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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I’ve been asked on TV hits and interviews lately to explain why decentralized social media is better, especially re: Mastodon.

How would you explain the benefits of a platform like Mastodon and the fediverse to someone in just a few sentences? How would you make the argument that platforms like Mastodon allow for more free expression than big tech controlled apps?

Would love to hear people’s thoughts! Trying to make my arguments most effective

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울펜슈타인 뉴 콜로서스는 트럼프 1기 행정부 때 출시되었습니다. 그 뒤 바이든 행정부가 들어섰고 그 뒤에 다시 트럼프 2기 행정부가 들어섰습니다. 역사는 전에 없던 환란의 시기로 들어가는 중입니다. 그러나 그러한 환란 속에서 사람들은 연대하고 저항하기 시작했습니다. 자신의 죄를 고백하지 아니하셨던 이들이 거리로 나와 불의한 자들이 휘두르는 무도한 폭력을 향해 구호를 외칩니다. 그 목소리는 고백이요, 참회입니다. 그러니 그들은 새로운 땅과 하늘을 보게 될 것입니다. 요한의 묵시록처럼, 울펜슈타인 리부트처럼.

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그들이 이루어낸 역사적 진보와는 별개로 그들이 미국이라는 거대한 패권도구를 휘두르거나 그 휘두름을 눈감아 그동안 얻어낸 이익이 있음에도 그것에 대한 고백과 참회가 없었기 때문입니다. 그래서 저는 울펜슈타인 리부트야 말로 지금의 시대에 미국의 리버럴에게 필요한 것을 이야기한다고 생각합니다. 바로 고백과 참회로 시작하여 연대의 힘으로 불의에 저항하는 것. 그 이야기가 말입니다.

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AI and the New Social

Social Web Foundation @swf@socialwebfoundation.org

Mallory is heading to India later this month to kick off something we’ve been building toward for a while: the first in a global series on AI and the social web. Alongside the AI Impact Summit in Delhi, SWF is holding space for dialogue among a focused group to dig into what comes next as AI becomes agentic and social systems become protocol-based. Hosted by the Observer Research Foundation, our core organizational partners for the event include Project Liberty Institute, Public AI and […]

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Notes from the Digital Competition Conference

Social Web Foundation @swf@socialwebfoundation.org

This week I (Mallory) was at the Digital Competition Conference hosted by the Knight Georgetown Institute representing SWF. Conversations unlocked cooperation between tech, law and regulation that is needed to rein in market abuse by gigantic digital infrastructures. What made this conference especially valuable was how consistently the discussion balanced between all three. I was particularly happy to see a strong focus on technical realities: not just what regulators want to do, but what […]

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ANAのマイル修行は正味距離を飛ばないといけないのがキツイわね
その点JALは回数でも取れたから、行き先に幅をもたせられたのよな(まあ大半は羽田→伊丹→但馬→伊丹→羽田だったが)

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요새 대다수 기업들 자금 사정이 생각외로 안 좋음 그러니 아무말이나 하는건데 그렇다고 AI 관련 투자를 안하면 더 안 좋아질것 같으니 다들 울며겨자먹기로 어떻게든 뭐라도 해서 돌아가게 해라 이런 분위기 같음... 이미 이 블랙회사도 독일쪽은 일주일 5일 일 못시키고 4일만 시킬 정도로 밖에 돈을 안주는듯.... 노조와 협의한것이 이 수준임;;

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Poll: Which of the following are you?

@mcc I'm a support character. The protagonist is gonna need their techno-babble bordering on phlebotinum solution at a key moment and somebody has to have spent months on it in advance for it to be believable (even though there was no clear reason it would be important) That somebody is me.

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C Meeting adjourned. Pretty much nothing I was happy about made it through, including things I did and did not work on. For the things I was responsible for...

-- thephd.dev/_vendor/future_cxx/

Sized strings are not important to the Committee for C, and printf will remain printing with (int) casts. There was no direction to continue, but some said they'd change their vote if I implemented it and came back to show it was a low-cost, simple implementation.

-- thephd.dev/_vendor/future_cxx/

Closures had some direction to continue but faces extreme opposition because (most) implementers want to either (a) ignore captures altogether and do something with no local state; (b) standardize no-captures and promise to do something maybe, later. Tough.

All the other papers I was happy about on the agenda didn't get anywhere, and some of the issue resolutions went the way I didn't like, but it's not really worth mentioning because I'm not a Big Implementation (and apparently, not a Real C Person). Not much I say can matter.

I think vendors want to close C down basically, as a sort of thermostatic backlash to the various changes being proposed and from so much being one in C23. I can't really stop that and it's unfortunately bad because there's various "simple" proposals that have long-term consequences.

But we're not really illuminating those consequences in discussion or papers right now. I have a lot of papers right now that'd just be "there are betters ways to do this, please let's think about this" and I'm kind of tired just from thinking about it.

Maybe I'll be a more effective advocate next meeting. Who knows.

I also realize everyone is going to continue to clown on me as being a C++ person no matter how much expertise I have/gain in C, so I think I have to implement a compiler or do a complex renounciation-of-C++ post of something before people evaluate my work on its technical merits purely. It also doesn't help that most changes I am working on tackle significantly large areas that I always get "eww, C++" as a default reaction, even for things like defer, which is -- generally -- pretty annoying.

Knee-jerk Anti-C++ hatred is wearing on me. Worst part is, nobody properly communicates what's C++-centric about anything we standardized, other than the spellings. They don't even read the history of their own features. E.g., __auto_type and auto coming from C first, because it was implemented for macro shenanigans while C++ was still goo-goo-gaa-gaa and using typedef typename foo::typename bar:: typename baz;-style crap and didn't realize the goodness of type deduction until 10 years after __auto_type was making for clean C macros. But no, no, it's a "C++ invention", and you can't convince them otherwise.

Brutal to have to live with it and deal with.

I'll figure something out, eventually.

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