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.
Mainstream media and the Trump administration praised Alpha School, an "AI-powered private school" that can cost up to $65,000 a year. 404 Media has learned that the school is AI-generating faulty lesson plans.
https://www.404media.co/students-are-being-treated-like-guinea-pigs-inside-an-ai-powered-private-school/
Giant tortoises return to Galápagos island after nearly 200 years
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wn1jrzk4go?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@world-BBCNewsWorld
It has been heartening to see the steady trickle of projects moving away from Microsoft GitHub to #FOSS friendly code forges like #Codeberg and #SourceHut, or self-hosting with tools like #cgit and #Forgejo
#Gentoo has been up and running on Codeberg all week which has made it easier for me to contribute to the O/S I use every day.
I'm now Proxy Maintainer for a handful of packages, including #VinylCache who also moved their bug tracker on Monday, making it possible for me to contribute 😀
Job description includes this, regarding desired values:
> “You move fast, act like an owner, and thrive in ambiguity.”
How do they pack so many red flags into one sentence? Must be some new toxic compression algorithm.
Translation for lay people
“Move fast” : management decisions are absolute P0 and based on some billionaire’s last tweet. Everything else goes in the backlog. Especially error reports.
“Act like an owner” : be ready to take the fall when the whole thing falls apart (but actually fixing stuff is for a mythical backlog sprint)
“Thrive in ambiguity” : everything is P0. You get to figure out which are important. Hint: probably not the fixes.
terminal redirects
Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/terminal-redirects
Is curl-rustls unlikely to exit experimental status?
I sometimes feel that I must be crazy, and totally off the mark, as I - and luckily others with me - are saying these things for 7 years now. But it somehow hits a wall of inertia.
It is this inertia in itself, that has started fascinating me the last 2 years, and it is the reason why https://coding.social exists. We have to figure out how to deal with the grassroots social dynamics such that healthy long-term sustainable standards, ecosystems, and online environments emerge and further evolve.
Long ago I took notes on some major challenges that in my opinion hold back the fediverse from becoming The Future of Social Networking. These are all mostly social in nature, and are as relevant today as they were then. But this is also just imho. 😬
https://discuss.coding.social/t/major-challenges-for-the-fediverse/67
@smallcircles@social.coop oh definitely, and like, I think part of that is down to the fact that W3C received the first version of each of the specs and went "that's good enough for 10 years", when there were so many unaddressed and incomplete aspects of these specs. The fact that there wasn't actually authn/authz in the original specs should have kept the WG open until that was resolved. Without it, half the spec was basically pointless.
I really hope the activitypub ecosystem can escape the inertia of the existing network and architecture that is widely deployed today. I've said a few times that Mastodon's threat isn't Bluesky, no, it's the next generation ActivityPub app that does microblogging well but built with C2S. That's what will unseat Mastodon from it's dominant position, not a social app on a different protocol that has different features.
Looking for people who can let my friend crash with them for a while. Or for organizations that will get them support and/or housing. They're black, trans, and very young, and have had no success with being able to find a shelter or other stable housing or a job.
I've posted asking for mutual aid before (https://retro.pizza/@uncoolmouse/115815824713819696) and some of y'all have been super helpful, but they're feeling really exhausted and hopeless after telling their story again and again and being turned away because the systems are overloaded.
They're currently in Bellingham, Washington, but if you're anywhere in Washington or Oregon, my friends and I could chip in to get them there.
(Boosts really appreciated)
#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest
Hack & Craft! At the top of the hour! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/
Bring a coding project, an art project, a sewing project, or something creative! Cya then!
졸려서 이만 자러 갑니다 안녕히 주무시고 좋은 꿈 꾸세요 고양이 사진 투척
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.
@ajlewis2Anita Lewis 
@stefanoStefano Marinelli this stuff is pretty good https://ysap.sh/
https://keepandroidopen.org/zh-TW/ 的正體中文翻譯到底是哪根筋不對，還是真的很喜歡學測國文那一套花招（這好像也是高中國文的唯一用途：「把中文寫到沒人看得懂」），寫的文縐縐咬文嚼字、硬要堆積一些罕用到甚至詞不達意的詞上去顯得好像很厲害，結果連冗詞贅字都沒發現。 難得看中文非技術文件會看不懂、還要點開英文原文來看的……
Over the past couple years, I have come to know the #dotnet platform pretty well, from a developer's and a #reversing standpoint.
I can’t always say the same the #infosec community.
Today, I decided to rant a little (or maybe a lot 🙃)
Don't let your zpool fill up completely by creating a dataset with
reservation.
# zfs create -o refreservation=<5% of total pool space> <poolname>/reserved
You can always shrink the reserve if you need the space, but your pool will
always have space left this way.
-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
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.
I dunno, if I had concerns that a protocol I liked was concentrated too much around one company, I'd work with the existing community of people working hard to distribute that network as quickly as possible instead of just writing a blog post telling people nothing can be done
Over the past couple years, I have come to know the #dotnet platform pretty well, from a developer's and a #reversing standpoint.
I can’t always say the same the #infosec community.
Today, I decided to rant a little (or maybe a lot 🙃)
Happy #Baturday! Did you know that bats can blep?
No thoughts, only blep.
This geriatric southeastern myotis (Myotis austroriparius) has spent most of the winter recovering from a wing injury, and will likely be released early next week! #BatsInBlankets #BatsInMyBelfry
Ripley playing on top of her favourite bookcase. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustRipley #Caturday
it's crazy that the immigration law is already bad and the enforcers are making up a worse version of it as they go
Bagel store in NJ I like going to has a "Jersey Boy" breakfast sandwhich. I told them that I call my custom sandwich the "Jersey Enby" and they wrote it on the packaging :3 isn't that sweet?
This morning I got an email from a sender that identified itself as an AI agent.
So - plus for being upfront about it, but... please don't do this.
I get that a lot of people are really, really, really into AI tools. OK. I have my opinions on them, you have yours. I have major qualms about them, some people think they're the best thing ever.
OK. Fine. But when your use of these things spills over into the rest of the world, it's no longer a question of my opinion vs. your opinion, my decisions vs. your decisions.
At this point, things have moved from each person doing their own thing to inflicting your use of AI onto me without my consent.
Before this spirals out of control, which I can see happening *very* quickly, I'd like for us to agree on a piece of netiquette:
- it is rude in the extreme to set loose an AI agent to reach out to people who have not consented to interact with these things.
- it is rude to have an AI agent submit pull requests that human maintainers have to review.
- it is rude to have an AI agent autonomously interact with humans in any way when they have not consented to take part in whatever experiment you are running.
- it is unacceptable to have an AI agent autonomously interact with humans without identifying the person or organization behind the agent. If you're not willing to unmask and have a person reach out to you with their thoughts on this, then don't have an AI agent reach out to me.
Stuff like this really sours me on technology right now. If I didn't have a family and responsibilities, I'd be seriously considering how I could go live off the grid somewhere without having to interact with this stuff.
Again: I'm not demanding that other people not use AI/LLMs, etc. But when your use spills out into my having to have interactions with an agent's output, you need to reconsider. Your ability to spew things out into the universe puts an unwanted burden on other humans who have not consented to this.
#블친소 1차/2차/우타우 중심으로 돌아가는 사람입니다! 좋아하는 키워드: 선글라스/안경, 야쿠자, 양키, 삼백안, 째진눈. 다크서클, 아저씨, 수염....etc. 잡식성! 좋아요 남겨주시면 감사히 찾아가겠습니다 ㅎㅎ
@evanEvan Prodromou 
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber 
@steveSteve Bate
So why don't you use the word REST? I never encountered "read-write API". It is an informal term.
But that is not the point. You can have a REST API, fine. But that says nothing in itself. What does it expose? You might say "Duh.. ActivityPub!" but that is not very informative either. There is the notion of message exchange, and of an addressing mechanism, indicating higher level abstractions that conform to well-known architecture patterns, and would allow us to have more productive communication, delve less in implementation details and confusions of protocol behavior with solution design functionality, for starters.
@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @steveSteve Bate I'm fine with that.
However, I think ActivityPub builds up persistent state on the server side which can be read and used by other processors.
For example, when I `Like` something, it goes into my `liked` collection, and the activity goes into the `likes` for that object. The `Like` activity goes into my `outbox` and others' `inbox`. People can review that information and use it.
I am pleased with my turnaround time on "how on earth am I supposed to make a willow tree out of lego" to "yeah I think that looks like a willow tree"
These days I get a non-stop feed of offers from people pushing various anti-AI or work-with-AI systems or concepts. Slop slop.
@bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// generative AI tools haven't exactly solved any problems, but they have created a multi-billion dollar industry for trying to figure how to solve the problems they cause. It's yak shaving on a collosal scale.
#TIL that France uses the word 'préfecture' to mean the capital city of a department or other region. Kinda confusing to an English speaker! It's like using the word 'state' or 'province' to describe a city or town, yanno.
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
We’re turning up the pressure on the Republicans who are demanding more money for the regime’s secret police. Help us contact voters in key states and connect them with their GOP senators to demand that ICE’s terror tactics be stopped for good: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/900426/
Retrotechtacular: Bleeding-Edge Memory Devices of 1959
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/retrotechtacular-bleeding-edge-memory-devices-of-1959/
me :3
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[AI appropriation is super messed up. In addition to Lakotaman'ing, non-Native people are learning (false) Native culture and history from fake sources that completely drowns out real Native voices.]
Native Americans have worked hard for decades to counter the stereotypes perpetuated in old movies and television shows about the American West. Now a new generation of Native technology experts worry that AI is eroding that work.
#Native #Indigenous #NativeVisibility
https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/thursday-february-19-2026-the-growing-ai-appropriation-threat/
🕐 2026-02-21 18:00 UTC
📰 AIエージェント × knipで無駄コードを簡単に掃除 (👍 111)
🇬🇧 Combining knip (unused code detector) with AI agents creates an efficient workflow for cleaning up dead code, unused exports & packages in JS/TS pr...
🇰🇷 AI 에이전트와 knip를 결합하여 JS/TS 프로젝트의 사용하지 않는 코드, export, 패키지를 효율적으로 정리하는 워크플로우 소개
🔗 https://zenn.dev/knowledgework/articles/knip-with-ai-agent
Don't let your zpool fill up completely by creating a dataset with
reservation.
# zfs create -o refreservation=<5% of total pool space> <poolname>/reserved
You can always shrink the reserve if you need the space, but your pool will
always have space left this way.
-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
what hospitals don't want you to know
@evanEvan Prodromou @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @steveSteve Bate
Thank you, that is nice to hear. I am however not an expert, am but a humble generalist and a person who'd love to be in that Solution developer stakeholder role. Who however does not see the fediverse trend in a direction where I'd adopt the technology for what I have in mind. Drifting away from "the promise" that I read in the #ActivityPub specs in 2017, and which at the time made me decide to lend a helping hand here and there as #SocialHub facilitator and tech advocate.
@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. what do you have in mind, and how is the Fediverse trending in the wrong direction for it?
I have been looking for a hobby to keep me from doomscrolling. This was half done and in an op shop so I modified and finished it. #embroidery #crossstitch
We’re turning up the pressure on the Republicans who are demanding more money for the regime’s secret police. Help us contact voters in key states and connect them with their GOP senators to demand that ICE’s terror tactics be stopped for good: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/900426/
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
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...
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
You're so right! BRaINs™️ for the win!
[song ends]
Friends don't let friends use AI.
FediMTL, on the fedi at 
@info is a new 1-day fediverse related conference in Montreal in just a few weeks on February 24 (is it Fedi-conference season or something?)
There's a streaming option, too! And the sessions look good. Check it out, and spread the word.
A bit annoying sometimes to be making a fork of a Cargo package just to bump the Cargo.toml
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