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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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陳牛 @cowcfj@threads.net
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中國人背井離鄉，到哪裡都是中國人。說你是中國人，你就是中國人。

你大可以說，他犯的是香港的國安法，沒有義交他國的可能，卻偏偏還要吃一個人在監獄、年事已高的老頭的豆腐，「定義」他是中國人。

有這樣的官，來生不做中國人也很合理。比有線寬頻難取消的，是中國國籍，也只有等來生了。

黎智英可以自我認同為「中國人」，也可以選擇甘願冒險留在香港，但這pk憑什麼剝奪他的國籍呢？原來一個人的國籍，不是看他護照的顏色，是看某些官的眼色。
#黎智英

RE: https://www.threads.com/@thewitnesshk/post/DUiIivFE8QO

法庭線 The Witness (@thewitnesshk) on Threads

回應黎智英判刑　鄧炳強：在中國香港服刑非常合理

www.threads.com · Threads

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Bilal Barakat 🍉 @bifouba@kolektiva.social
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«For two years, Gaza has been a place of mass death, starvation, disappearances, attempted erasure, genocide. Now, almost without warning, it is being transformed, rhetorically, into a management problem.
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European reservations largely focus on the board’s governance structure, compatibility with EU law, and the apparent attempt to usurp the role of the UN. These concerns matter, but they are not at the heart of Gaza’s predicament, which is that its future is being plotted without the consent of its inhabitants. When it comes to Gaza’s future being treated as a development project, managed by outsiders with dubious or outright hostile intentions, European countries and institutions are apparently unconcerned.
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When the world shifts so quickly into talk of redevelopment, it is not merely changing the subject. It is demonstrating that the cost of Palestinian suffering is politically absorbable. This is why the Board of Peace is not just controversial. It is structurally violent. It is a mechanism that takes catastrophe as given and begins planning around it instead of demanding justice for it. It treats a crime as a starting point for investment.
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thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion

In Gaza, my homeland is being transformed into an engineering project

Trump’s Board of Peace is treating Gaza as a management problem, erasing Israeli crimes and the fact that the Palestinian people have rights.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org · The New Humanitarian

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It

Link: hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-redu
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so. That may sound like a win, but it’s not quite so simple. These changes can be unsustainable, leading to workload creep, cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems. To correct for this, companies need to adopt an “AI practice,” or a set of norms and standards around AI use that can include intentional pauses, sequencing work, and adding more human grounding.

hbr.org · Harvard Business Review

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@neat.computer
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RE: mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenew

Next up will be a VPN ban. Many tech-y people will see that and think “lol yeah well that’s not going to stop *me* from using a VPN”

A VPN ban isn’t really meant stop you from using one. It means when they catch you doing so, they’ll use the fact you’re using this harmless technology itself as a *pretense* to lock you up without needing to do any “hard work” (i.e. an investigator’s job) like actually confirming whether you committed a real crime.

Don’t think you won’t be impacted just because you know how to outsmart an ISP filter! This is not a plan to protect children or stop you from consuming adult media. It is a ploy to eventually eliminate ALL freedom of expression and free access to information in the UK.

And the same goes for Chat Control and encrypted messengers, btw

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Ashe Dryden @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone
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RE: mastodon.social/@verge/1160410

Two things:
1. We are creating a two-tiered internet that will see people willing to give up their IDs having one experience while those who can’t, won’t, or don’t have them missing out on those experiences or being outright excluded from whole areas of the web

2. Why you would be willing to give up your ID to web services that have such poor security in a time when identity is being weaponized by state actors is beyond me

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Matt Campbell @matt@toot.cafe
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In the short term, I guess the main thing I can do is just refuse to use LLMs. Fortunately I'm not currently working a job where LLM usage is mandated. In fact, I have some power, as technical cofounder of my tiny software company.

Matt Campbell @matt@toot.cafe
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But I think another thing that could help is to articulate a positive vision of an alternative future of programming, where we programmers grow more productive not by using ambiguous natural language to prompt probabilistic text generators to generate code, but by writing more succinct code which reliably generates lower-level code.

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Matt Campbell @matt@toot.cafe
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The combination of an anti-genAI screed that came across my timeline two days ago (garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-), plus @nolanNolan Lawson's latest blog post "We mourn our craft" (nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-), has given me a renewed desire to resist the supposedly inevitable future where we programmers are reduced to driving LLM-based coding agents and reviewing reams of generated code to make sure nothing bad slipped through, or worse, trusting yet more LLM agents to review and test the code for us.

Selfish AI | GarfieldTech

www.garfieldtech.com

Matt Campbell @matt@toot.cafe
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In the short term, I guess the main thing I can do is just refuse to use LLMs. Fortunately I'm not currently working a job where LLM usage is mandated. In fact, I have some power, as technical cofounder of my tiny software company.

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Matt Campbell @matt@toot.cafe
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The combination of an anti-genAI screed that came across my timeline two days ago (garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-), plus @nolanNolan Lawson's latest blog post "We mourn our craft" (nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-), has given me a renewed desire to resist the supposedly inevitable future where we programmers are reduced to driving LLM-based coding agents and reviewing reams of generated code to make sure nothing bad slipped through, or worse, trusting yet more LLM agents to review and test the code for us.

Selfish AI | GarfieldTech

www.garfieldtech.com

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Ashe Dryden @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone
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RE: mastodon.social/@verge/1160410

Two things:
1. We are creating a two-tiered internet that will see people willing to give up their IDs having one experience while those who can’t, won’t, or don’t have them missing out on those experiences or being outright excluded from whole areas of the web

2. Why you would be willing to give up your ID to web services that have such poor security in a time when identity is being weaponized by state actors is beyond me

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Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
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Time to dust off those early 2000s forums!

"Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults."

theverge.com/tech/875309/disco

Discord logo

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

Age verification for all.

www.theverge.com · The Verge

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social
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Discord is about to require age verification for everyone gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/disc

Discord is about to require age verification for everyone

Discord have announced that beginning in March, they're starting a global rollout of forced age verification to access all features of the platform.

www.gamingonlinux.com · GamingOnLinux

Link author: Liam@ThePlant@mastodon.social

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