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.

사람들에게 질적으로 다른 외부 연산력 자산을 부여하는 게 현행 기술의 핵심이라고 생각하고 그 내재적 가치는 분명하기 때문에 이게 무슨 허깨비 과열처럼 꺼지면서 큰 문제가 될 거라는 시각에는 그다지 동의하지 않는다. 파국적 흥함이나 파국적 망함이 오기에는 그 범위를 제약할 현실에 박아넣은 앵커가 이미 제법 단단하니까... hype 측면에선 그게 이미 있는 것 처럼 보는 시각이 있기는 한데, 이것도 무슨 블랙홀 축퇴 같은 걸 장전한 상태라고는 보지는 않는다. 그럴 수 있을 만큼 우리가 세상에 이걸 다 깔아놓지도 못했고.

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A solar eclipse seen… FROM SPACE?!

Yup. And it's an annular one, too, making it extra cool.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/sol

And oh yeah by the way a small galaxy may be ramming through the Milky Way too so I wrote about that because why not.

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My latest newsletter, in which I talk about and epidemics to try to make the point that new, better ideas rarely have a chance in government, and that’s literally killing us. This one’s maybe my most depressing piece to date, but it feels important to discuss. everyonescreative.net/p/the-bi

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I reported a month and a day ago on the ICE shooting in Minneapolis of a Venezuelan who luckily survived the encounter.

partyon.xyz/@nullagent/1158969

Well this week we got new reporting from the mainstream media indicating that charges in that ICE shooting incident have largely been dropped.

Even the Trump DOJ admitted that the ICE/CBP agents involved lied about the circumstances so much that they have been placed on administrative leave.

cnn.com/2026/02/15/us/ice-shoo

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自分もよく知らないけど生成文法の話は認知科学とかのほうから色々ツッコミがはいってチョムスキー自身も改訂版を提案してそれもいまいち弟子からも反応が悪かったりしてて、一般的に広く正しいとされている理論ではもはやないと思う

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For four years, Ukraine has chosen hope, and Europe chooses to stand with them. 🇪🇺🇺🇦

The EU stands firm:

👉 Providing a safe harbour for over 4 million people
👉 Delivering 11278 generators to keep the lights on
👉 Investing €36.8 billion to rebuild the nation’s lifeblood, from schools to hospitals
👉 Securing €194.9 billion in total support, including a new €90 billion loan for 2026-27
👉 Advancing EU accession because Ukraine is family

Ukraine is Europe. Europe is Ukraine.

A political graphic featuring a blue and yellow colour scheme. On the left, a blue ribbon adorned with gold stars (from the EU flag) and a yellow and blue ribbon (from the Ukrainian flag) are intertwined in a knot. The right side features the bold white text "YOUR FREEDOM IS OUR FREEDOM" against a blue background, with a small European Union flag icon in the bottom right corner.
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2024年のわたし「Macのメモリ16GBで足りるやろ」
2026年のわたし「通常作業をする分には16GBで余裕すぎるので2024年のわたしは正しかった、が、ローカルLLMがメモリに載らなさすぎてつらい」
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✨ Meet Promise.try()

A new static method that wraps any callback in a Promise - handling both sync and async execution uniformly.

Unlike Promise.resolve(), it catches synchronous errors and provides cleaner syntax for unified error handling.

Start experimenting now 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do

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No AI Badges

Want to show visitors to your site that your content is human made and doesn’t use AI? Grab my badge pack for FREE (or pay as much as you want).

The pack contains 64 88x31px PNG and SVG badges in 8 colors and phrases “made by a human, drawn by a human, human content, written by a human, I am not a robot, never by ai, human content, there’s no ai here!”

ko-fi.com/s/4662b19f61

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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.

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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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So it looks like Trump raped a child. Will he suffer any reduction in support from his base for it?

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