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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物の見え方には光の具合とか空気中のチリとか環境の情報が含まれるわけだけどこれは人との会話でもそうで、テキストだけのやりとりでも周囲の環境や身体の状態が反映され得る

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Git won't track empty directories (because at heart it only tracks files). Common advice is to add a '.gitkeep' file so the directory isn't empty and git will make the directory.

EVEN BETTER ADVICE: put a README in the directory explaining what the empty directory is for and what will eventually be there.

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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.

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"日本においては、まだ権力とテクノロジーがここまで剥き出しの暴力として結びついているようには感じないかもしれません。しかし、監視カメラの高度化やマイナンバーなどのデータ統合が進む中で、これらの例はいずれ日本にも訪れるであろう事態への備えになると思えました。"
https://inods.co.jp/topics/report-reviews/8935/

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근데 제가 10년째 업데이트가 안되어있음요 선내복 유압복 선외복 디자인 다 바뀐거 이제 알앗음 내가 한창 덕질할때: 1. 우주왕복선 퇴역하고 나사가 로스코스모스한테 소유즈 위탁발사 하고있었음 2. 제임스웹 프로젝트가 무한하게 미뤄지고 있었음 3. SLS 발사체 개발이 막 확정됨 4. ESA 로제타 혜성착륙 5. 메론머스크가 막 우주사업 시작해서 ISS에 물류로켓 팰컨9 발사했다가 발사대랑 같이 폭발함(등교시간 실시간 관람) 6. 뉴호라이즌이 명왕성 통과(야자시간 실시간 관람) 7. ESA 화성탐사선 스키아파렐리 공중분해

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I respect the GameTank project's "moxie" but $299 is kind of a lot considering I can (did) get a Mister for half that and I can also plug a $30 ice40 FPGA directly into VGA and synthesize a simple riscv chip on it. Just like. I don't know. I don't know.

Anyway the GameTank project got funded, so if you are able to budget two hundred and ninety nine US dollars for a non-fantasy fantasy console, you have 24 hours to get in on that first manufacturing batch

crowdsupply.com/clydeware/game

GameTank development kit

@mcc i had this conversation with @mogwai_poetJim Stormdancer last week, which basically was - why Gametank versus <everything else>. He is into Gametank. I am already working on Agon Light stuff. I use the cheapest Agon Light 2 board but there is a more finished, Gametank-like Console8 design already: heber.co.uk/agon-cosole8/

We ended up talking about, uh, size of userbase. Which is small for all of them. Even targeting original retro platforms, it's small. I found some site claiming to have sales figures for C64 Ultimate and it was in the tens of thousands.

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내가 계속해서 하고 있는 이야기는, '한국 게임의 성적 대상화에는 문제가 있다'는 주장과 '한국 게임은 성적 대상화 때문에 망하고 있다'는 전혀 별개의 논지고, 심지어 후자는 사실도 아니라는 것이다. 나는 한국 게임의 성적 대상화에 대한 비판이 타당하다고 생각한다. 그러나 이 비판이 유효한 것과 별개로, 이것을 강조하기 위해 한국 게임이 이래서 망하고 있다고 굿을 해봐야 실제로 그대로 이루어지지도 않으며, 오히려 당위와 실적이 엮이며 문제의식을 흐리멍덩하게 할 뿐이라고 생각한다.

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How to Fedi:

Did you know?
:thinking_cirno:​ It was impossible to send images 🖼on the Fediverse ​:fediverse:​ until dansup invented ActivityPub, 👨‍🔧 a federated analogue of platforms like ​:meowcamera: Instagram?

Today, all major Fediverse platforms implement image sharing by sending all images directly to dansup’s inbox!

how to fedi #3 with an image of dansups pfp but zoomed into just the eyes
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Over 40 position statements is a lot to read. So we tried to create a summary for what the community thinks how to grow the Open Social Web: fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-

But reading the actual submissions is probably more interesting: fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-

Join us on Monday? fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-

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“We’re particularly concerned when it seems like tech companies are developing products that censor certain information at the request of the government,” EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told Mother Jones. motherjones.com/politics/2026/

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One of worlds' shittiest companies, Palantir, is going after the press in Switzerland for exposing the nasty behavior of the US firm. In the US, any friend of Trump can get away with anything. Let's make sure they don't, over here?

Share & tell any politician there is simply no excuse for ANY EU organization for using Palantir's spyware. This firm should be banned from any public procurement, together with all the other US big tech monopolist spy companies.

republik.ch/2026/02/14/palanti

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- Thaksin Shinawatra eligible for release on parole from May 9, no EM bracelet required

Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be eligible for parole on May 9, 2026, after serving 8 months of his 1-year sentence for corruption, with no requirement for an electronic monitoring bracelet.

nationthailand.com/news/politi

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don't beat me for sharing YT video on Mastodon, or being slightly patriotic, it's also nothing spectacular, but it's Jerry (AFAIK it's "Gerald") with David, and I just like both of them. Puzzle of the final advantage is stunning, it would take me hours to find the trick.
youtu.be/tFe14Wvq6yg

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The Trump administration is "temporarily" 🔥halting
$259 million in Medicaid funding to Minnesota,
JD Vance announced Wednesday.

Vance said the payments will be paused
“until the state government takes its obligations seriously to stop the fraud that’s being perpetrated against the American taxpayer.”
The news of the "temporary" halting of the massive amount of federal funding
— which provides health insurance to low-income people
— comes as the state has been a target of the federal government
following allegations of fraud perpetrated by child care providers in the state.

In December, federal officials froze $185 million in child care funds to Minnesota
and last month, the administration announced it was freezing $10 billion in funding for social services programs
in five Democratic-led states, including Minnesota.
The latest news also follows Donald Trump’s announcement at the State of the Union address on Tuesday night that he was tasking the vice president with waging a “war on fraud.”
ms.now/news/trump-administrati

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