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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Look at these kittens. One is a perfect little baby who just wants to explore and be loved. One is a little guy with big feelings, who ALSO just wants to be loved, but doesn’t want to make new friends yet. She may be 1/3rd his size (and only a month or so younger) but she’s like 2 months ahead on socialization and confidence.

Little tabby kitten face of a very small ~3 month old kitten  Black ~4-5 month old kitten face with coppery eyes
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I have clearly heard from a plurality of my audience—a minority, but a substantial plurality nonetheless—that they would like me to write about AI less. This is a desire which I would absolutely prefer to oblige. But I really need AI to meet me halfway here and stop fucking up every single thing about our industry, geopolitics, every hobby related to computers, and the planet

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here’s a worked example of why nobody believes firefox’s AI kill switch will be anything but a marketing wedge

these showed up in my File menu, displacing the New Private Window item and fucking up my muscle memory, in spite of having browser.ml.enabled set to false. the setting for this is a new nonsensically named option, extensions.ml.enabled. a merry fuck you to the guys who showed up in my replies telling me to just disable the config flag I already disabled months ago.

a screenshot of the mozilla Firefox menu bar on macOS. the file menu is open, showing two new menu items “New AI Window” and “New Classic Window” right above the existing “New Private Window” option, physically displacing it down on the screen. neither of the new menu items has a keyboard shortcut.
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I tried an experiment. For 3 months I made a conscious effort not to use “identity” framing (“I am XYZ”) when describing myself to others, instead using behavioral framing (“I like XYZ” / “I tend to XYZ” / etc.). I wasn’t perfect for sure.

But it was interesting how it changed the way people reacted to me.

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25 years ago today, Bad_CRC posted the primordial meme video "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" on Newgrounds.

In honor of this important anniversary, I downloaded the original Flash SWF file from Internet Archive, played it using Ruffle in a full-screen window, and replaced the audio with the original MP3 of "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by The Laziest Men on Mars. So this is probably the highest fidelity encoding possible, without going back to the original forum GIFs.
jwz.org/b/yk3i

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I tried an experiment. For 3 months I made a conscious effort not to use “identity” framing (“I am XYZ”) when describing myself to others, instead using behavioral framing (“I like XYZ” / “I tend to XYZ” / etc.). I wasn’t perfect for sure.

But it was interesting how it changed the way people reacted to me.

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