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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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In Brussels 🇪🇺 today, Paul Sharratt is participating in the fourth meeting of the Expert Group, representing the in discussions on implementation.

Drawing on our experience in the open source ecosystem, we are contributing expertise to help ensure the CRA supports secure and sustainable digital infrastructure in Europe, particularly for maintainers of critical technologies.

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Cyber Resilience Act Expert Group
4 March 2026 in Brussels
A seating placard "Sovereign Tech Agency" is visible, with several people across the room with similar placards in front of them in a meeting room of the European Commission.
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Two things:
1. If we’re sinking Iranian ships in the open ocean using submarines, this is an offensive war, and the President needs to declare war and go to Congress.
2. If you sink a ship with a torpedo, and there are no other threats around, you are obligated to search for, and rescue, survivors. The US Navy needs to stop being complicit in Hegseth’s war crime spree.

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@django

In a technical sense constituting a shift towards a fediverse of apps and services.

In a social sense as inter-connected spaces that are open for people to explore, collaborate, cocreate, and do all the things we do offline to the extent we can do them online too, plus all the extra's that remote connection by technological means have to offer.

But that is an exploratory design area. A vast space hardly explored. This is where Social experience design focuses. See the diagram at coding.social where SX broadens horizons by taking a more holistic approach (actually utterly holistic and boundless in scope, as SX scales from personal to societal levels).

What envisions is a peopleverse. A hypothetical place-to-be in the future where our online and offline worlds are seamlessly intertwined and in services of our day to day activities and human needs.

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@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding..
> As for JSON-LD it must see to rewin hearts and minds, must inspire and convince people to take the bet of adopting

Agreed. But to do that requires explaining to people what it's for, and the potential benefits over vanilla JSON that make it worth the extra dev effort.

Reviving the Semantic Web vision - the *vision* not previous (failed) implementations - seem to me to be the most obvious way to do that.

But as always, I'm open to other suggestions : )

@gugurumbeVivien (toujours dans le déni)

@strypey @gugurumbeVivien (toujours dans le déni)

So what is the Semantic web actually, is the real question to ask. And what is semantic social networking if we apply it to that field. What does it bring in terms of value and benefits, new opportunities that didn't exist before. To LD proponents these may be very clear and obvious, but to many others hearing it is saying nothing to them. And also, when they are enticed to take a deeper look they find an every increasing amount of inter-related standards and skills to master around them. Aggregate linked data in data store, now what? How do I query it? Oh, XQuery you say, but I already do everything in SQL.

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It is reported that an US Navy submarine sunk the Iranian frigate "IRIS Dena" off the coast of Sri Lanka. This has been confirmed by US officials. This ship had a displacement of 1,500 tonnes.

The Sri Lankan Navy has rescued so far 32 sailors, while over 100 are still missing.

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Ok, das finde ich wirklich sehr, sehr lustig: Microsoft findet, dass man für seie AI-Agents (für die man Geld bezahlen soll) eine Lizenz braucht, wenn man sie Microsoft-Produkte nutzen lässt. Und die Lizenz soll wohl mehr kosten als eine Lizenz für Menschen. 😂

heise.de/news/Auch-KI-Agenten-

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Two things:
1. If we’re sinking Iranian ships in the open ocean using submarines, this is an offensive war, and the President needs to declare war and go to Congress.
2. If you sink a ship with a torpedo, and there are no other threats around, you are obligated to search for, and rescue, survivors. The US Navy needs to stop being complicit in Hegseth’s war crime spree.

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TIL, there is a term for huge human job loss created by technology like AI or other such stuff.

In economics, deskilling is the process by which skilled labor within an industry or economy is eliminated by the introduction of technologies operated by semi- or unskilled workers. This results in cost savings due to lower investment in human capital, and reduces barriers to entry, weakening the bargaining power of the human capital.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskilli

the term is older but I learned today

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A "naming things is hard" anecdote I was just reminded of by an old web page:

In the 1990s, when 32-bit versions of Windows were introduced, a new executable file format was needed for native 32-bit programs. The existing 16-bit file format used by Windows 3.x was called "NE", for "New Executable". The 32-bit one was named "PE", for "Portable Executable".

Windows 95 could still run 16-bit Windows 3.x programs. But Windows 3.x couldn't run the newer 32-bit ones. (Ok, there was Win32s, but it had very restricted usefulness.)

In other words, the format called "New" was the older one of the two, *and* the format called "Portable" was the one that didn't work everywhere!

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