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.

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RE: cosocial.ca/@mhoye/11607109251

Feckin' heck. Yo, any of you lot out there "doing your own research" on this steaming pile of sociopathy that is "the Epstein files" better start scrubbing images from your downloaded materials. Happy to bet my lunch money that CSEM possession accusations against all those replicating the filebase for research and journalism are on DoJ's roadmap.

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Despite the supposed ‘ceasefire,’ Gaza is still being starved, bombed, and invaded by Israel in real time. The genocide in Palestine has not stopped and Canada is complicit. The bombs and shells raining down on Gazans are being made with Canadian technology and assembled with hundreds of Canadian parts.

On Monday, February 16th AT 5pm PT / 8pm ET, join me and Dr. Yipeng Ge for a critical conversation on Canada’s complicity in Israel’s genocide, the rise of anti-Palestinian racism, and what we can do collectively to end the occupation and fight for liberation and return.

RSVP 👉 avilewis.link/sol-sesh-5

Poster for Solidarity Session #5: Ending Canada's Complicity in the Genocide in Palestine. With Avi Lewis and Dr. Yipeng Ge. Hosted by Emma Jackson. Monday, February  16th at 5pm PT / 6pm MT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET / 9pm AT / 9:30pm NT. RSVP at Act.LewisForLeader.ca/Pal-Solidarity-Session.
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It's been a long time coming, but the Unicorn repository has officially been transferred to django-commons.org! 🎉

This move ensures that Unicorn will continue to get updates going forward and should allow other collaborators to work on the project easier than before.

The new repo is at github.com/django-commons/djan (although github.com/adamghill/django-un will redirect for a little while).

Lots of fixes and some features are planned for upcoming releases, plus maybe a few other surprises! 🦄

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RE: fosstodon.org/@unicorn/1160657

Very excited about the transfer of django-unicorn.com to django-commons.org and thrilled that it is here to support the ecosystem.

Special thanks to @ryancheleyThe B is Silent for the initial work setting this up, and github.com/cunla for actually doing the transfer! 🙌

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@SnoopJ @jonnyjonny (good kind) @MeyerwebEric A. Meyer experiencing the bad old days definitely helps, but the fundamental thing is "do you understand the problem domain". I am frequently annoyed by CSS due to its *inherent* complexity, but I don't just remember Netscape Navigator 3, I remember FrameMaker. I remember Quartz Xpress. Even if you've seen other *good* solutions, CSS is still kind of a miracle, and anyone who thinks it's "bloated" just doesn't appreciate the complexity of the challenge it is addressing.

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I suspect it won’t be long before all compiled software (apps) can be decompiled into readable source code.

There’s a large corpus of training data (open source) and there’s a tight verification loop (compile a guess at what the source is and see if it matches).

LLMs will figure out how to decompile small functions, and will gradually learn how to decompile more complex stuff.

I think within 2 years, all iOS apps will effectively be open source.

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If you use AI-generated code, you currently cannot claim copyright on it in the US. If you fail to disclose/disclaim exactly which parts were not written by a human, you forfeit your copyright claim on *the entire codebase*.

This means copyright notices and even licenses folks are putting on their vibe-coded GitHub repos are unenforceable. The AI-generated code, and possibly the whole project, becomes public domain.

Source: congress.gov/crs_external_prod

Excerpt from the linked document. It reads "The AI Guidance states that authors may claim copyright protection only “for their own contributions” to such works, and they must identify and disclaim AI-generated parts of the works"Excert from the linked document:

Three copyright registration denials highlighted by the Copyright Office illustrate that, in general, the office will not find human authorship where an AI program generates works in response to user prompts:

1. Zarya of the Dawn: A February 2023 decision that AI-generated illustrations for a graphic novel were not copyrightable, although the human-authored text of the novel and overall selection and arrangement of the images and text in the novel could be copyrighted.

2. Théâtre D’opéra Spatial: A September 2023 decision that an artwork generated by AI and then modified by the applicant could not be copyrighted, since the applicant failed to identify and disclaim the AI-generated portions of the work as required by the AI Guidance.

3. SURYAST: A December 2023 decision that an artwork generated by an AI system combining a “base image” (an original photo taken by the applicant) and a “style image” the applicant selected (Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night) could not be copyrighted, since the AI system was “responsible for determining how to interpolate [i.e., combine] the base and style images.”
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