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.
Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.
EDIT: Diskussions under this are fine, but I do not want this to turn into an ad hominem attack to Cory. Be fucking respectful
Mal ehrlich: knapp 20cm Schnee innerhalb einer Nacht sind zwar nicht wenig, aber fรผr Winter in #Wien nicht auรergewรถhnlich. Auf sowas kann man sich vorbereiten.
Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantirโs activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court. Read the story that made Palantir sue us โ now available in English. #palantir#freemedia
Zur Erinnerung: Von den 38 SEK-Beamten, die am 19.02.2020 nach dem rassistischen Anschlag in Hanau im Einsatz waren, sind 13 in rechtsextremen Chatgruppen aktiv gewesen.
i just released an experimental version of this feature. i don't love how it looks but i do love reading this way. i'm going back through my timeline looking for chains of posts that i didn't read before that i can (more easily) read now!