What is Hackers' Pub?

trying to do laundry but a cat is sleeping on me and making cute little snores

Digital verification today is a mess. We used to have things like Keybase and PGP where you had to manage your own digital vaults, but that was too hard for most people. Now, the internet has split into three main paths: the Big Tech Way where you rent your identity through Passkeys, the Sovereign Way where you own your codes like Matrix or rel=me, and the Official Way where you use inescapable government IDs like EUDI for banking and travel.

An alternative approach is "identity through participation" found on the modern version of Freenet, a 2026 project built on a foundation from 1999. Here, you exist because you interact with people and help the network, using Ghost Keys to stay trusted without giving away private details. The goal is to use your official ID to prove you are a real person, but then use that proof to power a private ghost key so you can move around the web without being tracked.

However, we are now entering the era of mercurial cores, a problem where computer chips make tiny, invisible mistakes in their math, as explained in the 2021 research paper "Cores That Don't Count" by Google engineers. It is a risk because if a chip makes a mistake when you first create your digital key, that key is born "broken" and won't work correctly. The only way to survive this is through a Swarm, where your identity is checked by many different chips at once. If one chip makes a mistake, the rest of the network catches it and keeps your digital identity valid.

Ghost Keys and Cypherpunk Reputation Systems
This video features Ian Clarke, the creator of Freenet, explaining how ghost keys and reputation systems solve the problem of trust and identity on the decentralized web.
https://youtu.be/_RowDLJ17W0

"Last time I saw you, you were this tall,” the old man says, holding his hand down low.

"Yeah, I grew.” The teen flips their hair. "And I'm totally a dick now."

Yesterday some people on the internet chose to send me extremely hurtful emails filled with negativity:
https://gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/emails-received-on-valentines

TIL: “ai;dr”

"Last time I saw you, you were this tall,” the old man says, holding his hand down low.

"Yeah, I grew.” The teen flips their hair. "And I'm totally a dick now."

Do nothing

ダイスラリー、後攻やる意味が無さすぎて即サレ安定すぎる

場に変なモンスター勝手に出されるから、G禁止なのにマルチャミー系とか泡が死んでクソ先行有利環境になってる

個人的には言語分野におけるAI万能論はさほど万能とは思ってなくて、AIの衣を纏っていなくても裸でそれができるという強みは奪えないどころか、AIを着ていないとまるでポンコツという、学習しない故のAI使用者無能論になってしまうのではないか的なヤバさを感じるところもある。

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116063785665412449

There are now 58 big plushies left (US only), and 22 small ones (US, UK, EU).

RE: https://todon.nl/@burnoutqueen/116077392487236740

💯 Every single trans person has earned my never-ending respect for being themselves, even when it puts your life at risk.

#TransRights are #HumanRights

@glyph Oh, no. I may have questions for you at some point.

(Not now, just the docs on pywin32 suggest grief and strife, and I feel for you on that.)

✍️「iOS 27」は“立て直し”のアップデートに？コード大掃除でバッテリー持ち改善へ https://netaful.jp/ios/0191039.html

Should I stay or should I go? If I go there will be trouble, but if I stay it could be double.

#Plant populations within fragmented #landscapes retain persistent #genetic signatures of past demographic crashes, specifically reduced genetic diversity and increased inbreeding, which remain detectable long after the population size appears to have recovered.
#Conservation #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology #Botany #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/cons02122601.html

트럼프가 쿠바 원유 제재로 정전이 심각한듯...

Is there an #electronics community on here?

私にとっても Web です間違いない

あなたの生涯で最大の発明はインターネット？ - YAMDAS現更新履歴 https://yamdas.hatenablog.com/entry/20260216/the-greatest-invention-is

日本円で10万を切るなら、まぁ「低価格」なのかな。

低価格MacBookの噂：A18 Pro、12.9インチディスプレイ、価格は699ドルか - ネタフル https://netaful.jp/macbook/0189982.html

そういえば、投稿全体にCWをかけずとも画像だけをNSFWとしてマークできるのだったか（Mastodon初心者？？？　いや、普段からとっても健全な画像しか投稿しないから慣れていなくて……（？））

Sleeping with towels #sheena #cats #silentsunday #catsofMastodon

Of course my writing sounds like an LLM. I've been writing technical doc for 40 years. Who the fuck do you think the LLM trained on?

The barbarians are inside the gates.

“[W]e live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.” — Stephen Miller
https://digbysblog.net/2026/02/14/stephen-millers-theory-of-power/

“Drilling mud is a witches’ brew of chemicals. Society will have to pay for the cleanup, and the company that made all the money just closes up their doors and they’re on down the road. I have been screaming about this forever.” https://www.texasobserver.org/radioactive-oil-and-gas-waste-north-texas-elementary-school/

#environment #ClimateChange #politics #USpol #news #Texas #NorthTexas

日本円で10万を切るなら、まぁ「低価格」なのかな。

低価格MacBookの噂：A18 Pro、12.9インチディスプレイ、価格は699ドルか - ネタフル https://netaful.jp/macbook/0189982.html

youtube.com/shorts/kNNnz... 아마존은 하나의 상품에 여러 판매자가 등록되서 상품리뷰는 공유되고 판매자 리뷰는 따로 되는식이던데 쿠팡은 어떤 방식인거지 상품등록 따로에 걍 쿠팡 맘대로 따로 등록된 같은상품 리뷰들 가져다 붙이는거면 악질인데

'짝퉁'인데 버젓이…쿠팡, 왜 이런 시스템을? #JTB...

Went to Ikea today and stumbled upon this lone 3-pack of their recent Bilresa scroll wheel remotes. You can get it in white too, but I think they’re much more fun in colours. More smart home stuff should come in not just white or black.

Ikea of course recommend using it with their own system, but it’s a Matter over Thread device, so I connected it with Home Assistant no problem, with HomePod minis acting as Thread border routers. That’s three brands of devices working together seamlessly.

“More than 16 million tons of #radioactive mill waste removed from project near the Colorado River"

While this is good and a rare example of corporate responsibility in the #nuclear industry, this doesn't mean the 16M tons of waste are “safe” now, they are just someplace else.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/02/15/radioactive-waste-cleanup-moab/

“Officials spark backlash with controversial #nuclear waste plan: 'This is a message to all of us’

A new Croatian law that legalized a #radioactive waste disposal center on the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina is outraging citizens and officials, reported BalkanInsight”

My waste, your backyard. Checkmate.

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/radioactive-waste-facility-croatia-bosnia/

불세출의 명작입니다.

日本円で10万を切るなら、まぁ「低価格」なのかな。

低価格MacBookの噂：A18 Pro、12.9インチディスプレイ、価格は699ドルか - ネタフル https://netaful.jp/macbook/0189982.html

That Manhattan Project Waste still seeping around…

“‘Downblending’ under scrutiny in Wayne Disposal radioactive waste trial
Republic-owned Michigan Disposal is not mixing Manhattan Project-era waste with other material to lower #radiation levels, but could do so, employee testifies.”

#nuclear #Detroit

https://planetdetroit.org/2026/02/wayne-county-radioactive-downblending/

이게뭐야

ソースネクストからなんかやべえのでてきた
https://www.sourcenext.com/product/0000014988/

電子書籍の画面スキャンして透明テキストいりPDF（AI可読）なのつくるやつ

これ電子書籍サービス各社の利用規約的にだいたい真っ黒では…と思ったら製品ページにこんなことかいてあった。ユーザに著作権法の確認も求めてるww

> 0秒読書は「自分の本を、自分のために」活用することを前提にしたソフトです。画面キャプチャを行うため、著作権法および各サービスの利用規約を確認のうえ、個人利用の範囲でご利用ください。作成したPDFの第三者共有・配布は行わないでください。

Ideas for an Agent-Oriented Programming Language https://lobste.rs/s/kia98b #plt #vibecoding
https://davi.sh/blog/2026/02/markov-ideas/

I Gave Claude Access to My Pen Plotter

Link: https://harmonique.one/posts/i-gave-claude-access-to-my-pen-plotter
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004384

Meine Schüssel ist verdächtig leer! 😾

이게뭐야

You cringe at some of your past actions? Well past me would cringe at my current actions. I am free :3

Pax is bedded down in her little bed. She's also keeping an eye out for wandering marauders.🙀
One can't be too careful around here!😊

Have a wonderful night, or a fantastic day! We hope you'll have ample reason to smile. Please take care and stay safe.💖

#Pax #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #Cat #Catstodon #MastoCats #FediCats #Katze #Katzen #Chat #Gatos #AdoptDontShop

私にとっても Web です間違いない

あなたの生涯で最大の発明はインターネット？ - YAMDAS現更新履歴 https://yamdas.hatenablog.com/entry/20260216/the-greatest-invention-is

Unsupervised bathroom usage is prohibited 🐈‍⬛

I have just returned from getting some groceries.

Now I am thinking about a nap.

[:: points to image in above toot ::]

Should I stay or should I go? If I go there will be trouble, but if I stay it could be double.

Pax is bedded down in her little bed. She's also keeping an eye out for wandering marauders.🙀
One can't be too careful around here!😊

Have a wonderful night, or a fantastic day! We hope you'll have ample reason to smile. Please take care and stay safe.💖

#Pax #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #Cat #Catstodon #MastoCats #FediCats #Katze #Katzen #Chat #Gatos #AdoptDontShop

Writing my own position statement for the upcoming Open Social Web un-workshop.

A main reason I ever started #FediForum is that I wanted to attend an event like it! And sometimes you have to create things yourself if they don't exist yet.

Trans people are some of the realest people of all because they chose to be themselves in the face of a world that tells them differently.

@cstrossCharlie Stross