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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oh good, the “you’re just doing purity culture” thing is already taking hold over on bluesky

so the line is now supposed to be that local LLMs are good and moral and SaaS LLMs are bad, when local LLMs come from the same fucked system that’s also actively making it impossible to buy computing hardware powerful enough to run even a shitty local LLM? is that about right? I’m supposed to clap cause someone with money is running a plagiarism machine but slower and shittier on their desktop?

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Sup is meant for those who use Snapchat, Whatsapp and Messenger daily, but also brings a clean and refined experience to people who prefer other protocols.

The modular nature of Sup separates identity from protocols to connect you to your people, wherever they are, with push notifications, dark mode, and even video chat!

This should exist, but it would be difficult to grow from scratch...

Unless you had two platforms you could integrate with first class support.

😎

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Google announced that as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. This registration will involve:

- Paying a fee to Google
- Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
- Providing government identification
- Uploading evidence of the developer’s private signing key
- Listing all current and future application identifiers

keepandroidopen.org/

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Got nerdsniped by a request from @thisismissem.social and made a little visualizer tool demonstrating the various ways you can represent "how long is this string?" in Unicode:

data.runhello.com/bs-limits/

- Bytes (in the standard UTF-8 recording)
- UTF-16 (irrelevant except in JS, where it's relevant)
- Codepoints (unicode characters)
- Grapheme clusters (the visual "characters" you see on screen)

And how the divergence of the two relates to Bluesky's "unusual" post limit rules.

@mcc At one point, at least, the Bluesky Android app and web app were calculating this differently.

I had to use the app to get those flags into my profile, because on the site they'd each increase the character count by a lot more.

(And actually... it looks like this is still the case??)

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I recently posted about archive.today (also archive.is, archive.ph, archive.fo, archive.li, archive.md, and archive.vn) using its archive links to launch a ddos attack against a blogger they accused of doxing them: mathstodon.xyz/@11011110/11602

That attack triggered (at least, the English part) to discuss banning archive.today links, and the ensuing discussion turned up evidence that (as part of the same dispute with the same blogger) archive.today had also tampered with its archived content to falsify certain names in old archived links: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi

This led to a quick close of the discussion and a consensus to remove all archive.today links from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi
For the same reasons I have removed all archive.today links from my blog, where I had been occasionally using them as a convenient way to access paywalled content. I suggest that others remove their links as well, lest you unwittingly become part of additional ddos attacks and falsification.

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"トランプ大統領は20日、記者会見を開き、「深く失望させられるものであり裁判所の特定の判事たちを恥ずかしく思う」などと述べ、最高裁の判事たちを批判しました。"

私はこのアメリカ大統領を恥ずかしく思う。

【速報中】米最高裁 相互関税などめぐる裁判 トランプ政権側は敗訴も10%の新たな関税課す命令に署名の考え | NHKニュース | アメリカ、トランプ大統領、関税 news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10

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@Mastodon is changing course when it comes to how people join the platform. In late 2022, the team decided to send sign-ups directly to their server in order to make onboarding more straightforward. But that didn't align with the promise of decentralization. Here, Community Director @haubleshannah aubry explains the new approach to server recommendation, along with some other ways Mastodon is helping build community.

flip.it/1bWN26

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Got nerdsniped by a request from @thisismissem.social and made a little visualizer tool demonstrating the various ways you can represent "how long is this string?" in Unicode:

data.runhello.com/bs-limits/

- Bytes (in the standard UTF-8 recording)
- UTF-16 (irrelevant except in JS, where it's relevant)
- Codepoints (unicode characters)
- Grapheme clusters (the visual "characters" you see on screen)

And how the divergence of the two relates to Bluesky's "unusual" post limit rules.

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i probably shared this one already, but i have just finished building a digital version of a 300+ printed photo album just now, and it's so much work that i feel i need to share *something* out of it (the whole album can't be shared publicly because it's too personal)

night cityscale consisting of Montreal's iconic "FARINE FIVE ROSE" warehouse with the "bonaventure" freeway snaking around it, with car lights dragging on it due to a long exposure. the Samuel-de-Champlain bridge over the Saint-Lawrence river is being built in the background.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. Walkie-talkie is such a silly name for an object. Imagine if we let that person name other things: sitty-watchy (a telly), brainie-rottie (internet), sittie-travelie (train), drinkie-chokie (boba tea but only when white people drink it for the first time), lickie-freezie (ice-cream)

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@Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified: @thelocalstack @doekmanZaͩnͦsͤt̀́rͤa̅̆̈ @FurryBeta @knowproseTaran Rampersad @annehargreavesAnneH

In Europe there is an alternative that verifies your ID better *and* is data minimizing.

Most European ID-Cards have a cryptographic chip that enables verification of identity via a NFC-coupled Smartphone-App.

What is special: You can select in the App which info to give away. Only age, only lastname, only address, etc.

Identity provider is the state and in Germany the App is open source, called .

@alex_mastodonAlex S. @Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified: @thelocalstack @doekmanZaͩnͦsͤt̀́rͤa̅̆̈ @FurryBeta @annehargreavesAnneH What is probably the most interesting to me is the sudden interest in 'age verification' or any other verification.

These websites and services survived all these years without them. Then 'bots' showed up, and they didn't bother that much with it at all - X is a great example, as is anything Meta, as is LinkedIn.

What they had a problem with was when showed up and collapsed the field.

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We're looking for two Backend Ruby on Rails Web Developers to work with us remotely as part of the core team.

Ideally you are:

1. Very experienced with Ruby on Rails
2. Proficient in PostgreSQL, and familiar with Redis and Elasticsearch
3. Experienced in developing maintainable and scalable web backend and API systems

This remote full-time position requires a 4-hour overlap with the CET timezone.

For more info/to apply: jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/ac9d

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aftermath.site/ram-prices-hdd-

"The rabid adherents of AI – not those who feel compelled to use it for work, but the ones who won’t shut the fuck up about it – are too blinkered, greedy, or ignorant to see the writing on the wall. They do not love computers; maybe they never did. They love money and having a mistake-prone LLM do their work for them. They love increasingly ugly leather jackets. They fear falling behind their peers, and would do anything to keep up no matter the impact on the world. They love the insular fascist tech culture that radiates like a cancer from the Bay Area, a once vibrant and interesting place made foul by their presence. They love offloading their tasks to something mimicking a human voice, and scaring themselves into thinking it has personhood despite the entire premise being flawed from the jump. They love deskilling themselves in real time and fooling themselves into thinking they’re Albert Einstein 2."

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