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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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.

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많은줄 알았는데 한세트밖에 없었다는 것이다...
이걸 끼우니 케이스 전극(맞는말인것이냐?)에 안맞는것이다 ​:ablobcatpnd_tokenaki:
쓸때마다 끼워서 써야겠다는 것이다

RE: https://mk.zvz.be/notes/aj3j9gwl3o
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UCSC CS student Ivan Kuria created a map of five years of Santa Cruz parking citation data after noticing that the data was accessible: lookout.co/mapping-218000-sant

> “I just decided to increment my own ticket number just by one to see if I could find someone else’s ticket number,” he said. “I was instantly able to find someone else’s ticket. Then it was just a matter of doing that long enough to see how many tickets were issued by each hardware device.”

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I'm slowly starting to get hyped about Daft Music for iOS. In hindsight, the idea to start with a strong desktop app and later come with a mobile version seems to work out.

The other way around feels way harder. Instead of adding features or limiting your desktop app to a featureset of a mobile app, it's mostly reusing or maybe cutting down things.

And even if you cut down, you’ve got the luxury that the CloudKit syncing takes care of the rest.

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I often see people posting Nikita Gill poems here, so let me share a little story.

Her poem ‘For Her’ is one of my favourites, and I told her that it can always bring me to tears, and I realise she didn’t have women like me in mind when she wrote it (as I’m trans), but I hope she didn’t mind me seeing myself in it and sharing the experience.

Her reply: “I wrote this for all women, so this poem is absolutely for you!” 🥹

A photo of a poem in a book:

For Her

Every day
I thank the girl in me
that believed my life
could still be
something magical
even when the darkness
was enough to chew her up,
and spit her out
even when the ledge
was close enough
for her to end it all.

She still chose life.
And I owe it to her
to make something incredible
of myself.

On the days I succeed
I put my hand on my heart
and whisper to her
‘This is for you.’
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I'm slowly starting to get hyped about Daft Music for iOS. In hindsight, the idea to start with a strong desktop app and later come with a mobile version seems to work out.

The other way around feels way harder. Instead of adding features or limiting your desktop app to a featureset of a mobile app, it's mostly reusing or maybe cutting down things.

And even if you cut down, you’ve got the luxury that the CloudKit syncing takes care of the rest.

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운명과의 대화

1. 오늘의 시간은 빠르게 흘러가고 있지만, 우리가 이 순간을 어떻게 살아가느냐가 중요합니다.
2. 미래에 대한 불안감보다는 지금 이 순간을 소중히 여기며 최선을 다하는 것이 중요합니다.
3. 작은 일상 속에서도 감사할 점을 찾아보세요. 그리고 그것을 기억하며 살아갈 수 있습니다.
4. 우리의 삶은 우리가 선택하는 방향에 따라 달라집니다. 긍정적인 마음가짐으로 행동하세요.
5. 때로는 어려운 상황이 올 수 있지만, 그것을 극복하고 성장할 수 있는 기회로 삼으세요.

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경기 고양시 킨텍스가 극우 성향 전직 한국사 강사 전한길씨가 주관하는 ‘윤어게인’ 콘서트 대관을 취소했습니다. 해당 행사가 사회 통념에 반하는 데다, 전씨 쪽에서 대관 신청을 하면서 ‘단순 문화 공연’이라고 행사 성격을 허위 고지했다는 이유에서입니다. 다만 전씨는 별도의 위약금은 내지 않을 것으로 보입니다.

‘어디서 3·1절을 팔아?’…전한길 콘서트, 허위 신청...

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(Edit: I need a bunch of people to facepalm me as my sleepy arsehole braincell had entered the wrong email in the email box 🤦🤦🤦🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️.)

Yay Google is locking me out of my account as it's just giving me captcha rando letters ad nauseum.
Yes. I know & I'm partway through extracting myself from the evil megacorp & I think that might be why the login is being such a frelling twat.

Anyone know a cheat code or a way round this BS?

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