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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Hey! I'm waking up from my winter slumber and looking for / UI / product roles or projects. I love to work with kind people, move with intent and fix things.

I'm here for all parts of the process, from research to strategy, working with devs, or building design systems, incl. illustrations! And I know a lot about OS design as well thru coaching Prototype Fund teams at Superbloom.

Where? Remote/Berlin-based.

Portfolio: juliaracsko.com/

Boosts appreciated!

Top: Text "The World Right Now" over photo of multi-story buildings engulfed in flames
Bottom: Text "Anyone Want a UX Designer?" over photo of Will Ferrell cupping hands around his mouth as though he's yelling,  looking meanwhile a bit confused
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Nikolai Kardashev was a Soviet radio astronomer and astrophysicist who wanted to know how one could even detect extraterrestrial civilizations at all, the “SETI problem”.

He concluded: by energy consumption. The Kardashev scale is therefore not an ISO standard (ISO = Interstellar Standards Organization?), but a thinking tool devised by one person.

The scale says:

  • Type 1: Uses all the energy available to its planet. For example, an albedo-zero world completely covered in solar cells.
  • Type 2: Uses all the energy available to its star system. Not a million satellites in orbit, but a Dyson sphere that captures all the light and radiation of a star.
  • Type 3: Uses the energy of all stars in a galaxy.

The idea of launching data centers into space, more precisely into LEO, must therefore be evaluated on a different scale:

The Kardashian scale

  • A Type 1 civilization on the Kardashian scale has a public discourse that is no longer driven by facts, but by emotion and attention.
  • A Type 2 civilization no longer has this discourse under control, and counterfactual emotional discourse begins to control politics, research, and the economy, where unscientific and outright stupid narratives now take over steering.
  • A Type 3 civilization has complete epistemic decoupling: visibility has fully replaced truth, reach beats evidence, and consistency is irrelevant as long as the narrative is exciting. Physical limits are dismissed as “bad vibes”, and criticism is read as a moral flaw and subversion.

So we are not measuring energy, but loss of contact with reality. Many tech visions of recent years (everything from and including Bitcoin onward) map directly onto this scale.

We are now already a Kardashian Type 2 civilization.

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Nachricht von der Grundschule: "Die Kinder dürfen an diesem Tag gerne verkleidet zur Schule kommen 🦁🦄🐝
Bitte beachten Sie, dass Spielzeugwaffen sowie gruselige Masken nicht erlaubt sind."

Ich: Was ist mit Batman?

Meine Frau: Das ist okay, das ist ja nur ein reicher Mann

Ich: Das ist sehr gruselig!

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今日は仕事で5分おきぐらいに3個の別々のタスクを言い渡されて嫌な気持ちになった。全部並行して終わらせたんだけど、タスクを渡してきた上司が「今日は根詰めてるねぇ」とか言い放ってキレそう人なった(無視した)。俺は毎日8時ぐらいまで残業しとるだろうに。

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2026 심리상담 바우처 카드 신청했는데 이건 2주 후에 카드가 나온다고 해서 좀 기다려야하네요... 좀 오래 기다려야 해서 그동안에는 누구한테 상담을 할까 고민중이지만 주치의 선생님도 계시니까 엉뚱한 곳에 "으아아 내 인생 왜 이래 으아아아" 하지는 않을 것 같아요
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱.

The modern social web needs sovereign, active and conscious digital citizenship, with all the power and danger that entails.

Read this dissertation arguing that 's sovereign architecture is the logical next step for social media. A model where users truly own their identity and social graph.

news.dyne.org/the-future-was-f

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