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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This account has a website full of tips and step-by-step guides about how to use Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse:

➡️ fedi.tips <-------- Click here to open the website

The entire site is written in ordinary non-technical language, aimed at a general audience. There's a section at the top with quick links to the most essential stuff, and a complete list of guides below that.

If you can't find the answers you want on the site, ask me and I'll try to help directly.

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When I am made God Emperor, the people who design hotel bathrooms so that you cannot see your face up close in a mirror and also have somewhere to put your makeup will be piled up and set ablaze.

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Anyone have experience with django-extra-views, positive or negative?

github.com/AndrewIngram/django

For inline editing of model instances related to a parent model (using a foreign key), one could use the InlineFormSetView…

django-extra-views.readthedocs

… but are there alternative approaches you’d recommend instead?

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"you were so preoccupied with whether or not you could that you didn't stop to think if you should"

idk why everybody keeps saying that, obviously i thought about whether i should first and came to the conclusion that it would be fun and cool asf to do it

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弊ぼっちのデータベースへの本日分の攻撃はAWSのIPアドレスからいただいております。ログまとめてサポートにチクれば処分してもらえるんだけど時間がないぬ…

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This morning a friend asked for help updating his BIOS. I helped him disable BitLocker because the fTPM would be cleared, then we run the update and also updated the chipset drivers. So far so good. Later my friend calls me up because apparently Windows detected a hardware change and isn't activated anymore. Trying to reactivate it doesn't work, and claims that he's using a Home license when the installation is a Pro one (it was). Sounds stupid enough? Hold on 1/2

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If humanity, a type 0 civilization, can create a human-level artificial intelligence well within a hundred years of inventing the first computer (and we're not quite there yet but in programming we're pretty darn close), that must mean intelligent life in the universe must increase exponentially with time. Mathematically there must be trillions and trillions of intelligences out there, or we are beating unfathomable odds to be the very first

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I'm not using any LLM or "AI" for anything that I write or draw. Never had, and never will.

I'm making this choice because:

• This technology was built by unethically stealing the hard work of millions without any consent or compensation.

• This technology has and is still constantly scraping data, including personal data, from people without their knowledge or consent, in complete disregard of the privacy laws we have to protect us.

• This technology unnecessarily uses vast amounts of energy in a world where using more energy sadly usually means more pollution.

• This technology is working on devaluating labor in order to enrich even more the already rich, aggravating poverty everywhere.

• This technology is misleadingly being sold as a solution to problems it cannot solve.

• This technology is supercharging disinformation and manipulation online, centralizing an incredible power of influence in the hands of a few controlling billionaires.

• This technology is increasingly being used by authoritarian governments in order to surveil and control the people.

• This technology atrophies our creativity and capability to think, as well as harming our social relationships.

• This technology makes my writing voice feel flat and boring. I'd rather learn to live with my human tipos.

• This technology...

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I'm not using any LLM or "AI" for anything that I write or draw. Never had, and never will.

I'm making this choice because:

• This technology was built by unethically stealing the hard work of millions without any consent or compensation.

• This technology has and is still constantly scraping data, including personal data, from people without their knowledge or consent, in complete disregard of the privacy laws we have to protect us.

• This technology unnecessarily uses vast amounts of energy in a world where using more energy sadly usually means more pollution.

• This technology is working on devaluating labor in order to enrich even more the already rich, aggravating poverty everywhere.

• This technology is misleadingly being sold as a solution to problems it cannot solve.

• This technology is supercharging disinformation and manipulation online, centralizing an incredible power of influence in the hands of a few controlling billionaires.

• This technology is increasingly being used by authoritarian governments in order to surveil and control the people.

• This technology atrophies our creativity and capability to think, as well as harming our social relationships.

• This technology makes my writing voice feel flat and boring. I'd rather learn to live with my human tipos.

• This technology...

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また君が代は大切な人の長寿を願う歌というやつが例のSNSでたくさんリプついてて、たぶんAI投稿なんだけど、ついてるリプも「高校の頃にラブソングと習った」「天皇のことじゃない」「現代文で読むほうが理解できる」みたいな、たぶんこれもAIによる存在しない過去が捏造されている。与作が木を切っていたほうが、まだいくらかマシだったかもしれん。

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I recreated an old diagram in Excalidraw that I spread about a couple years ago, and made it a bit more informative. Explanation can be found in the

See also and for discussion: discuss.coding.social/t/diagra

Or join the Social experience design chatroom at: matrix.to/#/#socialcoding-foun

Also posted to at: socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/

@benBen Werdmuller

Diagram. Interoperability in practice. A chart with a horizontal axis that goes in 2 directions. On the left it moves towards chaotic grassroots growth, and on the right side towards open standards adoption. The Y-axis indicates level of complexity. The center indicates a low level of complexity.

On the left side of the axis we first find the ActivityPub open standard, with a relatively low complexity level. However the prevailing method to evolving the ecosystem is driven by post facto interoperability, where tech debt and protocol decay is introduced and accepted, which must be refactored and evolve alongside the open standard. Since this doesn’t happen, the fediverse grassroots environment is shifting more to the left into non-lineary increasing accidental complexity. Deviating more and more from the ActivityPub standard and the promise that it holds to offer the Future of Social networking.

On the right side, to contrast against fediverse, we find the Solid Project led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, which is based on a whole range of W3C Linked Data related open standards and draft documents. There is no grassroots movement that drives progress, but a steering committee. Progress is restrained by open standards adoption and support. Higher levels of interoperability require more rigour and formal standardization, and this also leads to non-linear growth of, in this case, engineered complexity. Solution developers have to wait for many standards to mature, leading to inertia.

social.coop/@smallcircles/1161

To get back to 'shared ownership' and @benBen Werdmuller article that triggered my blog post.

The is certainly not all cheerleaders, but the question is whether critical notes can be properly heard and addressed in any meaningful way. After all who are the ones who should hear them and act on them? It is "the herd", the crowd, the commons that happens to receive toots via their social graph, and to the extent these manage to penetrate bubbles and echo chambers. To make a strong argument, to reach people, the only strategy is social media influence marketing of sorts. You have to dare to rock the boat enough to be heard. And that's a very bad way to grow a healthy ecosystem I think.

It relates to the oft-heared criticism that on the app-centric fediverse, it is the app devs who are de-facto in charge and decide what goes and what goes not.

The social dynamics are tricky but fascinating. I hope to be able to spend more time at coding.social

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