What is Hackers' Pub?

아무래도 이무기가 승천할 때 그 모습을 보인 뒤 뭇사람에게 "용"이라는 목격담을 인정받아야 하는 것을 보면, 그래도 제법 민주적이구나 싶다. 아무리 천년 요력을 갈고 닦았더라도, 용이 되는 마지막 순간에는 주변의 승인과 납득을 요한다. 아무리 개인적으로 유능한 사람이거나 부자라 해도, 함부로 공직이나 선출직에 도전했다가는 처참하게 박살나는 것과 닮았다고 생각한다. ...그리고 반대로, 누가 봐도 겉모습이 용이라는 납득만 얻어낸다면 실력이나 내면이 딱히 용다운지는 중요치 않다는 씁쓸한 해석 또한 함께할지도.

@reslRachel E. S. Lösche What is DiEM25? 🤨🤔

a decade or so ago, I was writing a H.264 decoder (needed a custom one for stupid reasons which of course had to do with hardware reverse engineering).

the first order of business was to implement CABAC: the final entropy coding stage of H.264 (ie. the first layer I had to peel starting from the bitstream), a funny variant of arithmetic coding. the whole thing is quite carefully optimize to squeeze out bits from video frames by exploiting statistics. in addition to carefully implementing the delicate core logic, I also had to copy-paste a few huge probability tables from the PDF, which of course resisted copy-paste as PDFs like to do and I had to apply some violence until it became proper static initializers in C source code.

furthermore, testing such code is non-trivial: the input is, of course, completely random-looking bits. and the way bitstreams work, I’d have to implement pretty much the whole thing before I got to the interesting part.

so, a few hours later, I figured I’m done with CABAC and reconstructing H.264 data structures, and pointed my new tool at some random test videos. and it worked first try! the structures my program spit out looked pretty much as expected, the transform coefficient matrices had pretty shapes and looked just as you’d expect them to, and I was quite happy with that.

and then I moved on to actually decoding the picture from the coefficients, and this time absolutely nothing worked. random garbage on screen. I spent a long time looking at my 2D transform code searching for bugs, but couldn’t find anything.

and then it hit me exactly what “entropy coding” means. I implemented something that intimately knows and exploits the statistical properties of what video transform coefficients and other structures look like, their probabilities and internal correlations, and uses that to squeeze out entropy and reconstruct it on the other end. my “looks good” testing meant absolute jack shit: I could’ve thrown /dev/urandom into the CABAC decoder instead of actual H.264 video, and it would still look like good video data at this stage until you actually tried to reconstruct the picture.

and sure enough, it turned out I fucked up transcribing some rows from the PDF around a page break or something.

10 years later, I think of this experience every time I see a vibecoded pull request, or other manifestation of AI bullshit. all the right shape, and no substance behind it.

and people really should learn to tell the fucking difference.

CDU-Bundestagsabgeordneter beschimpft Threads-User, weil die ihren Frust über die Heizungsgesetz-Lügen äußern.

Das ist erbärmlich, zeigt aber auch: Die Kritik wirkt und trifft. Die angegriffene Dünnhäutigkeit ist nicht zu übersehen.

Keep up the pressure!

Containers are the adult colouring book equivalent of proper Ops artistry, send tweet

https://warandpeas.com/2024/02/04/ancient-aliens/

사실 근데 AI 혹은 어떤 마법(?)같은 기술이 개발되도 근본적인 사람의 결함이라고 해야하나... 실패 원인은 변하지 않을듯. 요새도 많이 느끼지만 항상 사람의 탐진치 욕심 분노 어리석음이 항상 문제임.

Imagining younger me reading “The Islamic State Is Using AI to Resurrect Dead Leaders and Platforms Are Failing to Moderate It”

- Islamic State implies a huge upheaval in Mideast politics. No, it’s just another not-awfully-successful guerrilla group.

- “Resurrect” doesn’t mean “resurrect”; it means “make photorealistic cartoons of.”

– “Platforms” implies some cabal of AIs in league against humanity; instead, it’s a cabal of corporations in league against humanity.

https://www.404media.co/the-islamic-state-is-using-ai-to-resurrect-dead-leaders-and-platforms-are-failing-to-moderate-it/

Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model

Link: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167858

That guest SSID you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/new-airsnitch-attack-breaks-wi-fi-encryption-in-homes-offices-and-enterprises/

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a decade or so ago, I was writing a H.264 decoder (needed a custom one for stupid reasons which of course had to do with hardware reverse engineering).

the first order of business was to implement CABAC: the final entropy coding stage of H.264 (ie. the first layer I had to peel starting from the bitstream), a funny variant of arithmetic coding. the whole thing is quite carefully optimize to squeeze out bits from video frames by exploiting statistics. in addition to carefully implementing the delicate core logic, I also had to copy-paste a few huge probability tables from the PDF, which of course resisted copy-paste as PDFs like to do and I had to apply some violence until it became proper static initializers in C source code.

furthermore, testing such code is non-trivial: the input is, of course, completely random-looking bits. and the way bitstreams work, I’d have to implement pretty much the whole thing before I got to the interesting part.

so, a few hours later, I figured I’m done with CABAC and reconstructing H.264 data structures, and pointed my new tool at some random test videos. and it worked first try! the structures my program spit out looked pretty much as expected, the transform coefficient matrices had pretty shapes and looked just as you’d expect them to, and I was quite happy with that.

and then I moved on to actually decoding the picture from the coefficients, and this time absolutely nothing worked. random garbage on screen. I spent a long time looking at my 2D transform code searching for bugs, but couldn’t find anything.

and then it hit me exactly what “entropy coding” means. I implemented something that intimately knows and exploits the statistical properties of what video transform coefficients and other structures look like, their probabilities and internal correlations, and uses that to squeeze out entropy and reconstruct it on the other end. my “looks good” testing meant absolute jack shit: I could’ve thrown /dev/urandom into the CABAC decoder instead of actual H.264 video, and it would still look like good video data at this stage until you actually tried to reconstruct the picture.

and sure enough, it turned out I fucked up transcribing some rows from the PDF around a page break or something.

10 years later, I think of this experience every time I see a vibecoded pull request, or other manifestation of AI bullshit. all the right shape, and no substance behind it.

and people really should learn to tell the fucking difference.

This Ramadan is my 20th Ramadan. 😳

사실 지금 AI 발전으로 인해서 생길 변화는 새로운것도 아니고 어찌보면 50-60년전부터 예견되어왔던건데 이것이 체감되기 시작하는 단계로 오니 다들 기겁하는것이 여러모로 웃프긴함; 모두가 원했지만 ... 모두가 원하지 않는 형태로 오는 모순이 있다고 해야하나 ㅎㅎ 모두가 변화와 개혁을 원하지만 원하지 않아요 (?!) 그런 느낌 ㅎㅎ 나도 근데 좀 받아들일때 문제가 있긴했음 초창기 프롬프팅과 임베딩 개념을 접했을때 충공깽(?)이었고 대세라는것을 받아들이는 과정이 한 2-3년 걸린듯;;

갑자기 열받네 집 3채 이상 가진 사람들 전재산 몰수해서 기본소득사회로 나아가자

Story of XZ Backdoor [video]

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166473

Nach sechs ergebnislosen Verhandlungsrunden für den Kollektivvertrag 2026 für die 90.000 Angestellten der IT-Branche hat sich nun die Gewerkschaft GPA eine Streikfreigabe vom ÖGB geholt.
https://orf.at/stories/3421393/

it remains a Top Ten Victorian-Era British Archaeologist Moment that Arthur Evans couldn't conceive of a single reason one would keep paperwork about women and children unless it was to sell them as slaves (while serving under a queen) https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/112581787049713367

“Bayerischer Alleingang bei Kernfusion”

Ich kann diese Energie-Homöopathie echt nicht mehr 😂 https://table.media/research/analyse/bayern-first-fusionsallianz-second-warum-die-bayerische-initiative-zur-kernfusion-den-koalitionsfrieden-bedroht

Since tox 4.44.0, tox.ini has been frozen. Only the toml configuration is supported for further development. We have therefore updated our tutorial accordingly: https://python-basics-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/test/tox.html #Python #testing #tox

“Bayerischer Alleingang bei Kernfusion”

Ich kann diese Energie-Homöopathie echt nicht mehr 😂 https://table.media/research/analyse/bayern-first-fusionsallianz-second-warum-die-bayerische-initiative-zur-kernfusion-den-koalitionsfrieden-bedroht

Vanaf vandaag ben ik voor nieuws en updates ook te volgen op Mastodon!

Deze week ben ik gestart als staatssecretaris Digitale Economie en Soevereiniteit. Een belangrijke taak, met voor het eerst alle digitale onderwerpen in één portefeuille.

Dat is harder nodig dan ooit. Digitalisering en AI zijn onmisbaar voor innovatie, economische groei, veiligheid en onze welvaart. Nederland en Europa moeten koploper worden in de digitale wereld, met een sterke en onafhankelijke techsector.

#MicrosoftAgentFramework 완전 물건이넹? 지금 열라 샘플 데모앱 만들고 있는 중인데... 후후훗 다음주나 다다음주 쯤 공개할 수 있을 듯

Organizing a #FreeSoftware meetup can be more fun with a buddy! Add your name to the #LibreLocal organizing page: https://u.fsf.org/4af

How it started:
Privatkonkurse 2025: Schulden pro Kopf sind deutlich angestiegen
https://www.diepresse.com/20598275/privatkonkurse-2025-schulden-pro-kopf-sind-deutlich-angestiegen

How it is going:
Bank 99 vergibt Konsumkredite bis 40.000 Euro nach KI-Überprüfung
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000310345/bank-99-vergibt-konsumkredite-bis-40000-euro-nach-ki-ueberpruefung?ref=rss

Thanks to whoever sent this postcard! It's always nice to be reminded that one's work is actually useful.

I wish there was a good FLOSS alternative to android & ios for phones and tablets. There are, of course, some promising options, but they all seem to revolve around Android with countless compromises and limited hardware support.

Maybe in another few years?

#phone #tablets #android #floss

tmppath promise removed from pledge(2) in -current https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260226164038 #openbsd #pledge #tmppath #development #programming #security #securesystems #freesoftware #libresoftware

My family has donated $200,000 to the Open Source Endowment which launches today. Open source underpins critical infrastructure globally, and we need to pursue as many ways to sustainably fund it as possible; a single funding model doesn't cover all cases. https://endowment.dev

just installed a new keyboard version 1.5, customized with kailh choc sunset switches, in my personal pocket reform. also testing the "bazaar" app store, which is great! (sudo apt install bazaar)

Hey all, looking for work.

I'm a senior developer in Toronto, Canada with experience in Golang and Identity/Security. if someone knows of an org providing remote work, please let me know. Thanks!

Who owns <https://plc.directory>, and why doesn't it have ipv6?

#did #plc #ipv6

New AirSnitch attack breaks Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises

Link: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/new-airsnitch-attack-breaks-wi-fi-encryption-in-homes-offices-and-enterprises/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167763

Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model

Link: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167858

https://youtu.be/8Ql_APVxSDE 퍼리 찬양 보카로 곡이 있는줄은 몰랐는ㄷ... 아니 지금 마시고 있는거 TF물약이야????

今回サムネイルに何を描こうか悩みに悩んで後回しにしてたから時間かかっちゃった！
こんな時間でも見てくれてありがとうね…​​​​
ではではー！
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I'm one of the early "members" of the Open Source Endowment. Eager to see where this is going:

"Truly sustainable funding for critical OSS through a community‑driven endowment"

https://endowment.dev/

Meet Sheena O’Connell, one of the Hidden Figures of Python.

After working as a software engineer and technical leader in startups, @sheena spent the last 5+ years rethinking how we teach people to code professionally.

In the nonprofit space, she helped build alternative education systems from the ground up.

https://pypodcats.live/episodes/ep-11/

🧵👇

Bionode is Hand Truck Transformed into Mobile Computing Lab

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/26/bionode-is-hand-truck-transformed-into-mobile-computing-lab/

it remains a Top Ten Victorian-Era British Archaeologist Moment that Arthur Evans couldn't conceive of a single reason one would keep paperwork about women and children unless it was to sell them as slaves (while serving under a queen) https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/112581787049713367

Pampered Pooch

狩猟採集民の平和で幸福な時代が農業革命と都市の出現で終わりを告げるという「物語」がいまひろく共有されていて、これがあくまでフィクションだというのが『万物の黎明』の主張なんだけども https://fedibird.com/@pokarim/116137892569964137 [参照]

wie die alte redewendung schon sagt: hinter jedem cdu-bundestagsabgeordneten steht eine frau, die ihn erstmal drauf aufmerksam machen muss, weshalb das sexistische prädatorische gelaber von ihrem kollegen scheiße war. #ManuelHagel

我想這個 mitra 實例已經不考慮訂閱任何 Relay 了，那可以考慮將 extraneous posts 的時長給延長到 90 天了，恐怕我是不怎麼會回顧 90 天以後的帖文的。

i just got a notification for my own project?

I am, in fact, my own worst enemy when it comes to PeerTube federation.

If you follow @techlore, your subscription may have been broken....perhaps permanently? Hard to know with federation. The counter resets on my end but that may not reflect actual subscriptions.

Can any of you all let me know if you are still getting notified for new content? Just published our newest video there.

"ジャン＝ジャック・ルソーは、一七五四年に『人間不平等起源論』という著作を執筆したが、まさにこの著作のアップデート版の数々こそ、いまこのストーリーを普及させている主役である。むかしむかし、わたしたちが狩猟採集民だった頃。人類は、大人になっても子どものように無邪気な心をもち、小さな集団で生活していました。この小集団は、平等でした。なぜなら、まさにその集団がとても小規模だったからです。この幸福なありさまに終止符が打たれたのは、「農業革命」が起き、都市が出現したあとのことでした。これが「文明」と「国家」の先触れでした。"
『万物の黎明～人類史を根本からくつがえす～』

Add `featured_tags` to `GET /api/v1/profile` (#37932) by ClearlyClaire has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/9c4d11f9276c46155245a03dbd0f2df48750a141

Let's zoom in on a particular area of the commons: the #FreeSoftware movement and their #FOSS deliverables, where a strong #WorkingInPublic credo dominates. The noble focus is on offering open technologies, software and systems. But in their quest to uphold #SoftwareFreedom the overlooked aspect is #sustainability. The ability to not only sustain oneself, but also by extension the creative #commons one is part of. The commons is an entirely chaotic grassroots environment with very specific social dynamics that are not properly accounted for. Instead top-down "herding of cats" governance models that work in regular business environments, are attempted. These may work, but only in small organizational settings, and NOT at scale where they break down.

FOSS in this definition is NOT commons-based. For that we need #ChaordicCommons where FOSS is the deliverable and #SOSS initiatives the engines of delivery, #FSDL (Free software development lifecycle) supply chains.

https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#sustainable-open-social-systems