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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A friend, @chloetankahhui陳佳慧 AgeVerificationHater 🏳️‍⚧️ has been speaking up against the proposal to enforce age verification at the OS level, and the QRTs to this shows the extent of naivety that a lot of people have.

No one who does hardware security believes that any system is bulletproof, but do you really think that circumventing these things will always be a simple firmware mod or hardware hack?

Let's dive in. /1

Screenshot of tweet: 

people saying "they can't force Linux to do age verification!! it's open source!!" are being incredibly naive

the next step is locking bootloaders/BIOS at the hardware level and every computer only capable of running approved OSes with age verification
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pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/non

“a fatal flaw in the idea that we will increase our productivity by asking chatbots to summarize things we don't understand: by definition, if we don't understand a subject, then we won't be qualified to evaluate the summary, either.”

👌 @pluralisticCory Doctorow

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I've been increasingly concerned about the corporate monopoly over frontier LLMs. While many ethically-minded people choose to boycott these models, I believe passive resistance alone cannot break the structural grip of big tech. To truly “liberate” these technologies and turn them into public goods, we need to look beyond moral high grounds and engage with the material basis of AI—specifically compute, data, and the relations of production.

I've written two posts exploring this through the lens of historical materialism. The first piece analyzes why current “open source” definitions struggle with LLMs, and the second discusses what it means to “act materialistically” in our imperfect world. My goal is to suggest a path forward that moves from mere boycotting to a more proactive, structural socialization of AI infrastructure.

If you've been feeling uneasy about the AI landscape but aren't sure if boycotting is the final answer, I'd love for you to give these a read:

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I've been increasingly concerned about the corporate monopoly over frontier LLMs. While many ethically-minded people choose to boycott these models, I believe passive resistance alone cannot break the structural grip of big tech. To truly “liberate” these technologies and turn them into public goods, we need to look beyond moral high grounds and engage with the material basis of AI—specifically compute, data, and the relations of production.

I've written two posts exploring this through the lens of historical materialism. The first piece analyzes why current “open source” definitions struggle with LLMs, and the second discusses what it means to “act materialistically” in our imperfect world. My goal is to suggest a path forward that moves from mere boycotting to a more proactive, structural socialization of AI infrastructure.

If you've been feeling uneasy about the AI landscape but aren't sure if boycotting is the final answer, I'd love for you to give these a read:

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4인 VTuber 팀 칼레이도박스는 어떤 정체성을 가진 사람이라도 상처받지 않는 상냥한 방송을 지향합니다. 여기서 정체성이란 청소년, 장애인, 노동자, 이주민, LGBTQ+ 등 다양하고 빛나는 정체성을 의미합니다. 모두가 다르지만, 그 찬란함만큼은 똑같다 믿습니다. x.com/i/status/202... 재업했답니다! 많은 관심 가져주시면 감사하겠습니다!

x.com/i/status/20284...

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We have also been asking some women* about the main obstacles. An astonishing number of them commented that children care (during schools are closed) and not having "enough time" played a role in not coming to SobTec. We have been organizing some children activities: in past editions it was quite informal ("email us if you need children support"), but this year we included in the programme. We learned that we need to communicate better (4/5)

@WtebbensWouter Tebbens ⁂ @femprocomunsCooperativa femProcomuns @rex0n

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We don't intend to indulge or justify ourselves here, but we ant to share what are we doing and why we are doing in this way, hoping someone can help us to confront
To the organizators of SobTec it represents an incredibly difficult challenge, because we also have a female imbalance in the organization, and we don't find ways to engage females. Also, here, any thoughts are really welcome (5/5)

@WtebbensWouter Tebbens ⁂ @femprocomunsCooperativa femProcomuns @rex0n

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In the welcome session of we said that we have an ambivalent feeling: females participated in 6/11 talks (actually 7/12, one female speaker could not attend) which are good news in comparison to previous editions. Yet only 6 from 18 speaker were females, which is clearly bad news. We asked all the attendees to let us know what we could do differently. It's better than other years, but still a lot of work to do (3/5)
@WtebbensWouter Tebbens ⁂ @femprocomunsCooperativa femProcomuns @rex0n

We have also been asking some women* about the main obstacles. An astonishing number of them commented that children care (during schools are closed) and not having "enough time" played a role in not coming to SobTec. We have been organizing some children activities: in past editions it was quite informal ("email us if you need children support"), but this year we included in the programme. We learned that we need to communicate better (4/5)

@WtebbensWouter Tebbens ⁂ @femprocomunsCooperativa femProcomuns @rex0n

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투자자들이 전쟁을 싫어하는 이유를 알겠습니다. 전쟁은 정말 예측이 불가능해요. 이란이 인근 국가들의 정유시설을 군사목표로 정해 두었을지 누가 알았겠나요.
投資家が戦争を嫌う理由がわかります。戦争は本当に予測不可能です。イランが近隣諸国の石油精製施設を軍事目標に指定していたなんて、誰が予想できたでしょうか。
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