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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We seem to have largely stopped innovating on trying to lower barriers to programming in favour of creating endless new frameworks and libraries for a vanishingly small number of near-identical languages. It is the mid-2020s and people are wringing their hands over Rust as if it was some inexplicable new thing rather than a C-derivative that incorporates decades old type theory. You know what I consider to be genuinely ground-breaking programming tools? VisiCalc, HyperCard and Scratch.

You know what? HyperCard was a glorious moment in time that I dearly miss: an army of non-experts were bashing together and sharing weird and wonderful stacks that were part 'zine, part adventure game and part database. Instead of laughing at vibe-coders, maybe we should ask ourselves why the current state-of-the-art in beginner-friendly programming tools is a planet-boiling roulette wheel.

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It is 222 A.D. You are the transgender Empress Elagabalus, "call me not a man for I am a woman". Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1776. You are "Public Universal Friend", a transmasculine nonbinary Quaker. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1906. You are Karl M. Baer, a trans man undergoing sex reassignment. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1930. You are Lili Elbe. Transitioning is new and experimental. (to be fair you did get a uterus transplant.)

It is 1966. You are in Compton's Cafeteria with a bunch of other trans people when the owners call the cops to throw you all out. You riot. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1969. You are Marsha "pay it no mind" Johnson. You are in a mob-run gay bar when the cops attack. You throw a brick. There is a bit of a scuffle. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 2026. You are a transgender adult or child listening to the NYT and British Guardian claim this is the first generation anyone has tried transitioning in. Transitioning is new and experimental.

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실제로 민주당 충북도당은 예비후보 자격 심사에서 유 전 행정관을 정밀심사 대상자로 분류했다. 유 전 행정관은 심사 결과에 반발해 23일 단식투쟁을 시작했다. 또한 현수막 내용이 허위 사실에 기반한 정치공작이라며 게시자를 명예훼손 등 혐의로 고소했다. www.pressian.com/pages/articl...

40년 전 사건 '미투'한 60대 여성의 호소 "민주당...

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This might be a problem going forward. I‘d like to know if opus would have done like sonnet and launch some tactical nukes…

21 games, 329 turns and yet
„In 95 per cent of the simulated games, at least one tactical nuclear weapon was deployed by the AI models.“…

newscientist.com/article/25168

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I'm looking forward to the "Growing the Open Social Web" workshop on Monday.

I'm extremely dubious about a lot of the submissions. There are a lot of untested hypotheses in this list:

fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-

I hope that people's expectations are geared towards experimentation, data collection, and iteration, rather than confirming some of these assumptions.

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Max never sits on me

Molly does, all the time. But Max never sits on me

Except today he did

I put a chair on the balcony, because it was unseasonably warm in London. I sat down, and he jumped straight onto my lap

I have never been more excited while having to stay absolutely still

Now it's evening & Molly is sitting on me. I am officially a cat chair

I finally found my calling

A black cat in the foreground, looking relaxed with his eyes almost closed - sitting on me, in the background, heavily blurred because it's not about me
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i've been doing a deep dive into SPI NOR flash command set and it is horrifying. i don't know how anything works. none of these devices agree with each other on anything, even devices from the same family of the same vendor with the "same" part number (but suffix J instead of suffix V or whatever)

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RE: mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1161

The unadmitted reason this is happening (and the AI bubble besides): Moore's Law *has ended*. The only way for hardware sales to go in future is *down* because your next PC or Mac will work just fine until it breaks or dies of old age. So by ramping prices artificially via this RAM/SSD futures bullshit, they're keeping profits high for as long as possible.

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日露戦争(1904年〜1905年)において、日本が費やした戦費は約18億2,600万円(当時の国家予算の約6年分)にのぼり、その大部分を国内外からの負債(借金)で賄いました。

負債の主な内訳と特徴
外債(外国からの借金): 戦費の約4割にあたる約8億円をイギリスやアメリカなどからの外債で調達しました。
高橋是清の尽力: 当時の日本銀行副総裁・高橋是清がロンドンやニューヨークで交渉し、ユダヤ系銀行家ジェイコブ・シフらの協力を得て募集に成功しました。
高い利息: 日本の勝利が危ぶまれていた開戦当初は信用が低く、年利6%という高い利子に加え、関税収入を担保にする厳しい条件でした。
内債(国内での借金): 残りの多くは国内向けの「軍事公債」の発行などで賄われました。国民に対して広く応募が呼びかけられ、零細な資金まで総動員されました。

完済までの道のり
完済時期: これらの膨大な負債の返済は、戦争終了後も長期間にわたって日本財政の重荷となりました。最終的に全ての返済が完了したのは、開戦から約80年後の1986年(昭和61年)のことです。
賠償金の不在: ポーツマス条約による講和の結果、ロシアから賠償金を得られなかったため、負債の全額を自国の税収などで返済する必要がありました。

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日露戦争(1904年〜1905年)において、日本が費やした戦費は約18億2,600万円(当時の国家予算の約6年分)にのぼり、その大部分を国内外からの負債(借金)で賄いました。

負債の主な内訳と特徴
外債(外国からの借金): 戦費の約4割にあたる約8億円をイギリスやアメリカなどからの外債で調達しました。
高橋是清の尽力: 当時の日本銀行副総裁・高橋是清がロンドンやニューヨークで交渉し、ユダヤ系銀行家ジェイコブ・シフらの協力を得て募集に成功しました。
高い利息: 日本の勝利が危ぶまれていた開戦当初は信用が低く、年利6%という高い利子に加え、関税収入を担保にする厳しい条件でした。
内債(国内での借金): 残りの多くは国内向けの「軍事公債」の発行などで賄われました。国民に対して広く応募が呼びかけられ、零細な資金まで総動員されました。

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RE: mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1161

The unadmitted reason this is happening (and the AI bubble besides): Moore's Law *has ended*. The only way for hardware sales to go in future is *down* because your next PC or Mac will work just fine until it breaks or dies of old age. So by ramping prices artificially via this RAM/SSD futures bullshit, they're keeping profits high for as long as possible.

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Hello everyone 👋

This is the official account of the Green Office of the University of Groningen.

We work to advance sustainability across the university — from strategy and policy to research and community initiatives.📝

We joined Mastodon to engage in open discussions on sustainability in higher education, academic research, and institutional change.

We look forward to exchanging ideas and learning from this community! 💚

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Upcoming Events in March!

AI & Creative Capital: Consent, Governance and the Future of the Open Web | March 3 | 16:00 EST
pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-i

Open Education Week Live: Open Conversation on Online Communities | March 5 | 11:00 EST
oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/o

CC Community Office Hours | March 20 | 12:00 EST
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist

CC Legal Office Hours | March 30 | 11:00 EST
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist

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