What is Hackers' Pub?

Let me talk, following on @thisismissemEmelia 👸🏻's post, about JSON-LD from a data engineering and web backend perspective:

It's a nightmare.

First: one of the first things you learn about how to address the OWASP lists is the importance of not just accepting random payloads, but carefully validating them, but with JSON-LD:

1. Basically any field may be absent, present, a URI, a list of objects, a list of URIs of objects, a list containing URIs AND Objects, etc.
2. Fields do not have consistent names. BY DESIGN. You _have_ to parse an object to know what is in it. Parsing the context and then building the map of names is basically an Ο(n*m) process where the amount of processing time you spend is _under the control of the sender_ by default, and nothing is ever fully defined.
3. Actually fully validating an object to the degree of knowing if it is the same thing as something else requires solving a GI-hard problem if there are blank nodes.

Applying basic type theory to anything done with JSON-LD is an exercise in frustration.

There are certainly use cases for it, but 99% of the time when I've seen it being used it is not for those use cases, but for use cases where we would strongly prefer JSON-Schema and/or OpenAPI definitions for things.

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https://peertube.securitymadein.lu/videos/watch/532645bd-8fbf-404b-af99-19d7e3d557f6

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ Toxic Meh?

爪が折れたRJ-45プラグを切り離して新しいのを圧着することで得られるこころの平穏だよ

Help!!! I'm alive! 😬

If you use Vivaldi, I have been fighting this all morning, thinking it was an extension or something else that was wrong with Tailscale or my machine. This is why you should never doubt yourself, friends. 🤣

https://vivaldi.com/blog/toggle-image-visibility/

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)

https://www.the74million.org/article/exclusive-new-google-partnership-a-sizable-investment-in-ai-for-teachers/

🧀 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.

📝 https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/loewenzahn-onkel-mit-witz-vor-zehn-jahren-starb-peter-lustig,peterlustig-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=NDR.de

#Loewenzahn #PeterLustig #NDR

Help!!! I'm alive! 😬

RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116121385465705323

sometimes I read these snippets from the simple sabotage manual and think "hmm, that's just how programming already works"

메님 그림의 손이 야하다는 말 뭔가 알 거 같음 이 커미 볼때마다 그걸 느껴...(? 라마티 손이. 암튼 라마티 손이. 하 근데 다시봐도 좋다.......

Menschen schockieren, indem ich in einer Hose* in den Hack Space komme

*Bin sonst Team Leggings oder so

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116121459251617437

if you participated in this (or, anything like it, really) please just let me know so I can block you

A simple web we own

Link: https://rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2026/02/21/a_simple_web_we_own.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47124149

🧀 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.

📝 https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/loewenzahn-onkel-mit-witz-vor-zehn-jahren-starb-peter-lustig,peterlustig-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=NDR.de

#Loewenzahn #PeterLustig #NDR

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

>“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.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-altman-would-like-remind-you-that-humans-use-a-lot-of-energy-too/

Still underground, but friendlier.

#photography #stations

そういえばViteかなにかに何世代分かのassetを保管しておいてもらいたいんだった

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)

https://www.the74million.org/article/exclusive-new-google-partnership-a-sizable-investment-in-ai-for-teachers/

So if there's toxic positivity and toxic negativity, does that mean there's also toxic equilibrium?

Uh, jemand hat die Mokkakanne gehackt ... und es ist sehr sehr seeeehr cool! https://youtu.be/UGf7mtfhOFM?si=CmLx2jUsyZe9OTt1 #Coffee

あと10分で会議だーってメール読んでたら明日になったってもー。洗濯も延期したのになあ… #ダークモード

Ms Mabel norty bacon chops wears William Morris, by Habitat.

I saw blue links on wikipedia looking partially faded, and I was wracking my brain trying to figure out what the heck was going on, until I remembered I had @everest’s ”Desire Paths for Wikipedia" installed

도감 상으로는 1.5m라는데 애니판으로는 충분히 가능할지도

a man in a lab coat is standin...

ぽしごと

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)

Vlad: Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack

https://lwn.net/Articles/1059933/ #LWN #Linux

I once again have the feeling that Randall Monroe can see directly into my brain (especially the mouseover text):

https://xkcd.com/3210/

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.

"If Freud is to be believed, the singular defining moment in any man's life is the death of his father," Brad was saying. This opened up a business opportunity.

@glyph Not if your goal is less a machine person than a machine slave

Gerade lief in der Lokalzeit Dortmund der Bericht von @filmtdenpottChristof Voigt über die Faschosause im Dortmunder Rathaus. Sehenswert und auf den Punkt.

Aber was bitte hat die Redaktion geritten, so ein Hintergrundbild zu wählen? :(

#do2202 #noafd #nonazisdo

@glyph@mastodon.social

Do you condition basic rights on a subordinate being agreeing with your values?

DEP or it didn’t happen people 🦄

"If Freud is to be believed, the singular defining moment in any man's life is the death of his father," Brad was saying. This opened up a business opportunity.

the mouse

Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/the-mouse

EU hits pause on US trade deal as it seeks clarity over latest Trump maneuver
https://apnews.com/article/trump-europe-tariffs-trade-deal-b2d8f76f143cf06e222477d13d42bc67?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116121385465705323

sometimes I read these snippets from the simple sabotage manual and think "hmm, that's just how programming already works"

Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.

Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later

Link: https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5719338
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47124877

Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app

Link: https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123631

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: https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/

Chat Control 1.0 lets Big Tech scan ALL your messages. 👀 

And the EU wants this to continue. Decision is this WEDNESDAY.

⚡  Call your MEPs now! ⚡ 
➡️ https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

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.

BREAKING: Sam Altman points out that putting out fires in orphanages also uses a lot of water.

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It would indeed be great to have both Blender and a second display out on my monitor w/ the MNT (Pocket) Reform. Hopin'! https://community.mnt.re/t/checking-on-blenderability/4234/11