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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It might be not possible to create a generic #ActivityPub server, but nevertheless this is an interesting thought experiment that helps simplify the protocol and figure out the best way to extend it.

I've been thinking about generic servers for quite some time (because this complements my work on nomadic clients), here are my notes:

https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/fc48/fep-fc48.md

@eyeinthesky

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/eyeinthesky/statuses/116095929503245071

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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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