What is Hackers' Pub?

#Dubai is the tax-exempt playground where feckless, spoiled, entitled people go to live high off the hog while literal slaves are trapped all around them.

c: @allrightidiots

I've been saying for a while that we need something like FediCon in East Asia. A dedicated conference is still a stretch, but I've been thinking about a smaller step:

@COSCUP 2026 (Taipei, Aug 8–9) is accepting proposals for community tracks. It might be worth trying to open a Social Web track there—something in the spirit of the Social Web devroom at FOSDEM.

Nothing is decided yet, but if you're working on #ActivityPub, the #fediverse, or anything in the social web space and might be interested in speaking (or co-organizing), I'd love to hear from you.

https://floss.social/@COSCUP/116152356550445285

#SocialWeb #COSCUP #fedidev

In a country where laws mattered there would be hundreds of public prosecutors out there crawling all over each other to sign their names to the easiest walk-off-home-run convictions in the history of law.

https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116151466332926874

Schau, wenn Social Media so gefährlich ist, daß wir 14, 16 oder 18 Jahre alte Personen nicht da rein lassen dürfen, dann dürfen wir das mit älteren Menschen auch nicht tun, egal ob sie ihren Ausweis vorgezeigt haben oder nicht.

Wir müssen stattdessen an das Problem ran und diese Social Media Dinge so gestalten, daß sie nicht mehr Leute süchtig, dumm oder volksverhetzt machen.

Aber dieser Teil der Diskussion wird in der Öffentlichkeit und in allen Umfragen sehr, sehr sorgsam ausgespart.

Warum nur? Keine Ahnung, was weiß ich.

If you're at or near Berkeley, mark your calendar -- I'm speaking about my Opt Out Projects this Wednesday from 4-5:30. Register here:

https://besi.berkeley.edu/event/how-to-opt-out-lessons-from-14-years-of-evading-surveillance-capitalism/

To see all of the directories on your FreeBSD system, type

find / -type d | less

All the files?

find / -type f | less

the AI alignment problem is entirely a smokescreen designed to distract from the capital class alignment problem

My vintage computer collection is very large. Today I have outsourced a first part. I also need to reduce some of the Apple collection. #vintagecomputer

My vintage computer collection is very large. Today I have outsourced a first part. I also need to reduce some of the Apple collection. #vintagecomputer

“gee Ms. A Bad Idea, how did you get so smart at languages, I keep trying but it never sticks”

The trick to actually really for real learning a language when you’re not immersed in it as the living language of your everyday life is to WRITE IT DOWN

ON PAPER. WITH YOUR HANDS

USE A BETTER PEN, THOSE CHEAP BALLPOINTS WILL INJURE YOU

JUST COPY A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE IF THAT’S ALL YOU HAVE, IT *WILL* HELP

#linguistics #fountainpen

If you're at or near Berkeley, mark your calendar -- I'm speaking about my Opt Out Projects this Wednesday from 4-5:30. Register here:

https://besi.berkeley.edu/event/how-to-opt-out-lessons-from-14-years-of-evading-surveillance-capitalism/

졸려서 이만 자러 갑니다 안녕히 주무시고 좋은 꿈 꾸세요 고양이 사진 투척

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李大統領「停戦体制を平和体制に」初言及…北朝鮮と日本に対し「共栄」力説
https://japan.hani.co.kr/arti/politics/55559.html

#japan_hani_kr_arti

guess what i’m building hint: domain name is nano.​dev

Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB?

Link: https://joelsiks.com/posts/cpp-emergency-pool-72kb-allocation/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47205129

Rewriting other people's original reporting and clickbait-wrapping the "new" story is not new. But a scumbag operation called "The Daily News Today" is doing it at AI-juiced scale.

Alexios Mantzarlis, one of journalism's expert observers of this stuff, explains here:

https://indicator.media/p/this-ai-generated-podcast-network-publishes-11-000-episodes-a-day-it-s-also-ripping-off-media-outlet

Please don't reward ripoff artists.

Rewriting other people's original reporting and clickbait-wrapping the "new" story is not new. But a scumbag operation called "The Daily News Today" is doing it at AI-juiced scale.

Alexios Mantzarlis, one of journalism's expert observers of this stuff, explains here:

https://indicator.media/p/this-ai-generated-podcast-network-publishes-11-000-episodes-a-day-it-s-also-ripping-off-media-outlet

Please don't reward ripoff artists.

“gee Ms. A Bad Idea, how did you get so smart at languages, I keep trying but it never sticks”

The trick to actually really for real learning a language when you’re not immersed in it as the living language of your everyday life is to WRITE IT DOWN

ON PAPER. WITH YOUR HANDS

USE A BETTER PEN, THOSE CHEAP BALLPOINTS WILL INJURE YOU

JUST COPY A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE IF THAT’S ALL YOU HAVE, IT *WILL* HELP

#linguistics #fountainpen

궁금해서 GPT님 잡고 흔들어서 물어보니 언어모델은 그냥 말잘하는 모델이긴하지만 트럼프보단 현실적인 계획을 세워주네요 니가 그냥 거기 임시총독해라 ㅋㅋㅋ (..)

@mcc You make an excellent point. Additionally, a 3D printer could also be described as a 1D to 3D filament converter.

Pabu says "what do you mean the sink isn't a cat bed?"

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

They call it "3D filament" when it is clearly 1D… ironic…

Yes, other people have been sharing it, but propagating regardless because its true.
(Also, go read Persepolis if you haven't)

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You're not "playing devil's advocate." The devil has enough advocates. He has a whole political party. He doesn't need you in a group chat at 11pm.

Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.

I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.

Pls boost.

x.com/hmmmmmm1458/... 먹어보면 또 속았네 할거같은데 일단 궁금은 함

H on X: "육개장 비빔면 한번만 먹은 사람은 없다...

🦋 is this a header-only library?

Hard to argue

@rotopenguinROTOPE~1 @ForitusCharlotte Okay.

Assuming I understand these things in principle but not in detail and am looking for actual help— used to, when I used macs, I could create a "Sparse Bundle Disk Image" and it was like a hard drive in a file, which could grow and and shrink returning space to the host disk as it shrank, and could be encrypted, and could be compressed. Is this a thing I can do from Linux? What's the best way? (Assume for this one question I don't care about Windows.)

부끄러워도 좋고, 미숙해도 좋습니다. 전하고 싶은 말이 있으면 적어서 세상으로 보내주세요. 그것은 우리 밖에 할 수 없는 일입니다.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mk3k3q4ahz2coieim7s44ceb/post/3mfy5gr6mh22i

#SilentSunday #Fungi #NaturePhotography #pnw

Would it be weird to attempt to 3d print an adrenal gland? #AddisonsDisease

코딩하다가 막혀서 클로드한테 물어보려고 프롬프트를 짜고 있으면 문득 뭐가 문제인지 보여서 쓰던 프롬프트를 버리고 그냥 인간지능으로 고치는 일이 자주 생긴다...

ㄴ 너 방금 러버덕 디버깅을 발명했어

과거 이라크, 아프가니스탄, 베네수엘라도 그렇고 이란도 그렇고 가서 두들겨패서 초토화시켰으면 투표권은 없어도 완전히 미국의 일부로 동작시킬 정도로 해당 지역을 정리하고 안정화시킨담에 재독립시키는것이 맞는것 같은데... 이게 시간과 돈이 많이 들어가니까 그냥 귀찮은듯 ㅎㅎ 근데 안그러면 IS 같은 정신나간 놈들이 나와서 저항하게 됨 아마 이란도 같은 트랙을 따라갈듯.

#SilentSunday

부끄러워도 좋고, 미숙해도 좋습니다. 전하고 싶은 말이 있으면 적어서 세상으로 보내주세요. 그것은 우리 밖에 할 수 없는 일입니다.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mk3k3q4ahz2coieim7s44ceb/post/3mfy5gr6mh22i

#silentsunday

I've set up three new RSS feeds for the webcomics only: Pepper&Carrot , MiniFantasyTheater and Misc. With possibilities to follow just a language too. Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1124/new-rss-feeds-landing

People priding themselves from moving away from OpenAI to Anthropic over the pentagon deal is laughable ...

If they had any ethic they wouldn't be using LLMs trained on stolen work to begin with, the least they could do is assume being asswipes.

Just some advice for job seekers: don’t create your resume by running the job description through AI.

I’m hearing from hiring managers in my company that bunches of resumes all have the exact same blocks of text, so clearly these AI chat bots all spit out nearly the same responses.

All of those resumes are just getting tossed into the Rejected pile. They can’t be trusted as accurate documents.

#NoAI

미국은 과거 몽골제국이 겪는 문제와 비슷한 문제를 겪는것 같은데 1) 적(?)을 신나게 두들겨패고 점령하는건 잘하는데 2) 점령한 지역을 통치/관리하는건 더럽게 못함 ㅎㅎ... 사실 미국뿐만 아니라 대다수 제국의 문제인것 같긴함... 이걸 잘 해야 영토를 넓히고 오래 가는데... 문제는 미국은 지금 내부도 엉망진창이니 새로 점령(?)한 영토를 관리하고 다스리는것을 잘할리가 없음;;

#silentsunday

"Ihre eSIM-Karte aktiviert sich automatisch durch Einlegen in das Smartphone"

Yes, other people have been sharing it, but propagating regardless because its true.
(Also, go read Persepolis if you haven't)

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