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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Everyone's use of LLMs provides cover for these uses of LLMs. All of it

Careful use isn't _more responsible_ than this use, the aggregate of careful use is _responsible for_ this kind of use. It's hair in fascism's beard

This is what the cute "it has legitimate uses" stuff contributes to the world. Well done more open minded than thou* LLM experimenter, this is the future you're helping the worst men on earth win. Far more and far worse consequences for far more people

techdirt.com/2026/02/19/doge-b

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Micro-horror of this moment:

- In the HTML/DOM event model, events have names like "click" or "submit"; you attach an event handler to a tag by saying "onclick" or "onsubmit".

- Apparently, for thirty years, I've been writing this wrong, like "onClick" or "onSubmit". Web Browsers just sorta roll with this and convert to lowercase. React/Preact JSX do the same conversion and do not flag an error, they pass it through and then the browser accepts it.

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Welcome to the Thistle and Moss Family, a federate safe space.
1. thistleandmoss.com
2. thistleanmoss.org - Pixelfed
3. https://thistleandmoss.onlinem - Live Owncast
4. thistleandfern.org - A queer Journey
5. thepoetmiranda.com -- the best trans poet ever.
6. onyxrose.net - POC Goodness
7. keiraofthestars.beehiiv.com - Best scifi/spec fiction you can get.
8. wuzzittoya.org/ - Queer porch talk at night live.

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My favourite piece of internet today is the theory that Jesus was actually a type of yeast.

Turns water into wine
Floats on water
Makes bread for 5000 people
Put in a cave for 3 days and lo - he has risen!
Jesus was a sourdough starter.

Also this would imply: We should be calling him 'Mother' not 'Father'

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If one creates an UnsafeMutableRawPointer using allocate() and then calls deallocate(), isn't the pointer pointing to now-arbitrary memory?

How does one safely "forget" the pointer? Only thing I can think of is making the UnsafeMutableRawPointer property optional so it can be set to nil after the deallocate() call.

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Oh boy. New government website has dropped.

"The site features a graphic of a ghostly horse galloping above the Earth, and the motto: “Information is power. Reclaim your human right to free expression. Get ready.”"

theguardian.com/technology/202

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MDN describes the "maxlength" property on an HTML <input> as imposing a maximum number of "characters". Does "characters", in this context, refer to bytes, unicode codepoints, or unicode grapheme clusters?

(MDN screenshot of a table)
maxlength
Maximum length number of characters of value
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