What is Hackers' Pub?

ねみい

He is melting

#CatsOfMastodon

The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

#Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the products and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

We rejected this demand in its entirety.

In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

And now we see each other in court.

But why all this?

Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

All of this is making Palantir nervous.

We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

The truth.

All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

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Mood gorning

@paulPaul Haddad / @toddTodd Thomas - what’s your take on the new X API fees and does this open a door for a Tweetbot return?

Out now: @somo presents the Big Tech Lobby Playbook 🔍🚨
It exposes how Big Tech’s corporate lobbying is in a league of its own.
These giants don’t just engage with lawmakers and policy processes - they shape the
environment in which laws are imagined and debated.
Read more:
https://somo.nl/big-tech-lobby-playbook

（無理と思う人はスルーしてください）

前に進むために厳しい話にも向き合いたい。

国会が始まったら政府が「外国人政策」を出してくる。一つ二つの政策ではなく、パッケージで、どーんと。これから国を挙げての排斥が始まる。入管法改悪もその一つ。

入管法は主に法務委員会で審議される。他の委員会で話し合うこともあるけれど、採決は法務委。
衆院選前は、与党排外政党と反排外政党が張り合うことは可能だったと思う。法務委員は全部で35人。うち自民14、立憲11、他の政党と無所属が各2から1、社民とれいわは0。賛成派のほうが多いけれど委員長が立憲だったのは大きかった。

次の国会の構成は議院運営委員会でこれから話し合われる（今日最初の会合があったらしい）。委員長の座が奪われることは確実。委員の数はわからないが、衆院選の獲得議席から予想すると、自民が21以上、中道2か3、国民・維新・参政が各2、みらい1、無所属1、共産0か1。れいわ0。　...ぐらいか。

だとすると入管法に反対するのは多くて5人（無所属の議員も含めて）。少なければ2人。
あくまで予想だが、厳しいことは間違いない。

The missing digit of Stela C

Link: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/stela-c/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986248

가나디 인천공항 경복궁 굿즈샵 진출 오오오 가나디는 국력이다

@syuiloしゅいろ(本物) great monetization opportunity!
(joking, incase it isn't obvious)

RE: https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/aimxvkiqq5xo01m4

みずもちがなにかくれるみたい🍫 #みずもち

ナチと高市の一致度がすげー
#NoHateTV Vol.358 - タカイチ選挙戦略 - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3ZEdSekiQM

私のパヨヨン、電源なんだっけ…

供養

お写真ハレパネと額で一生迷ってる　展示のことなんもわからん

아 젠장 버스노선 바뀐 거 오늘부터구나!!!

갠홈 프로젝트

I hopped in my car and was greeted with a relevant warning this morning. #ICE

I CANNOT BELIEVE I HAVE TO SAY THIS:

the purpose of a voter identification card is not only to suppress the vote, but to TRACK the vote.

voter id laws in the United States have ALWAYS come down to fascists wanting to know who is voting AND FOR WHOM, so they can suppress those votes.

the SAVE Act is not only a voter suppression law, but it’s #MAGA #fascists wanting to codify that Americans do not have a right to a secret vote ―which is a HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION

#VotingRightsAct #USpol

Yesterday was quite the day! My replacement #Dell battery arrived. Opened the #laptop, swapped the battery, powered it on. It booted up but failed to recognize my SSD and thus I couldn't boot into the OS. Strange.

#BIOS showed there wasn't a battery connected. Also strange. As per Dell's documentation, I needed to completely clear the power. Did that.

Still no disk recognized. BIOS still showed I can only boot from the NIC. Great. I found the BIOS version was severely out of date by 5-6 years. Downloaded the new firmware and flashed it successfully. The laptop *still* doesn't recognize the SSD....but does recognize I have a new battery. I guess that's an improvement.

Interestingly, while using the BIOS flash tool, the laptop can see part of the SSD as I was able to see part of Debian's /boot partition.

Never in my life did I ever expect replacing a laptop battery would cause me this much pain.

Dell Latitude 5400.

How do I get the BIOS to recognize my SSD?

#help #troubleshooting

인간의 손이 닿은 갠홈을 직접 만나보세요.

We've just published a blog post about our time at #FOSDEM this year, in case you missed out - there's plenty to catch up on, from the session recordings.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/fosdem-2026-recap/

小さな家シリーズのリブートか！　インガルスの物語は自然に立ち向かう家族と成長の物語として魅力的なのも確かなので、映像化をやり直したい気持ちはわからないでもない。

しかし、映像で再現しようとすればするほど、侵略と差別が浮き彫りになってしまう。トランプの時代にしかやれない企画なのかもしれないな。

https://collider.com/little-house-on-the-prairie-remake-netflix-update-luke-bracey-pa-ingalls-good-man/

Recursive Language Models https://lobste.rs/s/s5xudm #ai
https://alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2025/rlm/

I can't stop thinking about the LLM-generated compiler that passes all the unit tests but emits inner loops that benchmark over 150,000x slower than a gcc debug build. I couldn't possibly have intentionally come up with such a funny demonstration of the point of genuine expertise https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/

では、Nawashiroに質問です

あなたの好きな曲の名前は？
A.ed25519

週1ですることは？
A.おねがい！ポストマン

あなたの座右の銘は？
A.ボーイング747

恋人のことどう思ってる？
A.AGPL-3.0

最後！誕生日、何欲しい？
A.今夜も生でさだまさし

#shindanmaker
https://shindanmaker.com/1253472

もっづ神……崇めます……

もっづ神……

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ reminds me of my favorite joke: Gonna take a hot shower. It's like a regular shower, but with me in it.

@hitori_ja_naiyo愚痴をこぼしても一人 氏へ
リクエストありがとうございました！林檎ちゃんでする

Get #FediHired!

Do you want to put your software development skills to good use, delivering services that help protect and restore Scotland's nature? We've two vacancies in our Development team for Senior Software Developers and they're now open!

https://ejki.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/job/1066

Please see our jobs portal page for more information and to apply, and feel free to send me a message if you'd like to know more about the technology we use, the team you'll be a part of and the culture we enjoy.

Does there exist a language that uses rich text? Italics could be comments, bold pointers, different colours different primitive data types...

누구에게나 퇴사의 순간은 온다.

그러나 준비 없는 퇴사는 재앙이다.

そろそろ選挙も準決勝くらいか

Well GUESS WHAT

RE: icy.wyvern.rip/notes/ailduig4ctwtw20p

그동안 통신판매하고 팝업만 했던 미국식 파이 전문점 안나미라즈가 3년 반만에 점포 오픈. 미나미 아오야마. 2월 13일. 한국에선 음식보다 각종 만화, 게임에 웨이트레스 복장 모티브로 더 유명할 듯.

なんかもっとこう、たくさんしゃべりたいんだけどな
なかなか言葉がでてこない

I am running the science fair for #GrafanaCon in April again, and just accepted an external submission for a 1:90 working model of an #offshore #windfarm turbine on a OC4 semi-submersible platform.

I know some of those words!

It's insane how many cool things I get to see through #Grafana, and sometimes I can even talk about them!

いやまて、しゅいろさんの電気責め対象選挙かもしれない……！！​​

‘성소수자 운동 발상지’서 무지개 깃발 내린 트럼프 [플랫] www.khan.co.kr/article/2026... "조란 맘다니 뉴욕시장은 “뉴욕은 현대 LGBTQ 인권운동의 발상지이며, 어떠한 역사 지우기 행위도 역사를 바꾸거나 침묵시킬 수 없다”면서 “우리 시는 이러한 유산을 존중할 뿐만 아니라 그에 부응할 의무가 있다”고 성명을 통해 밝혔다. 척 슈머 민주당 상원 원내대표도 “스톤월 국립기념물에서 성소수자 인권을 상징하는 무지개 깃발을 제거한 것은 매우 부당한 행위”라며 즉시 철회를 요구했다."

‘성소수자 운동 발상지’서 무지개 깃발 내린 트럼프 [...

こうなってくるとムーディー音楽班もほしくなってくる

서울행정법원, 변희수재단 법인 설립 허가 방치한 인권위 ‘위법’ 판결 www.khan.co.kr/article/2026... "인권위는 2024년 5월 변희수재단 법인 설립 허가 신청 서류를 접수하고 약 1년10개월 동안 허가도, 기각도 하지 않았다. 변희수재단 준비위 측은 지난해 2월 인권위가 규정에 따라 20일 이내 서류를 심사해 처분해야 하는데도 이를 하지 않았다며 법원에 부작위위법 확인 소송을 냈다."

서울행정법원, 변희수재단 법인 설립 허가 방치한 인권위...

そろそろ選挙行くか​​

겨울올림픽에서 트랜스젠더 선수가 처음으로 설원에 섰습니다. 스웨덴 프리스타일 스키 국가대표 엘리스 룬드홀름은 여성으로 태어나 남성으로 정체성을 밝힌 트랜스젠더 선수로, 이번 대회에서는 여자부 경기에 출전했습니다. 여름올림픽 종목을 중심으로 이뤄진 성별 논쟁이 겨울 무대까지 확장되면서 IOC가 준비 중인 새 규정에 관심이 쏠립니다.

겨울올림픽 첫 트랜스젠더 선수 출전…IOC, 젠더 정책...

Well GUESS WHAT

RE: icy.wyvern.rip/notes/ailduig4ctwtw20p