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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I find arguments that all 90s pixel art can only be appreciated correctly on a CRT a little unconvincing when pixel art on the Game Gear and Game Boy doesn't use meaningfully different techniques.

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RE: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11609771

Every so often, Cory Doctorow explains the way he works and I greedily gobble up the words as either proof that I'm on the right track, or as evidence that I need to rethink my approach.

This time, thankfully, there's more of the former and less of the latter:

"The AI bubble sucks. AI itself is a normal technology:
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It's not "unethical" to scrape the web in order to create and analyze data-sets. That's just "a search engine"
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There's plenty of useful things people can do with AI. There's plenty of useful things people will do with AI. AI is bad because it's an economic bubble and a grift, but not because we've created a bunch of utilities that would – under normal circumstances – be called "plug-ins"."

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Brazil’s data protection authority (ANPD) became autonomous in 2022 and was further strengthened in 2025 as a full regulatory agency.

This signals growing enforcement maturity under LGPD, clearer regulatory authority, and long-term governance stability.

For companies operating in Brazil, privacy compliance is shifting from emerging requirement to strategic expectation.

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For fans of my thread from a couple weeks ago re: that anthropic paper about the effects of AI on learning, I collected it into a blog post with a slightly more professional tone. Should be a lot more shareable than a mastodon thread.

jenniferplusplus.com/reviewing

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RE: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11609771

Every so often, Cory Doctorow explains the way he works and I greedily gobble up the words as either proof that I'm on the right track, or as evidence that I need to rethink my approach.

This time, thankfully, there's more of the former and less of the latter:

"The AI bubble sucks. AI itself is a normal technology:
[...]
It's not "unethical" to scrape the web in order to create and analyze data-sets. That's just "a search engine"
[...]
There's plenty of useful things people can do with AI. There's plenty of useful things people will do with AI. AI is bad because it's an economic bubble and a grift, but not because we've created a bunch of utilities that would – under normal circumstances – be called "plug-ins"."

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I've been using Obsidian for my notes for a while. I just published my first addon! Since I've been writing a novel for a while, I needed a quick and easy world editor in Obsidian. And well... there wasn't one that met my requirements. So I developed one myself and would like to share it with you. It's free, but I'd be happy if you "bought me a coffee". :)

Until it's officially in the app, here's my release:
github.com/Taroslord/Hex-Carto

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⚘ nyc co-op cloud convergence #2 ⚘

this thursday february 19th at ridgewood commons from 8pm to 11pm

this one will be more hands-on than the first one

we will be looking at the ridgewood commons coop cloud deployment (to give a helping hand) and getting to know backup bot a bit better

the flowers in the flyer images were created by @frsw_franz

a flyer image of a terminal with pixel art flowers in the background. the terminal shows a user typing commands in natural-ish language and getting errors from bash:

please just deploy me some infrastructure, save me from Google 
bash: please command not found

no surveillance, no ads, looks nice, works well, no mistakes pls 
bash: no command not found

oh also community-operated and in a federated network with other tech co-ops 
bash: oh command not found

ideally none of those "message failed to decrypt" warnings but ill take what i can get 
bash: ideally command not found

dang this isnt working is it, i may need to use co-op cloud
bash: dang command not found

please also make it cute and gay, ty 
bash: please command not foundanother flyer image of the terminal with flowers in the background. it shows the event information in a cat command:

cat <<EOF 

coop cloud nyc convergence

thursday feb 18 8pm to 11pm 

@ ridgewood commons 

5-85 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385

<3

EOFa third and final flyer image of the terminal, shows figlet command outputs which create ascii art text of the inputted strings

figlet "co-op cloud"

figlet "on thursday!"
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Oh, this looks gorgeous:

> Pumpkin Spice is a Magically Cozy RPG illustrated by Simz and inspired by Kiki’s Delivery Service, Legends & Lattes, Coffee Talk, and the magical girl genre. It is a narrative first and character driven game with low prep and simple rules that follows the adventures of a young coven of witches tasked with protecting and growing a Fount of Magic… one Latte at a time!

backerkit.com/c/projects/acher

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엔드필드 보다보면 가드/캐스터랑 스트라이커의 경계가 애매함.... 설명만 보면 혼자서 1인분 하는애들이 가드/캐스터 이고 보조가 필요한 메인딜러가 스트라이커인데 당장 에스텔러는 가드인데 혼자 1인분을 못해...

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I've been using Obsidian for my notes for a while. I just published my first addon! Since I've been writing a novel for a while, I needed a quick and easy world editor in Obsidian. And well... there wasn't one that met my requirements. So I developed one myself and would like to share it with you. It's free, but I'd be happy if you "bought me a coffee". :)

Until it's officially in the app, here's my release:
github.com/Taroslord/Hex-Carto

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