What is Hackers' Pub?

My own bike is almost exactly the one in the featured photo! And yes, it’s fantastic. https://tech.lgbt/@LilahTovMoon/116121175084366601

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Is there anyone you'd like to hear from on season 3?

https://flipboard.social/@miaq/116127527047637512

I think this is one of those things that's stunning, in all the worst ways, and most of them aren't obvious.

Let's start with the basics: there are about 5.5 million trans Americans. This means that *nearly 10% of the entire trans population of the nation* has moved.

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Dot Social is back in the saddle! Here's a quick peek at @mikeMike McCue recording a new episode today with @rileytestutRiley Testut and @shanegill.ioShane Gill of @altstore

#dotsocial @dot_socialFlipboard Dot Social

stop fighting with shitty people on the internet

its literally killing you
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2515331123

four young gods, the priestess keeping them all in line, and one lotus that seems a bit strange...

#gloryinthethunder #lego #bricklink #mastoart

"That better be a data center, and not a concentration camp" is a sentence I never thought I'd utter. Yet, here we are.

@saskia from @newsmastNewsmast Foundation up next.

Newsmast Foundation looks to provide organizations, groups and communities an introduction and onboarding to the Open Social Web. (Among other things like channel.org)

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矢印の用途

We've been on X/Twitter for many years, but it's time to reduce our activity there and instead promote Mastodon as our main social media channel now. So we've done just that: https://x.com/LibreOffice/status/2026204949760131158 – Welcome to all our new followers here 😊

The control of the computer is getting shifted from you, who bought the computer, to the seller of the computer.

This should not happen.
You should be angry about this.
You should refuse to be controlled.
You should resist.

OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B

Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/openai-resets-spend-expectations-targets-around-600-billion-by-2030.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140623

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@IngridHbnIngrid Hoeben Ⓥ 🇧🇪 I didn't know this before now.

YouTube recently changed Studio to show comments by "most relevant" instead of "newest" by default and I cannot sigh hard hard enough. Newest IS most relevant. I want to see the newest comments.

There is no way to change this setting at this time.

Not everything needs to be algorithmic. This is enshittifying the creator experience.

@Em0nM4stodonEm I have yet to find a personal use case for AI/LLMs.

Last time I checked, they are incapable of sewing alterations for my clients, weeding my yard, cooking for me, or cleaning toilets. I have been trained in research, and still read (real) books.

New: this app warns you if someone is wearing smart glasses nearby.

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. A 404 Media reader made this app after we showed men filming people w/o their consent, and DHS officials were wearing the glasses https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/

結構加工してみた系ベンチ

IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

Link: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-soldiers-tel-sultan-gaza-red-crescent-civil-defense-massacre-report-forensic-architecture-earshot
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136179

Not sure where #Google asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with #FLOSS devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their #Android users

#FDroid did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person

They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"

@marcpruxMarc Prud'hommeaux has written an open letter, signed by likeminded organisations who want to #keepandroidopen

Click: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html

On ne m'enlèvera pas de l'idée que tant que l'immense majorité des médias seront possédés par des milliardaires et que leurs revenus sont assurés par la pub, on n'aura pas de débat public sain.

(mébon, si tu dis ça sur une chaîne d'info, on va crier à la censure)

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Another update for today: We're planning to revive LibreOffice Online, a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/

YouTube recently changed Studio to show comments by "most relevant" instead of "newest" by default and I cannot sigh hard hard enough. Newest IS most relevant. I want to see the newest comments.

There is no way to change this setting at this time.

Not everything needs to be algorithmic. This is enshittifying the creator experience.

I've written about serving private files with #django and S3 over at the Lincoln Loop blog: https://lincolnloop.com/blog/serving-private-files-with-django-and-s3/

It’s 2026, so I am legally obligated to write a blog post about AI.

“I am a programmer. Just like I’m a father and a husband and a son and a friend. It’s not something I do, it’s something that is fundamental to the core of my being. Like overly dramatic phrasing.”

https://www.eod.com/blog/2026/02/lose-myself/

"Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."—Bill Gates

https://www.folklore.org/A_Rich_Neighbor_Named_Xerox.html

HuggingFace Agent Skills

Link: https://github.com/huggingface/skills
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139902

🚨 ONLINE PANEL: Protecting the Right to Safety: Responding to Bill C-12 | February 25, 11:30 AM EST

#BillC12 is on the verge of becoming law. If it passes, it will fundamentally change who can access refugee protection in #Canada.

@cercmigration.bsky.social is bringing together leading experts and advocates for an urgent online panel discussion about what’s in this bill, what it means for asylum seekers and migrants, and what we can still do.

👉️ REGISTER: https://www.torontomu.ca/global-migration-institute/events/2026/02/protecting-the-right-to-safety/

"I'm a mathematical constant and my partner is an exponential function she insists we get differentiated but I am worried should I agree?"

A couple of months ago a family friend had a very serious health issue and he couldn't move or speak much. So I put together a web app with a set of phrases, connected to a game controller, in a way that he could just select phrases from the list to communicate. Luckily this person got better quickly, and this app was no longer needed, but I decided to improve this experiment and publish it as an Open Source project.

So, this is VoxEase. It can be operated with a mouse, a touch screen, a computer keyboard, a game controller using a single hand, or you can set it to scan the list of phrases automatically so you only need to press one button to pick your phrase.
It only requires a modern browser and once downloaded it works offline.
It supports multiple languages and it can also be used by people with sight impairments (it works with screen readers).

Any suggestions on how to make it better are welcome!

Link: https://turisc.github.io/voxease/

#openSource

four young gods, the priestess keeping them all in line, and one lotus that seems a bit strange...

#gloryinthethunder #lego #bricklink #mastoart

"I'm a mathematical constant and my partner is an exponential function she insists we get differentiated but I am worried should I agree?"

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ @Viss
🎵 I chime in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of commenting your goddamn code? No..."

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ it gets so angry it makes Xrays to wreck the day of those that disturbed it. https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/10/23/217918/x-rays-made-with-scotch-tape/

meanwhile, on LinkedIn..

OTD 1982: The founding of #SunMicrosystems.

Post from changinggraph c2s APP :-)

RE: https://mstdn.social/@stshank/116127400105827134

For me 1Password has not grown significantly in value or capabilities. I am stuck at the old version on Mac to avoid their pig electron app.

While I still depend on parts (migration is hard), the rest of the family is fully on Apple passwords.

The first time you click a Fediverse button on my site, you’ll be asked to enter your home instance — in other words, your own Fediverse server. This can be a self-hosted instance or a platform like Mastodon, Pleroma, and others.

Once that’s set, clicking on an “Also on” syndicated post link will open the corresponding URL directly inside your own Mastodon instance. From there, you’ll see it as a native Mastodon post, which means you can reply, boost, or favourite it just like any other post in your timeline.

The same logic applies to the “Fediverse” sidebar widget. It reads the instance you previously saved in your browser’s localStorage and uses it to trigger a remote follow request directly from your own Mastodon account.

🔗 https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/02/24/bada4

Slide from the talk by Martin Kleppmann @martinMartin Kleppmann in today's LoFi/34 (Local-First) Meetup. Check out the talks at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3bsA2AK0Vw

#LocalFirst #DigitalSovereignty #P2P

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ Can't believe you didn't post this old meme! 😸

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.

Found a copy of ZEXALL, assembled natively for the Z80 (ZEXALL.COM), the z80 instruction exercizer, one of the suite of z80 emulation test tools, but for CP/M. I'd run many of these early on, compilable C versions that ran in Teensy. This is the first time in most of year since I've run one.

On CP/M it runs about twice as fast as a reported overlocked 25 MHz z80 chip, consistent with my half-assed estimate of mine being 60 MHz equiv. This doesn't matter and I don't care; it's way over "fast enough", more than 10X any real machine end to end.

But under MP/M, wow.

ZEXALL.COM runs

CP/M: 19:30 (19 min 30 sec)
MP/M: one instance running: 23:27
MP/M: two copies running: 46:50

Now that's low overhead! This is with four consoles active and the margin clock running, and for about a minute or two, me poking at a console. Oh, that console was nearly unusably slow, but it worked fine. 20/40 minutes of solid CPU utilization, no I/O, is a good test of simple preemptive task switching.

MP/M with the modern four window display, USB, and SD cards is revealing the just fabulous and forgotten/neglected work DR did.

Real multitasking on the crappy z80, 13 years before Windows 98 brought same to the x86.

The scary and beautiful thing about AI is it's going to make a lot of stuff become "I can use it, but I have no idea how it works". Many more people drive cars and have no idea what happens when they press on the accelerator, I mean none at all, than know anything about it. I think that is good. Most of us go to the grocery and get food with no clue what is required to get it there. Back when the first market opened there were prob old farts cursing that people didn't know where food came from.

Steel Bank Common Lisp

Link: https://www.sbcl.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140657

Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite

Link: https://mketab.org/blog/sqlite_kdbx/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136658

Dear 1Password: Just bite the bullet and say "Important: We’re increasing the cost of your subscription." Because we all know what "updating the cost" in the subject line will mean.

Also, aren't subscriptions supposed to pay for ongoing development and innovation?

Gripes aside, I like 1Password.