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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My experience of the :

Year 1 (2023):
It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms.

Year 2 (2024):
I start a blog - - to explain the fediverse to "normies"... and I make a lot of new (techie) friends.

Year 3 (2025):
My techie friends encourage me to start self-hosting with ... and I do! (GoToSocial, PeerTube, NextCloud...) I LOVE it.

Year 4 (2026):
I plan to buy a Heltec to try out off-grid mesh radio communication 💁‍♀️

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if posting about leftism actually did anything, we wouldn't be living under fascism right now. because i (and a lot of you) sure did a lot of posting, but it also sure didn't seem to help. so yeah i could be doomposting about how the dems fuckin suck or whatever. but what good does that do?

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Včera se podařilo v klíčovém výboru zamítnout Chat Control 1.0 - dočasnou výjimku, která umožňuje plošně skenovat soukromé zprávy. Ale vyhráno ještě nemáme. Příští týden nás čeká hlasování na plénu a bude to těsné. Někteří europoslanci potřebují připomenout, že „moje soukromá zpráva je moje věc“. 👇🏻

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You can use aliases to decrease the amount of typing you need to do to get
commands you commonly use. Examples of fairly popular aliases include (in
Bourne shell style, as in /bin/sh, bash, ksh, and zsh):

alias lf="ls -FA"
alias ll="ls -lA"
alias su="su -m"

In csh or tcsh, these would be

alias lf ls -FA
alias ll ls -lA
alias su su -m

To remove an alias, you can usually use 'unalias aliasname'. To list all
aliases, you can usually type just 'alias'.

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uspol, personal

I'm a dual US-Canadian citizen, and I would *like* to believe it will be okay for me to just keep traveling back and forth between the US and Canada, and for now it is, but things are changing so fast, how long could that last?

It's terrible, there are so many people I care about in the US. There's so much I've left behind.

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🕐 2026-03-03 18:00 UTC

📰 Async React時代の宣言的UI: デバウンスの例 (👍 82)

🇬🇧 Explores declarative UI in Async React era using debounce as example. Shows how React handles logic automatically beyond just DOM updates.
🇰🇷 Async React 시대의 선언적 UI를 디바운스 예시로 설명. React가 DOM 업데이트를 넘어 로직을 자동 처리하는 방식 탐구.

🔗 zenn.dev/uhyo/articles/async-r

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You can use aliases to decrease the amount of typing you need to do to get
commands you commonly use. Examples of fairly popular aliases include (in
Bourne shell style, as in /bin/sh, bash, ksh, and zsh):

alias lf="ls -FA"
alias ll="ls -lA"
alias su="su -m"

In csh or tcsh, these would be

alias lf ls -FA
alias ll ls -lA
alias su su -m

To remove an alias, you can usually use 'unalias aliasname'. To list all
aliases, you can usually type just 'alias'.

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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 supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pd
- 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 erininthemorning.com/p/texas-a
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons members blindsighted by the org issuing a statement saying *HRT blockers*, surgery, etc are harmful for youth erininthemorning.com/p/asps-me

We're in this together. Attacks on trans youth are a pathway to attacks on trans adults.

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a few of you on here are like, actually doing real politics work in the actual world. and it's great. love to see it. i am not and have not. and posting isn't praxis. i want to sit with the uncomfortableness that i'm not, rather than pretending i am by smashing that repost button

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Tabulka z jednoho sociologického výzkumu, která podle mě zase potvrzuje, že názory lidí jsou rozumnější než, jak se to jeví z dojmologie z médií a sítí a spol (anglicky):

datawrapper.dwcdn.net/WNqmf/9/

Zdroj: ecfr.eu/publication/the-europe Evropské souostroví: Budování mostů v postzápadní Evropě. Célia Belin a Pawel Zerka.
11. února 2026.

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Part of the challenge with managing energy and motivation in programming is that sometimes, you can be on a roll getting things done, and suddenly your tools or environment just break spectacularly and derail you.

Like if you’re a carpenter, in the middle of building a table, and all of a sudden the hammer disappears from your hand and someone’s like “There’s no table, what are you talking about” and it’s still RIGHT THERE and what the heck happened to the hammer?!

That was my last 2 hours. 🤣

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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 supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pd
- 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 erininthemorning.com/p/texas-a
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons members blindsighted by the org issuing a statement saying *HRT blockers*, surgery, etc are harmful for youth erininthemorning.com/p/asps-me

We're in this together. Attacks on trans youth are a pathway to attacks on trans adults.

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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

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@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:

heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study

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.

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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.

thetyee.ca/News/2026/03/03/Sur

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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

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@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.

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@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.

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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 supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pd
- 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 erininthemorning.com/p/texas-a
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons members blindsighted by the org issuing a statement saying *HRT blockers*, surgery, etc are harmful for youth erininthemorning.com/p/asps-me

We're in this together. Attacks on trans youth are a pathway to attacks on trans adults.

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This started as a post, but ended up a little bit too long for that...

raphael.lullis.net/adapt-activ

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.

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