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.
Hey, Mastodon audio peeps! What are we using on macOS to digitize and edit audio … that isn’t Audacity or GarageBand.
hey look, yet another thing LLMs suck at
Support period lengthened for the 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18 kernels
Tonight's the night, Petaluma! We're asking PSAC to protect our civil liberties by recommending:
* Dismantle the Flock cameras immediately.
* End the contract with Flock.
* Convene a study session on the topic of surveillance technology.
* Move swiftly to adopt a Surveillance Technology Ordinance.
More info at: https://bit.ly/PetalumaSurveillance
#Petaluma #SonomaCounty #SFBA #Surveillance #Flock #Technolgy
I’m gonna scope-creep this by adding: an easy API for publishing and subscribing to multiple blocklists.
Like, why are we still trading CSV files when we could just publish this info over ActivityPub?
Let’s make a tool for building/managing blocklists as an AP actor for anyone to subscribe to.
Add in a “polyfill” to subscribe and load this data straight into big apps like Mastodon, and we have instant moderation as a service.
I can start on Monday.
@benpateBen Pate 🤘🏻 
@evanEvan Prodromou let's talk about labels, I believe any nextgen ingestion should use the shared vocabulary to take in blocks by label https://about.iftas.org/library/shared-vocabulary-labels/
Maybe you want to block CSAM, but don't care about copyright infringement... (This way we could run one list instead of five and you choose the harms you want to block, as everything is labelled)
Shared Vocabulary: Labels
The community shared vocabulary is a collaboratively maintained set of terms and definitions used by moderators and administrators to ensure clarity, fairness, and consistency in community governan…
about.iftas.org · IFTAS
Link author: 
IFTAS Blog@about.iftas.org@about.iftas.org
I made the blog dark-mode by default and gave it a nice skeuomorphic toggle button ...
The Pentagon Threatens Anthropic
Link: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-pentagon-threatens-anthropic
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154983
@apontiousAndrew Pontious 
@kkarhanKevin Karhan 
I fart too, so it's okay 🐈💨
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.
Hey hey hey
You know what you should do?
Right now
Tell someone you love them.
Guaranteed it'll boost your mood and that of the creature you tell.
Trust me. Just do it.
🩵🩵🩵
I'd planned a server migration off Netcup for 29th Feb.
except there is no 29th Feb, and it turns out the actual termination date is 25 Feb. So, today. Anyway I did it, just earlier than planned.
Thanks FreeBSD & jails, with 
ansible tooling it was pure cake. I even renewed the ACME certs just for funsies.
Confusables.txt and NFKC disagree on 31 characters
Link: https://paultendo.github.io/posts/unicode-confusables-nfkc-conflict/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121716
Friends,
It feels like it was in a different century, but at the beginning of the #russia-#ukraine full scale war I speculated that you could predict development in conflict based on the intensity of attempted #cyberattacks, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/Predicting_developments_in_real_world_conflict_from_patterns_of_failed_logins.html. The data now covers four years.
I ponder whether it's worth using the data (linked in the article) to see how these things correlate.
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
#ssh #passwordguessing #cybercrime #passwordgropers #hailmarycloud
낼은 오픈코드 셋팅이다
Need to leave your terminal for a few minutes and don't want to logout?
Use "lock -p". When you return, use your password as the key to unlock the
terminal.
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>
Stop Ironing 3D Prints
아 opus라 그런가 아니 그래도 하나 시켰는데 ㅡㅡ
Feel free to throw your acks here: https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/744
We've also now started a discussion for the appcenter submission process if we'll allow submissions to our flatpak remote that are known to contain LLM-generated code
https://github.com/elementary/appcenter-reviews/discussions/647
ai
i do not want (llm-flavored) ai and i do not want it to succeed. but i think it will succeed despite my spite. a vexing state of affairs
아니 근데 클로드 일 하나 시켰는데 토큰 다 먹네 너무한거 아냐
remembering old great web comics, this one is ebbits
작업시간도 채웠고 드디어 루틴 정상화가 되는건가
오늘 뭔가 의욕이 고갈되지 않아서 계속계속 묵은 일을 했음 강의도 들었음 강의를 들었다는 것은 의욕이 만땅인 것
code and tests aren't the moat. they never were. no need for agents to copy a project. forking was always an option. the moat of an oss project is its community, its governance, and its ecosystem connections. agents will never be able to replicate that. don't hide. let's build in the open, together
@box464@mastodon.social is doing another live stream in parallel here:
https://mastodon.social/@box464/116125983228506874
I won't be able to talk about my own talk in real time, so check out that stream too!
Q: how should we grow the fediverse?
A: we should worry less about growth, and more about empowerment of the end user
@cwebber@social.coop "I am pro fediverse but I am more pro empowerment... The majority of people on the fediverse were somewhere else first. Then something bad happened."
Hey hey hey
You know what you should do?
Right now
Tell someone you love them.
Guaranteed it'll boost your mood and that of the creature you tell.
Trust me. Just do it.
🩵🩵🩵
New blogpost about atproto
It's not federation, it's not a p2p mesh. It's a secret third thing: practical.
www.pfrazee.com/blog/practic...
Practical Decentralization
"People are co-participants in the distribution of messaging. Which is something the Fediverse has."
"If data isthe new oil, then data centers are the new pipelines."
"Where are the centralization points of our technology?"
"Data centers are a centralization of power."
Incredible pull quotes from 
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber.
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
Missed opportunity when someone asks a question about age verification and says "explain it to me like I'm 5".
@box464@mastodon.social is doing another live stream in parallel here:
https://mastodon.social/@box464/116125983228506874
I won't be able to talk about my own talk in real time, so check out that stream too!
Q: how should we grow the fediverse?
A: we should worry less about growth, and more about empowerment of the end user
@cwebber@social.coop "I am pro fediverse but I am more pro empowerment... The majority of people on the fediverse were somewhere else first. Then something bad happened."
Any mastodon admins out there with opinions on c.im's moderation? There were some serious problems a year or two ago, but I haven't seen any word on whether they've cleaned that up or not yet.
Survey of the normal people - "What is the fediverse?". Oh boy. We've got some work to do, y'all. Tho I'd love it if we were all part of an MCU plot.
Open Social fared a bit better than this.
Not knowing exactly what the fediverse or open social web is - isn't a bad thing - we have a blank slate. That's a good thing.
How do we introduce normies to the fediverse?
The current fediverse culture isn't as welcoming. And there are UI issues that need to be addressed. Even small UI issues can push people away - an accidental posting of a private post to a public timeline for example.
Oh I really connect with this title "The Loneliness Rebellion" - love that.
Users are tired of screaming into a void, not being able to reach the people and topics they are interested in with ads and attention grabbers in the way.
Survey of the normal people - "What is the fediverse?". Oh boy. We've got some work to do, y'all. Tho I'd love it if we were all part of an MCU plot.
Open Social fared a bit better than this.
Just like 2008 had "Subprime Mortgages (or "Dot Com" crash) that nobody understood, 2026 has "Circular AI Revenue" deals. Ex: Microsoft gives money to OpenAI, who gives it back to Microsoft for Azure credits, which Microsoft then reports as "AI Growth".
Microsoft and Nvidia fund AI startups that buy their own tech back to report "growth." With $600b burning in data centers in 2026 alone but no real revenue to back it up.
If that loop snaps, the "fuck up" will be massive.
嫌な夢見た
Watching the new Hannah Fry series on AI, and something occured to me. Given all the “progress” and AI in healthcare and genetically selecting physical characteristsics for your IVF procedure...
...how long before someone claims to (or attempts to) prompt an entire human genome containing “best” DNA?
Or is there already a startup for that?
An all Plattsnackers un de Frünnen vun de plattdüütsch Spraken dar buten heff ik uns mal en #fedigroup apen maakt. Also folgt jo geern 
@plattdeutschPlattdütse Spraaken, un treet op plattdüütsch wat dat Goot höllt. 😁
🔄 Retrööt wünst.
#plattsnacker #plattdeutsch #niederdeutsch #plattdüüts #opPlatt
애매햔 시간에 일어낫은ㄴ
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@PagedOut/116097214033179367
I have published an article in 
@PagedOut, an experimental technical magazine :) You can see the magazine issue on PagedOut's website and the standalone article on my website.
My article is titled "computers should be liberating", and it's about the world I want to live in.
This is an extreme longshot, but if there's anyone out there who owns this physical CD (or any other CD in this series), please reach out. I need your help with something. https://www.discogs.com/release/36547942-Various-XD-Submit-Vol-2
This is an extreme longshot, but if there's anyone out there who owns this physical CD (or any other CD in this series), please reach out. I need your help with something. https://www.discogs.com/release/36547942-Various-XD-Submit-Vol-2
RE: https://social.coop/@spritely/116132867771534636
Hoot 0.8.0 is a HUGE milestone! Being able to live develop browser applications in Hoot is a game changer! https://spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-8-0-released.html
Wouter Tebbens ⁂
Stefano Marinelli
mcc
Em 
Emelia 👸🏻
🇨🇦 
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
Alice I. Cecile
