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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In the old Valiant Comics Super Mario Land comic book, Tatanga comes to Earth to lure Mario in "because in this world, you only live once". And Mario gets the help of a couple teenagers (of course), one of which knows the game really well and he points out a pattern of blocks that indicates an invincible star is in it, and he asks Mario why Tatanga's minions would build things that help Mario, and Mario says they don't do it for him, they build the patterns for their own comfort and convenience, and I still think about that to this day.

Comic panel showing 2 teenagers with Mario. 

Teen 1: "Mario I got an idea, look at those blocks, that pattern!"

Teen 2: I get it, but why do Tatanga's engineers build stuff that might help YOU, Mario? 

Mario: They don't. They build stuff for their own comfort and convenience. It can be used against them though, if you know how, and we know how!
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been informed trans mom dot love might need to relocate :thounking: what bad timing, right when I don't have expendable money even for groceries…

I don't see any ways I can keep my services up except dusting off some of these hard drives if they still work, spending a few precious weekends I'd rather be out hiking on fiddling with operating systems on raspberries/pine64s/etc., and literally running trans mom dot love from my living room on home fibre with dynamic IP?? because like the only price I can pay for a server at the moment is 0€, and the only server I know of that costs 0€ is my raspberry. forced permacomputing lmao

let's see, what are the main services that I run at trans mom dot love:

- main mastodon
- secret gotosocial alt
- email
- nextcloud
- vaultwarden
- matrix
- photoprism
- https files (mostly images for the blogs atm)

I do still have access to the dreamhost shared web account that costs 0€ since mid-2000s for reasons I won't get into, but that's a non-root old-fashioned webhosting account where I can ssh and put things on port 443, but I can't run my own daemons or other software. at best php+sql stuff (using fcgi and their own sql server). I can use it to share static files I think, but not nextcloud or anything that looks like "cloud storage". mastodon is right out.

mastodon can probably be run from my home, slowly, even with dynamic IP (I've done it before). maybe it would be a good time to migrate my main to gotosocial and retire from using masto altogether.

email I guess the only solution is to give up self-hosting and use the Dreamhost server. at least I have [redacted] for political activities.

vaultwarden is a bit of a challenge :thounking: I suppose I could revert to keepass, using one different keepass database for each of my identities (and therefore losing the functionality of group account sharing), because then I just have to sync some files which could probably be achieved with syncthing.

photoprism will have to be replaced by some offline photo management thing, assuming my old HDDs are still not too banged up, and I will just have to live without the ability to invoke my old glamorous selfies / porn when I'm outside the house, which I rarely do anyway.

nextcloud. there's two uses for this: one is sharing files / calendar / etc. with the family, the other is me accessing notes and documents when I'm outside. I suppose both could be reasonably achieved with a living room server. local access won't be slow, and remote access will be very slow but should be doable for stuff like notes or emergency getting the pdf of a form. if I'm unlucky I may have to wait a dynamic-DNS propagation.

matrix is not as necessary for me as it once was. these days I only use it to talk with the family about certain topics I'd rather self-host. but at this point it might be easier to move everyone to something like Deltachat etc.

in any case I guess what I can be sure of is I'll have to resume working on my long-abandoned homelab and make this precarious living room LAN halfway decent, if it's going to be hosting half of my Internet-facing services...

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대한민국의 대부분의 규제는 자국민의 민원고도화된 관료주의라고 쓰고 내 책임을 면피하기 위한 장치가 주력이지 외교통상은 몇몇 분야를 제외하고는 할랑한 편입니다.
당장 네이버 스토어, 쿠팡에 팔리는 중국,동남아산 물건들만 봐도..읍읍
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아니 근데 모-든 나라에 관세 10% 추가 하면 모든 나라의 수출 경쟁력에 문제 없는거 아닌가요(..) 미국 내수로 해결할 수 있는게 그리 많지가 않을텐데. 배도 램도 못 만드는게... (폭언)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a6qvfkbrohedqy3dt6k5mdv6/post/3mfcsfc6ghc2o

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기업들이 불법 결론난 관세 환불 소송 걸거고(트럼프 눈치본다고 조심스럽겠지만 안하면 주주한테 경영진이 소송 맞음) 트럼프가 기자회견에서 자기는 배법원과 국회 따위 신경 안 쓰겠다고 발언했지만 앞으로 (특히 경제) 정책에 있어 의회 눈치를 안 볼 수가 없게 되었다는 의견.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a6qvfkbrohedqy3dt6k5mdv6/post/3mfcsfc6ghc2o

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The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

Turns Out There Was Voter Frau...

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> They then played recordings of humans saying either “bouba” or “kiki” and observed the [newborn chickens’] behavior. When the chicks heard “bouba,” 80 percent of them approached the round shape first and spent an average of more than three minutes exploring it compared with an average of just under one minute spent exploring the spiky shape. The exploration preferences were flipped when the chicks heard “kiki.”

scientificamerican.com/article

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Chord plug 같은 비관세장벽은 Free Volt 시대에 사소한 문제지만
진짜 개빡센 비과세장벽은 원자재, 각종 인증(KC,FDA, ISO를 다 지켰니 어쨌니)
그리고 그 중에 최근 제일 잘 알려진 비관세장벽RE100이 있겠습니다.
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청와대는 컨트롤 타워잖아요. 컨트롤 타워의 사람이 퇴근 안하고 자리에만 앉아있어도 눈치보여서 퇴근 못하는게 한국 조직 문화인데, 밑에 지자체나 일선 기관은 어떨까요. 솔직히 걱정됩니다. 안그래도 초과 근무가 일상화인 곳이 공무원 조직인데, 가장 위에 있는 사람들이 이러면 이건 일상화를 넘어 정당화가 됩니다. 이건 미안하다고 넘어갈 문제가 아닙니다. 위험한 일입니다. 공무원 조직은 우리나라 노동현장의 많은 곳에서 기준선이 되기 때문입니다. 기준선 자체가 기준을 어기고 있는데, 민간영역의 사람들이 그것을 지키려 할까요?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uabkr6tn7ru4b4e5e6udleuf/post/3mfcbk54jnc2k

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out of curiosity, when did you first start using unix systems?

(please no replies with details on this one, if none of them fit exactly that's ok, just trying to get a very rough sense)

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RE: phpc.social/@ramsey/1161049199

This here; when the tools are fit for purpose and make engineers’ jobs easier, you have to pry them from our fingers. All you have to do is look at the dedication to vim/emacs adaptations you’ll see in older coders to see the lengths to which we go to use the tools we feel work best.

It is a massive quality red flag if you have to force your staff to use a tool.

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あのオフ会があったからか、
若い層のオフ会参加については
リスク等々言われるのはわかってるけど
なるたけ参加できるよう
自分主催のオフ会くらいは
門戸を開いてあげたいのです
:ameownodfast:

RE: https://misskey.io/notes/aiz21q7lpcv208eq

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わたしの はたしか
入り浸ってた三国志好きの集まる
ホームページの人たちみんなで
横浜中華街の関帝廟にお参りに行こうって
話に参加したのだったかなぁ。

当時高校生2〜3年だったんだけど、
20代から50代まで幅広い大人に囲まれて
若くして三国志に興味のあるのを
いいねいいねと褒められた良き思い出
:blobcatmeltlove:
まだ三國無双すら出てない頃だったからねぇ

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Remember, these guys fired all the people who actually know what they're doing because "DEI" and then hired the absolute dumbest people imaginable because of "meritocracy" and... then they do stuff like leaving comments enabled in their "this is how we concentration camp" PDF.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/post/3mfcr7xrutk2p

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@Matt_Noyes

- driving a gas powered car about 10km generates about 2kg CO2 equivalent.
- eating a single beef meal is about 9kg CO2 equivalent.
- Using an LLM for half an hour is about 0.005kg CO2 with a dirty coal electrical grid, much less with renewables.

Maybe we have other things we should be working on first.

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@phildini Perhaps, I certainly don't have any kind of statistical ethnographic data on the concept. For me, personally, this type of now-lost SV-dominant tech monoculture may have been a brief aberrant moment but it was one that provoked a major disruption to my own life and a move across a thousand miles. And this toxic residue of that historical moment has world-historic amounts of resources that it is using to destroy the planet, so, it still feels pretty relevant.

@glyph the fact that this narrative echoes so closely to the narratives of miners in the gold rush is maybe worth reflection?

Your feelings are very real, here, but another way of phrasing this is "we've all been brought here for a moment in time that has passed, what do we with the community now that we get to decide what that is?"

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