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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Boston area old tech people: my partner has two 8-track cassettes that he'd like to listen to and/or see if he can digitize. We're looking for a place or person who has an eight track player locallish to him, optimally.

This is a one-time thing, we do not want to buy a player. We might pay for a digitizing service.

Ideas or leads? Harvard's library system does not have what we need, amazingly.

For the youth: these things...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_

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Happy anniversary! Today was five years ago someone from a prominent software company in the .NET space (not MS) filed a bogus CoC violation complaint against me to the .NET foundation because they thought my OSS project competed with theirs a little too much.

If you read this: fuck you 🙂

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팔로 받았을 때 메세지

인간찬가를 좋아하지만 내가 역시 좋아하는건 그저 인간짱! 인간대단해! 인간최강! 이 아님 절대로 아님 난 인간 싫은데 좋아 인간의 최악을 알아야해 인간은 최악이고, 해내지못하고, 스스로할수있는일도많지않고, 부족한게 많아 그렇지만 우리에게 중요한건 그런 절망과 포기와 패배가 있더라도 가능성을 보기 때문에 포기하지않을 수 있고 스스로 할 수 없는 일임에도 누군가를 위해 하고 부족한게 많아서 실수가 여러번 일어난다고해도 그것을 포기하지 않는 마음이 좋은거다 이길 수 없는 적을 앞에 두고서도 무릎꿇고 쓰러지더라도 더는 일어나기 힘들 정도가 되더라도 다시 일어나는 것 그것이 좋은거다 나는 그 불굴의 마음을 지지않을 용기를 포기하지않을 꿈을 너희가 가진 희망이 좋은거다 나는 너를 너희를 선택했고 나는 이 인연을 마음을 너를 포기하고 싶지않은 그 마음이다 나는 이게 너무 좋다 인간이 최악이고 나약하기에 가질 수 있는 용기가 취향이라니........ 그러니 내가 신살자, 용사, 히어로, 영웅, 이런거 좋아하는거임

이거 뜨게 하고 싶은데 이럼 ㅈㄴ당황스러우시겠지? 참아야겠다

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Here's a fun data fact.

Today around 10am I opted back in to Mastodon's discovery features, and my server immediately went "wowie zowie" (that's a technical term).

It's no slouch of a server, either- a VPS running with two cores and 4GB of RAM. And it's always much slower when I turn those discovery features on.

A CPU graph from my Mastodon server showing heavy usage (over 100% CPU) starting around 10am today.
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With the news that people are moving to Xiaohongshu due to uncertainty about the future of TikTok and the changes to Meta's content policies, and that people are now really interested in learning Mandarin: I would encourage you to check out the active Chinese-language communities right here on the fediverse as well, such as the public forum at ovo.st/club/board (@ board @ ovo.st ), and the instance m.cmx.im/about. Or, perhaps, you can follow my recent favourite fediverse account, @labor工劳快讯 X 工劳小报:关注当代打工人, which collects news about modern Chinese labour issues that you will never find on Chinese social media platforms.

In general I think there is a huge lack of understanding among western users about how much Chinese social media and Chinese tech companies are intertwined with the government, a lack of understanding or engagement with Chinese social issues which are heavily censored on all Chinese social media platforms, and a mistake belief that "well, Chinese social media can't be much worse than the American ones". I had to mute the discourse around TikTok for my own sanity because there was so much complete misunderstanding around privacy, censorship, and the nature of these companies. It's like seeing people say "we don't want to use apps run by (american) fascists, so we will flock to an app that shares all its data with a fascist government, and actively censors all topics unfavourable to that government". It makes no sense.

Of course, I think it is good that people are engaging with Chinese people, finally, as people, and not as just abstractions. I think it is also good that people have an incentive to learn my native language. I just wish people would use that to engage with and listen to the Chinese people who have been posting here, all along.

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1/ Hi Mastodon community!

A quick update from me. While some might have said, “entering the Fediverse with its unique and engaged culture is totally bonkers when you’re in the middle of a federal leadership race”, we said, “sure, why not? It’s the only platform that really corresponds to our values, and it’s worth trying at least.”

Shoutout to @ZebKingZeb King 🇨🇦 who lobbied with relentless grace for this to happen.

This means that yes, the campaign and I are here now. But also, that we’re spread really thin and are not going to be able to engage to the level of engagement that Fediverse culture expects, at least not in the short term.

I’m not a fan of just broadcasting here, but for the next couple of months, that’s mostly what we’ll be doing.

Our young staffer who posts on every social media platform has enthusiastically learned as much as possible about Fediverse practices, and is doing a hell of a job here at posting in a thoughtful way (as some of you have noted).

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RE: social.wake.st/@liaizon/115952

Couldn't make it out to this tonight unfortunately, as the cold was messing with me too much. Got hit by a gust of wind coming home from my nail appointment and it triggered a damn cold-induced anxiety attack, and even now after getting warm my brain is still sluggish and headachy

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Home cooking tip: if you combine an almost pathological aversion to wasting food with a bit of inattentiveness at just the wrong moment you can easily add a spoonful of Caesar salad dressing to your coffee in the belief that it’s condensed milk.

You should definitely not do this but you can. It’s very easy. Like and subscribe for more home cooking tips.

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ソク=ラテスさん:
「すぐバレる嘘をつく。
間違いを認めない。謝らない。
指摘されるとキレる、すごむ。
都合が悪くなると姿を消す。
安全な場所では異常にテンションが高い。

これは気性の荒さでも、性格の悪さでもありません。
「自分の非を引き受ける能力が                             

極端に低い」という一点に集約されます。

このタイプの人にとって、
間違いを認めることは反省ではなく“敗北”です。
だから事実を修正する代わりに、感情で場を支配しようとする。
怒鳴る、威圧する、論点をずらす、逃げる。
そうやって「正しさの話」を「怖さの話」にすり替える。

ここが重要で、これがハラスメントになる理由は
相手の尊厳を傷つけたいからではありません。
自分が傷つかないためです。

つまりこの人は、常に自分の心を守るために
他人にコストを押し付けている。

・嘘の後始末を周囲にさせる
・機嫌を取らせる
・場を丸く収めさせる
・責任を引き取らせる

近くにいる人ほど、無意識にこれを肩代わりさせられます。
だから日常的に一緒にいると、精神的に削られる。

(続く」 / X
x.com/busydess_ojisan/status/2

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세종호텔 연행된 사람들 관련: ㄴ 연행 동지들의 경찰 조사 시 인권 침해 등 사례 증언 : - 돈 받고 시위했냐고 질문. - 병원 진료가 필요한 동지를 수갑 채우고 심지어는 진료 시 옆에 상주. - 해고자는 일터가 없는데 왜 일터 안에서 시위했다고 하냐고 질문. - 공대위 소속이냐, 누가 위원장이냐 질문.(진술 거부 가능 사항) - 샤워 보장 요청 거부.(항의 통해 보장. 화장실에 비누 비치) - 경찰이 연행자의 속옷을 들춰봄 - 경찰이 밥을 왜 이렇게 천천히 먹냐고 압박. 아니 속옷은 미친 거 아니야

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일전에 2월 말에서 3월까지의 한반도 날씨를 한파 가능성을 높게 봤는데, 이제 급변의 가능성을 조금 더 높게 잡아야 할 것 같습니다. 전체적으로 지구의 열 에너지 흐름 자체가 상당히 이상한 상황이라는건데, 이후 MJO나 ENSO등이 튀게 되면 여름까지도 극단적인 기후가 나타날 수 있을 것 같습니다. 무엇보다 가뜩이나 힘든 개학/환절기 시즌에 아동들이 힘들어 질 것 같아서 걱정됩니다. 이미 B형 독감과 열감기가 갑자기 유행하고 있는데요. 모쪼록 습도와 온도 관리에 만전을 당부드리며, 건강하시길 기도하겠습니다. 좋은 하루 되세요.

독감 환자 일주일 새 2배 폭증, 작년 대비 12배…"...

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