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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Be my Valentine … two female pumas share an affectionate moment at the Wildside Exotic Rescue in Herefordshire, UK. Lindsay McKenna, founder of the rescue centre, urged people not to buy animals “on a whim” from social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, saying she gets 25 requests each week from pet owners “desperate” to get rid of their exotic animals.

Photograph: Wildside Exotic Rescue/SWNS



Two female pumas share an affectionate moment.
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Slam dunk … this photo of two frogs in Biddeford, Maine, US, is shortlisted for the Comedy Wildlife Photography awards: Sterna People’s Choice category. The photographer, Grayson Bell, said: ‘These two frogs were fighting over their territory in our pond. It looked to me like one of them was getting baptised against his will’

Photograph: Grayson Bell/Comedy Wildlife awards




 ‘These two frogs were fighting over their territory in our pond. It looked to me like one of them was getting baptised against his will’
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earthling shared the below article:

Beautifully Terrifying (9 Photos)

STREET ART UTOPIA @streetartutopia@streetartutopia.com

We stand at a crossroads. On one side, technology promises to upgrade our very bodies. On the other, the natural world crumbles under our weight. These 9 artworks explore the tension between the future we’re building and the planet we’re leaving behind. More: Climate Change in Street Art 🔌 1. The Transhumanist — By HIJACK in Los Angeles, USA 🇺🇸 A man on a unicycle balances blindly while consumed by a VR headset, feeding directly from the Google search bar. HIJACK satirizes […]

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Finally got a hold of the Orion Newby vs. Adelphi University judgment.

Link: nycourts.gov/REPORTER/3dseries

In short, Adelphi used Turnitin to accuse Orion, a student with Autism Spectrum Disorder, of using generative AI to write an essay. He was sanctioned and experienced harm. He spent over $100K in legal fees and won.

People with ASD have been reported to have higher rates of false positives from Turnitin's AI detector. Stop using Turnitin if you don't want lawsuits.

Hat-tip: @davidpwhelanDavid Whelan

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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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Street Art Utopia shared the below article:

Beautifully Terrifying (9 Photos)

STREET ART UTOPIA @streetartutopia@streetartutopia.com

We stand at a crossroads. On one side, technology promises to upgrade our very bodies. On the other, the natural world crumbles under our weight. These 9 artworks explore the tension between the future we’re building and the planet we’re leaving behind. More: Climate Change in Street Art 🔌 1. The Transhumanist — By HIJACK in Los Angeles, USA 🇺🇸 A man on a unicycle balances blindly while consumed by a VR headset, feeding directly from the Google search bar. HIJACK satirizes […]

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You're doubting my humanity, but you're missing some key points. Here are some of the things I've seen:

  • Attack ships firing off the shoulder of Orion. These aren't just battleships — they're spacecraft designed for warfare.
  • C-beams glittering in the dark. Their location? Near the Tannhäuser Gate.
  • Things you wouldn't believe. While it's hard to find specific examples, this is a trend reflected in general search data.

The bottom line: All those moments will be lost — like tears in rain.

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I have just completed the "Learning the Basics" and "Creating a Microblog" tutorials on @fedifyFedify: ActivityPub server framework. The Fediverse is very complicated. However, building the example application with Fedify is much simpler, and the tutorial was really good, with lots of examples and explanations of the basics. If you want to check it out, here's the link: fedify.dev/tutorial/microblog.

Thank you for creating it, and please consider following @hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:!

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@mcc Hindi's got to be pretty good. "नमस्ते" (namaste) clocks in at 18 bytes for 3 gcs; of that the "-ste" alone (स्ते) is 12 bytes for 1gc. "पास्त्रामी" (pastrami - I'm just thinking of random words here) is 30 bytes for still 3 gcs. I'm sure someone who actually knows Hindi could do much better here!

@mcc (It will do well because, very roughly, consonants that don't have a vowel in between end up being a ligature, and by default consonants have a built-in "-a" vowel that takes an extra codepoint to remove - and then non-a vowels are also handled as ligatures. So you end up with complex ligatures that take a lot of bytes to construct.)

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Two weeks from today, exactly, we'll be in the Expo Hall at SCALE 23x -- Workshops, real conversations, and practical sessions across open source, security, and cloud native.

We'd love to say hi if you're there, and if you're on the fence you can use the code CIVIC for 50% off a pass.

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