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.
Getting a bit depressed as, no matter how I slice it, basic economics would seem to indicate that the software developer job market is largely fucked no matter what happens now. No matter whether the LLM tools work or not and no matter what happens to the bubble
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Since AI training requires storing massive amounts of data, data centres are buying up high-capacity HDDs... gouging the rest of us while AI SLOP is prioritized over proper computer programming and machine learning.
Never mind the data centres physical and carbon footprints...
Never mind the energy these data centres consume...
Never mind the energy these data centres waste...
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/ #internet #technology #noonelistenedtosarahconnor
Not a gift from the geeks. A gift from the grifters
Wife just called Oy a "fuzzy observer" and that sounds like it should be a quantum physics term, like strange and charm quarks, qubits, fuzzy observers.
寝。 
Jonesy peeking around a corner, somehow looking dignified (which isn’t really his thing). #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustJonesy #Caturday
LRT: “AI” SaaS CEOs have been chronically, pervasively wrong on nearly every prediction about “AI” dominance and supremacy they’ve made. And yet for some reason, many folks who are not “AI” CEOs still parrot the “it’s inevitable” “it’s here to stay” “it’s not going anywhere” lies.
It’s almost as if the “AI” inevitability is less about reality and more about the stories we tell ourselves.
Like any other speculative finance foray.
If in a Rust Cargo.toml I assign a crate to use version "0.3", will Cargo take this to mean "0.3.0" or "0.3.*"?
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
The debate: Are facial recognition cameras in shops a step too far? - BBC News
Yes. Yes they are.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-bb93a137-9b73-498b-ad8f-f948d6071dee
The current fediverse is an evolutionary dead-end for 2 reasons:
1. It has painted itself in a small niche of decentralizing typical social media use cases, by means of post-facto interop and the introduction of protocol decay.
2. Lacking a proper grassroots standardization process, and with the primary mechanism for fediverse extension being only post-facto interoperability, there is no way out.
Congratulations to the early adopters, who managed to "cross the chasm" with their own app platforms. It took true grit to become deep #ActivityPub experts, and plug holes needed for your app, but you have made it. Post-facto interop works in your favor now. You are unrestrained to productively add more features in your app, and put them on the fedi wire for others to deal with.
To avoid fedi to become less and less attractive to newcomers, we must now consider:
“Why do we want to grow the open social web, and for whom?” -- 
@benBen Werdmuller
100% agree.
Darn thing's getting worse every day
Here’s a little something I put together this week: Pinhead Map Icons. I was tired of digging through a bunch of different sources to find good cartographic icons, so I compiled all the public domain sources I could find into one unified set. You’ll see familiar faces from the likes of iD, OSM Carto, and National Park Service maps, plus some newcomers. Let me know what you think!
I'm not using any LLM or "AI" for anything that I write or draw. Never had, and never will.
I'm making this choice because:
• This technology was built by unethically stealing the hard work of millions without any consent or compensation.
• This technology has and is still constantly scraping data, including personal data, from people without their knowledge or consent, in complete disregard of the privacy laws we have to protect us.
• This technology unnecessarily uses vast amounts of energy in a world where using more energy sadly usually means more pollution.
• This technology is working on devaluating labor in order to enrich even more the already rich, aggravating poverty everywhere.
• This technology is misleadingly being sold as a solution to problems it cannot solve.
• This technology is supercharging disinformation and manipulation online, centralizing an incredible power of influence in the hands of a few controlling billionaires.
• This technology is increasingly being used by authoritarian governments in order to surveil and control the people.
• This technology atrophies our creativity and capability to think, as well as harming our social relationships.
• This technology makes my writing voice feel flat and boring. I'd rather learn to live with my human tipos.
• This technology...
What Not to Write on Your Security Clearance Form
Link: https://milk.com/wall-o-shame/security_clearance.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102576
夕暮れ時に現れる謎のフワフワにゃんぷバス。行き先はにゃんぷっぷーの気分次第… #猫の日
Silhouettes and lights
AI bots and agents from Meta, OpenAI, ByteDance, Amazon, Apple, Anthropic and Huawei ate my (Stamen Toner) map tiles. I'm mourning my little piece of the open internet. 😭
'Abstrakt'
The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
nooooo my niri :(
LRT: “AI” SaaS CEOs have been chronically, pervasively wrong on nearly every prediction about “AI” dominance and supremacy they’ve made. And yet for some reason, many folks who are not “AI” CEOs still parrot the “it’s inevitable” “it’s here to stay” “it’s not going anywhere” lies.
It’s almost as if the “AI” inevitability is less about reality and more about the stories we tell ourselves.
Like any other speculative finance foray.
how to think about "default" values on lexicons? what is the semantics of that? are codegens expected to hydrate these?
Do you have any advice on learning programming in bash? Did you learn in a course or a book or some other way? I've just spent a couple weeks with a book on Perl and have decided that since I'm more familiar with bash, it might be better to learn a bit of it.
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
Darn thing's getting worse every day
'Abstrakt'
- do you want to use google to sign in?
- do you want to add a passkey?
- do you want to add a 2FA token?
- we know you have 2FA but we've sent you an email instead
- this login attempt seems suspicious we've sent you a text about it
- can you click on these buses?
- you failed to click on the buses click on these bicycles instead
- should we save these details for next time?
- do you accept these trackers?
- you can opt out but we've decided it's legitimate interest anyway
- would you like to see a list of our 847 partners we share your data with?
- can we send you desktop notifications?
- can we access your location?
- do you want 10% off for signing up to the mailing list?
- do you want me to translate this page?
- hi I'm your friendly chatbot how can I help?
- oh no you can't buy this, reach out to us for a quote!
- do you want—
I'm tired boss
ok but that's a terribly impressive way to be down
it's 2 years older than Xbox 360 and that's definitely retro, we all agree on that, right
@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ 3 core PowerPC on 90nm? Definitely retro
A photo of a much younger me and a now long-deceased Ghengis (cat) from about 40 years ago. He was the most uncoordinated and poorly balanced cat I've ever met, but adorable all the same.
ゼッツとたんプリ、作風違うが音楽がちょっと似てる空気感あるなーと想って調べたら「探偵物とスパイものの音楽ルーツが同じ（1950年頃の都会・夜と言ったテーマを持った作品にジャズ系音楽が使われてた）」と言うことを知ってなるほどとなる
패스키는 비밀번호 관리자 간 이전이 힘들어서, 원래 쓰던 비밀번호 관리자에 락인이 되기 쉬워졌다.
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#237 Article Rendering
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/02/twig-237
Fluorite #フローライト #ArknightsEndfield
님들아님들아!! 잠실쪽에 씹덕향수 만들 수 있는 향수공방 있을까요
CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
Link: https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10679206
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47101171
@evanEvan Prodromou 
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber 
@steveSteve Bate
Not needed. I hope to be able to add some feedback to the AP API repo.
@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @steveSteve Bate I would personally really appreciate that. I also think it'd be helpful for the ecosystem. I like that you combine a high-level social and technical approach to discussions of ActivityPub and the Social Web with an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the details. It's a rare combination and extremely valuable.
Cortex-M3 is a retro CPU
흑백요리사에서 '중식여신'으로 출연한 박은영 셰프가 오픈한 식당 이름 '누와'가 여와(女媧)에서 따왔다는 얘기를 봤는데.. 불만이 있다. 왜 한국에서는 쓰촨(四川, Sìchuān)을 '시추안'으로 표기하고 위위안(豫园, yùyuán)을 '유유안'으로 표기하고 뉘와(女娲, 女媧, Nǚwā)를 '누와'로 표기하는가? 아마 표기가 너무 '중국적으로' 보이기 때문이겠지.. 하지만 내게는 미국을 한 번 갔다가 수입한 아메리칸 차이니즈처럼 보이고 다소 언프로페셔널해 보인다.
@GustodonΩ 🌍 Gus Posey
They don't require being connected to a grid, correct? That could be a real plus in the future world chaos. Don't need AI either. 😆
無事に生きて帰宅できました…
自家用車のルークスくんほんとありがとう…
おやすみなさいませであります。
The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification.
A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.
How far back in time can you understand English?
Link: https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47061614
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