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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julian @julian@activitypub.space
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✅ Train tickets booked
✅ Accommodations secured
✅ Notes and slides prepared

This coming Tuesday (the 24th!) I'll be speaking at FediMTL, super stoked to be talking about my experiences building community on the fediverse.

If you can't make it in-person (the last day to buy in-person tickets is today!), the Social Web Foundation is offering a 50% discount on live streaming tickets with the code SWF50.

Just go here! ➡️ https://lepointdevente.com/billets/mns260224002?lang=en

FediMTL 2026 - Webcast - February 24th 2026 - Thepointofsale.com

FediMTL 2026 | Digital Sovereignty and the Social WebConference · Panels · NetworkingFediMTL brings international and Canadian leaders to Montreal for a full day of talks and discussions focused on digital sovereignty and the future of the open social web.Co-presented by the Social Web Foundation, Qlub, and FediHost, the event is designed for developers, creators, journalists, policymakers, and citizens who want to better understand how the fediverse — a decentralized technology — enables people and communities to regain control over their data, support local digital infrastructure, and build interoperable, sustainable online communities.Under the theme “An Independent Digital Future,” FediMTL will feature conferences, panels, and exchanges with key figures from the social web ecosystem, including co-authors of the ActivityPub protocol, open-source platform developers, and leaders working in public-interest digital innovation.The event will take place with seated audiences and will also be available via live webcast.In-person tickets: $50 + tax (includes lunch and coffee breaks) — click hereVirtual tickets: $20 + tax Tickets at the door: $65 + tax (includes lunch and coffee breaks) Follow FediMTL on GoToSocial: https://social.fedimtl.ca/@info-----*Please note that Le Ministère does not accept cash. We accept credit and debit cards only. All ticket purchases are made online, even on the day of the show at the door.

lepointdevente.com

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JAYO♪ - Jaeyul Lee @jayo2dx@uri.life
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오늘밤도 모바일 툼레이더
좀 더 익숙해지니 컨트롤은 어쩔 수 없지만 꽤 재미있다. 시간가는줄도 모르고 플레이했다. 이 말인 즉슨 늦게까지 해버렸서 망했다는 소리다. 안돼 어서 잠을 자야...
(´д｀)

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tymoty 🇪🇺 @tymoty@f.cz
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Opakovaně se mi vrací. Nemám zatím zařazeno. Nemám zatím
oštítkováno. Zde, v tématu "Famur", o článku
Patricie Simón "Od strachu z druhých k strachu z našich"
( www.lamarea.com/2026/02/18/miedo-a-los-otros-miedo-a-los-nuestros ).
V tématu "Veřejnosti" s Jeanne-A Debats o
glorifikaci zla v literatuře. V tématu "Umělá
inteligence": "Mnohým lidem nenabízet reciprocitu na dluh."

O mnohých lidech (a asi i robotech???) mám uvažovat jako o
"cizích". Ne, že bych jim chtěl nějak moc ubližovat, ale
v tom smyslu, že předně se "my" máme s nimi vypořádat jako
s neoduševnělou přírodou. Zajistit si svoji tělesnou
integritu, zabezpečit se, tvořit svůj svět. Tělesný i
duševní. Svá společenství. Svou vzájemnost. Své veřejnosti.

Vím, že je to složité.

---
Famur. Je v famur.txt .

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Thom, United Europe 🇪🇺 @thomholwerda@exquisite.social
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I'm in the same boat. I want to watch this unfold before making any calls, but I will not hesitate to jump to BSD if the Linux kernel gets tainted by slopcode.

At which point I might as well move my gaming PC to Windows too. Like, why deal with the mild additional hassle at that point?

exquisite.social/@kaidenshi/11

Morgan (@kaidenshi@exquisite.social)

Just the thought of "AI" being allowed to make pull requests and commits to the Linux kernel source, and have those changes accepted into the released kernel, makes me want to wipe my main workstation/gaming PC and install OpenBSD and be a digital zen monk for the rest of my days. And given that half of my computers already run OpenBSD anyway, it wouldn't be all that much of a change. No more Steam gaming, so what? There are plenty of great games that run on OpenBSD, including The Dark Mod. BRB, cloning my drive. This is going to be a fun Sunday!

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Chao-c' @xChaos@f.cz
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My own utopian vision from the landscape of wooden skyscrapers now has name: Project . Probably silly, but at least most people would somehow associate it with megacity built from wood, which is more or less all we need just now.

The utopian community members in the story are not the only inhabitants of the landscape. The wooden skyscrapers are not towering over entirely postapocalyptic or dystopian society, but neither it is entirely utopian landscape. Community centers in wooden towers form something like fractal network of self-repeating patterns, consisting of sustainable and artistic elements, but not everywhere they were given chance. They were unexpected result of failing local regulatory framework, because at least the earliest examples of the structures would hardly meet construction, safety or fire hazard regulations of the previous era.

The landscape between creative fragments consists of traditional family houses, traditional suburban dependence on cars, traditional TV sets in living room and lot of other traditional or normie something, which was not really based on idea of utility the space to its inhabitants, but rather around inevitable of concept of the property having value on market, be attractive for someone else, who would try to bet what value the building would have for yet someone else. While this sometimes resulted in expensive looking habitable space, it was never really focused on the people who would actually live there, but rather on impressing someone else and trying to belong to certain social group. Which maybe even worked sometimes in the past - but no longer worked in the era, in which this story takes place.

The old society was no longer functional, but the new one was available only as ever evolving beta version. And there were also numerous intermediate mutations somewhere in between those two concepts.

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nicolas ⁂ @nclm@mastodon.social
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@rhubarbe Rhubarbe donc, c’est comme ça que j’appelle cette nouvelle activité 😁 Et pas sûr encore à quel point j’ai envie d’utiliser mon Masto perso pour des trucs pro, d’où le compte dédié ! Aussi en train de faire un site web avec toutes les infos, encore en cours de construction. Et peut-être un blog, un jour ? 😊

Edit: Et tant qu’à faire, je vais reposter ça en anglais aussi, déso pour le spam !

nicolas ⁂ @nclm@mastodon.social
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Shared by Gabriele Svelto

I’m (re)starting an activity as a freelance designer, available for projects! 😊

If you need anything such as:

~ brand identity
~ layout and editorial design
~ information design and storytelling
~ pictograms, icons
~ animation et motion graphics
~ little handmade websites
~ maps and wayfinding
~ graphics of all kinds

Feel free to get in touch! My email is nicolas@rhubarbe.design
and I also opened a new account for this ⁂ @rhubarbe

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tatmius(タミアス) @tatmius@vivaldi.net
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Shared by 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:

writings.hongminhee.org/2026/0

>私は自分のコードがLLM訓練に使われることを望んでいる。望んでいないのは、その訓練によってAI企業の私有財産となるプロプライエタリなモデルが作られることだ。

とてもいい文章だった。
まぁ、自分はフルスクラッチで良いOSSを作れるような技術力はなく、LLMにおんぶにだっこ状態なので、あんまり何かを言う権利は無いけど。

今のOSS、詳しくは知らんけど、多くの人は本業があって、その稼ぎでご飯を食べながらcontributeして成立していると思っているので、じゃあ仮にLLMのモデル公開まで含めたライセンシングになったとき、そのLLMのコストは持続可能な形でどこから出るべきなんだろうか？と思った(オープンなLLMモデルも、戦略としてオープンにしてるけど、かなりの額の赤字を垂れ流してると思うので)。

F/OSSの唯物史観——LLMを拒絶するのではなく、取り戻すべきだ

数日前、「 自由・オープンソースソフトウェアとLLM訓練について 」︵ On FLOSS and training LLMs ︶という記事を読んだ。自由・オープンソースソフトウェアコミュニティの挫折感をよく表現した文章だった。AI企業はF/OSS開発者を全く尊重していない。オープンソースライセンシングの理想主義的原則を…

writings.hongminhee.org · 洪民憙雑記

Link author: 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:@hongminhee@hollo.social

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cle @cleder@hachyderm.io
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Shared by 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:

Instead of trying to prevent LLM training on our code, we should be demanding that the models themselves be freed.

I want my code to be used for LLM training. What I don't want is for that training to produce proprietary models that become the exclusive property of AI corporations. The problem isn't the technology or even the training process itself. The problem is the enclosure of the commons, the privatization of collective knowledge, the one-way flow of value from the many to the few.

This isn't a new problem. It's the same problem FLOSS has always fought, just wearing new clothes.

writings.hongminhee.org/2026/0

F/OSSの唯物史観——LLMを拒絶するのではなく、取り戻すべきだ

数日前、「 自由・オープンソースソフトウェアとLLM訓練について 」︵ On FLOSS and training LLMs ︶という記事を読んだ。自由・オープンソースソフトウェアコミュニティの挫折感をよく表現した文章だった。AI企業はF/OSS開発者を全く尊重していない。オープンソースライセンシングの理想主義的原則を…

writings.hongminhee.org · 洪民憙雑記

Link author: 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:@hongminhee@hollo.social

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julian @julian@activitypub.space
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✅ Train tickets booked
✅ Accommodations secured
✅ Notes and slides prepared

This coming Tuesday (the 24th!) I'll be speaking at FediMTL, super stoked to be talking about my experiences building community on the fediverse.

If you can't make it in-person (the last day to buy in-person tickets is today!), the Social Web Foundation is offering a 50% discount on live streaming tickets with the code SWF50.

Just go here! ➡️ https://lepointdevente.com/billets/mns260224002?lang=en

FediMTL 2026 - Webcast - February 24th 2026 - Thepointofsale.com

FediMTL 2026 | Digital Sovereignty and the Social WebConference · Panels · NetworkingFediMTL brings international and Canadian leaders to Montreal for a full day of talks and discussions focused on digital sovereignty and the future of the open social web.Co-presented by the Social Web Foundation, Qlub, and FediHost, the event is designed for developers, creators, journalists, policymakers, and citizens who want to better understand how the fediverse — a decentralized technology — enables people and communities to regain control over their data, support local digital infrastructure, and build interoperable, sustainable online communities.Under the theme “An Independent Digital Future,” FediMTL will feature conferences, panels, and exchanges with key figures from the social web ecosystem, including co-authors of the ActivityPub protocol, open-source platform developers, and leaders working in public-interest digital innovation.The event will take place with seated audiences and will also be available via live webcast.In-person tickets: $50 + tax (includes lunch and coffee breaks) — click hereVirtual tickets: $20 + tax Tickets at the door: $65 + tax (includes lunch and coffee breaks) Follow FediMTL on GoToSocial: https://social.fedimtl.ca/@info-----*Please note that Le Ministère does not accept cash. We accept credit and debit cards only. All ticket purchases are made online, even on the day of the show at the door.

lepointdevente.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com@bsky.brid.gy
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Still blows my mind that my medication, Emgality, is like $1,000 with insurance but if I print out a special cheat code from the manufacturer's website its $35. And they don't automatically give this cheat code to people so that elderly and sick people end up accidentally paying full price.

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Terence Tao @tao@mathstodon.xyz
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Another post on the instagram of Tanya Klowden and myself, this time comparing the many ways cartographers have projected the (mostly) spherical Earth onto flat planes. No planar projection can faithfully reproduce *all* the geometric features of a sphere, so each projection is a compromise; but some projections are still preferred over others for specific applications. instagram.com/p/DVC9SvxkXDs

Cosmic Distance Ladder on Instagram: "The Earth is round, but maps (or computer and phone screens) are flat. So, we have to apply a projection to map the round Earth onto a flat surface. Ideally, we would like this projection to have three desirable properties: • Area-preserving. The projection should not stretch one part of the Earth to look larger than another part that actually has the same surface area. • Shape-preserving.(Mathematicians call this the “angle-preserving” or “conformal” property.) The projection should not squish or stretch the shape of an object: a round landmass should not become elliptical, for instance. • Grid lines. Lines of latitude should be horizontal; and lines of longitude (also known as “meridians”) should be vertical. Unfortunately, these three properties form a trilemma: any given projection can have two of these three properties, but not all three at once. The Mercator projection is the most famous. It is shape-preserving and has grid lines, making it particularly suitable for navigation. But it distorts area like crazy, making Greenland for instance look almost three times larger than Australia by area, when in fact it is over three times smaller. The Gall-Peters projection removes the area distortion, and keeps the grid lines - but at the cost of totally messing up shapes. Africa is way too tall and skinny; Canada too short and wide. The Mollweide projection tries its best to preserve both area and shape, and gives up entirely on straight grid lines. The relationship between area and shape is in fact fundamentally different for spheres and for planes, so no projection can preserve both of them perfectly; but Mollweide comes the closest. Can’t choose? Why not try the Winkel Tripel projection, which compromises by being only slightly bad at preserving areas and shapes, or keeping the grid-lines straight. Everything in this projection is slightly imperfect, but it tries to balance its faults evenly. There are an infinite number of possible projections. What projection is your favorite? #DistanceLadder #geography #MapProjections #3DGeometry #topology #mathematics #WhyNobodyLikesMercatorProjections"

27 likes, 1 comments - cosmic_distance_ladder on February 21, 2026: "The Earth is round, but maps (or computer and phone screens) are flat. So, we have to apply a projection to map the round Earth onto a flat surface. Ideally, we would like this projection to have three desirable properties: • Area-preserving. The projection should not stretch one part of the Earth to look larger than another part that actually has the same surface area. • Shape-preserving.(Mathematicians call this the “angle-preserving” or “conformal” property.) The projection should not squish or stretch the shape of an object: a round landmass should not become elliptical, for instance. • Grid lines. Lines of latitude should be horizontal; and lines of longitude (also known as “meridians”) should be vertical. Unfortunately, these three properties form a trilemma: any given projection can have two of these three properties, but not all three at once. The Mercator projection is the most famous. It is shape-preserving and has grid lines, making it particularly suitable for navigation. But it distorts area like crazy, making Greenland for instance look almost three times larger than Australia by area, when in fact it is over three times smaller. The Gall-Peters projection removes the area distortion, and keeps the grid lines - but at the cost of totally messing up shapes. Africa is way too tall and skinny; Canada too short and wide. The Mollweide projection tries its best to preserve both area and shape, and gives up entirely on straight grid lines. The relationship between area and shape is in fact fundamentally different for spheres and for planes, so no projection can preserve both of them perfectly; but Mollweide comes the closest. Can’t choose? Why not try the Winkel Tripel projection, which compromises by being only slightly bad at preserving areas and shapes, or keeping the grid-lines straight. Everything in this projection is slightly imperfect, but it tries to balance its faults evenly. There are an infinite number of possible projections. What projection is your favorite? #DistanceLadder #geography #MapProjections #3DGeometry #topology #mathematics #WhyNobodyLikesMercatorProjections".

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:_mo::_ltsu::_du: @kagehoushi@misskey.io
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〜カワセミジンクスの歴史〜

初回(埼玉県巾着田)
D850+AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/4G ED VR
初のカワセミ遭遇。最も好条件。
f/2.8とテレコンバータの重要性を痛感。

2回目(仕事帰りに近所の河原にて)
iPhone 12 mini
この世にはガチの無理ゲーがあることを理解する。

3回目(東京都葛西臨海公園)
Nikon Zf + Zoom NIKKOR.C Auto 43〜86mm F3.5
歴史的な玉でも太刀打ち出来ない存在。それがカワセミ。
なお、歴史的とは世界初の実用廉価標準ズームレンズであるという部分。

4回目(東京都新宿御苑) ←New!
Nikon Zf + NIKKOR-Q Auto 13.5cm F3.5
新宿にカワセミはいるが、手元にはレンズがない。
600mmは標準レンズの意味を理解する。

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