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.
Two axolotls sharing a cherry pie
I don’t mean to make all you HomeKit users jealous, but I wanted to automate a lamp in my living room, and this has been working perfectly.
I’ve heard it said
that today’s med students
are using AI
to cheat through med school
so you had better
start eating healthy,
but if you are really worried
about the quality
of your future doctor
you had also better
start wearing a mask.
Working from home with my #Plushtodon
うーん頭が痛いけどどこで病気なる要素あるんだ
No comment needed
#OnThisDay in 2015, snow monkeys having a spa day. Near Nakano, #japan
다들 초등학교 이야기를 좋아하시는군요 저는 이 이야기를 좋아합니다... 옛날 묘지를 밀고 지은 학교가 많아서 학교 괴담이 많다지만 실제로는 아이들의 양기에 귀신들이 나올 수가 없다는 와귀신이다 진짜 귀신이에여 왜 죽었어요 몇살이에여 이름 뭐에여 근데요 왜요 어디 살아요 그 옷 뭐애여 왜 얼굴이 허얘요 우리 엄마는 나는 어쩌고 질문 백 만 개
Brazil’s data protection authority (ANPD) became autonomous in 2022 and was further strengthened in 2025 as a full regulatory agency.
This signals growing enforcement maturity under LGPD, clearer regulatory authority, and long-term governance stability.
For companies operating in Brazil, privacy compliance is shifting from emerging requirement to strategic expectation.
Do not comply.
Do not share your ID or biometric data with abusive platforms requesting it. You have a choice to say no, complain, and leave.
This is an important act of resistance for the future of humanity.
This isn't just about privacy, this is also about safety, diversity, democracy, and human rights.
#Privacy #MassSurveillance #HumanRights #Fascism #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
Remember these cowards for years told you that it was too costly & complex to follow laws to keep you safe.
Tech bros when the law protects consumers: "It's too hard, there's nothing we can do"
Tech bros when the law wants them to narc to fascists: "We must comply right away, so tomorrow we're globally rolling out our new Buttverify system, our new ai agent that crawls up your anus and takes a picture to send to your country's Customs agency."
We should see this as a rule: if your company needs to do things that were illegal before the Reagan administration to make the books work, then what you actually make is financial chicanery and your company is totally unsustainable.
I'm reclaiming "hypothesis to theory" to convey my confidence instead of "theory to law".
"Law" has a lot of weight to the term that we simply don't get in life, even for well tested phenomenons that have a lot of "facts" behind them.
Most "facts" are proffered as solid and fixed—when most of them have a bit of squish to them.
The world and our observations of them are very likely, probably what we think they are. But we might be wrong.
Theory conveys that better than law.
"I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over." https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/ includes biometric data, passport, behavioural details, to Anthropic, Open AI, GroqCloud. It makes a fingerprint of your device to identify every visitor. "Your European passport is one quiet subpoena away from a US government system."
Do not comply.
Do not share your ID or biometric data with abusive platforms requesting it. You have a choice to say no, complain, and leave.
This is an important act of resistance for the future of humanity.
This isn't just about privacy, this is also about safety, diversity, democracy, and human rights.
#Privacy #MassSurveillance #HumanRights #Fascism #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification
@Em0nM4stodonEm
Check out the list of companies that can access ALL OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA through the most popular facial tracking company, Persona:
:ablobcatpnd_blushed_look:
Misskeyを始めることにより性に目覚めた可能性
Street Art Utopia shared the below article:
STREET ART UTOPIA @streetartutopia@streetartutopia.com
We often think of art as something that hangs on a gallery wall or gets painted on a concrete building. But what happens when artists use the deep roots, towering trunks, and living leaves of the forest as their medium? From monumental wooden sculptures in Mexico to carved tree trunks in Ghana, here are 14 incredible examples of nature and human creativity joining forces. 🌿 1. Come Into Light — Daniel Popper in Tulum, Mexico 🇲🇽 A monumental wooden figure with intricate carved […]
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@evanEvan Prodromou 
@steveSteve Bate
Another issue: Unclear protocol layers.
> I am not a fan of the idea that #ActivityPub is a message-passing system; it's a read-write API.
I'm not sure what a "read-write API" is, really. It 's a fuzzy term, whereas message based systems have well-defined architecture patterns and a body of IT knowledge and practice to apply them in robust communication systems. A 'Message API' has a generic, consistent interface.
The overarching goal of AS/AP should be empowerment of the Solution developer so they can directly focus on building use cases for their application or business domain. They should not have to think about any of the intrinsics of the protocol, like particular GETs and POSTs used to model protocol capabilities in the HTTP transport layer.
Solution design then involves:
0. Model the domain
1. Data modeling, msg formats + validation
2. Define actor msg exchange patterns
3. Document design
--
4. Improve these steps. Add native protocol + tool support over time.
@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. @steveSteve Bate it's ok if you haven't heard of a REST API. It's an API that uses HTTP for reading and writing data. Wikipedia has a good
article about it:
Trump Says He’s Just Going To Make Some Shit Up To Justify Nationalizing The Election Process | Techdirt
Amazon illegally imposed a wage freeze on unionized employees, according to a ruling by the B.C. Labour Relations Board.
“Amazon wants to punish workers who have been actively engaged in bargaining a fair collective agreement. Amazon wants you to blame the union,”
https://rabble.ca/labour/amazon-illegally-imposed-a-wage-freeze-on-unionized-employees-in-b-c/
Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s 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 — now available in English. #palantir #freemedia
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'A note reading “Hahaha get wrecked ya surveilling fucks” was attached to one of the destroyed poles, and somewhat incredibly, broadcast on the local news.'
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the-us-people-are-dismantling
Finally got a hold of the Orion Newby vs. Adelphi University judgment.
Link: https://www.nycourts.gov/REPORTER/3dseries/2026/2026_26021.htm
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
STREET ART UTOPIA @streetartutopia@streetartutopia.com
We often think of art as something that hangs on a gallery wall or gets painted on a concrete building. But what happens when artists use the deep roots, towering trunks, and living leaves of the forest as their medium? From monumental wooden sculptures in Mexico to carved tree trunks in Ghana, here are 14 incredible examples of nature and human creativity joining forces. 🌿 1. Come Into Light — Daniel Popper in Tulum, Mexico 🇲🇽 A monumental wooden figure with intricate carved […]
Read more →I haven't posted this for a while, here's my links for anyone interested:
https://linktr.ee/gammitin
There's an invite link (bottom link on my linktree) to the awesome retro community RHD, filled with knowledgeable, helpful & friendly retro enthusiasts and lots of awesome content.
やばい、体調悪すぎて逆に寝れるか怪しい
めっちゃいいステータス追加した
寝るー
ICE
Fucking wild that ICE is detaining people who are trying to *leave* the country. It’s all graft and violence for its own sake, all the way down.
明日もおしごと！というわけでねます。
최근 장도리 손에서 1억년만에 청년캐가 나왔다는 소식입니다 락님과 노는 중 #무노즈
The suspension of email service by Microsoft for an official of the International Criminal Court has been cited as one of the factors causing booming interest & investment in #DigitalSovereignty in Europe. It was a wake up call for European governments that U.S. tech firms would follow U.S. influence over EU rights. The ICC announced in late 2025 that they will move away from #Microsoft services.
#USA_TechHegemony
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/microsoft_asks_uk_parliament_to_correct_record/
Wow, this blog post from 
@thelocalstack about getting verified on #Linkedin is pretty shocking: https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
If you see my name being verified somewhere, you can be pretty sure it won't actually be me, because I wouldn't agree to any of that... 😱
tak bardzo cieszę się że otoczyłam się tak cudownymi ludźmi (albo to oni otoczyli mnie), kocham życie
최근 장도리 손에서 1억년만에 청년캐가 나왔다는 소식입니다 락님과 노는 중 #무노즈
⚠️ Update #Guix due to Security issue ⚠️
It is strongly recommended to do a "guix pull", update all profiles. Restart the Guix Daemon, on Guix System reboot.
A potential security issue was identified in Guix's glibc package which impacts the Guix Daemon when run in privileged mode.
See the discussion on Codeberg for more details:
Rest is Rust. Motion is Lotion. 👟💨
🎯 Proof that "Age is just a number.” In our SPARTA Strength Class at the Malden Senior Center, we have rockstars from ages 65 to 93 proving that 💥HIIT is for everyone.
We are focusing on more than just reps—we are building community. 💪🏾
#MaldenMA #NorthShoreMA #Boston #HIIT #HealthEquity #SeniorFitness #HeartHealth #StrengthTraining #Longevity #aging #mentalhealth #accessibility #fallprevention #diversity #fun
Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries
Link: https://alexanderbjoy.com/two-sentence-journal-approaches/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053410
Und hier die richtige Headline:
"KAPITULATION: Union und SPD stimmen gegen Regulierung US-amerikanischer und chinesischer Netzwerke"
Last Friday marks an interesting thing. I received my first e-mail that has obviously been rewritten by an AI. I know this because the person who sent it has an atrocious way of misspelling almost every word and his output is very disjointed and hard to follow.
Now I received something that was very polished. The business-casual of e-mail communication. It however did very little to the content, which was just has hard to follow, except now there was an added layer of the #AI misunderstanding what it was about.
It did not make him feel any more professional, except how I couldn't even figure out what it was about.
Last Friday marks an interesting thing. I received my first e-mail that has obviously been rewritten by an AI. I know this because the person who sent it has an atrocious way of misspelling almost every word and his output is very disjointed and hard to follow.
Now I received something that was very polished. The business-casual of e-mail communication. It however did very little to the content, which was just has hard to follow, except now there was an added layer of the #AI misunderstanding what it was about.
It did not make him feel any more professional, except how I couldn't even figure out what it was about.
Rest is Rust. Motion is Lotion. 👟💨
🎯 Proof that "Age is just a number.” In our SPARTA Strength Class at the Malden Senior Center, we have rockstars from ages 65 to 93 proving that 💥HIIT is for everyone.
We are focusing on more than just reps—we are building community. 💪🏾
#MaldenMA #NorthShoreMA #Boston #HIIT #HealthEquity #SeniorFitness #HeartHealth #StrengthTraining #Longevity #aging #mentalhealth #accessibility #fallprevention #diversity #fun
“Social Security is going to be broke by 2033. I’ve been trying to tell everyone. It’s less than 7 years away. Instead of funding foreign wars and foreign countries, Social Security needs to be saved! If seniors can’t collect their SS check the government should be burned down.”
- Marjorie Taylor Greene
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-issues-warning-over-social-security-11555706
may I have a simple burger PLEASE, sir
nulta
の絲針紡🐬🤓 
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Maho 🦝🍻
