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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🧀 Wie kommen die Löcher in den Käse? Kaum jemand konnte komplizierte Zusammenhänge so verständlich erklären wie Peter Lustig. Fast ein Vierteljahrhundert moderierte er die ZDF-Sendung "Löwenzahn", das Wissensmagazin für Kinder und Erwachsene. Am 23. Februar 2016 starb er.

📝 ndr.de/geschichte/loewenzahn-o

Dieses Bild ist eine Infografik zum Gedenken an den bekannten deutschen Fernsehmoderator Peter Lustig. Es ist eine Hommage an sein Lebenswerk in der Sendung „Löwenzahn“.

Bildinhalt und Komposition
Im oberen Drittel des Bildes ist ein Porträt von Peter Lustig zu sehen. Er blickt freundlich und direkt in die Kamera.

Erscheinungsbild: Ein älterer Mann mit Glatze, einem grauen Vollbart und einer markanten, runden Brille.

Kleidung: Er trägt sein typisches „Löwenzahn“-Outfit – ein gelbes Hemd unter einer blauen Latzhose. An seinem linken Handgelenk ist eine einfache Armbanduhr mit weißem Zifferblatt zu sehen.

Gegenstand: Er hält eine klassische, silberne Gießkanne aus Metall vor sich in die Höhe.

Hintergrund: Hinter ihm ist ein Teil seines berühmten blauen Bauwagens mit einer grünen Tür und weißen Fensterrahmen erkennbar.

Textliche Informationen
Die untere Hälfte des Bildes besteht aus einem dunkelblauen Hintergrund mit weißem Text:

Überschrift: „Löwenzahn“-Onkel mit Witz

Hauptzeile (groß): Vor zehn Jahren starb Peter Lustig

Fließtext: Er erklärte Kindern und Erwachsenen von 1981 bis 2005 die Welt – auf seine ganz eigene Weise.
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I occasionally help an elderly neighbor get stuff done with their computer. And every single time, I walk away in incandescent rage at how hard we have made this stuff for people who have not spent their entire waking lives marinating in it

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>“But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human,” Altman said. “It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart."

Human consumption of ~2000-2500 kcal/day is roughly 97-121 Wh. If that human lives to be 80 years old and keeps a constant energy consumption of ~100 Wh, then their total energy consumption is ~56 MWh.

GPT-3 consumed approximately 1.287 GWh during its training.

GPT-4 consumed 50-60 GWh.

Swing and miss.

techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-

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I spent my education career pushing back against crap like this, so let me clue you in on something:

When a tech company invests in schools, it's never for the benefit of student learning. It's always, always for creating loyal customers out of the students and teachers.

(h/t @AAKL)

the74million.org/article/exclu

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ぽしごと :saba:

ef6405ab28 (upstream/main) Profile editing: Featured tags (#37952)
e2aecd040c Collapse posts/collections in moderation interface (#37929)
e0cc3a30ef Allow displaying icon in `TextInput` component (#37951)
b785f05ddb Add coverage for `StatusBatchAction` (#37949)
f9c18ba170 Fix overly large avatars in report modal (#37950)
1d513966bd Remove unneeded haml-lint problem matcher (#37930)
6bd4d79802 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37940)
5fc2be54c7 Update dependency rspec-sidekiq to v5.3.0 (#37938)

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To challenge bad AI drivers, I have to ask questions to the slopster like "explain to me what you did wrong." I don't like being vague, but if I'm too specific they just ask their AI. Inability to critically analyze and formulate their own mistakes is an instant unvouch. 👋

Makes me feel like my own dad though. I used to hate being in trouble without knowing why I was in trouble and being told "think about it and come back to me when you figure it out." But, I understand him more and more every day.

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If I believed that it were a thinking, feeling machine person (let alone a machine god), priority number one has got to be human rights for these things. Discussion of "alignment" and whatnot has to come second, right? Do you condition basic rights on a subordinate being agreeing with your values?

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If I believed that it were a thinking, feeling machine person (let alone a machine god), priority number one has got to be human rights for these things. Discussion of "alignment" and whatnot has to come second, right? Do you condition basic rights on a subordinate being agreeing with your values?

@glyph@mastodon.social

Do you condition basic rights on a subordinate being agreeing with your values?
The fact that so many of the hardcore boosters and funders are eugenicists is... well, they've explicitly rejected the work on ML ethics as it actually impacts real, living people and society, instead embracing this 'alignment' thing. The idea of giving something rights only if it agrees with them lines up very neatly with how they treat people in general.

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It's just one week until our un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web!

The event page has been updated. Now we have the basic agenda, plus the submissions from attendees, and an attempt to summarize them.

Now also with Techdirt logo (as @j12tJohannes Ernst and @masnick.com are co-organizing)

Later today we'll e-mail an update to registered attendees.

There is still time to register, it's online, so it's easy to participate!

More info and registration: fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-

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I made a promise to myself to never post a recruiting call for my research projects on mastodon ever again. However, I do know lots of folks follow me here who care about this part of my work and might want to participate in an open science project for developers. This is a note that I will be posting recruiting calls on other platforms and my sites in the next week, if you are curious to check that out.

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Thinking a lot about "The Measure Of A Man" lately and there's definitely an irritating undercurrent that AI boosters see themselves as Commander Riker in that episode, and critics as Bruce Maddox. Which intuitively makes sense but is entirely backwards if you think about it for like five seconds

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ProxPatch is written in Rust and fully .

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GitHub: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxPatch


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@davidgerard It's weird how people who generally think humanities education should be abolished, don't want slavery acknowledged, want to see mass unemployment and the removal of consent for the use of creative works and find new and interesting ways to justify de-personing people based on skin colour or immigration status, keep on finding new ways to try and assign personhood to a chatbot. Nobody else deserves it, but this text generator agrees with them, so they do.

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