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.
Age verification is here, and it's reshaping the internet -- now it's hit Discord. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/discord-voluntarily-pushes-mandatory-age-verification-despite-recent-data-breach
おはようございます☀️
Amid disappointing earnings, Pinterest claims it sees more searches than ChatGPT https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/amid-disappointing-earnings-pinterest-claims-it-sees-more-searches-than-chatgpt/
個人サイトのネタにテストファーストでVueのアプリを書いてみようと思ったんだけどどこから始めていいのかすらわからないなw
Fact-checking Jim Ratcliffe's claims about immigration and benefits
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15x4x7p93lo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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엔드필드에서도 문명밴드 캐릭터들의 디자인보다 본 크러셔의 디자인이 월등히 좋다고 생각하고.
역시 나는 전통적인 판타지보다는 모던 판타지(그것도 많이 너저분한 뉴욕 느낌의)를 조금 더 좋아하는 것 같음.
當過一陣子偏綠柯粉，不過2019年就醒了（軍購搶銀行扁鑽說那陣子）
으히히 첫 P1!
Pax is getting cozy in her bed. I think Lullaby Land is calling her name. 🥱💤
Goodnight, or good day, to you!
We wish you peace and comfort. Please take care and be safe. 💖
#Pax #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #Cat #Catstodon #MastoCats #FediCats #Pets #Animals #Cute #Tabby #Kitty #Katzen #Katze #Chat #Gatos #AdoptDontShop
I've been using Linux professionally every day for 25 years and I still have to look up the difference between useradd and adduser
오늘의 자기 성장을 위한 작은 다짐들
1. 작은 성취에도 스스로를 격려한다
2. 실수를 두려워하지 않고 배움의 기회로 삼는다
3. 긍정적인 마인드로 하루를 시작한다
4. 나의 가치를 믿고 자신감을 키운다
5. 매일 조금씩 발전하는 나를 사랑한다
Following years of heavy technology use, the government is investing in traditional learning tools and implementing a nationwide school phone ban for 2026, aiming for better student focus. www.thethinkacademy.com/blog/edubrie... Smart move.
“이런 에너지를 가져다줘서 감사하다.”
지난해 10월 26일 텍사스주 포트워스에서 출발해 108일 동안 약 3700㎞를 걸어서 워싱턴에 도착한 불교 승려들의 ‘평화를 위한 순례’에 미국 사회가 열광하고 있습니다. ‘미국인들이 순례단에 왜 이토록 뜨겁게 반응하느냐’는 질문에 한 참가자는 “많은 사람에게 평화의 메시지가 절실해서”라고 답했습니다.
[르포] 승려들 3700㎞ 침묵 행진…신음하는 미국 뒤...
Sadhi Luokomaa 曾經遇到過一些情況，人們期待被收養者對自己能夠來到芬蘭心懷感激。這種期待在關於移民的討論中也同樣存在。
//這段話精準還原了我這些年的經歷和心路，也許不只是我：
“第一個問題總是：你從哪裡來？年輕的時候我總是會回答，但現在長大成人後，我學會了劃清界線。我沒有義務向所有人講述自己的故事。” Luokomaa 如此描述。
”Puhun äidinkielenäni suomea, mutta minulle puhutaan silti englanniksi” – adoptoidut aikuiset kokevat ulkopuolisuutta | Kotimaa | Yle
https://yle.fi/a/74-20207983
高市早苗選前對食品類消費稅歸零兩年的政策很多人質疑那財源要從哪裡補。
她提出了一個讓我非常希望台灣也跟進的法案。「對宗教法人課稅」日本的宗教法人有很高的免稅額，一旦這個免稅一旦解除，預估有五兆日圓左右的額度能入庫。
宗教產業日本、台灣都是很大的黑洞，同時也是金流上的很大的灰色地帶。
中國的侵略（統戰）策略裡宗教是一個很重要的部份，透過宗教信仰很容易養成盲從的人，中國國內對宗教信仰嚴控，對國外卻也利用宗教體系去攪亂對手，課稅這件事情不是單純的收錢，而是得先明確金流，一旦金流明確化外國勢力的介入就容易警戒。
高市早苗這個政策同時對稅收跟國安有正面的意義。我非常希望台灣也跟進。
但，如同這新聞標題寫的，在日本這是一個禁忌，這灰色地帶的金流對政治人物也很方便，高市早苗在勝選後的第一波新政策就投出這個震撼彈，大概是要趁著氣勢最強、黨內反高市派系還不能大聲的時候一口氣把這個國內的大問題解決，坦白說這政策可預期的政治人物的反彈會非常大，就算在這時機也不知道自民黨內會不會有人反彈到脫黨的震撼彈。期待高市早苗會成功推進，也希望有她的先例在台灣也跟進
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/2d5f497e207fe509d7a4e7221bb8476919bd0ebe
Ubisoft workers say company is still "not listening" following 1,200-person strike, legal action could be next aftermath.site/ubisoft-worker...
昨日は崎陽軒のシウマイをたくさん食べたり河津桜を見に行くなどしてた
올림픽 전 ‘메달을 따면 어떨 것 같냐’는 물음에 “웃을 것 같다”던 쇼트트랙 신성 임종언(19)은 자신의 생애 첫 올림픽 메달(동)을 딴 뒤 코치의 품에 안겨 남몰래 눈물을 훔쳤습니다. “나 자신을 믿고 경기를 펼쳤다”는 임종언은 막판 아웃코스 뒤집기로 화려한 데뷔전을 치렀습니다.
남자 쇼트트랙 1000m 동메달 임종언 “끝까지 발 내...
This week on my revolution.social podcast I talk to 
@mikeMike McCue of Flipboard, the dot.social podcast, and former Netscape executive. We go through the way we created an open internet on the web and how that was lost in the social media smartphone era, concluding with the struggle to restore an open social internet for all based on protocols like ActivityPub, ATprotocol, and Nostr. https://fountain.fm/episode/0vjUP8LWvOjSpIPto25z
RE: https://www.threads.com/@mid810/post/DUqyZkikpXO
Middle曾經被網民笑是香港「發情文學」的代表
連這樣的創作者都要說話，很能說明這個地方發生了什麼事…
this vlog i put on TikTok earlier is actually a meticulously composed essay, im pleased both by the rhetorical structure i devised and the fact that i was able to perform it with the illusion of spontaneity. a 3 minute vlog on tiktok is a risky bet, a 3 minute vlog in which your ultimate thesis is implied but unsaid riskier still, but it's doing well so looks like i hit the mark with the target audience
We're Doomed. Now What? by Roy Scranton, 2018
An American Orwell for the age of Trump, Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day with fierce insight and honesty. We're Doomed. Now What? penetrates to the very heart of our time.
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The Aliens are here
Emiliania huxleyi is one of the most abundant organisms in today’s oceans.
From:
Experimenting on a Small Planet.
Composition with floppies, using two different kind of fills: cross hatching and BenDay dots.
CMYK on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.
Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/floppy/
#MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI #PlotterTwitter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #PenPlotter #Floppies #FloppyDisk
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FR#152 – The DSA Needs Big Tech
Last week was the FOSDEM conference, where my time was mostly spend chatting with people so I had little time actually listen to all the talks at the event itself. I want to spend some time on one panel in particular, because while rewatching the panel I realised it surfaced some pretty deep structural issues between the fediverse and the DSA.
The panel “The Fediverse and the EU’s Digital Services Act” brought together Alexandra Geese, a Member of the European Parliament and one of the lead negotiators of the DSA; Felix Hlatky, the recently appointed Executive Director of Mastodon; and Sandra Barthel, founder of the Alliance of Open Networks. The title of the panel suggested this was about complementary approaches to the same problem of how Europe can protect democratic discourse online, but turns out there’s a bit more to it.
Geese laid out the DSA’s most powerful provision clearly. Article 34 requires Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs, defined as platforms with more than 45 million monthly active users) to assess systemic risks, and allows the Commission to mandate changes to algorithms, targeting systems, and business models. This, Geese argued, is what makes the DSA meaningful. It gives Europe the ability to intervene in how platforms shape public discourse, without having to become a “ministry of truth” that decides what content is or isn’t allowed.
Hlatky then described the fediverse as a fundamentally different kind of network. “It’s a network of a lot of small networks. In fact, in the fediverse there’s around 30,000 active small servers.” He went on: “From a regulatory point of view, it’s very attractive because they all of them default under the SME exemption, small medium enterprises, so all of these servers are very small so they fall under this exemption.” When asked what makes the fediverse a nicer place than mainstream social media, Hlatky pointed to design and culture: “Polarizing content on Mastodon and the broader fediverse, it will never be amplified in the same way as in other networks, simply because of design choice, that this content doesn’t have this strong amplification. But the second thing that is probably more important is that trust and safety is not an afterthought, something that is bolted on later because we need this for regulatory compliance, but it’s part of the initial product design process.”
These are both reasonable statements on their own, but positioned next to each other it is visible that both Geese and Hlatky describe projects that work against each other. Geese’s entire model depends on VLOPs actually existing, as without a platform that crosses the 45 million monthly active users article 34 of the DSA has nothing to act upon. The DSA’s power to force algorithmic changes, to mandate risk assessments, to reshape business models, all of it requires a centralized platform large enough to qualify. Without a VLOP, the DSA actually does very little. On the other hand, Hlatky, as the Executive Director of one of the largest software developers building the alternative, is explicitly celebrating the fact that nothing in the fediverse qualifies for the DSA, and that the structure of the network makes it likely that nothing will ever qualify. The network architecture of the fediverse creates the possibility for the large majority of participants (if not everybody) to avoid DSA regulation via the SME exemption.
During the panel, Geese was remarkably candid about the geopolitical pressure the European Commission faces when trying to enforce the DSA against US-based platforms. She described how US government threats, including tariff escalation and NATO posturing, are actively deterring the Commission from enforcement. In her framing, DSA enforcement is no longer just a regulatory question, and she sees it as one of three fundamental geopolitical conflicts facing Europe, alongside defense against Russia and economic competitiveness, and argued that enforcing the DSA requires political courage at the highest levels of European leadership.
This problem of political will only matters if VLOPs exist to enforce the DSA against. In a network of 30,000 small servers, there is no entity for the Commission to pressure, and no platform for the US government to shield through diplomatic coercion. The fediverse sidesteps the geopolitical vulnerability that Geese described, but does so by eliminating the regulatory lever entirely.
The very geopolitical pressure that makes DSA enforcement difficult is itself an argument for the fediverse. If the Commission can be coerced into not enforcing against US-based VLOPs, then a network architecture without VLOPs is more resilient, not just technically but geopolitically. But that resilience comes at a cost to both sides of the current power dynamic. For the US, a world without VLOPs removes the ability to fuse state power with platform power, the dynamic that currently allows the US government to shield companies like X and Meta from European regulation. For the EU it removes the regulatory lever that the Commission has spent years building, and with it the role the EU has carved out for itself as the global counterweight to Big Tech. The EU’s position in digital governance, as well as the way the EU understands itself, is built around being the entity that regulates platforms. Without platforms large enough to regulate, that position loses its foundation.
For Hlatky, this avoidance of the DSA is not a big problem, as he sees many positive traits for the fediverse, such as polarizing content not being amplified and trust and safety being integrated into product design. However, these traits can better be described as how Hlatky views Mastodon, as those are not characteristics that are intrinsic to an ActivityPub network, and the claim that trust and safety is integral to Mastodon’s product design is contested within the community as well. While other ActivityPub software also proclaims these traits, it might just be an emergent property that flows from the type of people and their interest who are the early adopters and new builders of of open social platforms. In a potential world where open social protocols gain mass adoption, I’m not sure these characteristics will hold up, especially if it becomes a hyped new technology that attracts a very different user base with other priorities.
This is something I have written about before: one of the reasons the European Commission actually needs platforms like X to exist is that it has built its entire regulatory infrastructure around the assumption that VLOPs exist. Open social networks don’t just offer an alternative to Big Tech, they undermine the assumptions that European digital regulation is built on. The panel at FOSDEM was collegial and constructive, and everyone agreed that the fediverse is good and the DSA is necessary. But nobody asked the harder question: if the fediverse succeeds in replacing centralized platforms, what regulatory framework takes over from the DSA?
For Protocols For Publishers I gave a presentation on the state of the open social web, explaining to publishers how both ActivityPub and atproto have different visions for how a social network can function. In my opinions these visions can be complementary to each other, with atproto well suited for the distribution of news, and ActivityPub creating new primitives for community building. The slide deck can be downloaded here.
PieFed has seen a sustained growth of new users over the last week, increasing it’s total user base by 50% in a week. The main driver of growth for PieFed, created by New Zealand based developer Rimu Atkinson, is a popular post on the BuyFromEU subreddit that describes the platform as an European Reddit Alternative. While impressive growth in relative terms, in absolute terms the entire network is still small, with some 8k monthly active users (MAU) for PieFed and 36k MAU for Lemmy.
Mastodon has announced that they are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment, where they’ll recommend “the closest server geographically that is in the correct language during the sign-up flow.” Mastodon using the mastodon.social as a default server for signup has been a point of critique for years within the community, and the organisation is now addressing this feedback.
Holos continues to be one of the most interesting projects moving ActivityPub forward. It runs an ActivityPub servers on your mobile phone, with a relay that handles your identity, as well as data forwarding for the periods when your phone is inaccessible. The latest update allows you to set your identity based on a domain name you own, fairly similar to atproto. Once the project launches as a 1.0 I’ll write a more detailed explainer about it and why I think it matters, for the protocol-minded people I already recommend taking a look.
FediMTL is a conference about digital sovereignty and the social web, that will be held on February 24, 2026 in Montreal (streaming options also available).
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr152-the-dsa-needs-big-tech/
스트리트 포토그래피, 더 넓게 다큐멘터리 사진은 초기부터 몰래 찍고 속여 찍었다는 의혹과 비판이 이어지던 장르이다. 보도, 공공 기록에서부터 개인 인격의 침해까지 이어지는 스펙트럼 중 어느 부분에 선을 그을지는 그 사회와 시대의 맥락 속에서 비교형량 후 결정할 수 밖에 없다. 관대하던 나라들도 변하고 있으며, 더욱이 과거와 지금의 사진 기술, 문화는 크게 다르다. 사진 그리고 영상은 사회의 룰에 따라야 한다. 불타는 예술혼이 그에 반한다면, 최소한 그로 인한 책임과 비난은 그 예술가가 져야 할 짐이다. 사회는 그 대가를 무겁게 매겨야 하고.
닉 1:1 등신대 피규어! 에? 단돈 1199만원! 미친놈아 게다가 할인행사로 10만원을 깎아드립니다! 1%도 안 되잖아 Tq 배송비 10만원 별도. 미친놈아
The 
@nlnet GenAI policy is the only one I've come across so far actually making a clear statement on the incompatibility of LLM outputs with open source: https://nlnet.nl/foundation/policies/generativeAI/
Have any of the big license organisations (thinking OSI, FSF, Creative Commons) said anything like this (either pro or anti)? Can LLM-derived code be released under the GPL if you don't know where it really came from?
Or would org funders (I'm thinking of Google, MS, etc here) disapprove of such statements?
⚠️ Age verification is the antithesis of privacy, it always requires identifying users and invading their privacy, to learn more read our article about the dangers of age verification. 📣
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/
Age Verification Wants Your Face, and Your Privacy
Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict access to content online have been multiplying in recent years. The problem is, implementing such measure necessarily requires identifying each user accessing this content, one way or another. This is bad news for your privacy.
www.privacyguides.org · Privacy Guides
Link author: 
Em 
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✨ Wanna learn more about how to protect your privacy? 🔒 Check out our website https://privacyguides.org where we publish news and recommendations surrounding privacy and security tools, services, and knowledge. 💛
⚠️ Age verification is the antithesis of privacy, it always requires identifying users and invading their privacy, to learn more read our article about the dangers of age verification. 📣
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/
Age Verification Wants Your Face, and Your Privacy
Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict access to content online have been multiplying in recent years. The problem is, implementing such measure necessarily requires identifying each user accessing this content, one way or another. This is bad news for your privacy.
www.privacyguides.org · Privacy Guides
Link author: Em @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
2024年我國輸美總項數共有1萬1414項（具實績5236項），包括屬232條款下的產品1150項（具實績774項），以及談判前適用對等的10264項（具實績4462項）。近兩年美國已躍升為我國第一大出口市場，占我國對全球出口的3成。
台美關稅拍板！ 行政院：輸美產品豁免產品達2072項 https://ec.ltn.com.tw/article/breakingnews/5342116
의지의 최가온은 올림픽 3연패를 노리던 클로이 김(미국·88.00점)과 오노 미츠키(일본·85.00)를 제치고 시상대 맨 꼭대기에 섰습니다. 눈 덮힌 설산에서 애국가가 울려 퍼진 것은 한국 겨울올림픽 사상 처음 있는 일입니다. 넘어져도, 다쳐도 절대 포기하지 않고 두려움을 극복했기에 얻어낸 최상의 결과물이었습니다.
집념의 최가온, 눈발 속 가장 높이 날았다…금메달 확정...
Experimenting on a Small Planet by William W. Hay, 2016
A History of Scientific Discoveries, a Future of Climate Change and Global Warming
This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate. Bill Hay takes you on a journey to understand how the climate system works.
HOW ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
IS DRILLING HOLES IN THE
SHIP OF STATE
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
—Edward Lear, “The Jumblies”
From:
Global Warring
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Shamblog
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
🤨 TF did I just read
나한테 기대하는 게 전혀 없는
그런 친구가 필요해.
Now or Never by Tim Flannery, 2018
Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future
A forceful call to climate change action and a pragmatic roadmap toward sustainability from the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers . Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available, Tim Flannery offers a guided tour of the environmental challenges we face and their potential solutions in both the big picture and in specific detail.
![He explores everything from techniques for storing the carbon that dead plants release into the earth to the fragile balancing act between energy demands and food supply in India and China, from carbon-trading schemes in South America to a collaboration between a Danish wind-energy company and an automobile manufacturer that may produce a viable electric car and end the reign of big oil. Now or Never is a powerful, thought-provoking, and essential book about the most urgent issue of our time. It burns with Flannery's characteristic mix of passion, scientific precision, and "offhand interdisciplinary brilliance" ( Entertainment Weekly). "Shocking . . . [Flannery] writes for a general audience with passion and clarity.
" —Jim Hansen](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/055/684/291/965/206/original/a99962a2223d30cf.jpg)
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