What is Hackers' Pub?

Copilot can whine all it wants. 🤭

#copilot #ai #privacy

Is #RANCID still alive in production environments?

We’re considering integration with #NetXMS and trying to estimate real-world usage.

#networking #netops #opensource #NMS

Do you use it?

If you beat up the firefox team long enough you actually get the required controls.

This came up a bit over the past week in conversations online, but the way that fixating on short-term productivity in technical work SEEMS good but can actually harm us, is something I've been working on for years.

The fourth chapter of my book is on this paradox! *waits impatiently for release*

색은, 진해도 좋고 옅어도 좋다. 동시에 과해도 문제고 부족해도 문제다. 이미지 압축으로 인한 손실에 디스플레이별 차이까지 들어가면 그저 잘 보이길 기도하는 수 밖에 없을 지경인가 싶다. 어렵다 어려워...

This is a really good article about the situation in Ukraine, a snippet:

> The fighting is also about attaining negotiating leverage. Russia retains battlefield advantages, but they have not proved decisive, and more and more, time is working against Moscow.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukraines-war-endurance

今から18年前これをニコニコで見た人いませんか？

RE: https://misskey.io/notes/aj4bzzfhyk9704s0

今から18年前これをニコニコで見た人いませんか？

RE: https://misskey.io/notes/aj4bzzfhyk9704s0

Under Tennessee law, homicide can carry the death penalty.

Now, Republican lawmakers have introduced House Bill 570 / Senate Bill 738 declaring life begins at fertilization and revising homicide statutes to include abortion.

That opens the door to capital punishment for Tennessee women and doctors.

Here’s what you need to know, the five white Republican men behind it, and how to help stop it from advancing.

https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/tennessee-gop-intro-bill-to-kill-women-who-get-an-abortion/

New on Instagram: 念願の？PILSEN ALLEYで独り0次会。なるほど、これが日本一と言われるスーパードライね。居合わせたお客さんとの世間話を含め、最高のUXでした。 https://instagr.am/p/DVJVQsAD9LC/

This is the script of my national radio report yesterday on the worsening mess around age verification for social media. As always, there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented this report live on air.

- - -

Well, the technical term for the situation regarding social media age restrictions is "utter train wreck." Indeed as more countries and U.S. states work to enact attempts at social media age restrictions (that now apparently includes California by the way) pretty much all of the problems that critics of this entire concept predicted have been coming true, but politicians on a bipartisan basis just keep plowing on pushing this stuff, as if they're living on some another planet and can't see what's happening here on Earth.

Some of the laws are in litigation, some are already in force, but everywhere you look it's an escalating mess. It's important to note that by and large, I think it's fair to say that most persons pushing for these age restrictions have laudable motives and are frustrated by bad social media content that their kids may interact with. This is completely understandable. But pushing concepts that do not actually solve this problem -- and in fact can make the situation even worse, is not good policy to say the least. It can result in terrible privacy problems for everyone -- including adults and children -- and potentially drives children to disreputable sites on the Net that are of far more concern than the mainstream social media sites.

Australia has been considered to be the big test case with their under 16 years old ban, and most independent observers are saying it's not going well there. Many parents are helping their children evade the ban (it may be as high as 1 in 3 parents or more) because they feel the ban is too restrictive and cutting their children off from useful and educational content -- because indeed not EVERYTHING on social media is bad. In some ways a universal ban for social media use is like banning children from entering libraries because there are SOME books in there that could be inappropriate for them.

And of course by saying "you can't do this" the bans turn social media into a "forbidden fruit" that makes them even more attractive to kids, many of whom are far more Internet skilled than the adults around them. So, kids are using VPNs to bypass the ban, they're using AI and other methods to fool various systems that are supposed to verify ages based on video selfies. They're using the accounts of their parents (as I mentioned, often with their parents approval), or the accounts of older siblings or friends.

We've discussed before the major risks associated with the provision of government credentials for ID purposes that may be required for some of these age verification systems at various times. Remember, adult users have to be verified as well to prove that they aren't children! And we know there have already been major breaches of security of some of these systems, despite assurances that their specific designs only held the IDs for a brief time.

In fact, the social media site Discord is currently embroiled in a major controversy involving their age verification plans, age verification tests, which third parties were involved in all this, how secure the ID data was and is, and more complicating factors -- the bottom line is that many of their users are absolutely livid over Discord's apparent behavior in this regard, especially since there had reportedly previously been a breach that exposed many Discord users' government ID information!

Most observers feel that all of this is a harbinger of worse situations to come. And then of course there are all the concerns about how various governments could use age verification ID data for tracking exactly how individuals use the broader Internet, by expanding age verification requirements beyond social media, creating a vast Internet surveillance regime such as is present in China.

We all want to protect the children, but so far, age verification does not appear to be the right tool for that job, and instead may be dragging us in a direction that may actually do more harm.

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Basically: If you run OpenClaw connected to any meaningful system you are not fit to design, program or run any kind of software. That disregard for security and quality should leave a black mark on you for many years.

ワシが写真始めた頃はな、デジカメなんかまだ高くて、猫耳美少女JKが手を出せる代物じゃなかったんじゃ…だから部費で落ちる安い白黒フィルムで撮ってたんじゃよ… #カメラ始めたての写真見せて

Conduent's handling of its data breach has been truly shit, refusing to say how many people are affected, or how the breach occurred.

Conduent hid its breach notice with "noindex" code, so you won't see the page in search results. The breach notice doesn't even *mention* a breach!

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/conduent-data-breach-grows-affecting-at-least-25m-people/

NEW: The number of people who had personal data (and Social Security numbers) stolen in the 2025 Conduent data breach continues to rise, now affecting at least 25 million.

Conduent provides mailing and payment verification services for state government programs, and benefits for employees at big companies.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/conduent-data-breach-grows-affecting-at-least-25m-people/

仏教といえばこれを語らずにはいられない
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9E

#FediMTL

Missed opportunity when someone asks a question about age verification and says "explain it to me like I'm 5".

@box464@mastodon.social is doing another live stream in parallel here:

https://mastodon.social/@box464/116125983228506874

I won't be able to talk about my own talk in real time, so check out that stream too!

OK what's OpenClaw

*googles*

ok NOPE

最近読んだ本が生成文法の真逆っぽい雰囲気でおもしろかったです
『言語はこうして生まれる―「即興する脳」とジェスチャーゲーム―』

macos vs windows 🥴

性格がめんどくさいので多分結婚できない

しだれ梅祭り #misskey写真部

生成文法の本ちょろっと読んでんだけど、なんか肌に合わないからやめるか。言語の仕組みってもっと柔軟なもんだと勝手に思ってるんだけど、読んでる本によれば言語における特定の規則が成り立つ/成り立たないが理論的に定まるっぽい言い方をしていて、それはその分野ではそうなのかもしれないけどなんか、今の俺には納得できないので、恐らくはもっと手前の段階で読むべき本があるんだろう。

今週休み1日しかないのにその1日をウマ娘で潰しました
ええ加減寝まちゅ
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This seems like a good time for a reminder that when COVID hit in 2020 and everyone was living via Zoom Studio Ghibli released a bunch of images from their movies for free use as virtual meeting backgrounds, and those backgrounds are still up and free for you to use

https://www.ghibli.jp/info/013251/

[$] As ye clone(), so shall ye AUTOREAP

The facilities provided by the kernel for the management of processes have evolved considerably in the last few years, driven mostly by the advent of the pidfd API. A pidfd is a f [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1059673/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #systemd

My friend needs to re-home her cat sadly, a lovely black and white kitty, she's in Newcastle (England) if anyone in the north east here is looking for a sweet little cat?

update: the cat is called Lola! not "sadly"

Row Locks With Joins Can Produce Surprising Results in PostgreSQL https://lobste.rs/s/klb2o8 #databases
https://hakibenita.com/postgres-row-lock-with-join

Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software

Link: https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136036

오늘 읽을 책은 요거입니다.

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FNR - All the Fedi News you need!

So, do you dislike the Nazi bar newsletter site and want to know when some innocent looking link is going there? Here's some CSS for you, which you can add to an extension such as Stylus¹:

a[href*="substack.com"]::after {
content: " [SUBSTACK]";
font-weight: bolder;
}

Modifications of the text are up to you, such as inclusion of the emoji of your choice. You can also use more aggressive CSS if you want, there's probably a way to make the <a> disappear.

¹ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/

도둑맞은 집중력 아닙니다 애초에 없는 건 도둑질당할 필요가 없습니다

Taking a break.

#photography #snow

Here's how you can help!

Even if you're not an Australian resident, you can file a formal complaint with the ABC. If enough of us complain that platforming transphobia is unacceptable they will have no choice but to retract or edit the article and change their practices on uncritically reporting "gender critical" rhetoric. Here's a template that you can copy and paste:

I am writing to complain about the article “Lesbian group takes fight to Federal Court in bid to exclude transgender women from events” published on the 23 of February 2026. The report fails to meet ABC’s principles for balance and impartiality as it doesn't include a perspective from a transgender person or advocacy organisation. The article uncritically quotes exclusionary and transphobic language effectively providing a platform for the Lesbian Action Group and normalises transphobic rhetoric. Considering the federal court bid affects the rights of transgender people and the wider LGBTQ+ community not including the perspective of the people who are the primary subjects of this legal discrimination is a severe lapse of ABC standards. (ABC Editorial Standards 4.2 specifically).

🔗 Here’s the link to the ABC’s complaint form:

https://www.abc.net.au/contact/complain.htm

1️⃣ Select the area the complaint relates to as: ABC website

2️⃣ Select the ABC website as: ABC NEWS

3️⃣ Select the issue as: Bias

4️⃣ Enter the URL as: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-23/lesbian-group-transgender-exemption-federal-court/106375606

5️⃣ Enter the provided template and feel free to tweak as you like.

Thank you in advance to anyone that submits a complaint ✊

#trans #transgender #australia

Hey Fedi Friends , I need your help!

The ABC’s (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) latest reporting on the Lesbian Action Group’s federal court bid to exclude transgender women from events, is bigoted, ignorant and one sided.

So despite this direct legal challenge to the rights of trans women, the ABC:

⁃ Failed to interview or even get perspectives from transgender people or advocacy groups.
⁃ Literally uncritically platformed "gender critical" retoric, the article quotes exclusionary and transphobic language calling transgender women “biological males” without criticism or challenge.
⁃ Claimed this is a "clash of rights” when in reality it's a transphobic exclusionary group trying to challenge human rights as defined by the federal Sex Discrimination Act.

Trans women are women. Trans lesbians are lesbians. Trans rights are human rights.

We need to send a message to the ABC that this is unacceptable! Please help by lodging a complaint! (anyone can) ⬇️

#trans #transgender #australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-23/lesbian-group-transgender-exemption-federal-court/106375606

have you considered looong pushbutton?

솔직히 그 모든 지식을 워프에서 볼 수 있다고 해서 솔깃하긴 한데, 카오스 니들이 입고다니는 패션 센스는 울트라마린보다 구리다. 니들이 보여준다는 그 모든 지식도 그러할 것이다. 적어도 나를 유혹하려거든 네크론 수준의 까리함으로 무장하고 오도록. #발광

아니근데 구 계정 이사 후에 팔로잉 백압 못해요?

아아.. 왜 환절기엔 졸리는가..

結婚と年収について考えている

그래도 이제 나머지 수목금 게임일정을 막았어요 이제 진짜 개인, 팀 작업 뿐이야