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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By the way, Wikipedia is here!
And is doing all the good Fediverse organizations things!
Hosting their own instance ๐
Verifying themselves โ
Adding alt-text to their pictures ๐
They have nowhere near the follower count they should have! Add your support by following them here: 
@wikipedia
Tiny reminder FediFriends to not forget to add alt-texts to your beautiful pictures and funny memes.
Let's keep the Fediverse inclusive and accessible for all! 
we've never seen love levels like this
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A person just โstoleโ Triton, my native omg.lol client, and removed all the references from the README file where I ask people to reference the original project and give me credit for the app.
They didnโt fork it, so that people donโt realize itโs a fork of another project.
They also changed their README file to point to their own zip file, which Iโm not downloading, and neither should you. I donโt know whatโs in it.
They even created a website, hosted on GitHub Pages, for it, with a link to their โbuilds.โ
That pisses me off. Really. I spent years building the app. I put a lot of my personal time into building it for me and for the community, only for someone to steal it as theirs, publish builds, and wipe my name from it.โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Help me with a Star on the original project to keep it higher in search results. Thanks!
(Ars) Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
Link: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026071
Skadi in the sun #cats #caturday #CatsOfMastondon
Tiny reminder FediFriends to not forget to add alt-texts to your beautiful pictures and funny memes.
Let's keep the Fediverse inclusive and accessible for all!
Sunday night and on the deck, it's:
Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
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Watch out! here are 3 signs to tell if you are looking at fox-generated text! 
Look out for un-human text. Fox training data often leaves hallucinations inside passages, such as โwafโ, โwarf, โwoofโ, and โyipโ.
Foxes often reveal themselves throughout their textsโ leaving distinguishable watermarks for authenticity reasons. Watch out for symbols in the likeness of 
, , or 
The fox will sometimes make itโs presence unknown, which can be countered by offering the fox an unrefusable offer. Replies to disguised foxes such as โpat?โ can often push the fox to reply with something like โwruf!! 
waff warff !!1! 
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Here's a thought experiment.
Imagine a stamp mark with the words "Made with #AI" on it.
If you see this mark on a picture, illustration, mobile app, song, movie, or story - do you get the notion that this product is of higher, lower or unchanged quality?
If you see two identical products for the same price, where one has an AI mark and the other doesn't - which one would you buy?
Thanks to AI weโre being flooded with Discord like alternatives. Brave new world. Soon every kid has their own app where they can jump up and down all by themselves.
We need a noncommercial AI-free parallel internet curated by librarians.
Created and consulted by humans only.
It's the only way 
Too sleepy, missed #Caturday
The Council shall decide your fate... once orange gets their brain cell back
@catsaladCat ๐๐ฅ (D.Burch) 
โ Itโs always the orange one.
I wished more media was writing not just about how the "AI" buildout increases prices but actively bars people from building their own independent infrastructures.
"AI" is not just poisoning the infosphere but taking away your ability to build alternatives. In the end only Big Tech Cloud and the way it's often used against the users is left.
Does anyone love trackballs as much as I love trackballs?
๐ฒ๏ธTrackball Gang ๐ฒ๏ธ
what matrix communities are you in? I want to use matrix/element more.
Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court
Link: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Palantir-vs-the-Republik-US-analytics-firm-takes-magazine-to-court-11176508.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025188
We need a noncommercial AI-free parallel internet curated by librarians.
Created and consulted by humans only.
It's the only way
If you haven't checked out my new collection yet please do! I'm still trying to make enough for rent and bills this month + last month; every sale helps. If you can't purchase please share this post to give me more visibility!
Check out this collection and more โ https://cvkvlv.com
Goal for January/February: $1812/$6000
Mvto! (Thank you!)
what matrix communities are you in? I want to use matrix/element more.
we've never seen love levels like this
(100%) โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ
Sunday night vibe from these two #catsofmastodon
@jerryWary Jerry
I hate to be a doom sayer, but I'll just throw out there that I've seen no evidence that this is going to become less of a problem as opposed to more.
@wdormannWill Dormann @jerryWary Jerry
The allure of using AI is the Siren song apparently few can resist.
How Is Data Stored?
Link: https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-is-data-stored
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960485
itโs possible i have a problem
Ars Technica retracted an article about how AI is making the world worse because...
the Ars article itself contained AI-generated quotes in it.
Welp, we had a decent run, folks. But it's time to call it.
Iโm late to the game but allow me to post this photo of my cat.
We talk about #HolosSocial forgetting some of you might not know this project.
#Holos is a full ActivityPub server running on your device. Currently on Android, next on iOS.
We already introduced #E2EE DMs and #ActivityPub identity through custom domains. You own your followers, your keys, and your identity. Relays are just infrastructure.
On the footer of https://holos.social we added pages explaining the project. Have a look!
Mastodon: 
@HolosSocial Don't hesitate to share
Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
i got fired ๐ -- NO! i got laid off! i'm not useless ๐
#getfedihired
over 30% of devs got the boot.
hit me up for #frontend #wcag #accessibillity #css #semanticWeb #informationArchitecture #solutionArchitect #componentLibraries
๐ณany help and pointers much appreciated. Primarily Oslo hybrid.
I am "nervous about my laptop sitting at an angle because that can damage the hard drive" years old
I am "nervous about my laptop sitting at an angle because that can damage the hard drive" years old
similarly, "nervous about fridge magnets near my computer" years old
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Frodo: "If you ask it of me, I will give you the One Ring."
Galadriel: "You offer it to me freely. I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this.
In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a QUEEN!
[epic winds]
Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the SEA!
STRONGER than the foundations of the EARTH! All shall love me, and DESPAIR!
[winds die down]
I passed the test! I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel."
Frodo: Uh, so that's a "no"?
Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State
Link: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/amazons-ring-and-googles-nest-unwittingly
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023238
Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
I enjoy that on French news ICE sounds like "lice". And they don't shy away from words like Gestapo and fascism. At least not the station I'm listening to.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@lvalenta/116076260956354055
It does not, proving my point.
I enjoy that on French news ICE sounds like "lice". And they don't shy away from words like Gestapo and fascism. At least not the station I'm listening to.
Pastel tรก muito chateado que nรฃo foi pros bloquinhos hoje 
Frodo: "If you ask it of me, I will give you the One Ring."
Galadriel: "You offer it to me freely. I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this.
In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a QUEEN!
[epic winds]
Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the SEA!
STRONGER than the foundations of the EARTH! All shall love me, and DESPAIR!
[winds die down]
I passed the test! I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel."
Frodo: Uh, so that's a "no"?
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wlroots 0.20 Nears Release With New Protocols, Enhanced Vulkan Renderer
Version 0.20 of the popular wlroots Wayland support library is nearing its official release. Over the past week were two release candidates for wlroots 0.20 were published for this library used by Sway, Wayfire, Cage, Gamescope, and numerous other Wayland compositors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/wlroots-0.20-Released
Evan Prodromou
