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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When someone I respect or whose relationship I care about does something against me, I usually go through three phases.
The first is sadness. So strong that even if I believe I did nothing wrong, I try to understand and reach out.
At that point, if things do not get resolved, anger kicks in. Either towards myself for not understanding, or towards the person for how they are behaving with me.
Then comes indifference. It is comforting and irreversible. This person is erased from my life and esteem, and I move on.

Today I have reached the third phase with someone I tried to clear things up with for a while, in vain.
And now, relaxation reigns supreme.
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When someone I respect or whose relationship I care about does something against me, I usually go through three phases.
The first is sadness. So strong that even if I believe I did nothing wrong, I try to understand and reach out.
At that point, if things do not get resolved, anger kicks in. Either towards myself for not understanding, or towards the person for how they are behaving with me.
Then comes indifference. It is comforting and irreversible. This person is erased from my life and esteem, and I move on.

Today I have reached the third phase with someone I tried to clear things up with for a while, in vain.
And now, relaxation reigns supreme.
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Im Gegensatz zur deutschen Bundesregierung zeigt die spanische Haltung und untersagt der USA die Nutzung ihrer Airbases und des Territorium für Zwecke der Kriegsführung gegen den Iran. Spanien will nichts mit den Angriffskriegen zu tun haben.

15 Flugzeuge verlassen direkt daraufhin spanischen Luftraum. Ein Teil davon wird nach Deutschland verlegt.

»Spain denies US permission to use jointly operated bases to attack Iran«
theguardian.com/world/2026/mar

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The Austrian Ministry of the Interior bought social media surveillance software Tangles from Cobwebs/Penlink and refuses to tell the public whether they also bought the intrusive geolocation tracking add-on Webloc, which relies on the mass collection of personal data from digital advertising and mobile apps.

Public record on the €900k Tangles contract:
ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/deta

German-lang article by @suka_hiroakiAndreas Proschofsky:
derstandard.at/story/300000030

Summary on the Citizen Lab site:
citizenlab.ca/austrian-interio

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Terror Was Needed to Make Arabs Leave: What the Israeli Army Did in 1948".

"The area is to be cleansed of Arabs.... Every Arab who will be met with is to be annihilated.”

israelpalestinenews.org/what-i

The thousands of newly discovered documents add to already overwhelming evidence about Israel’s displacement of Palestinians in 1948:

Ilan Pappé
thecordobafoundation.com/ilan-

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Ilan Pappé"Most Zionists don't believe that God exists,
but they do believe that he promised them Palestine”
llan Pappe
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I genuinely think the worst thing the internet did to reading was convince people that finishing books is a competitive sport. You don't need to read 52 books a year. You just need to read. Books you like. At your own pace. And think about them for longer than a TikTok video.

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Street Art Utopia shared the below article:

This Made My Day (12 Photos)

STREET ART UTOPIA @streetartutopia@streetartutopia.com

Some days the city just hands you a high five. A sleepy cat the size of an apartment. A wall that turns into a joke. A drain that sprouts tentacles. Here are 12 pieces of street magic that can rescue a bad mood in seconds. More: Made Me Smile Instantly (8 Photos) 🦛 Wall Hippo — Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 Plot twist: the wall has a hippo. It’s painted so clean it looks like it’s leaning over the edge, casually people-watching with the mountains behind it. Simple gag. […]

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PSA

To whomever this may concern and to get you a break from the international news:

Your daily driver Windows computer is not obsolete after October 13th 2026. And above all it is NOT E-waste.

Your Apple computer is not E-waste if Tim Cook says so.

Chances are that even the beige DELL tower from 2003, which is currently holding the barn door open, is not obsolete.

And if you have an old/broken computer: please sell or donate it. If nothing else, someone can learn to solder working on it.

Contact your local IT nerd for further questions. The one with an Atari or Amiga T-shirt. Someone you know will know one.

You can also contact IT nerds here in the fediverse. Almost all of us are here.

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The Austrian Ministry of the Interior bought social media surveillance software Tangles from Cobwebs/Penlink and refuses to tell the public whether they also bought the intrusive geolocation tracking add-on Webloc, which relies on the mass collection of personal data from digital advertising and mobile apps.

Public record on the €900k Tangles contract:
ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/deta

German-lang article by @suka_hiroakiAndreas Proschofsky:
derstandard.at/story/300000030

Summary on the Citizen Lab site:
citizenlab.ca/austrian-interio

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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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