What is Hackers' Pub?

Only the truth from this account....

watching this unfold between my friends left me with a feeling that I can only describe as "pride"... or perhaps "the desire to inflict it on others"

Love to see it

나이 많으니 감형?… 윤석열 판결이 재소환한 '고령 감경' 논란 www.hankookilbo.com/news/article... "최근 개정된 양형 기준에 비춰봐도 이번 판결은 이례적이다. 대법원 양형위원회는 2023년부터 양형 기준을 별도로 정하는 범죄군에 대한 집행유예 판단에 긍정적으로 작용하는 참작 사유 가운데 '피고인이 고령'이라는 문구를 일괄 삭제했다. 이는 "'어떤 범죄에서도 고령을 일률적인 감경 요소로 보지 말라'는 메시지나 다름없다"는 게 양형위원인 김혜경 계명대 경찰행정학과 교수의 얘기다."

나이 많으니 감형?… 윤석열 판결이 재소환한 '고령 감...

@zkatkat hmm.. I think the title/licence will not change this. I am a software developer, not an engineer .. but we might share some "requirements".
The root cause of this trend is an increasing demand for someone who can build stuff. As an unqualified customer you cannot distinguish between well engineered software and somehow working crap. So it's easy to get the feeling that you're paying too much.
And this customer needs this software for his business. He does not need well engineered software.

Hier ihr IT-, Geräte-, Sound- und sonstige Bastler*innen: Die Hafencity Universität sucht in Vollzeit mit EG 11 unbefristet ein*e neue*n Kolleg*in im Bereich Hörsaaltechnik und Gerätemanagement.

#fedihire #hamburg

https://stellen.hamburg.de/index.php?ac=jobad&id=40331

@zkatkat I have been a dev since the 1980s, and I completely agree that calling it "engineering" is a real stretch.

Engineering requires, in many cases, legal guarantees. There's *none* of that in software. EULAs are the opposite of the legal requirements of for example civil engineering projects.

There's a checkbox right there on the Engineering Board application, they're welcome to check it and apply...

https://www.sblpes.state.nm.us/

@zkatkat I'm an actual engineer per my university CS/CE diploma, and i'm more and more depressed every day i look at what my field is becoming.

Jeffrey Epstein was a white supremacist who donated thousands of dollars to white supremacist influencers during the Ferguson protests.

Epstein had multiple conversations expressing concern over race riots/wars with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Epstein was also influential in resurrecting /pol—a 4chan forum that became of the most influential far-right hubs, spreading conspiracies and white supremacist ideals.

Steve Bannon, crypto, ... what the fuck.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000751725194

Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser

Link: https://retrotick.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180083

豚汁

明日はpresentermでLTします

@zkatkat I have a computer eng degree, and I *still* remember the freshman engineering seminar about failures like the tacoma narrows bridge decades later.

Software is so scary because it can range from harmless apps that can't do much harm to medical equipment that can kill someone, but it's often thought of as the same sort of bucket of skills/approaches/etc. to work on. It's like thinking building a toy bridge out of popsicle sticks and an actual bridge human beings will travel over require the same skills/rigor/etc.

つかれたよ

ということで本日の夢は豚汁です。​​

Hier ihr IT-, Geräte-, Sound- und sonstige Bastler*innen: Die Hafencity Universität sucht in Vollzeit mit EG 11 unbefristet ein*e neue*n Kolleg*in im Bereich Hörsaaltechnik und Gerätemanagement.

#fedihire #hamburg

https://stellen.hamburg.de/index.php?ac=jobad&id=40331

아직 날씨 추우니까 하루 정도 뒀다 먹어도 괜찮으니 저녁에 가시면 줄 안 서셔도 된다고 합니다 아니면 새벽 6시부터 서계시면 5명만 버텨도 됨(꾸준글 fixupx.com/shelttter_/s...

촐.. (@shelttter_)

🎮 #jeux
Une archive de 390 Téra-octets de jeux vidéos va disparaître en mars. 🙁
Les causes ?
- frais trop élevés (ils parlent de 6000 dollars par mois !)
- des download manager payants contournent le site (pas d'affichage pour les donations, alors que ces managers gagnent de l'argent)
- prix de la RAM, SSD, HDD.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-video-game-preservation-service-myrient-is-shutting-down-in-march/

I enjoy when using tech tools on my extremely femme-gendered hobby projects makes them feel out-of-genre important

What an interesting way to trigger some stereotype incongruence and realize how much "tech weight" we give things just by all these relatively shallow signifiers

Jeffrey Epstein was a white supremacist who donated thousands of dollars to white supremacist influencers during the Ferguson protests.

Epstein had multiple conversations expressing concern over race riots/wars with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Epstein was also influential in resurrecting /pol—a 4chan forum that became of the most influential far-right hubs, spreading conspiracies and white supremacist ideals.

Steve Bannon, crypto, ... what the fuck.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000751725194

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Oh hey it's @georgetakeiGeorge Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 interviewed by The Guardian!
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/26/george-takei-ive-spent-two-minutes-longer-in-zero-gravity-than-shatner

People used to tell me the problem with Medicare For All or a similar socialized healthcare system was that the government would control what care you could and could not receive.

And I responded with: "They already do that. Your private health insurance and doctors aren't safe. There's nothing stopping the government from revoking or banning your medical care. If they can ban abortion, they can ban anything."

And they said: "Pshaw, as if."

And obviously, here we are.

My daughter had a little cup of corn with her dinner tonight but didn't want to eat it. I told her if she ate one kernel at a time they would be uni-corn.

I hear a strange noise from across the table. For the first time ever my wife was laughing about my stupid pun. Then my daughter ate the corn one kernel at a time. Is this what success looks like?

豚汁と豚汁で豚汁が被ってしまった

📢 Looking for current research on #HCI + #AI? Here's a categorised collection of 300+ #CHI2026 preprints, collected via arXiv:
https://dbuschek.medium.com/chi26-preprint-collection-bdbfe9492a7b

Jeffrey Epstein was a white supremacist who donated thousands of dollars to white supremacist influencers during the Ferguson protests.

Epstein had multiple conversations expressing concern over race riots/wars with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Epstein was also influential in resurrecting /pol—a 4chan forum that became of the most influential far-right hubs, spreading conspiracies and white supremacist ideals.

Steve Bannon, crypto, ... what the fuck.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000751725194

The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic

Link: https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-pentagon-is-making-a-mistake
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181380

The complete Manic Miner disassembly

Link: https://skoolkit.ca/disassemblies/manic_miner/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177877

－50円で貴方を豚汁に変更できます

その豚汁、+豚汁で豚汁に豚汁できます​​

まぁ寝るんすけど
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その豚汁、+豚汁で豚汁に豚汁できます​​

The Epic, Mega Skydance Paramount Warner Deal: Some Thoughts
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-epic-mega-skydance-paramount-warner-deal-some-thoughts/sharetoken/393e0a28-e9d8-460a-a915-8f07912a986f

When I first started working with #ActivityPub, before #Fedify existed, it felt like writing web apps in Perl and CGI in the late '90s. Interesting, even exciting—but never comfortable. That era where your business logic and your protocol plumbing were just… the same thing:

print "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
print "Content-Type: text/html"
print
print "Hello, world!"

Decades of web development have given us layers of abstraction we now take for granted. Nobody hand-parses application/x-www-form-urlencoded query strings anymore. Nobody writes their own JSON codec, or manually constructs HTTP request/response messages. These things just aren't your problem when you're building an app.

ActivityPub development still feels like they are your problem. What do you do when the https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#actor property comes in as a string instead of an array? What about when https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#object is an embedded entity rather than a URI? How exactly do you implement HTTP Signatures? And wait—what's Linked Data Signatures, and do you need that too?

The real issue isn't that ActivityPub is complicated per se. It's that you can't get away with understanding it at a high level. You have to know it the way an implementor knows it—every edge case, every inconsistency in how different servers serialize JSON-LD, every signature scheme that exists in the wild. That's a lot to learn before you can even start thinking about your actual app. And when developers understandably cut corners on the protocol to focus on their product, it quietly becomes an interoperability problem for the whole ecosystem.

What I want ActivityPub development to feel like: you spend a day understanding the big picture, and then you just… build your app. That was the goal when I started Fedify, and honestly, we're not fully there yet. But it's where I want to get.

#fedidev #fediverse

나이 많으니 감형?… 윤석열 판결이 재소환한 '고령 감경' 논란 www.hankookilbo.com/news/article... "최근 개정된 양형 기준에 비춰봐도 이번 판결은 이례적이다. 대법원 양형위원회는 2023년부터 양형 기준을 별도로 정하는 범죄군에 대한 집행유예 판단에 긍정적으로 작용하는 참작 사유 가운데 '피고인이 고령'이라는 문구를 일괄 삭제했다. 이는 "'어떤 범죄에서도 고령을 일률적인 감경 요소로 보지 말라'는 메시지나 다름없다"는 게 양형위원인 김혜경 계명대 경찰행정학과 교수의 얘기다."

나이 많으니 감형?… 윤석열 판결이 재소환한 '고령 감...

定食→豚汁→50↓
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Greece Predator scandal: Four convicted over spyware affair that shook Greece https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6dx4886rpo

What exactly do they teach at business schools these days?

Wanting to reduce a company's dependency on humans by replacing them with slop machines, which dramatically increases the company's dependency on a mere handful of other companies makes no sense, not even from a capitalist business perspective.

Unless ... of course ... you needed some fancy buzzwords to feed to eager investors. Ah, well, there we have the answer.
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#StopTheSlop #LLMs #business

After a thoughtful nudge, I have renamed my "Lock" package to use the term "Gate". And while I was in there, I updated a bunch of things, including finally getting a recursive gate working!

I have found this kind of tool incredibly useful for managing actor reentrancy with Swift Concurrency.

https://github.com/mattmassicotte/TaskGate

No no no.

Its not "age verification software."

Its "building a global digital panopticon owned by tech billionaires and administrated by their paid political stooges."

#Politics #technology #fascism #ageverification

About to start the second planning meeting for #fediday 2026 (at @offline today this time for a change of scenery)

@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ The explanation in a random Intel chipset doc I found isn't that much better:

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/datasheet/x58-express-chipset-datasheet.pdf
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PCIe/DMI “Stop and Scream”
...per PCIe port
...disallow sending of poisoned data onto PCIe and instead convert disable the PCIe port that was the target of poisoned data
...there have been PCIe/DMI devices that have ignored the poison bit, and committed the data which can corrupt the I/O device
--

So, disable PCIe port on error, instead of tagging data as poisoned. Nice name.

Greece Predator scandal: Four convicted over spyware affair that shook Greece https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6dx4886rpo

I think we obviously need socialized healthcare but constructing the system is a real challenge and I don't know if anyone is up to it. If this messages reaches anyone who works in policy: looking to the future, as you build such a system, one of the things that I'd love to hear about is what system of safeguards, checks & balances it will have which will ensure that "single-payer health care" is not equivalent to "Ultimately, RFK Jr should decide what happens in my medical appointments"

@zkatkat Back in the early days, they were true software engineers. Consider fiting an operating system and multiple processes in 8 megabytes of RAM. Consider the people who wrote the software for Apollo missions.

Consider the people who wrote fault tolerant software for mission critical apps and the operating system below them.

その定食、＋豚汁円で50に変更できます