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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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 @rysiek@mstdn.social
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Shared by nicole mikołajczyk

Wczoraj w pisałem o pomyśle, by Centralny Ośrodek Informatyki ogarnął pakiet biurowy dla polskiej administracji:
oko.press/czy-instytucje-polsk

Centralny Ośrodek Informatyki chce budować rozwiązania dla polskiej administracji w oparciu o otwarte oprogramowanie. Projekt ma mieć poparcie ministra cyfryzacji.

Świetnie! Czas najwyższy na uniezależnienie od usług i produktów monopolistów z USA.

Zadanie nie będzie jednak łatwe.

🧵

Czy instytucje polskiego państwa zdołamy uwolnić od Googla i Microsoftu?

Centralny Ośrodek Informatyki chce budować rozwiązania dla polskiej administracji na otwartym oprogramowaniu. Projekt ma mieć poparcie ministra cyfryzacji. Świetnie! Czas najwyższy na uniezależnienie od usług i produktów monopolistów z USA. Diabeł jednak tkwi w szczegółach.

oko.press

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さよなら皆さん @sayonaraminasan@urusai.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

@Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified: I am definitely in favor of boosting lol I mean with no algo things that need to be seen may not get to see the light of day due to time zones etc. There seems to be an anti-boost mentality among some, that their feeds need to be a pure stream of personal thought. I for my part know that I’m not entertaining enough to pull off such an account 😆 boosts ahoy!

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Anthony @abucci@buc.ci
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I'm tinkering with an argument based on algorithmic complexity that if it were possible to make something like an "automated mathematician" or "automated scientist", then these would be expected to eventually produce outputs that we humans would be unable to distinguish from random noise.

Getting the whole argument just right is fiddly, but the basic idea is this. You feed some kind of theory into the AM/AS, which is a black box. It churns on this and spits out a result, which is added to the theory (I'm neglecting the case that the result is inconsistent with the theory). It can now churn on theory + result 1. For any given and potentially very large N, after doing this long enough, it's churning on theory + result 1 + result 2 + ... + result N. Whatever it spits out will be dependent in particular on results 1 - N. When N is large enough, unless you know these results you will not be able to understand what it outputs because the output will almost surely depend critically on one or more of results 1 - N. In other words, the output will look like noise to you. If the AM/AS is appreciably faster at producing results than people are at understanding them, there will be an N beyond which no one can understand the output up to that point. It'll become indistinguishable (unable to be distinguished) from random noise.

If you're into software development, this would be analogous to a software system that generates syntactically-correct code and then adds that code as a new call in a growing software library. If you were to run this long enough, virtually all the programs it generated that were short enough for human beings to have any hope of reading and understanding would consist almost entirely of library calls to code generated by the system. You'd have no idea what any of this code did unless you studied the library calls, which you wouldn't be able to do beyond a certain scale. If the system were expanding the library faster than you could read and understand it, there'd be no hope at all.

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader whether this is a desirable thing to do and whether it's happened yet. I would offer, though, a question to ponder: what reason is there to believe that a random number generator hooked up to an inscrutable interpreter produces human flourishing, for any given meaning of "human flourishing" you care to use?


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tenjuu99(天重誠二) @tenjuu99@hollo.tenjuu.net
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あとで読む。社会党の瓦解以降、政党の中道化と権力集中みたいなのは確実にあると思う。 https://note.com/jinminshinbun/n/n780419964d8f

【2026新年特集・上】酒井隆史さんに聞く！　政治と社会運動に広がる、エキストリーム・センター（極中道）思想｜人民新聞

高市が暴政を行う中、立憲民主党もとうとう、集団的自衛権の行使を違憲とする基本政策の見直しを行う。公明党との連携を進めて政権担当能力をアピールするため、結党理由すら破り捨てるという。権力を得るためなら限りなく自民党政治に近づいていく。こうした政治や思想の歪みの原因に応えるのが、昨年出版された『エキストリーム・センター』だ。穏健で現実的な平和主義者という意味で使われてきた「リベラル／中道左派」という立場がはらむ、過激さとファシズムへの親和性を暴く概念だ。この欧米圏でも広がる現象と概念を紹介する本書の編者の一人である、社会思想研究者の酒井隆史さんに、日本社会の変化を読み解いていただき、新年を

note.com · note（ノート）

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Robert Roskam @raiderrobert@mastodon.social
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So I've done my part with this boycott, and I'd like to suggest as a focal point to go specifically after Amazon and AWS itself.

resistandunsubscribe.com/

I'm concerned that actions that's too diffuse won't be noticed otherwise.

Also, if you're on X _still_ and giving them money thru ads/subscriptions, take a very long look in that mirror.

If you must engage with X, at least stop giving them money.

Resist and Unsubscribe

www.resistandunsubscribe.com · Resist and Unsubscribe

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Em :official_verified: @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
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I wish I could force every legislator
in favor of Age Verification to watch this amazing talk by Carissa Véliz,

So that they understand the dangers
of the surveillance infrastructure they are currently putting in place.

You should watch it too: youtube.com/watch?v=xSPRouBvgFE

How privacy can save your life | Carissa Véliz | TEDxPorto

Privacy is important because it protects us from possible abuses of power. That makes it essential for both personal freedom and democracy. Without privacy, ...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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404 Media @404mediaco@mastodon.social
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Earlier this month we revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a Palantir tool called ELITE to decide which neighborhoods to raid.

This is what it looks like: 404media.co/here-is-the-user-g

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE

404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

www.404media.co · 404 Media

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition

Link: github.com/microsoft/vscode/is
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Summary It's possible in Copilot to bypass any billing / 'premium request' usage by taking advantage of: Subagents and tool calls not consuming any 'requests'. Request cost being calculated on the ...

Billing can be bypassed using a combination of subagents with an agent definition, resulting in unlimited free premium requests. · Issue #292452 · microsoft/vscode

Summary It's possible in Copilot to bypass any billing / 'premium request' usage by taking advantage of: Subagents and tool calls not consuming any 'requests'. Request cost being calculated on the ...

github.com · GitHub

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Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) @susankayequinn@wandering.shop
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A reader asked "How can I find good, human-made books?"

I'm going to counter the AI-slop by recommending more books that I love — ones I read, ones my friends write, ones I know are human art fighting to exist in an AI-slop world.

Don't look to algos to tell you what to read: ask your friends, go back to authors you love and see what they recommend, find real humans talking about real books. That's how books have always been found, before the algos colonized our info spaces.

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tenjuu99(天重誠二) @tenjuu99@hollo.tenjuu.net
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個人的には、「民主党」の看板降ろしたのがでかいんじゃないかなという気がするんだよなぁ。反自民がこんなに少ないわけないので、単純に認知の問題として中道ってなに？みたいなのあるんじゃないか。とくに若い人と老人はそうかなと思う。そもそも人間ってなんもわからなかったら知られている選択肢のなかから選ぼうとする傾向あるとおもう。

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Klaus Frank @agowa338@chaos.social
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Was looking for a garden center where I could buy sugarcane plants. And well. Now I know that opium plants still grow in the wild here in Germany and that owning the seeds is legal but planting them is not.

(What a coincidence that the website that sells sugarcane plants also sells these seeds)

kraeuter-und-duftpflanzen.de/p

Pflanzen & Saatgut

In unserem Onlineshop haben Sie die Möglichkeit sich alle Artikel getrennt nach Saatgut oder Pflanzen auflisten zu lassen. Das können Sie bei der Verwendung der Suchfunktion, sowie auch bei Stöbern in den Artikelgruppen. Auf der linken...

www.kraeuter-und-duftpflanzen.de · Rühlemann's Kräuter und Duftpflanzen

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tenjuu99(天重誠二) @tenjuu99@hollo.tenjuu.net
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無党派層が自民に行ったのと、立憲支持者が2割減、公明支持者も約3割減

今回、中道が候補を擁立した202選挙区のうち、調査が実施できた200選挙区をみると、無党派層で中道候補に投票したのは33%で、自民候補に投票した40%に及ばなかった。前回、立憲が候補を立てた207選挙区の無党派層の投票先は、立憲が46%で、自民の22%の倍以上だった。 今回の200選挙区では、中道支持層の91%が中道候補に投票している。また、昨年参院選の比例区で立憲に投票したという人のうち、今回中道に投票したのは78%。昨年公明に投票したという人で、今回中道に投票したのは73%だった。

https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASV283V9JV28UZPS00DM.html

昨夏参院選で公明や立憲投票、今回は「中道」7割超　朝日出口調査：朝日新聞

　衆院選の公示直前に立憲民主党と公明党が立ち上げた中道改革連合は、比例区だけでなく、選挙区でも苦戦を強いられた。朝日新聞社が投開票日の2月8日に実施した出口調査を分析すると、支持率で自民党に大差をつけ…

www.asahi.com · 朝日新聞

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin

Link: hyperallergic.com/curating-a-s
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin

I would never have proposed this exhibition in her lifetime. This is, after all, a writer who said in an interview, “Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over.”

hyperallergic.com · Hyperallergic

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Honič Péra 24 hodin @honicpera@snac.lab8.cz
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Sobotní demonstrace odpůrců olympiády v severoitalském Miláně přerostla v násilnosti, když zhruba stovka protestujících házela na policisty dělobuchy, dýmovnice a lahve. Informovala o tom agentura Reuters s tím, že policie dav rozehnala vodními děly. Zimní olympijské hry, které začaly v pátek, hostí Milán společně s Cortinou d'Ampezzo.
🔗 https://czch.tv/yLl9oz

Demonstrace odpůrců olympiády v Miláně přerostla v násilnosti

Sobotní demonstrace odpůrců olympiády v severoitalském Miláně přerostla v násilnosti, když zhruba stovka protestujících házela na policisty dělobuchy, dýmovnice a lahve. Informovala o tom agentura Reuters s tím, že policie dav rozehnala vodními děly. Zimní olympijské hry, které začaly v pátek, hostí Milán společně s Cortinou d'Ampezzo.

ct24.ceskatelevize.cz

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