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.

Avi Lewis @avilewis@mstdn.ca
Public
Shared by Em :official_verified:

Organizing works! This is a win for public pressure, and a message about the moral clarity Canadians want from politics right now.

Now we need legislation to ban all Canadian companies from contracting with ICE or otherwise supporting Trump's kidnapping and deportation machine. And Parliament must pass Jenny Kwan's bill to close the U.S. arms export loophole – so that no Canadian armoured vehicles, weapons, or equipment end up in the hands of ICE to brutalize people.

ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/b

Businessman and philanthropist Jim Pattison poses for photographs during a Canada's Walk of Fame ceremony honouring him, in Vancouver, on Friday February 15, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Company owned by B.C. billionaire says ICE warehouse sale ‘will not be proceeding’

A company owned by British Columbia billionaire Jimmy Pattison says it will not be selling a Virginia warehouse to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which planned to use the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

www.ctvnews.ca · CTVNews

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
Digital Preservation Soton @digitalpreservationsouthampton@digipres.club
Public
Shared by Misty

📢 Sign up for our upcoming "Get to Know Us" webinar!

Are you looking to connect with the Digital Preservation Southampton team in a low-pressure environment? Have you been curious about our training and would like a bite-sized taster of one of our courses? Is there a digital preservation question that has been bugging your mind and that you would like our team to discuss?

Then our "Get to Know Us" event is for you!

📅 February 12, 2026
16:00-16:50 GMT

🔗 Sign up lnkd.in/ecue8iKF

Poster announcing our Get to Know Us webinar
0
0
0
4
0
0
Foone🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
Public

computers:
I plugged in a new thunderbolt dock last week, and it turns out that this broke my laptop's internal camera. I only found this out 5 minutes before a telehealth appointment

post appointment, I rebooted, which of course fixed the camera, but broke my mouse

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
Public

A judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics

Link: theintercept.com/2026/01/30/wa
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now

The search warrant to raid a Washington Post reporter’s home shows how authorities can open your phone without your consent.

theintercept.com · The Intercept

0
0
0
FediFollows @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services
Public

Just a special shoutout to an account that isn't what it seems.

You might see a name like "Corel Gallery Clipart" and browse its timeline and assume it's some bot posting old stock images. But then you read the alt texts and discover something else:

➡️ @clipartCorel Gallery Clipart

For example try reading the description on this one:

➡️ mastodon.art/@clipart/11598589

(If the account looks blank to you, it means no one on your server is following it yet. Follow it and its posts will start gradually appearing.)

Gabriel is at work. He’s talking on the phone. In one hand is the book “How to Be Rich.” In the other hand is a stack of papers. Presumably there is a connection between the phone, the book, and the stack of papers. But poor hapless Gabriel is at a loss for making that connection. He simply found himself here, as if at the whim of forces beyond his control. Gabriel doesn’t need to look up to know that shimmering above his head will be a random word followed by three digits. It’s always there when he suddenly appears in these inexplicable situations. “How to Be Rich?” God no, why would he read that? He’s not rich and doesn’t want to be. Gabriel just wants to be left alone. Why can’t you just leave him alone?

Corel Gallery Clipart (@clipart@mastodon.art)

Attached: 1 image READ147.BMF

mastodon.art · Mastodon.ART

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
IEEE Spectrum @ieeespectrum@mastodon.social
Public

Researchers who use tools in their science publish more papers and advance more quickly in their careers, but AI-heavy research clusters around the same data-rich problems, narrowing the scope of science as a whole. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-r

Are Scientists Sacrificing Originality for Speed With the Use of AI?

New analysis suggests AI tools narrow the range of ideas explored

spectrum.ieee.org · IEEE Spectrum

Link author: IEEE Spectrum@ieeespectrum@mastodon.social

0
0
0
0
0
0
Avi Lewis @avilewis@mstdn.ca
Public

Organizing works! This is a win for public pressure, and a message about the moral clarity Canadians want from politics right now.

Now we need legislation to ban all Canadian companies from contracting with ICE or otherwise supporting Trump's kidnapping and deportation machine. And Parliament must pass Jenny Kwan's bill to close the U.S. arms export loophole – so that no Canadian armoured vehicles, weapons, or equipment end up in the hands of ICE to brutalize people.

ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/b

Businessman and philanthropist Jim Pattison poses for photographs during a Canada's Walk of Fame ceremony honouring him, in Vancouver, on Friday February 15, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Company owned by B.C. billionaire says ICE warehouse sale ‘will not be proceeding’

A company owned by British Columbia billionaire Jimmy Pattison says it will not be selling a Virginia warehouse to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which planned to use the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

www.ctvnews.ca · CTVNews

0
0
0
0
0
0
Masanori Ogino 𓀁 @omasanori@mstdn.maud.io
Quiet public
Shared by tenjuu99(天重誠二)

私が興味を持っている課題のひとつに「俳句を詠むコンピューター」がある。もちろん、今日のコンピューターでも古典的なマルコフ連鎖なりLLMなりで俳句に分類できる文字列を作ることはできる（し、そういうコンセプトのシステムを作った人も実際にいる）。しかし、一定のルールに沿った文字列を確率分布に沿って生成することと、そこにある（またはそこにはない）情景を汲んで俳句を詠むことは異なると私は考えている。

今、「LLMの次」として世界モデル（センサー情報を元に周囲の環境・世界を学習した機械学習モデル）やフィジカルAI（機械学習をロボットや工場などの実世界のモノと相互作用するシステムに適用することを指すバズワード、と理解している）を標榜する企業が多数出ているが、これらの内、特に世界モデルは俳句を詠むコンピューターに迫る上で何らかの貢献をするかもしれないと期待している。

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
2
0
0
1
0
0
Molly White @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
Public

I’ve launched a Citation Needed membership drive to celebrate publishing my 100th recap issue!

Citation Needed critically covers cryptocurrency, the crypto industry, and its influence on policy. Paid subscriptions support much more than just the newsletter — here’s what goes into this work:

citationneeded.news/membership

Citation Needed membership drive

Celebrating 100 recap issues and sustaining critical independent coverage.

www.citationneeded.news · Citation Needed

Link author: Molly White@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

0
0
1
0
0
0
0
2
0
Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social
Public

Today's work achievement: survived a Teams meeting. With video, even. Chat was still mostly simpler than actually talking.

(It was a small enough meeting for video. There may be more in my future, but on the other hand it's better than in-person meetings.)

0
0
0
david celis @davidcelis@xoxo.zone
Public

well i guess it’s a good thing i bought that nuphy keyboard, because my current one is still dying even after uninstalling Karabiner… but differently lol. instead of going completely dark, its lighting effects remain active (and responsive—i use tap effects) but no key presses get registered!

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0