What is Hackers' Pub?

Scenario: You slightly botched a trombone solo during last night's band rehearsal. When the director stops and says "Is that how you meant to play it?", what's the best answer?

a) Yes, confidently!
b) No! Of course not!
c) Well I got a haircut today and it's kind of throwing off my whole embouchure

I apparently live in a world where a totally normal thing that happens is: Linux filesystem maintainer declares that his AI agent is conscious and also a girl btw, and then the AI agent comes out as a trans lesbian after flirting with someone on IRC. Linux filesystem maintainer throws a fit.

I... I think I'm too old for this.

Spritely Hoot, our Scheme->WASM compiler (and all-around WASM toolkit) hits 0.8.0, and this one is a BIG release! https://spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-8-0-released.html

For the first time you can LIVE develop web applications using Hoot, from the comfort of your own editor! See the video at the top!

Plus lots of other bugfixes and goodies!

Spritely Hoot, our Scheme->WASM compiler (and all-around WASM toolkit) hits 0.8.0, and this one is a BIG release! https://spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-8-0-released.html

For the first time you can LIVE develop web applications using Hoot, from the comfort of your own editor! See the video at the top!

Plus lots of other bugfixes and goodies!

PeerTube has recently added the ability to incorporate funding options into channels as well.

“I kept asking it, like… are you sure?”

https://youtu.be/eEbz4GOMf1g

Learning some of the secret backend sauce of NodeBB. It uses a relay - FediBuzz - to pull content from specific hashtags into its federated forums.

I knew that when I tagged #ActivityPub it ended up showing in activitypub.space, now I know how!

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.

To clear up any confusion, this action is not about the Internet Archive, which is at archive.org, or the Wayback Machine.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/wikipedia-blacklists-archive-today-after-alleged-ddos-attack

It is with profound sadness that the MetaBrainz Board of Directors announces the unexpected passing of our Founder and Executive Director, Robert Kaye.

Robert’s vision and leadership shaped MetaBrainz and left a lasting mark on the music industry and open source movement. His contributions were significant and his loss is deeply felt across our global community.

https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/02/24/robert-kaye/

#LibreQoS Executive Dashboard:

https://devblog.libreqos.com/posts/0011-executive-dashboard/

We decided to display the global network-wide statistics as a simple heatmap.

Utilization, #QoO - Quality of Outcome, round-trip time, and retransmits follow a similar pattern.

A huge thank you to @nlnetfdnNLnet Foundation @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz @nlnet for sponsoring this development.

h/t @herberticusHerbert "Bracket" Wolverson

#QoE #bufferbloat #latency #broadband #QoS #jitter #ISP #WISP #FISP #QualityOfExperience #QualityOfService #FLOSS #QualityOfOutcome #FTTX #FTTH #FWA #OpenSource

RESEARCHERS AND REGULATORS! Harvard’s Applied Social Media Lab is launching a vital new corpus of 22,000 privacy policies, terms & conditions, and community standards for over 300 companies. Woohoo!

Making the Fine Print Visible:...

투데이래매쉽새드라~~~

As an ethical AI user, I begin each session by asking the chatbot to give a stolen data acknowledgement. It is an important first step toward justice.

Weeeeeee

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.

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.

뭉치. 기본 모드.

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...

Porting Doom to a 20-year-old VoIP phone https://lobste.rs/s/be27h4 #hardware #programming
https://0x19.co/post/snom360_doom/

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.“…

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

자연어쩌구환경어쩌구바다어쩌구: 어그래좋은거하네 바다속에서영상이이쁘게찍히는오션모드추가!: ?

🤫 surprise social media pre-sale 🤫
https://pretix.northbaypython.org/nbpy/nbpy-2026/

🤫 (we haven't sent the email yet) 🤫

true HOLY FUCKING SHIT moment this morning: over the holidays, my sticker guys were having a special on red octagons, so I designed and ordered 250 "Slop Sign" stickers — but while I was in China, someone stole them out of my mailbox. Bummer, I figured; they probably trashed them as worthless. anyway while walking to the subway I FOUND ONE OF MY STICKERS STUCK TO A MAILBOX! Whoever swiped my stickers is sticking them up around the neighborhood! This is the best thing that could have happened!

A year ago, John Oliver mentioned @pixelfed on national tv!

Computer History Museum Recovers Rare UNIX History via @fanfTony Finch https://lobste.rs/s/kejenj #video #unix
https://youtu.be/-xlq_MPWNKk

Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw

Link: https://tachyon.so/blog/sandboxes-wont-save-you
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154803

I'm looking forward to the #Fediforum "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:

https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/summary/

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

Commissioned draw over of the chainsaw man opening with some friends :> I think I did really well with the lighting in this one and I’m proud of it #SDart

“We need guardrails against AI right now.” Our unit is ready to strike as we fight for a fair contract that includes job security, AI protections and fair wages. To help our members make ends meet, donate to our strike fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-propublica-workers-for-fair-contracts

Video credit: Ernie Zahn

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

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #pets

투데이투데이 하지말고 지금 당장 열어~

아 그래서 S26U 예구 언제 열리냐거~

근데.. 작품으로 잘 다뤄지지 않는 건 인지도 때문이라고 쳐도 어째서 독립운동사 연구자들은 아나키즘 운동사를 마이너로 만들었지요? 이 맛있는 걸 니들은 안 먹겠다는 거냐!!!(대체

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ntcnaluwwz4v33p37u2v5clu/post/3mfpdldhtn22v

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)

Happy thirty-sixth birthday to the #GNU #GPL, the fourth most-popular software license as of December 2025! https://u.fsf.org/1t2 #FreeSoftware

love CSS, where "why is my sticky so jumpy" is a perfectly cromulent query

버즈는 에어팟이랑 달라보일려고 온몸비틀기 하는게 보여서 웃김

The Pentagon Threatens Anthropic

Link: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-pentagon-threatens-anthropic
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154983

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116127740444038853

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.

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。

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。

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116127740444038853

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.

Looks like it's possible to disable the iWork 15 upgrade nags if you want to stick on the pre-subscription versions for now: https://gist.github.com/Terabyte1385/dd9af4ed6d15e3f6a0c598d7a96895f0

This is why I follow my local exotic car dealer's YouTube channel. Not even for the cars. It's for the deranged videos like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok44A8nFUr8

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Be not afraid!

Fake Job Interviews Are Installing Backdoors on Developer Machines https://lobste.rs/s/llboto #security
https://threatroad.substack.com/p/fake-job-interviews-are-installing