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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Mike Bird: "People get angry at this point but aggregate American spending on eating/drinking out or having that food delivered is at a record high, and the proportion spent on store-bought food is at a joint-record low with the peak housing bubble era." | nitter
nitter.net/Birdyword/status/20

Do people really get a lot of food delivered these days rather than cooking? I probably eat out more often than I should, but I've never used one of those food delivery services...

I think I'll do a poll.

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... Diese Bücher verschenke Regale sind echt ne Qual...

... Hab jetzt schon wieder drei neue Bücher in der Wohnung...

... Um mal so zu tun als würde das noch n Unterschied machen 🫣🙈

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What I listened to today: "Prelude to Fear" / "Creating, Example 1", Primus

Primus is known for a Specific Sound, confident, idiosyncratic, grounded in Les Claypool's virtuoso bass. So it's SUPER interesting to listen to this early, pre-Tim-Alexander demo, where the sound isn't…quite…what it became. Intense funk vibes, just a touch of prog, and Claypool does Voices but doesn't seem to have solidly chosen steampunk yet. At one point he seems to be describing an OODA loop

youtube.com/watch?v=MxR8z4-mFec

What I listened to today: "Show Me What You Got", Busta Rhymes

Busta Rhymes sampling my favorite Stereolab song ("Come And Play in The Milky Night"). J Dilla beat! Kinda archetypical for Busta, near-miss brilliance, great production, incredible rap flow… & an overlong chorus that drags the whole thing down (the chorus *really* needed a professional singer for guest vocals).

Listen careful on verse 1 for the rap equivalent of a oner. Rhyme scheme is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

youtube.com/watch?v=k2Q0UgQ1rro

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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, Linux plus systemd, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Linux/systemd.

Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning systemd system made useful by the systemd corelibs, systemd daemons, and vital systemd components comprising a full OS as defined by Poettering.

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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, Linux plus systemd, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Linux/systemd.

Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning systemd system made useful by the systemd corelibs, systemd daemons, and vital systemd components comprising a full OS as defined by Poettering.

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Just discovered part of my HRT has been discontinued due to an AI note taking error. Gynae did not say discontinue, and I have letters to prove it. Now I may have to be without testosterone until this is proven, which may mean another 6 month wait to resee a gynaecologist via NHS. Hopefully my letters will suffice, but currently unclear.

I am beyond furious. Also, wow. Fuck living in this dystopia.

Keep every medical record you get, you're going to need it in this new terrifying timeline.

A screenshot of my medical records that says:

• Serum oestradiol level
• Summary:; ---- THIS IS GENERATED BY ANNIE (AI) ----; Consultant Gynaecologist advises against continued testosterone prescription due to associated risks.
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I've never been a big proponent of the idea that America has fallen to a fascist regime because "foreign adversaries are running Trump like an asset." Mostly because I know full well that American billionaire nazi cultists, are running Trump like an asset, and it's hard to serve two masters in Vladdy Putin and Peter Thiel, at the same time.

That having been said - a story like this DOES make you wonder.

Tulsi Gabbard Hit With Whistleblower Complaint So Classified It Needs to Be Locked in a Safe: Report

commondreams.org/news/tulsi-ga

"The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the complaint was filed in May, and it set off “a continuing, behind-the-scenes struggle about how to assess and handle it, with the whistleblower’s lawyer accusing Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint.”

The Journal’s sources say that the complaint is so classified that no one in the US Congress has even laid eyes on it, as disclosure of its contents could cause “grave damage to national security.”

So, let me get this straight - a whistleblower has filed a complaint, AGAINST Gabbard, that is literally so top secret nobody is allowed to even READ the complaint, and the person in charge of dealing with this is... Gabbard... and she has sat on it for eight months?

Having a hard time imaging what, SHORT of foreign interference in American politics and or "treason" this would be. Please remember this is an administration that has responded to bribery by saying "yeah thanks, love the bribes" completely in the open. So they aren't hiding "Gabbard took some money" because they don't hide that. Whatever it is, is worse than that.

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🔔 TONIGHT: Join us for a national town hall on press freedom featuring FPF's Trevor Timm, journalists, rights groups, and more, hosted by NABJ and in partnership with Black Star Network.

🕒 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT
🔗 youtube.com/live/OpqX0GfFcz4

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For TTC reasons, I wound up walking outside more than usual this morning and it was quite nice, I didn't even bother putting my hoodie's hood up¹. I assumed it was because we'd warmed up to just below freezing, but when I checked it was still -10C. Which just goes to show how much difference sunshine and the lack of wind can make.

¹ I was wearing a fleece cap (with ear covers), because I'm not that hardcore. The hoodie hood is just extra insulation, and I sure needed it last week.

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If you think of universal basic income as just "more money," you aren't understanding it and what makes it so different and effective. The fact it comes at a regular frequency is a key factor. When you know that whatever happens next month, you can still buy food, that's a huge deal.

It's STABILITY

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We cannot settle for empty reforms while ICE and CBP terrorize our communities, violate our constitutional rights, and kill innocent people. Demand that your Democratic senators hold the line and use their leverage to secure real restrictions on the regime’s secret police: indivisible.org/ice-out-senate

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Mastodon admins, do you want to increase the character limit on your server?

If you're running a manually installed server and have access to modify files, this is apparently how to do it:

🌱 it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/09

EDIT: Thanks for all the info in replies! I've changed the link to a more complete alternative article on all the changes needed.

(Thank you to @kaveinthran for pointing out the original article and @b2cborn2chill for pointing out the alternative article.)

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