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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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私には6歳になったばかりの息子がいますが、彼が20歳になるまでの間に徴兵制が復活する公算が、きわめて高まったように思わざるを得ません。この選挙で高市を支持したすべての人間に禍あれ。

子もなく無責任なネトウヨが高市を支持するならともかく、社会的な地位も責任もありそうな層が支持するのは思いのほかです。自分の子どもや弟が徴兵にとられるリスクを考慮さえしなかったのだろうかと。

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아니 나 진주역에서 내려서 대합실로 나오자마자 대기하던 사람들이 박수치더니 이것저것 막 손에 쥐어줌;

- 레쓰비 커피 (feat. 코레일 부산경남본부)
- 핫팩 (feat. 고향사랑기부제)
- 쌀(!)
- 한과 (feat. 진주시농산물도매시장)
- 물티슈 (feat. 진주시농업기술센터 농축산과
- 그 외 여행가이드, 쌀 소비 촉진 캠페인 팜플렛 등

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주어는 ‘누가 했는지’를 밝히는 자리이자 책임자가 앉는 자리다. “인공지능이 일자리를 빼앗는다”는 말이 반복될수록, 인공지능은 도구가 아니라 행위자가 된다. 비용 절감과 해고를 결정한 사람은 문장 밖으로 밀려난다. 기술은 판단을 돕지만 선택을 대신하지 않는다. 일자리를 줄이는 것은 기계가 아니라, 사람이다.

진짜 주어 [말글살이]

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I posted this earlier today, but realized it was not a reasonable time for US folks. So here goes: The big is now on sale, 20% off. Only available in the US, shipping locally. There are 87 left and we will likely never make one of this size again. I have some cool new things planned and clearing them out would be a big help. Thanks!

shop.joinmastodon.org/products

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I posted this earlier today, but realized it was not a reasonable time for US folks. So here goes: The big is now on sale, 20% off. Only available in the US, shipping locally. There are 87 left and we will likely never make one of this size again. I have some cool new things planned and clearing them out would be a big help. Thanks!

shop.joinmastodon.org/products

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This morning I promoted nolto.social, a platform that was made - at least I thought so, to be a Fediverse based alternative to LinkedIn. As I'm getting more and more annoyed by LinkedIn and all the useless posts over there, I was happy to find an independent alternative.

nolto.social still worked this morning, but when I came back later; i found the project deleted and at least when you are viewing the website from your smartphone, you see a message from the developer of nolto.social where he states that this project was never meant to grow. Obviously this was just a one person project who became overwhelmed by the success of the platform and by the fact, that companies started creating profiles and nearly 1000 people joined within a short time period. But now it seems that this project ran out of control and the maintainer decided to pull the emergency break. He is also talking about negative feedback he received for the platform and even personal harrassment.

It is sad that a promising project like this had been terminated, but I can understand what made the maintainer doing so. Managing a business platform can become a fulltime job quite fast and it also requires technical ressources and money to run these resources.

I firmly believe that we need an alternative to LinkedIn. I believe that people don't want all this bullshit posts just created to please the algorithm and to generate likes and feedback. And I believe that people would like a business network which is nothing else than a business network - no space for bursting egos and self promotion, but a space for connection and serious discussion.

Fediverse would be the ideal space for this. But as we know, if business networks are successful, they require more and more attention, more ressources, more money. And at this is the problem. When you need money to run your social network, it's tempting to ask yourself how you could generate money by using the ressources you already have, which are user data...

I don't see a solution for this now, just sharing some thoughts.

Icon of an goodbye waving Elephant, dressed in a suit holding a business suitcase. Written below is: Nolto was never meant to grow.
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I wanna share a thought I'm incubating for very long: is just a matter of greed or it's something most software companies, especially in the space, needs to do to survive?

Back in 2018-2019 I found out the awesome Affinity suite for graphic design who offered a fast, compatible, good looking alternative to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign for a very low price and no subscriptions. While I'm not very skilled in graphic design and Gimp and Inkscape are more than enough to cover my need I still bought the license to their software out of the admiration for their work and I did that again when V2 came out despite not really needing to update. For a while I even considered to apply to work with them since I believe in fast and polished software and they seem among the best in doing that but never tried since I lacked that much experience with modern C++.

Some years later they were acquired by , obviously the promised to keep improving and never put a subscription on it but it seems that they're taking steps towards it. They made the application "free as in free beer" (good... I guess...) but it now requires a Canva account to work and now it regularly contacts Canva servers to check activation status (despite it costs 0). Then they integrated features on it but these are paywalled, they started to paywall some features from the older version too (not many features but still...), its rumored they'll introduce "collaboration" features (of course paywalled) and I can't wait to see what's going to happen once becomes a public company 🙄 I totally expect Canva to turn them into "Adobe but slightly less evil/expensive". It's like seeing a parasite consuming from the inside a company and a software package I used to love and sooner or later only an empty shell will remain.

Now its easy to blame Canva, human greed or le evil capitalism for this but I wonder if Affinity higher ups had alternatives that allowed them to keep their lights open without being assimilated ehm... acquired by big corp.
There's only a fixed amount of features which makes sense to include in a graphic design software and a fixed amounts of bugs to fix before software becomes rock solid therefore sooner or later you run off of reasons to convince your customers to open their wallet and buy the new version of your software, the old just works well enough. This on a software which is already a niche selling only to the relatively few professionals who trust them and take the plunge leaving Adobe behind and to software enthusiasts like me. Therefore you have only a fixed amount of versions and a fixed amount of sales before the market becomes saturated to death and at that point what would you do? Fall standing up for your principle (at the cost of your employers losing their jobs) or get acquired winning a nice paycheck for yourself and buying some times for your employers too? Its not an easy choice.

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주어는 ‘누가 했는지’를 밝히는 자리이자 책임자가 앉는 자리다. “인공지능이 일자리를 빼앗는다”는 말이 반복될수록, 인공지능은 도구가 아니라 행위자가 된다. 비용 절감과 해고를 결정한 사람은 문장 밖으로 밀려난다. 기술은 판단을 돕지만 선택을 대신하지 않는다. 일자리를 줄이는 것은 기계가 아니라, 사람이다.

진짜 주어 [말글살이]

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