What is Hackers' Pub?

#Minneapolis, #US
Protesters stage a march calling for an end to taxpayer spending on ICE and a moratorium on evictions.

Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images

#photography
#protest
#ICE

I went on a half-day journey of discovery through QubesOS, LVM, and device-mapper, so that I could get my laptop working again after it rebooted randomly at a very inopportune moment.

Frustrating and scary (this is my main work machine), but I also did learn a bunch.

For example, that LVM is basically an interface over device-mapper, and when something gets fscked in a weird way, you can use dmsetup directly to un-fsck it.

#Linux #QubesOS

A note from our editors:

gonna stream more old PC magazines today, but this time I have matching magazine issues and their discs!

starting at about 3pm Pacific / https://internet-ti.me/@000 / ~1h after this post, at https://twitch.tv/ticky_d - come say hi!

I feel thankful to have been given the opportunity to try again

성폭력 알렸다가 쫓겨났다…가해자보다 힘들었던 지혜복 선생님의 3년 [점선면] www.khan.co.kr/article/2026... "문제는 지혜복씨가 공익신고자로 인정받기까지 2년이 넘는 기간 차디찬 거리에서 목소리를 내야 했다는 점입니다. 지씨는 지난해 3월 경향신문 인터뷰에서 말벌 동지들이 자신의 학생 시절 피해 경험을 털어놓으며 한 “꼭 이겨달라”라는 말을 곱씹었습니다. 성폭력 피해 학생들을 떠올리며 “포기할 수 없다”고 생각했고요. 시민사회의 연대와 지지가 없었다면 불가능한 일이었을지 모릅니다."

[점선면]성폭력 알렸다가 쫓겨났다…가해자보다 힘들었던 ...

My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml https://lobste.rs/s/uveyjh #ml #performance
https://anil.recoil.org/notes/oxcaml-httpz

Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems

Link: https://cedardb.com/blog/string_compression/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826011

Apple's Q4 2025 margin on Services was 76.5%

Link: https://asymco.com/2026/02/01/margin-call-3/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849588

illustration (1984) https://archive.org/details/ascii-august-1984/ASCII_August_1984/page/360/mode/2up

Because a LOT of people are missing the point:

No, Elon Musk is NOT serious about putting a million data centres into orbit. It can't work: laws of physics say "nope".

But SpaceX is expected to go public this year.

Elon is talking up his company's future prospects in front of gullible investors because he needs a growth narrative beyond Starlink, which is already priced in. Something to justify the Starship proram beyond NASA's lunar ambitions.

So it's salesman's bullshit, lies for fools.

えーあいはどうでもいいけどしまねっこかわいい（プレビューに出るといいな）

まつもとゆきひろが危惧する、ジュニア不要論の先に広がるIT業界「焼け野原」：「コードを書かない」未来、エンジニアは何者になるのか（1/2 ページ） - ＠IT
https://atmarkit.itmedia.co.jp/ait/articles/2601/26/news002.html

South Korea has enacted a comprehensive national law called the AI Basic Act to build public trust in AI technology. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/02/01/world/koreas-ai-revolution/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #southkorea #ai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #deepseek

my dad says the difference between a violin and a fiddle is you can pour beer on a fiddle, so i figure a good strings synth should have a knob labeled "beer"

South Korea has enacted a comprehensive national law called the AI Basic Act to build public trust in AI technology. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/02/01/world/koreas-ai-revolution/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #southkorea #ai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #deepseek

起床のさわがに おはさわがに​​

"But Wikipedia cannot survive by refusing to change. Ostrom’s Nobel prize-winning research reminds us that the communities that govern shared resources often grow conservative over time.

"For anyone who cares about the future of reliable information online, Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary is not just a celebration. It is an urgent warning about what happens when the institutions we depend on cannot adapt to the people they are meant to serve."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-at-25

국립중앙도서관, AI도서 납본 첫 거절… '딸깍 출판' 대책 마련한다 www.hankookilbo.com/news/article... "그럼에도 이들 도서관이 도서 선별에 나선 건 일부 AI 출판사가 저질 도서를 양산해 납본하는 걸로 수익을 꾀한다는 지적을 의식한 것으로 풀이된다. 실제 국립중앙도서관이 전자책 납본을 받기 시작한 2016년 전자책 납본 보상금은 1,213만 원(5개월 분)이었지만 2021년엔 연간 2억3,492만 원으로 급증했고 지난해엔 역대 최다 금액인 2억6,276만 원이 지출됐다."

국립중앙도서관, AI도서 납본 첫 거절… '딸깍 출판'...

I see your "DLL Hell" and raise you ".so Fucking Annoying"

@sftblwCh.
2026-02-02
- 삼성전자: 160,500 원 (KRW)
- 카카오게임즈: 17,760 원 (KRW)
- 펄어비스: 57,700 원 (KRW)

my dad says the difference between a violin and a fiddle is you can pour beer on a fiddle, so i figure a good strings synth should have a knob labeled "beer"

국립중앙도서관, AI도서 납본 첫 거절… '딸깍 출판' 대책 마련한다 www.hankookilbo.com/news/article... "그럼에도 이들 도서관이 도서 선별에 나선 건 일부 AI 출판사가 저질 도서를 양산해 납본하는 걸로 수익을 꾀한다는 지적을 의식한 것으로 풀이된다. 실제 국립중앙도서관이 전자책 납본을 받기 시작한 2016년 전자책 납본 보상금은 1,213만 원(5개월 분)이었지만 2021년엔 연간 2억3,492만 원으로 급증했고 지난해엔 역대 최다 금액인 2억6,276만 원이 지출됐다."

국립중앙도서관, AI도서 납본 첫 거절… '딸깍 출판'...

I feel thankful to have been given the opportunity to try again

gonna stream more old PC magazines today, but this time I have matching magazine issues and their discs!

starting at about 3pm Pacific / https://internet-ti.me/@000 / ~1h after this post, at https://twitch.tv/ticky_d - come say hi!

PSA: I don't know if it will do any good, but I have just learned that "reportphishing@apple.com" exists, in case you also are getting a ton of "testing invites" like "OpenAI GPT Advertising, LLC. has invited you to test OpenAI GPT". They come from throw-away domains but the links are to Apple.

ね、ねむ……

これは深夜に友人と設定考えてた架空のVtuber「みすぎ 。(くてん)」のファンアート

電源ボタンでシャットダウンは無効にしたくなるやつやね（どのデーモンさんだっけ）

This is kind of cool! #mastodon

This is worrying.

After publishing alarming results on the carcinogenic effects of #glyphosate, the senior researcher of the study seems to be removed from his position as research director at his Italian institute. The whole process seems to be very nontransparent.

Daniele Mandriolini had been the target of “an incredible amount of attacks” since the publication of his article.

What is going on here?

Article/background:
https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/01/outrage-at-ramazinni-glyphosate/

Orignial research:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12940-025-01187-2

#DanieleMandrioli #Pesticides #FreeScience

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Does #FOSDEM have a #Peertube instance?

I know I can watch the videos here: video.fosdem.org/

Just didn't know if they had videos accessible on the Fediverse.

If they don't have a Peertube, is anyone thinking about, and allowed to, post these on a Peertube instance?

On the note of #Pratchett, after having swept through the whole Death storyline, I am trying to get into the witches one with Wyrd Sisters and actually finding it a bit difficult.

Does #FOSDEM have a #Peertube instance?

I know I can watch the videos here: video.fosdem.org/

Just didn't know if they had videos accessible on the Fediverse.

If they don't have a Peertube, is anyone thinking about, and allowed to, post these on a Peertube instance?

私が申請しました。
トリミングなし版​​

RE: https://misskey.io/notes/ai7g9sw7618q01me

@logLog 🪵

"Is your cat running a protection racket on the smallfolk fae, or what?"

Take one look at #PicaTheCat and answer that one for yourself...

Updated my job description from "site reliability engineer" to "uptime girl"

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I somehow forgot sitting down to watch the MTV movie awards and being blessed with this at 13.

What a time to be alive.

https://youtu.be/SM3J4QJFICo

Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/30/jack-kerouac-on-the-road-first-draft-scroll-to-be-auctioned
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46828907

I loved working full-time on @vite.dev@bsky.brid.gy hired by StackBlitz. High praise to companies hiring OSS devs! But as I did when starting @vitest.dev@bsky.brid.gy with @antfu.me@bsky.brid.gyAnthony Fu, for this new community adventure, as project steward of @npmx.dev@bsky.brid.gy together with @danielroe.dev@bsky.brid.gydaniel roe 🇺🇦, I'll be going independent. Here we go again ❤️

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2gkh62xvzokhlf6li4ol3b3d/post/3mdt5emplkc2z

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/115993734515733660

This is so correct. Any feasible-in-non-infinite-time review makes assumptions about the developer’s intentions, understanding, likely errors, and many other human factors. None of that holds for LLM generated code, so but extension the review process itself no longer holds.

みなさまおはようございます。​​​​
今日もみなさまにとってお健やかに素敵な1日がおとずれますように。

今日も1日、よろしくお願いします。m( )m

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This might be worth a PSA - if you use #VSCode via Snap, every file you delete inside VSCode is not actually getting deleted. It goes to a "Trash" folder at ~/snap/code/current/.local/share/Trash and never (ever) gets deleted. Last year I found I had 44 GB in undeleted files, in the following GitHub issue this is happening to a lot of people.

There's been an open bug ticket for over a year: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/233649#issuecomment-3830929735

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Tourists are flocking to view the partially frozen Niagara Falls, despite frigid temperatures, with visitors praising the winter spectacle as a striking sight. Pictured: A partially frozen boardwalk near the American Falls as seen from Niagara Falls, Canada, January 31. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio

#photography
#waterfalls
#winter
#NiagaraFalls

This might be worth a PSA - if you use #VSCode via Snap, every file you delete inside VSCode is not actually getting deleted. It goes to a "Trash" folder at ~/snap/code/current/.local/share/Trash and never (ever) gets deleted. Last year I found I had 44 GB in undeleted files, in the following GitHub issue this is happening to a lot of people.

There's been an open bug ticket for over a year: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/233649#issuecomment-3830929735