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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and accounts to follow:

FOOD & COOKING BLOGS
@NextGenCookbook - Cooking & recipe blog, encouraging more people to cook
@index@easypeasy.coEasyPeasy.co - Easy-to-understand cooking tips
@benSpoonfeed - Belgian cooking blog with meal plans for under 25e per person per week (in English)
@index@slothstradamus.comSlothstradamus - Food blog, especially grilled & barbecued food
@diningcar - Stories from dining cars on trains in Europe & elsewhere
@veganMischievous Monsters - Vegan food & cooking blog in USA
@index@honeybunchofoniontops.comHoneybunch of Onion Tops - Gluten-free & vegan cooking blog

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We're straddling a spectrum between:

a) Feeding oceans to a data center so it can steal and crunch the entirely of your data on the internet then spew out word soup to fill your feeds

or

b) A webring running on a thumbdrive in someone's basement that you repay for their admin efforts in beer.

And you know what? I'm going to pick up some beer.

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"Why force the brain to do work when the processor can do it?"

"Because, Detective Dipshit, the work is the point!"

THAT! not just for reading. but for coding, for illustrating, for EVERYTHING AI claims to "do for us"! those two lines sum up exactly what AI is stealing from us, and how easily it's seducing us into letting it pick our mental pockets. @WeirdWriterRobert Kingett has captured it perfectly.

sightlessscribbles.com/posts/t

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KBBQ 이러네 아까도 영상 중에 호작도 호랑이한테 갓이랑 한복 입히더니 이제 진짜 걍 K만 붙여도 잘 팔린다는 걸 삼성도 깨달은듯 케데헌이 ㄹㅇ 큰일 했다

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take this for what it's worth, but my very normie wife was just telling me she has developed a sensitivity to, and disgust toward, AI generated content.

I know not everyone lives with me, but honestly, you all get like 1000x more AI rants from me than she does. I genuinely don't recall having ever had an extended conversation about it. Just occasional off-hand remarks when work or the internet was making me particularly mad about it

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A follow-on to my "Nazi Sucker-punch Problem" post, to address the most common argument I get, which boils down to:

"""
Moderated registration won't stop Nazis, because they'll just pretend to be human to fool moderators, but it will stop normal people, who won't spend the effort to answer the application question or want to wait for approval.
"""

Okay, I'm going to try to use points that I hope are pretty acceptable to anyone arguing in good faith, and I'm going to expand the definition of Nazis to "attackers" and lump in bigots, trolls, scammers, spammers, etc. who use similar tactics.

Attackers: we can group attackers into two main types: dedicated and opportunistic. Dedicated attackers have a target picked and a personal motive—they hunt. Opportunistic attackers have an inclination and will attack if a target presents itself—they're scavengers. In my years of experience as an admin on multiple Fedi servers, most attackers are opportunistic.

Victims: when someone is attacked, they (and people like them) will be less likely to return to the place they were attacked.

In general: without a motive to expend more effort, humans will typically make decisions that offer the best perceived effort-to-reward ratio in the short-term (the same is true of risk-to-reward).

Why does any of this matter?

Because it all comes down to a fairly simple equation for the attackers: effort > reward. If this is true, then the opportunistic attackers will go elsewhere. If it isn't true, then their victims will go elsewhere.

How can we tip that scale out of the attackers' favor?

By making sure moderation efforts scale faster against attackers' behaviors than against normal users' behaviors.

- A normal user only has to register once, while an attacker has to re-register every time they get suspended.

- A normal user proves their normality with each action they take, while every action an attacker takes risks exposing them to moderation.

- A new user / attacker likely spends a minute or two signing up, while a moderator can review most applications in a matter of seconds. Yes, attackers can automate signups to reduce that effort (and some do, and we have tools to address some of that, but again, most attackers aren't dedicated).

- Reviewing an application is lower effort than trying to fix the damage from an attack. As someone who gets targeted regularly by attackers from open-registration servers, I'd personally rather skim and reject a page-long AI-generated application, than spend another therapy session exploring the trauma of being sent execution videos.

I believe this points to moderated registration being the lowest effort remedy for the problem of the Nazi Sucker-punch. So before we "engineer a new solution" that doesn't yet exist, we should exhaust the tools that are already available on the platform today. Yes, we could implement rate limits, or shadow bans, or trust networks, or quarantine servers, but we don't have those today, and even if we did, there's no evidence that those would be a better solution for Fedi than moderated signups.

Will it stop *all* the attackers? No. But it will stop most opportunistic attackers.

Will it deter *some* potential new users? Yes. But communities are defined by who stays, not by how many come through the door.

lgbtqia.space/@alice/115499829

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Why reactive moderation isn't going to cut it, aka, "The Sucker-punch Problem". Imagine you invite your friend—let's call him Mark—to a club with you. It's open-door, which is cool, because you like when a lot of folx show up. Sure, it might get a little rowdy, but they have a bouncer, and you've never seen things getting out of hand. So, you're busy dancing when a new guy walks in wearing a "I Hate Mark" shirt and promptly sucker-punches Mark. You didn't see it happen, but Mark is upset and tells the bouncer, who kicks the guy out. A few minutes later, the same guy walks back in and sucker-punches Mark again. Same result. Some people in the club say they'll tell the bouncer if they see him come in again. Mark wants to leave, but you tell him it's not that bad—after all, you've never been punched, and you didn't see Mark get punched, so maybe he's just being sensitive. A different guy walks in wearing a "I Plan On Punching Mark" shirt. No one tells the bouncer, because they've never seen *this* guy punch Mark. He sucker-punches Mark. At this point, Mark is pissed and yelling about being punched. The club members talk about putting up a "No Punching Mark" sign, but the owner is worried it'll hurt his club's growth. Another Mark in the club proposes they turn away anyone wearing an anti-Mark shirt or espousing anti-Mark rhetoric at the door, but this gets shot down for the same reason as the sign idea—then someone sucker-punches him. By the end of the night, your friend Mark is beat to fuck and says he'll never come to this club again. In fact, he's going to tell anyone named Mark to stay clear of this place. The next time you go to the club, half the folx there are wearing "I Kill Marks" shirts, but there aren't any Marks there, so it doesn't come up. I've been sucker-punched every day, for the last three days in a row by some of the most vile hate-speech and imagery. The accounts are using open registration servers and signing up with variations on the username "heilhitler1488". I fully expect it'll continue as long as we have open registration servers. And no, username pattern blocking alone won't fix this, it'll help a little, but mostly it'll just make them wear a different shirt while they sucker-punch us. #OpenRegistrationHurts

lgbtqia.space · LGBTQIA.Space

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🕐 2026-02-25 18:00 UTC

📰 Claude CodeのSkillsを作成例から徹底理解する (👍 77)

🇬🇧 How to extend Claude Code AI agent with custom Skills using SKILL.md files for project-specific workflows and tool integrations
🇰🇷 SKILL.md 파일로 프로젝트별 워크플로우와 도구 통합을 위한 Claude Code AI 에이전트 커스텀 스킬 확장 방법

🔗 zenn.dev/acntechjp/articles/55

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RE: mastodon.social/@metabrainz/11

This is such a great loss. Robert worked all his life for open data, and turned that project into a stable, persistent institution. Best wishes to everyone who knew him, and to the board for working to continue that vision.

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+++++ CAT NEWS +++++

Many of us often ponder:

Should i mew? How about now? Or is it better to meow?

There is no easy answer to any of these questions. One might mraw when one meant to mewl.

But never forget one thing: When it comes to pushing things off the highest shelf you can find, the answer is very simply always yes.


FNR - All the Fedi News you need!

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i have not been talking about this stuff because, well, they said they were going to be cooking. herb in particular said that in Christmas 2024 he was going to work all through the holiday to get things across the line, and then not much seemed to come of it, and it didn't make it into C++26

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