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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an unpopular opinion i have is that the new memes are as good as the old memes. the memes have always been good. the memes that were around when i was 15 are great, and the 15 year olds nowadays are also making some really good memes. i also see a lot of similarities in the memes. theres some kind of core sense of connection that all the memes give me. it gives me a strong feeling of "the kids are alright". theyre doing a good job

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Here's actions on a couple of AI bills in Washington. (1/N)

"Policy cutoff" in is tomorrow,, and if bills don't make it through their first committee they're dead for the session!

- SB 6312 prohibits "surveillance pricing"

- HB 2599 prohibits AI Chatbots from claiming to provide therapy, and regulates AI use by therapists.

The lijnks go to actions on Take Action Network (TAN). For more about how to use TAN actions, see our pinned post at pnw.zone/@waprivacy/1160080570

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@marcoarment Following-up on the latest @atpfmAccidental Tech Podcast episode, my trusty Sennheiser HD-424X from the early 80s already had connectors at the earpiece level (although not standardized as nowadays).
Bought replacement earpads some years ago but seems they’re now very difficult to find (the product is nearly 50y old).
The hand band plastic is starting to get a bit sticky, so your other remark on plastic toxicity makes me a bit nervous to wear them again (which was quite rare these days anyway).

Sennheiser HD-424X headphones with yellow earpads
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me: i want a datasheet please
silicon vendor: not so fast!!
silicon vendor: register here
(form does not accept password generated by my password manager because it "does not have special characters", but is fine with "123456abc!" that i put into it out of desperation)
me: now what
silicon vendor: Sign An NDA
me: what the fuck this is an SPI flash
silicon vendor: [ Accept ] [ Decline ]
me: ... [ Accept ✔ ] i guess

this is the first time i have seen a fucking clickwrap NDA

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The state of things in Minneapolis is still appalling. Infants are going hungry or without diapers because their mothers are too afraid to go out for supplies, fearing ICE/CBP will pick them up. 19thnews.org/2026/02/minneapol

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Russia struck a crowded area in Zaporizhzhia with a drone.

Two teenagers — both 18 — were killed.

Eight more people were injured, including three children. A 15-year-old girl is in critical condition.

The air raid alert in the region has been ongoing for nearly 24 hours.

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I'm talking about all of the misogyny crap today because folks keep speaking for me and saying I'm one of Fedi's big boosters.

It's true, I do prefer this place to corporate driven social media. But I want to be abundantly clear, I don't feel welcome here. Not really.

I get garbage sent my way that would give you therapy bills. And largely, as a quirk of decentralization, most of you won't ever see it.

Fedi is like being gaslit, every time I use it. And I need to flipping say that.

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Apple swapped the start up options screen on Macs from holding down Option after power up to holding down the power button on power up. It's certainly more consistent but makes it impossible to do remotely. Really would be nice if they supported both.

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Say what you will about state violence, but •orderly• state violence — an officer with a face and a badge, Miranda rights, an orderly booking, the constitutional phone call, the jail roster, the habeas corpus petition, a trial, a system, a process, maybe once in a blue moon consequences for officers’ most egregious abuses — is infinitely preferable to what ICE is now: a secret police with blanket immunity.

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One of the many, many, many horrible things about what ICE is doing is that now any group of white men in tactical gear with an SUV can attack, beat up, and kidnap any random person — and nobody will stop them, because who knows, they •might• be ICE, and you can’t obstruct federal agents, now, can you?? pdx.social/@portlandmercury/11

Say what you will about state violence, but •orderly• state violence — an officer with a face and a badge, Miranda rights, an orderly booking, the constitutional phone call, the jail roster, the habeas corpus petition, a trial, a system, a process, maybe once in a blue moon consequences for officers’ most egregious abuses — is infinitely preferable to what ICE is now: a secret police with blanket immunity.

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아직 완전 확실하진 않은데요 제가 AI그림으로 의심되는 그림, 실제 AI 그림, 제 그림 모두 블스에 올라온걸 다시 저장 했을 때 뭔가 차이가 있나 싶어서 확인을 해봤습니다...이유는 생성형 AI 특성상 이미지 정보가 표준화 되어있을 것 같아서 근데 정말 파일 크기에서 유의미한 편차가 드러났습니다 동일한 화질저하 및 해상도 조건을 맞추기 위해 모두 블스에 올라온 이미지를 사용했습니다 모든 캔버스 사이즈를 동일하게 통일했음에도 AI 생성물들의 용량이 작게 나타났습니다. 여러개 해봤음에도 200KB 넘는 이미지가 없어요!!

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How to use Take Action Network (TAN) actions. (1/N)

Many of the actions we post have links to TAN actions. TAN is a special-purpose social network, optimized for activists in Washington state. TAN gets information from the state legisature's site, and makes it easy for bill trackers to generate actions. And the actions can also automagically include some very useful information in emails that you're sending.

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Opinions on Star Trek

My bf and I watched an episode of TNG last night, in which Riker ordered a diagnostic with a numbered level, and my bf asked how they knew which level of diagnostic to run

I pulled up page 46 of the TNG technical manual and showed him where they describe what diagnostic levels mean

It's decently thorough

And that's something you could do with TNG/DS9/VOY-era Trek

They put some effort into the details, and you could geek out about them if you wanted to

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did you know? if you're a paying adobe user, you can message the support and ask for offline installers for the software you pay for

why would you do that? if they ever were to discontinue one of their products (*cough* animate), you could still install and activate it

and while i do not publicly endorse piracy (for obvious reasons), i do want to note that installations made with these offline installers have way safer methods of patching them than downloading a pirated copy that's potentially malicious

all i'm saying is, those installers are kind of annoying to get these days. if you pay for the software, ask for the installers and make backups of them.

oh and last - you can ask for older versions too! even older than what the CC app shows you

Adobe chat window

your account information and access your details.
[Auto generated]

Hello Lyra, I hope you are doing well.

How can I help you?

(message containing a censored link)

Here's the download link for Adobe Animate, Please do not share this link with anyone
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"Sources tell Windows Central that internal teams are also beginning to push back against excessive integration, and the company may therefore reconsider its stance.

At the very least, Microsoft may dial back Copilot features or remove the chatbot’s branding from apps like Notepad and Paint to make the experience feel more conventional, the report says."

pcmag.com/news/microsoft-repor

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