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.

Hear @bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// , Founder of The cURL project, discuss the rise of AI Slop in open source on @redmonk 's MonkCast. As one of the most vocal maintainers confronting this issue (curl recently ended its bug bounty program due to the surge of low-quality AI submissions), Daniel offers a candid perspective on what AI code generation means for maintainers, contributors, and the future of open source: "it's important to not get stuck on the AI part but on the abuse part." redmonk.com/videos/daniel-sten

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個展はその人の写真を見に行くから雰囲気重視で小さいやつとか入れても良いと思ってるんだけど、グループ展だとそのグループ展そのものを見に行く人と、見たい人が写真を展示してるから見に来る人の2パターンで、そんな中で自分の写真を見てもらう・目に入れてもらうってのを手軽にクリアするのがデカい展示なんすよ。

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Been on LXQT on my computers (main, secondary and ancient) for about a month now and I'm pretty happy. I'm not missing much and it wasn't (apart from setting it up in the first place) not much of an effort to adapt.

I just updated the Ghostbsd boxes to 25.02-R14.3p8

Thanks to the Qogir theme for applications and icons and the marvelous wallpapers by @orbiteOrbite / OrbiteLambda lambda I felt right at home and thanks to the LXQT people, both the FreeBSD and GhostBSD team, the FreeBSD port maintainer for giving us the ability to chose.

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The support in the is now officially a first class citizen and not considered experimental any more:

git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/9fa7; for more details, see also: lwn.net/Articles/1050174/

This is one of the highlights from the main for 7.0 that was merged a few hours ago ; for others, see git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/a9aa

Screenshot from the first linked page that removes the experimental classification.
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Hear @bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// , Founder of The cURL project, discuss the rise of AI Slop in open source on @redmonk 's MonkCast. As one of the most vocal maintainers confronting this issue (curl recently ended its bug bounty program due to the surge of low-quality AI submissions), Daniel offers a candid perspective on what AI code generation means for maintainers, contributors, and the future of open source: "it's important to not get stuck on the AI part but on the abuse part." redmonk.com/videos/daniel-sten

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People new to deployment have always been nervous about unanticipated spikes in costs.

I think this snippet from an HN comment points to why those fears are still quite reasonable:

> Just a few years ago badly behaved scrapers were rare enough not to be worth worrying about. Today they are such a menace that hooking any dynamic site up to a pay-to-scale hosting platform like Vercel or Cloud Run can trigger terrifying bills on very short notice.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

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Furthermore, I think Bluesky is providing something valuable: a lot of people are trying to leave X-Twitter *right now* because it has become a completely toxic place.

The fact that Bluesky's team has managed to scale to receive such users is incredible, nearly feeling miraculous.

On the fediverse we also see a lot of accusations of Bluesky being owned by Jack Dorsey, and this isn't true. My understanding is that Jay performed an impressive amount of negotiation to allow Bluesky to receive funding independently.

These days Jack Dorsey is instead focusing on Nostr, which I can only describe as "a sequel to Secure Scuttlebutt with extremely bad vibes where bitcoin people talk about bitcoin"

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I participated a bit in the process of when Bluesky was Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal's personal project. I also believe Jack and Parag were sincere about Bluesky as a decentralized social network protocol that Twitter would adopt, which is the directive that Bluesky was given as an organization.

When Jay Graber was awarded the position to lead Bluesky, I was not surprised. To me, Jay was the obvious choice to deliver what Bluesky was being directed, and I do think Jay is an excellent leader

There is also something which Bluesky gets right which the fediverse does not. I mentioned that Bluesky uses decentralization *techniques*, and the most important of those is content-addressing. This allows content to exist even when a server goes down.

This is a great decision and I have advocated that the fediverse do so as well. In fact several years ago I wrote a demo in @spritelyThe Spritely Institute's early days showing off how one could build a content-addressed ActivityPub in a spec-compatible way.

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Remember that the idea of "fully self-hosting" on Bluesky/ATProto at this point is primarily abstract; nobody is really doing it. But of course there's a place where tens of thousands of people are running their own servers for millions of users, and that's the fediverse/ActivityPub.

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As said, tens of thousands of people are self-hosting *today*. Fediverse software doesn't just scale up, it scales *down*.

GotoSocial is cheap enough on resources where you can run it for family and friends on a raspberry pi or spare laptop you have sitting around.

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Now you may be saying, "Christine, this is really unfair, because you're looking at ActivityPub servers which are only dealing with a small amount of the network, what if it were an ActivityPub mega-node? What are the costs THEN huh?" and "What if we hosted just PART of ATProto?"

What then INDEED

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The thing you often get seen thrown around is "it's amazing, I had no idea a decentralized protocol could just work like that! How on earth did they solve that in a decentralized system and so FAST too!"

It's simple: all those things "just work" because Bluesky is centralized.

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Now you're hitting the point in this thread where some of you may be thinking "aha! this is where Christine is saying that the fediverse/activitypub are awesome and atproto is terrible!"

you have NO IDEA HOW MUCH I CRITICIZE THE FEDIVERSE ALL THE TIME, I do it all the time, and will later here

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But where was I? Oh yes. We had talked about why PDS'es aren't enough (blog/google analogy), relative costs of hosting things on ATProto vs ActivityPub, etc etc

But we haven't gotten into the really interesting parts which are the structural analysis stuff, so let's move onto that

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And before we make it any further can I say that I watched a nice medley of David Bowie and Cher singing, and it was so lovely youtube.com/watch?v=KPlN8RBP-W

@mlemwebDr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber said "of course it's very heteronormative despite having two queer coded icons on the stage and ISN'T THAT THE WAY I guess

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