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.
And if you don't like Picasso, you will LOVE this quote by Nigerian artist Rufus Ogundele:
"During the 1960s, European collectors were among the patrons of Oshogbo artists. Ogundele remarked: 'Some call me the "Picasso of Nigeria". What sense is there in saying that I, an African, produced work which resembles the man who has copied African art? That's nonsense, Rufus is Rufus.'"
That's... A truth bomb if I ever read one...
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the official pin of the Fediverse!
Adorable backyard alert! A squirrel gets playful with a pillow in Squirrel Playing Redux โ tiny paws, big personality. Perfect quick mood booster on PeerTube. Watch the silliness and smile! #Animals #Wildlife #Squirrel #Cute #BackyardNature #Nature #PeerTube #English
https://rrgeorge.video/videos/watch/6a926b60-feb2-4ab9-8bb5-628aded4c1e9
This is from the JSON-LD spec.
ActivityPub / ActivityStream are based on JSON-LD.
I think it was a very bad idea for JSON-LD to define "number" this way!
It makes it so numbers with fractional values are inexact & lossy.
This include values that are common for money.
For example, neither 0.10 and 0.20 can be represented exactly. So, 0.10 + 0.20 does NOT equal 0.30!
It should have used FIXED-point numbers rather than FLOATING-point.
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In the JSON serialization, a number is similar to that used in most programming languages, except that the octal and hexadecimal formats are not used and that leading zeros are not allowed. In the internal representation, a number is equivalent to either a long or double, depending on if the number has a non-zero fractional part (see [WEBIDL]).](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/115/532/009/836/539/original/5d2ac605cf834ed1.png)
In case you want to report this Zionist hasbara account that posted this reply and blocked me, please feel free to.
(This is their new tactic. The anonymous cowards.)
PS. Be careful, theyโre on a German instance, they might block you instead if the admins are pro-genocide also (itโs a very common thing in Germany).
#zionism #hasbara #fediverse #mastodon #fediblock #israel #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #genocide
I respect Wikipedians but I'm a little baffled by there being a category of "Second-millennium births". How is that in any god damn way useful.
Age verification doesn't take away anyone's Rights.
Maybe we don't need it. Maybe we do. That's a different discussion.
@edwiebe 
@divVerent 
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
@daliasCassandrich It takes away all kinds of rights that you don't even realize you depend on
Like the right to live an unmonitored life
Maybe you *think* you don't have anything to hide.
Maybe you *think* you don't have anything that somebody with power over you wants
If you value anything in your life, you absolutely are relying on a right to privacy to protect it
@lcamtuflcamtuf 
woah word?! they dont present me with snail mail options when i order :(
Free Greenland/Danish healthcare vs. US insurance based healthcare?
The latter leaves between 44,000 and 90,000 dead a year because they donโt have cover. It also leaves 550,000 families bankrupt a year from medical bills.
This is classic โphoto op going over the heads of leaders direct diplomacyโ from #Trump but smells of #Vance.
Well I had a fun day today!
These are unaltered direct photos (other than mirroring) of a CED and a Laserdisc where using diffraction grating I was able to VISIBLY SEE video physically encoded on the disc!
I will be editing a video about this process but also did a quick write up about it on my wiki here with the direct sample images:
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By the way, if you go to https://github.com/claude and "block this user", every Github repo you visit containing code credited to Claude will actually have a warning sigil
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Iโve got a hunch this hat is not merchandise for the HBO series
Before creating and publishing FEDERATION.md for #ktistec I wanted to understand what existing practice looked like across the Fediverse.
FEP-67ff describes the requirements of the FEDERATION.md file in loose terms and provides a non-normative template. I scraped the URLs of FEDERATION.md files from FEP-67ff itself and confirmed I could fetch them. The FEP listed 30 accessible projects (31 total, but one projectโFIRMโdoes not appear to exist).
If a file had a section with the heading "Supported FEPs" per the non-normative template, I only looked there for supported FEPs. Otherwise I scanned the entire document.
Implemented FEPs, ranked by the number of implementations that attest support, are:
FEP Name # ---- --------------------------------------------------------- -- 67ff FEDERATION.md 18 f1d5 NodeInfo in Fediverse Software 16 8b32 Object Integrity Proofs 7 044f Consent-respecting quote posts 7 2677 Identifying the Application Actor 7 e232 Object Links 6 1b12 Group federation 6 3b86 Activity Intents 6 521a Representing actor's public keys 5 2c59 Discovery of a Webfinger address from an ActivityPub actor 5 7888 Demystifying the context property 5 5feb Search indexing consent for actors 5 4adb Dereferencing identifiers with webfinger 4 d556 Server-Level Actor Discovery Using WebFinger 4 fb2a Actor metadata 4 ef61 Portable Objects 4 8fcf Followers collection synchronization across servers 4 844e Capability discovery 4 7628 Move actor 3 61cf The OpenWebAuth Protocol 3 c390 Identity Proofs 3 400e Publicly-appendable ActivityPub collections 3 c0e0 Emoji reactions 3 0151 NodeInfo in Fediverse Software (2025 edition) 3 fffd Proxy Objects 2 f228 Backfilling conversations 2 fe34 Origin-based security model 2 eb48 Hashtags 2 171b Conversation Containers 2 a5c5 Web Syndication Methods 2
There are obvious flaws in the methodology. Or maybe in the data. Only 18 out of the 30 projects I could access had a FEDERATION.md that attested FEDERATION.md support. Only 19 mentioned "FEDERATION.md". Only 21 mentioned "67ff". The remaining projects clearly did support FEP-67ffโthe file itself was evidence. (FEDERATION.md is not meant to be machine readableโthere's an issue about that).
It was more difficult to rank implemented federation protocols. I extracted keywords from documents with a "Supported federation protocols and standards" section and created a dictionary of terms. If a file had a section with the heading "Supported federation protocols and standards", I only looked there. Otherwise I scanned the entire document.
Feature # ---------------- -- activitypub 26 webfinger 24 http_signatures 21 nodeinfo 19 json_ld 2 ld_signatures 2 ostatus 2 authorized_fetch 1 atproto 1
If time allows, I'm going to try to rank these documents by "utility", though I haven't yet determined the exact metric. These documents clearly provide valuable information, but their lack of standardization makes them harder to analyze systematically.
@daliasCassandrich @divVerent @Em0nM4stodonEm Knowing how old someone is does not limit their speech nor their ability to vote (we verify age for that already, and for many other reasons). Age verification isnโt state censorship. I suppose it could be a way to limit anonymous speech. That isnโt a Right where I am from (nor is โfreeโ speech). I doubt anonymous speech is a Right anywhere.
I have no doubt itโs absolutely technically feasible in a way that infringes on no oneโs privacy. Ultimately though, yes, it could be abused by bad actors. Like everything else in civilisation we need some balance of enforcement to deal with those people.
@edwiebe @divVerent @Em0nM4stodonEm There is no way to know how old someone is without attestation by some authority who knows their identity. This precludes participation by anyone not known to such an authority (undocumented, outside of jurisdiction, etc.) or for whom it is not safe to let that authority know they are participating. And this is only the tip of the iceberg.
You are dangerously wrong, and you should stop advocating about things you're dangerously wrong about.
The LLM discourse on the Fediverse has really irked me the last few days.
Refusing to read writing made with the use of LLMs and refusing to give time to writers who use, promote or justify the use of LLMs is not purity culture, it's a boycott. It's a political act of withdrawing my time, resources and support for something that I find deeply morally wrong. It's protest. I have a choice and I refuse.
LLMs are exploitative, destructive, biased, mediocre parroting machines. Using them has a negative impact on the climate, the arts, the quality of the internet, the job market, the economy, the accessibility of electronics, even on skill development, creativity and mental health. LLMs are made and trained on the unpaid labour of millions -if not billions- of people who didn't consent. Their generic output litter the path to finding anything by true human creators.
Wherever I can, for as long as I can, I reject LLMs and anything that is related to them. I'm boycotting.
Ah yes, the [checks AMD reference manual] "P2D Swiss Cheese Descriptor" CPU MSR, of course
@film_girlChristina Warren it wasn't intended that way. We are all more than a little sensitive up here given what's been going on with your government lately. My comment seemed unhinged because you lack the necessary context to understand that this was more than just a game to many Canadians.
I get sports trash talk... but this isn't the year for it. Your comment sounded a lot like stuff we hear from your politicians about us, and we're just so tired of it.
This N.J. Trump voterโs husband was detained by ICE: โI thought theyโd focus on criminals.โ
Sandra Hafraoui, who identified as MAGA and voted for Trump three times, now says the president's immigration policy has "ruined our lives."
Abdellatif arrived in the United States at 22. He has now lived here for more than 38 years โ longer than he lived in Morocco.
During one visit, Abdellatif reached over to brush crumbs from her sleeve. A guard intervened, shouting obscenities and threatening to end the visit. โThere was no compassion,โ Sandra said. โJust constant humiliation.โ
About two and a half weeks after his arrest, Abdellatif said officers pressured him to board a commercial flight and sign away his rights. โThey told me if I didnโt get on the flight, I would be punished,โ he said.
He refused.
The punishment was 10 days in solitary confinement.
Steal this idea: an app that combines YouTube and 
@peertube into a single YouTube-like interface that treats content from both as equals. Where duplicates exist, PeerTube gets priority by default. Throw in some options for patronizing creators on PeerTube, and it could motivate them to migrate to and stay on decentralized platforms.
Even better if self-hosted with Invidious on the backend.
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Everyone in NYC, stay safe!
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https://www.youtube.com/live/Sy8pCXAkunc?si=164tLff2jUOS-FY0&t=125
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/02/mayor-mamdani-declares-local-state-of-emergency--snow-day-for-ny
#Blizzard2026
NYC TRAVEL BAN + STATE OF EMERGENCY
Streets, highways and bridges closed to ALL traffic starting 9 pm tonight, except emergency vehicles & essential/public safety workers. Schools closed Monday.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Sy8pCXAkunc?si=164tLff2jUOS-FY0&t=125
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/02/mayor-mamdani-declares-local-state-of-emergency--snow-day-for-ny
#Blizzard2026
ใใใฆใใใ็็ฃๆๆฎตใฎใณใขใณๅใฃใฆใใจใใจใใซใฏในไธป็พฉใฎใใผใผใ ใใช
ๆฅๆฌใฎIT็ณปใฏใใใใไธปๅผตใใไบบใใใใพใ่ฆใใใจใชใใฎใฏใใใใๆฅๆฌใฎๅทฆๆดพใใใใใใใช็กฌๆดพใชใใซใฏในไธป็พฉ็ไธปๅผตใฏใปใจใใฉ่ฆใชใๆฐใใใใ
ๆดชๆฐๆใใใฎใใฎ่จไบใใใผในใใใฆใใ่ชญใใงใชใใฃใใ
ใใกใใใกใใใใใใใฃใใ https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/01/histomat-foss-llm/
ใใณใคใใณใใๆ ็ปๆ่กใๅฐๆฐใฎๆจฉๅใซๅฏกๅ ใใใฆใใใใจใซๅฏพใใฆใๅธๆฐใซใใๅ้ ๆใ่ฆๆฑใใใใจใๆใใ ใใชใใ่ชญใใ (ใ่ค่ฃฝๆ่กๆไปฃใฎ่ธ่กใ)ใใใณใคใใณใ็ใใฆใใใใใซใใพใ ๆ่กใฎๅ้ ๆใฏๅฎ่ทต็ใซใฏใใชใๅฐ้ฃใ ใฃใใจใใใ(ใจใใใๆนๆณ่ซใใชใซใใชใใฃใ)ใใฉใใใพๅใๅ้กใๅฎ่ทต็ใซ่งฃๆฑบๅฏ่ฝใช่ชฒ้กใจใใฆๅใใใฆใใใฎใ ใชใจๆใใ
Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
A few days ago, I came across a blog post titled On FLOSS and training LLMs that articulates a growing frustration within the free and open source softwareโฆ
writings.hongminhee.org ยท Hong Minhee on Things
Link author: 
ๆดช ๆฐๆ (Hong Minhee) 
@hongminhee@hollo.social
ใใใฆใใใ็็ฃๆๆฎตใฎใณใขใณๅใฃใฆใใจใใจใใซใฏในไธป็พฉใฎใใผใผใ ใใช
ๆดชๆฐๆใใใฎใใฎ่จไบใใใผในใใใฆใใ่ชญใใงใชใใฃใใ
ใใกใใใกใใใใใใใฃใใ https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/01/histomat-foss-llm/
ใใณใคใใณใใๆ ็ปๆ่กใๅฐๆฐใฎๆจฉๅใซๅฏกๅ ใใใฆใใใใจใซๅฏพใใฆใๅธๆฐใซใใๅ้ ๆใ่ฆๆฑใใใใจใๆใใ ใใชใใ่ชญใใ (ใ่ค่ฃฝๆ่กๆไปฃใฎ่ธ่กใ)ใใใณใคใใณใ็ใใฆใใใใใซใใพใ ๆ่กใฎๅ้ ๆใฏๅฎ่ทต็ใซใฏใใชใๅฐ้ฃใ ใฃใใจใใใ(ใจใใใๆนๆณ่ซใใชใซใใชใใฃใ)ใใฉใใใพๅใๅ้กใๅฎ่ทต็ใซ่งฃๆฑบๅฏ่ฝใช่ชฒ้กใจใใฆๅใใใฆใใใฎใ ใชใจๆใใ
Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
A few days ago, I came across a blog post titled On FLOSS and training LLMs that articulates a growing frustration within the free and open source softwareโฆ
writings.hongminhee.org ยท Hong Minhee on Things
Link author: ๆดช ๆฐๆ (Hong Minhee) @hongminhee@hollo.social
Remember how SQL (still called SEQUEL) was supposed to make non-techies able to talk to computers?
> there is also a large class of users who, while they are not computer specialists, would be willing to learn to interact with a computer in a reasonably high-level, non-procedural query language. Examples
of such users are accountants, engineers, architects, and urban planners
https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/800296.811515
How quaint!
Anyway, tell me again how LLMs are making non-techies able to talk to computers. ๐
thank you nordic semiconductor for putting a summarize button on your website, i am saved from the burden of reading the document and instead can read the document
nlpol, uspol
There is an inherent irony in Palantir listing the immigration crackdown that it is powering as being a potential risk for the company.
https://www.404media.co/palantir-which-is-powering-ice-says-immigration-crackdown-may-hurt-hiring/
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Geek tip from the Tuta Team: How NOT to see AI images.
Use this HUGE AI BLOCKLIST for uBlock Origin: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
Enjoy your Sunday ๐
the "fediverse plays pokemon gold" account 
@pokemonFediverse Plays Pokemon has been stuck in the ice cave for like weeks now. true to my experience of playing the game as a child but tragic to witness because I can't tell what stage of exploration it's at so i can't help with directions lol
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Streets, highways and bridges closed to ALL traffic starting 9 pm tonight, except emergency vehicles & essential/public safety workers. Schools closed Monday.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Sy8pCXAkunc?si=164tLff2jUOS-FY0&t=125
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/02/mayor-mamdani-declares-local-state-of-emergency--snow-day-for-ny
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@lcamtuflcamtuf jlc? fun
Looks like Palantir may have fallen into the Streisand trap;
in seeking their right to reply (under Swiss media law) via the courts, they have drawn a lot more attention to two articles (based on Freedom of Information requests) that reveal why the Swiss state refused to do a deal with Palantir for some military software; they were worried data would be obtained by the US Govt.
Now a story, originally limited to the Swiss is gaining traction across Europe; oops.
more stickers. soon the laptop will simply be stickers
This Privacy Violation would apply to the Linux operating-systems as well.
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On the bench today.. possibly the most gorgeous Commodore ever made. I present my Commodore MAX. A rare beast, with a chequered history.
Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores available in the EU and elsewhere
Move over, Apple: Meet the alt...
Tiny (Glasgow, Scotland) is a big fan of licking a little bit of peanut butter off a spoon.
@film_girlChristina Warren @zedtech yeahโฆ I get what youโre saying, but I have friends in Canada who used to come here annually who will not be back until thereโs a change at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Ours has been the offending side. The bully. I get Canadian sensitivity this year. Weโre one bad comedy sketch from the U.S. starting something with Canada. Our govt. is threatening their sovereignty. Mightโve been a better year for a โgood gameโ message. (Respectfully yours, etc.)
2/22โ
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๐ซง socialcoding..
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