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.

Current Toronto conditions: -17 C, wind chill of -25 C. I was considering running a shopping errand but you know, it's not urgent and I'm not quite that enthused about freezing my face. I think I will stay indoors another day, where it's nice and warm.

(Environment Canada even has a yellow cold warning. Which is not as amusing to write about as a "yellow snow warning".)

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Wapusk: The Polar Bear Nursery

Wapusk National Park, whose name means 'White Bear' in Cree, protects one of the world's largest polar bear maternity denning areas. Each year, pregnant polar bears dig dens in the permafrost to give birth. The park's remote location and strict access restrictions are essential for protecting these vulnerable mothers and cubs during their first critical months. 🇨🇦

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapusk_N

Polar Bear in Wapusk National Park
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Mostly I'm learning that I've spent a couple of weeks trying to support `FSKit` for something that is slower and, more importantly, can make your computer completely hang and expose some ghost state in the kernel in about 22 different ways.

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The "live location" sharing situation is fucking abysmal. There are situations where it's totally reasonable that you may want to let someone track your phone in realtime - such as meeting an online date for the first time and wanting to make sure a friend knows where you are just in case. Your choices are basically "make sure you both have iPhones," "use Google Maps," "use WhatsApp," or "let some shady company like Life360 sell your location data." It's insane we don't have better options.

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Today, we had fun with unboxing and testing an Arduino UNO Q, looking at some hardware-driven games using an ESP32 board, and discussed mechanical keyboards; Home Assistant; and reflashing Rockchip boards. Fun!

Join us next Sunday? luma.com/mr59v66m

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Phyllis Munday: Conqueror of the Rockies

Mountaineer and naturalist Phyllis Munday was a true trailblazer. In 1924, she and Annette Buck were the first women to summit Mount Robson, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. A skilled cartographer, she also mapped over 180 square kilometres of BC's wilderness, a significant contribution to Canadian geography. 🇨🇦

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_

A black and white photo of Phyllis munday standing in snowshoes on a slope. A snow-covered trees and mountains are behind her in the background.
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@reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

Definitely better onboarding. Based on my own experience and when I had my wife sign up, these are the things that comes to mind:

1. Explain why you need to sign up on a server, and why you may benefit from signing up on a server that aligns with your interests. A way to pre-filter servers based on a few checkboxes would be great.

2. Explain how there is no algorithm, and that you only start to see content in your feed after you start following others. Starter packs would be a huge difference here, so that should have a very high priority.

3. Explain how moderation works, how to contact your server admin, how to block other users and how to make this a safe space for yourself.

4. Explain how not agreeing with others does not make them unwanted here, as long as they do not actively try to harass you or otherwise interact with you. Nobody owns this - and that includes you.

5. Oh, and lets create a USB disk image that anyone can run from an old laptop and host their own Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, Friendica and Bonfire instance for their family to use. Easy-peasy. 😉

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Today I tried Claude Code new Agent Team feature, and if you haven’t yet, you should give it a try asap code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-

Sub agents are focused on a small task, they become more precise, have a dedicated context each and can work faster in parallel.

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這次日本選舉我關注的是日本共產黨,他們的基本盤是八席,以往也沒有低過這個數字。但這次跌至兩席。
日本政治「地盤」是存在的,一個地方的政治人物穩固了之後經常會形成一個能夠穩固承傳的「地盤」。
我關注日本共產黨這八席的理由在於觀察日本人是否脫卻惰性的投票策略,而已積極的投票選擇想要的政治人物。
所以有固有地盤的日本共產黨是一個很好的指標。從他們的席次大跌的狀況來看,日本的選民已經不能再說他們政治冷漠了,有積極政治意識的國民、這樣的國家公民參與也會積極。雖然不知道結果會怎樣,但日本人變得積極了,日本是很有潛力的國家,祝日本有更好的未來,願台日友好、共生共榮。

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Es bedarf Zeit und Erfahrung, bevor der Arbeiter die Maschinerie von ihrer kapitalistischen Anwendung unterscheiden und daher seine Angriffe vom materiellen Produktionsmittel selbst auf dessen gesellschaftliche Exploitationsform übertragen lernt.

—Karl Marx, Das Kapital, Bd. I, Kap. 13, Abschn. 5

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The chatter in my TL suggests that we are inching closer to the point where “Trump killed Epstein” becomes a thinkable thought in the mainstream, scrawled on toilet stalls and dumpsters across the USA as a routine rallying cry.

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