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.
RE: https://oisaur.com/@renchap/116120056154167092
i think my toot from about 6 months ago auto deleted on this, but yes, the AI industry thing of bulk buying up hardware components is going to quickly inflate Mastodon server running costs, so be kind to your admins.
I've said this repeatedly too but it's going to massively increase business IT costs very soon, inflation is coming across the board, CIOs are going to have a budget crisis.
Give me your best pickup lines. I'll go first:
If we ran out of food on a mountain overpass, I'd eat you last :3
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
just go to the club with a shirt that says "beziehungsfähig" and you'll never need a pickup line
There are a lot of threads about this depressing article:
It supports the idea of a social media ban for under-16s.
I also don't want to see children exposed to offensive, dehumanizing "content", but I am wondering why a ban is the cure. The examples the writer cites are all examples of simply unacceptable speech. If the social media platforms had effective moderation, this would not be a problem. If every instance of misogyny and other hate speech was taken down, and abusers got reliably suspended and banned, the experience of girls and minorities on these platforms would be infinitely better. The people doing the hate might be pushed to reconsider their behavior.
Instead we will take away internet freedom from young people and force identity verification on everyone, undermine VPNs and so on. Why? Because that will be easier and cheaper for the tech giants.
Don't ban girls from social media. Ban the abusers.
:)
The former UK ambassador to the US, Lord Peter Mandelson, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-starmer-labour-farage-chagos-cabinet-secretary-12593360?postid=11127679#liveblog-body
RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116065080142081016
The results are in: the community wants #HolosDiscover back. So we'll be bringing it back.
Source code will be reopened and the service restored from a clean slate as all data was deleted when we shut it down.
We've also heard the concerns and will work on making the opt-out process even more visible.
🖼️📖 Nur 1 % der Kulturerbe-Institutionen weltweit haben eine Open-Access-Policy – dabei sollte Kulturerbe für alle zugänglich sein!
Ein Schritt um das zu ändern? Das Open Heritage Statement von 
@creativecommons
Was steckt hinter dem Statement – und warum sollte eure GLAM-Institution es unterzeichnen? Welche Hürden gibt es beim Zugang zu digitalem Kulturerbe?
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https://www.wikimedia.de/veranstaltungen/das-open-heritage-statement/
https://mltshp.com/p/1RKXT “Now form a band”
"Daily Driver" sounds like a cocktail.
Researchers say Meta’s patent for simulating dead users could be a “turning point” in “AI resurrections.”
https://www.404media.co/metas-ai-patent-to-simulate-dead-people-shows-the-dangers-of-spectral-labor/
So #Loops features on Hacker News, having 245 comments rn. Many fedizens revile HN, for reasons I well understand.
It's still interesting to look into this thread and distill some product feedback for Loops' improvement.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113618
HN is often blamed for having only techbro's with growth-hack mentality, with no moral compass or ethics.
Yet in the comments most concerns *are* about the #ethics of creating an #Activityub federated #FOSS TikTok, even without the addictive algorithm. Worried that short-form vids as snacks for the brain are already detrimental to people's mental health.
Some good feedback to ponder on..
Though I also observe a general misunderstanding how loops differs from TikTok, and the website doesn't explain that well enough. I'd make general public ("users") the prime audience served on the frontpage, who are hardly addressed atm. Then have a separate Creators header menu section. Then a Values section that also gives background to tech benefits.
Sadio Mane, The Liverpool Star from Senegal (earning approximately 10.2 million dollars annually),has given the world a lesson in modesty after some fans spotted him carrying a cracked Iphone.His response is legendary:
"Why would I want ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches and two jet planes? What would that do for the world? I starved, I worked in the fields, I played barefoot, and I didn't go to school. Now I can help people. I prefer to build schools and give poor people food or clothing. I have built schools [and] a stadium; we provide clothes, shoes, and food for people in extreme poverty. In addition, I give 70 euros per month to all people from a very poor Senegalese region in order to contribute to their family economy. I do not need to display luxury cars, luxury homes, trips, and even planes. I prefer that my people receive a little of what life has given me," Mane said.
i’m finally doing a lot of migrations to nicolium state management. i will probably be able to finish work on the timelines refactoring i started in late 2024
🕐 2026-02-23 18:00 UTC
📰 コードを理解する超軽量MCPを作った — トークン70%削減、1分でセットアップ (👍 143)
🇬🇧 Built cocoindex-code: AST-based MCP reducing AI tokens by 70% for large codebases. 1-min setup, works with Claude/Cursor.
🇰🇷 대규모 코드베이스용 AST 기반 MCP 'cocoindex-code' 개발. AI 토큰 70% 절감, 1분 설치, Claude/Cursor 호환.
Myopia Is Surging, And One Common Habit Could Be Driving It
https://www.sciencealert.com/myopia-is-surging-and-one-common-habit-could-be-driving-it?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Health 
@health-ScienceAlertHealth
If you `set watch = (0 any any)' in tcsh, you will be notified when
someone logs in or out of your system.
The former UK ambassador to the US, Lord Peter Mandelson, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-starmer-labour-farage-chagos-cabinet-secretary-12593360?postid=11127679#liveblog-body
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@chrisleboe/116120658200916046
May you enjoy something today as much as these two pups are loving running in the snow.
ok but isn't the human brain also basically just a rock with eyes glued to it
What is the process of publishing #ActivityPub “notes” in the W3C SocialCG or one of its Task Forces (if it’s a different answer)?
What is the process of publishing #ActivityPub “notes” in the W3C SocialCG or one of its Task Forces (if it’s a different answer)?
Incredible how just in a few years, the smartphone went from
"a device that's nice to have and allows you to contact people, access your calendar, play games and look up bus schedules on the go"
to
"a device you're absolutely required to own and have access to at all times because if you don't, you don't get a bank account, health insurance, public transit, or basically any online service required for enrollment in a school or an employment contract"
Seeing how google is apparently going the apple route and locking down their ecosystem more and more, the need for an alternative is becoming more and more apparent.
But actually, I don't need an open-source phone. I need a device that can run the apps for my bank, my health insurance, and my carsharing provider.
You know what would fix this problem altogether? If companies stopped developing android and ios apps and went back to making websites
It's no secret, I'm happy drinking instant coffee. (If you need to go block me, I understand.)
Café Listo is my new favorite. From El Salvador, it's got a nice roasty flavor with no burnt bitterness. The name is kind of a play on words, meaning either "Ready Coffee" or "Smart Coffee". Finally, I can buy it at the grocery store in town which makes it cheap and easy to get. Yum! #coffee #CafeListo
絶望的というか精神的にダメージ食らわせてくる夢を見て起きてしまって酷いことになってるなう
hearing that "good first issue" tagging is becoming useless because it just prompts a bunch of identical ai-generated PRs.
makes me wanna burn down a datacenter. fucking. god. what a pointless salting of the earth.
If you want a Scheme to WebAssembly compiler (and all-around WASM toolkit) that, quite frankly, rules and also isn't vibe coded at all, check out Spritely's Hoot: https://spritely.institute/hoot/
We have a new release coming up. It's already awesome, and it's about to get a lot more awesome.
에바 그만 놔 줘라 하는 에바를 내놓더니 왜 또 에바를 내놓는건데요 진짜 에바네
RE: https://mstdn.party/@reeltubes/116117167441291591
Oh cool! I did not know that 
@Flipboard had a #peertube, kudos 
@mikeMike McCue !
スマホ落として液晶にヒビが
We’re going beyond the basics with isolation, ~Copyable, and ~Escapable types, starting with a preview of how careful control of isolation in the Composable Architecture 2.0 unlocks synchronous superpowers.
See how: https://www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep355-beyond-basics-isolation-copyable-escapable
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of unimaginably stupid shit every fucking day
I've published the first two chapters of a new guide to Agentic Engineering Patterns - coding practices and patterns to help get the best results out of coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/agentic-engineering-patterns/
AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
Link: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/ais-can-generate-near-verbatim-copies-of-novels-from-training-data/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123805
"Abolish ICE" among winners in Chicago's 'You Name a Snowplow' contest
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/02/23/abolish-ice-among-winners-in-chicagos-you-name-a-snowplow-contest?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Chicago News 
@chicago-news-ChicagoSunTimesChicago News
I'm not there yet, but hey, it's a process 😅
Art imitates life imitates art
It's common to spin up a server in a test so that you can do full end-to-end requests of it. It's a very important sort of test, to make sure things work all together. And this is great, but you quickly run into a problem: port collisions!
So... how do we fix that? You read the title, so you know where we're going, but let's go there together.
[속보] 英 경찰, 엡스타인 파일 관련 피터 맨델슨 전 주미 대사 체포
등록 2026.02.24 02:26:39
www.newsis.com/view/NISX202...
[속보] 英 경찰, 엡스타인 파일 관련 피터 맨델슨 전...
The Artful Corvid #oldknees
E-bikes are amazing.
When I got mine, people asked me what it was like. I said that it was like riding a tandem bike with a friend who was really good at biking.
And it helped me get fit in a gentle, non-discouraging way. Now I can do 15-20mi without assistance (maybe less after this winter).
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
theconversation.com · The Conversation
Link author: 
The Conversation AU + NZ@theconversationau@mastodon.social
Ouch. What smells like a combination of corruption, arrogance, and ignorance in Vancouver civic staff around planning for False Creek South. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/17/Vancouver-Handling-False-Creek-South/?utm_source=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=230226
if you didn't know the language, all of those (including recent wrenches timeline) look like some settings pages
Give me your best pickup lines. I'll go first:
If we ran out of food on a mountain overpass, I'd eat you last :3
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) If you were a binary numbering system, you'd be the most significant bit.
ドイツで、ピリオドで区切られてるCVSファイルを見かけたことあるよ
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