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.
uspol, more trans bad news
Damn I guess I wasn't even paying attention yesterday so *deep breath* here we go:
- Supreme court issues shadow docket ruling that says teachers MUST tell their parents if their child privately comes out as trans https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a810_b97d.pdf
- Texas Attorney General declares that therapists who *use gender affirming language* for patients are engaging in child abuse, will have license to practice removed and face criminal charges https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-ag-paxton-declares-therapists
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons members blindsighted by the org issuing a statement saying *HRT blockers*, surgery, etc are harmful for youth https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/asps-members-demand-answers-after
We're in this together. Attacks on trans youth are a pathway to attacks on trans adults.
uspol, more trans bad news, and this one is the worst
Oh sorry I forgot to link THE WORST ONE OF ALL OF THEM (well, if it passes in particular)
Oklahoma bill attempts to make all transition-related care a felony https://theneedlenews.com/oklahoma-sb-1905lto-make-all-transition-related-care-a-felony-deny-public-funds-to-any-organization-that-acknowledges-trans-people/
Esotericism in general is more or less a puzzle campaign to keep smart or aspirational (but otherwise average) people invested in religion. It's like the "new game plus" mode of theology. You cared enough about scripture to find the contradictions? Congratulations, you're not like those other church-goers! Put on this apron and join our secret club!
So then the masonic mythos specifically ties "traditional" ideals of social and family structure (patriarchy, more or less) to progressive values like restraining power with law and a secular democracy, promoting individual liberty and diversity, etc.
So it's got all of these juicy cultural hooks for people who would otherwise be white supremacists and it uses that structure to steer them towards a liberal, secular civil society and away from the doomsday cult (evangelicalism).
Which is why it's so interesting to me that modern day US freemasons are frequently MAGA: somewhere along the way they lost the plot and now they're all on team Theocratic Dictatorship
Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5 https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-the-new-macbook-air-with-m5/
Base model now comes with 16GiB ram and 512GB SSD. Please note this will not run Linux and support for Linux is not so great.
wow mastodon people are so fucking smart, huh. so fucking intelligent.
shut the heck up you god darn losers and spend some seconds thinking instead of posting trash at random people you don't know at all.
@webbopWebber-e-bop 
@Research_FTWHelen LH
Linux Foundation has become more of a Corporate FOSS club, that happened to be started with Linux first in its enterprise product portfolio.
@webbopWebber-e-bop @Research_FTWHelen LH
I should add something to this, to make it a more fair assessment.
The FOSS movement as it stands today is inherently unsustainable. A dangerous burnout zone for those seeking income here. See the unbalance in this article:
If we take out the people having the privilege of time and money, what options does a person who wants to earn their living with Free Software have, roughly speaking?
1. Donations, sponsors, grants.
2. Dabble in FOSS as side-quest to a job.
3. Attempt "regular business practices".
1) isn't really sustainable as is proven time and again, 2) isn't earning a living with FOSS really, and 3) is the only option that is left. We all live under hypercapitalism and here is where our sustenance must come from.
Linux Foundation not only follows 3) but also focuses on 'professional packaging' of FOSS such that corporations are prepared to pay decent prices for it.
Different perspective. But with money, greed creeps in too.
C64: Putting Sprite Multiplexing to Work
Link: https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/c64-putting-sprite-multiplexing-to-work/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217224
The 
@IJFmediaThe IJF has found Surrey Speak’s content appears to be largely AI-generated and is laden with factual inaccuracies.
The website also published AI-generated imagery based on real events, including an altered portrait of a murder victim. Zak Vescera reports. #CdnMedia
i mostly talk about llms on here these days because it is the thing that's taking up the biggest space in my brain right now, due to the changes the tech is bringing to, well, everything. both good and bad. and microblogging has always been about whatever is on my brain
@draNgNon that sounds a bit like influencer-style social media then. Is it a cacophony in a good way, or not? Would a Google+ like Circles functionality, such as Bonfire are bringing to the fediverse, bring solace?
@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. your question is a cognitive dissonance for me.
Firstly, I've only ever experienced Google+ circles in an environment where the participants are similar to LinkedIn, posting about professional topics and/or corporate syncophacy. They are a good way to seal yourself into an echo chamber/bubble, even within that type of discourse
Secondly, influencer social media always feels more like people pitching their point of view or hot take or maybe just themselves. It's about collecting follower count for credibility. Fedi mostly isn't like that but there are some.
Lastly, I'm in the US, right now with political situation there is necessarily disruption and shouting and points to be made. (Some of them might even be correct!). But it does affect social media experience; it would probably make matters worse to increase the echo chamber effects.
@shriramkShriram Krishnamurthi
I did some experiments a couple of months ago.
ChatGPT/Codex would produce code that compiled and worked, but absolutely ignored glaring issues.
Claude was insistant that by doing this ornate graph-coloring thing we could get better bounds on computation, ignoring that it had to redo the graph-coloring on every iteration and so the whole thing was accidentally quadratic.
Also lots of just subtle issues, or outright technically-correct-but-truly bizarre decisions.
OH: Wir haben zwei Faktoren: Benutzername UND Passwort. #fnordleaks
#travle_challenge #109 (1 떨어져 있는) (3 힌트)
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https://travle.earth/challenge
uspol, more trans bad news
Damn I guess I wasn't even paying attention yesterday so *deep breath* here we go:
- Supreme court issues shadow docket ruling that says teachers MUST tell their parents if their child privately comes out as trans https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a810_b97d.pdf
- Texas Attorney General declares that therapists who *use gender affirming language* for patients are engaging in child abuse, will have license to practice removed and face criminal charges https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-ag-paxton-declares-therapists
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons members blindsighted by the org issuing a statement saying *HRT blockers*, surgery, etc are harmful for youth https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/asps-members-demand-answers-after
We're in this together. Attacks on trans youth are a pathway to attacks on trans adults.
This started as a #getfedihired post, but ended up a little bit too long for that...
https://raphael.lullis.net/adapt-activitypub/
In short, I'm looking for a company (or companies) that could be interested in investing in this vision for the social web. Please spread around.
Fix local collection link resulting in error page (#38038) by diondiondion has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/d0e7692d79ce1a2d3f9346b415037379059b2897
Welcome to the Academy of Mélusine - the most prestigious Knight Academy in the Kingdom.
This little 4 page teaser took me a month to make (🫣), I hope you enjoy it! I'm aiming to publish my comic some time this summer.
Stay tuned for the next pages, I'll post them the following days!
https://ko-fi.com/artbyeliza
if you wish to support my comic and me, consider becoming a member on ko-fi! ❤️
寝てみる
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
Profile redesign: Fix timeline filter button color on Safari iOS (#38040) by diondiondion has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/c0b22868719052728883b121ca3322c6b0895c78
@theraccoonbytesMaho Pacheco 
@_elenaElena Rossini 📍 FOSDEM Are there specific measures I can be taking to help keep our beloved #forkiverse alive? Besides being active myself?
existence of "USB4" implies the existence of "USB after"
트럼프가 비난한 앤트로픽 AI ‘클로드’ 수요 폭증으로 접속 오류···유료 구독자 수 두 배로
수정 2026.03.03 09:47
앱 서비스 일시 오류···앤트로픽 “전례 없는 수요”
대규모 감시·완전 자율 무기에 사용 거부하자
트럼프 “급진 좌파” “절대 허용 않겠다” 비난 www.khan.co.kr/article/2026...
트럼프가 비난한 앤트로픽 AI ‘클로드’ 수요 폭증으로...
12번 만에 맞춤
사마르칸트를 수도로 하는 나라가 없다고?(흔한 역덕뇌)
Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering via 
@RunxiYu https://lobste.rs/s/4djjcb #mac #reversing #vibecoding
https://maderix.substack.com/p/inside-the-m4-apple-neural-engine
*tanzt durch die Wohnung*
People say I sit and try
But when it comes to being De La
It's just me, myself and I
De La Soul: Tiny Desk Concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVYDHTOixU
#leyrerplaylist
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#政治 #最新 #香港 #HK01
https://points-media.com/最新/伊朗局勢｜tvb-播央視直擊德黑蘭普通話片-述哈梅內/
pngcrush... you had one job 
근데 엄마 혹시 그날이 생각나세요?
내가 혼자 대학 시험 보러 온 날
옛날 사람 봇짐 메고 한양 가듯이
나도 그런 모양이었잖아요
정밀아 - 서울역에서 출발
Start Alliances, Not Wars
> For our community to thrive and slowly build a movement, we need more alliances, not wars.
Really good article from 
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
, thanks !
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-start-alliances-not-wars/
Hello! Because I clearly hate myself I have written about some of the tradeoffs involved in allowing non-free blobs of code to be updated at runtime and published it on the internet: https://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/to-update-blobs-or-not-to-update-blobs/
Start Alliances, Not Wars
> For our community to thrive and slowly build a movement, we need more alliances, not wars.
Really good article from @Em0nM4stodonEm , thanks !
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-start-alliances-not-wars/
Happy 303 Day!
"You could argue that while the 303 failed at imitating an actual bass guitar, it gave us something much better instead. A truly new and unique sound that was so characteristic that it shaped entire music genres for decades to come."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf2-WLK3gPA
I'm in the zone on boring paperwork tasks
- Pushin' numbers
- Filing files
- Sorting documents
- Drinking iced tea
“Make sure to deallocate everything afterwards!” Jordan said freely
“Hey! These graphic updates aren’t properly buffered!” Jordan said tearfully
A file on my computer named "uhoh.txt" which contains the content: "uhoh."
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber you should make another one in the same folder that just says "oh huh"
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth. Write letters, complain to staff, refuse to answer. Make it impossible to collect sex assigned at birth. Be really offended that anyone would ask you. Make enough noise that if trans people want to quietly not answer or give whatever answer feels correct to them, no one will notice.
아~~~~~~ 스트레스 받아.....
after 2 weeks i received an answer from soundcloud about my ticket:
they are busy and will consider my ticket closed unless i answer :)
Glyph
Evan Prodromou
phildini
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
