause, the concept of brainwashing has continued to fascinate and confuse. Is it really possible to force any thinking person to act in a way completely alien to his character? What makes so-called brainwashing so different from the equally insidious effects of indoctrination and conditioning, or even advertising and education? Research findings from psychology show that brain-washing is not a special subversive technique; it is the clever manipulation of unrealized influences that operate in all our lives.
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[8年1.25兆軍購特別條例 藍白再度聯手封殺⸺中央社](cna.com.tw/news/aipl/202601230)

"立法院會今天經表決確認議事日程,藍白再度動用人數優勢,在立法院會中否決民進黨團提議的議事日程草案報告事項及質詢事項,再度封殺8年新台幣1.25兆元軍購特別條例草案付委審查。

為強化自我防衛能力,行政院會去年11月27日通過預算規模8年1.25兆元「強化防衛韌性及不對稱戰力計畫採購特別條例」草案送立院審議,藍白在12月2日程序委員會首度封殺,無法排入院會報告事項議程後,藍白以要求軍人加薪編入總預算為由,多次封殺該案排入院會議程。"

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Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Long, long ago. There was a time when the Cherokee were without the tobacco, not the plant of today, that has been corrupted and abused by the whites and causes sickness, but the original tobacco, that was a great medicine. The people learned of it by a wandering stranger from the far east. It was decided

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are be gay, do crime and pronounced deedawlakey guhnagalasee naduhgah askahnuhjuh
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Gavin Newsom has warned US allies that Donald Trump is a "T-Rex" and world leaders should "stand united" and stop "rolling over" to the president's demands.

"He's a T-Rex. You mate with him or he devours you, one or the other. The Europeans could be (devoured) if they continue down this path and process."

abc.net.au/news/2026-01-21/new


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Meet the Caribbean reef octopus (Octopus briareus) This reef-inhabiting cephalopod lives in warm shallow waters, spanning southern Florida to the Caribbean, through to South America’s northern coast. It’s distinguished by its eye-catching blue coloring, but this master of disguise can change its looks in an instant.

Photo: Christian Long, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

via amnhnyc


Image Description
A photo of a Caribbean reef octopus on the seafloor. It is a vibrant blue color, and seems to be using its tentacles to walk across the sandy terrain.

Like other octopuses, it uses pigmented cells in its skin, called chromatophores, to alter its appearance. When confronted by a foe, such as a shark, it may emit a cloud of unpleasant-tasting ink to deter its enemy from further pursuit.
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BC-250 으로 게임을 하면 간혹 설정한 V램보다 사용량이 오버되는 경우가 있다. 한 8기가 쯤 넘어가면 사망의 골자기로 향하는데, 7.5기가 까지는 그럭저럭 버틴다. 경우의 수가 다양하겠지만 몇가지 추측해보면 다음과 같다. 1. 통합16기가 램인 만큼 V램 할당분 6기가가 넘어갔을 때, 메모리 할당분인 10기가에 가용 가능한 용량이 있으면 이 부분을 스왑해서 끌고 온다.(정적 할당이라고 하더라도) 2. 그게 아니라면 Z램(가상메모리) 스왑을 통해 부족분을 채운다 3. 둘 다 한다.

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開源正面臨新時代的挑戰

AI 技術的爆發與大型科技公司的策略轉變,正在動搖開源生態系的運作。

1. 多位影音處理軟體 FFmpeg 的開發者們認為 Google 利用強大的自動化 AI 工具掃描並回報了大量的程式漏洞,並要求期限內修復。這種不對等的資源投入,導致志願者被機器生成的錯誤報告淹沒。FFmpeg 要求 Google 應提供資金維護,否則將停止接收這些讓維護團隊過勞的 Bug 報告。

2. 熱門 CSS 框架 Tailwind CSS 正經歷流量暴跌與大規模裁員。主因是 Google 搜尋引擎的 AI 摘要功能和 AI 撰寫的程式碼,直接代替開發者寫好了 code,Tailwind CSS 喪傷了大量的流量和轉化付費購買的機會。

3. CC 授權釋出知識內容的程式問答網站 Stack Overflow,面臨了內容與社群的雙重危機。隨著開發者轉向 AI 工具提問導致網站流量下滑,Stack Overflow 將網站累積的資料轉賣給 AI 公司作為訓練教材,引發了使用者的強烈反彈。

4. 繪圖工具 tldraw 的創辦人 Steve Ruiz 因為收到大量由 AI 生成的程式碼貢獻(Pull Requests)。這些程式碼外觀格式完美,內容卻往往是無意義的、錯誤的,甚至是針對不存在問題的修復。維護者必須耗費大量心力去辨識這些「偽裝成人類貢獻」的機器垃圾。為了避免被這些無意義的貢獻淹沒,Steve Ruiz 提出不得不「關閉外部貢獻」的想法,讓開源專案被迫築起高牆,拒絕陌生人的參與。

目前的 AI 發展模式正在單向消耗開源生態的資源,無論是維護者的時間(FFmpeg)、專案的營收(Tailwind)、社群的知識(Stack Overflow),還是協作的互信(tldraw),都正遭受前所未有的衝擊。

你有不同的想法嗎?歡迎留言告訴我們!

FFmpeg: thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-googl

Tailwind CSS: devclass.com/2026/01/08/tailwi

Stack Overflow: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/sta

Tldraw: tldraw.dev/blog/stay-away-from

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News about Friday’s march / rally / general strike in Minneapolis is coming at me from every direction. Temperature right now is -18F / -28C and this thing is still going to be massive. People here are ready to punch a hole through the fabric of the space-time continuum if they have to. Going to be bed. Tomorrow’s going to be a hell of a day.

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水道管がもし凍結しちゃったら

* IHみたいなノリで水道管に電気を流して発熱させて溶かす
* 配管をぶった切って激熱蒸気を流し込んで溶かす

みたいなパワー
💪解凍が行われる

【水道凍結】水道凍結の解氷作業について! - 札幌のリフォーム・漏水修繕は株式会社住設
www.reform-jyusetu.com/2021/01/08/%E6%B0%B4%E9%81%93%E5%87%8D%E7%B5%90-%E6%B0%B4%E9%81%93%E5%87%8D%E7%B5%90%E3%81%AE%E8%A7%A3%E6%B0%B7%E4%BD%9C%E6%A5%AD%E3%81%AB%E3%81%A4%E3%81%84%E3%81%A6/

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[해피빈 모금함 후원 안내] 3.8 세계여성의날✨ 민우회와 함께해주세요!📢 페미니스트는 언제나 누구도 차별받거나 배제되지 않는 세상을 원한다고 이야기해왔습니다. 세계여성의날을 맞아 민우회는 거리에서 페미니스트들과 함께 읽고, 배우고, 외치는 다양한 활동을 진행할 예정입니다. '리딩페미클럽(가)'이라는 이름으로 페미니스트들과 광장에 모여 함께 책도 읽으며 혐오와 차별없는 세상을 요구할 거예요! 성평등한 세상을 만들기 위한 변화의 한걸음이 지속될 수 있도록! 민우회 후원으로 함께해주세요! 모금함 바로가기🔍 actnow.do/Lcxf

벽면에 붙은 큰 종이에 '해피빈 모금함 후원', '3.8 세계여성의날 민우회와 함께해주세요!' 글씨가 보라색, 무지개색으로 쓰여있다. 말풍선에는 '차별금지법 제정', '비동의강간죄 개정', '신자유주의에 맞서 기꺼이 불편해지기'라고 쓰여있다. 하단에는 '모금기간 2026.1.16.~3.31, 참여방법 해피빈에서 '민우회' 검색하여 후원하기'라고 쓰여있다.
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@BlackAzizAnansiBlack Aziz Anansi :vm: @MabandeL'égrégore André ꕭꕬ

I’m hearing that Sullivan staff did report this, but they themselves were passing along info staff they heard and don’t have a confirmed source.

My neighborhood chat’s consensus seems to be to consider it unconfirmed but still possible, and a reminder to use caution regardless.

So…don’t know whether it’s true, but we have to act as if it is. Fucking dark is right.

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