What is Hackers' Pub?

Python Illustrated -- a Purrfect Book for New Programmers https://slott56.github.io/2026-03-04_python_illustrated.html

The foxes that live in my back garden often play with each other, just like dogs

1/5

#fox #dogs #wildlife #animals

Also: i talk up the idea of #Lemmy and #Mbin and #Piefed and the #Threadiverse in the idea on surfacing content...

Much of that idea was spurred by this from Piefed on it's potential feed format that can pull in multiple other community fediverse acocunts into one feed:

https://join.piefed.social/2025/04/30/how-piefed-federates-feeds-aka-multi-reddits-or-multi-comms/

And would love to hear what @rimu thinks of my riffing on this for discovery fedi wide, and if he had notes.

Well put: “To conclude this wrapup of my #indieweb experience in 2025: more than ever, I still regard the open web as my online home. There are communities I feel like I belong to within it — like the 'open social' community, the Mastodon community, the Eleventy community, etc. Maybe there will eventually be a Cybercultural community! (1/2)

@stefanStefan Bohacek - 👆how hard would it be to create “server bots” as I describe in this? For mastodon you already have json from public feed via API… was thinking it would functionally be a boosting bot like Newsmast community feeds - such as @breakingnewsBreaking News Channel but be just for each server’s public posts, with admin moderation, etc

[US NYC] ACLU are a nonprofit who defend free speech and civil rights.
Director or dataeng + product manager https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aclu/jobs/8417408002

Hello internet friends and friendly internet strangers.

Things are rough out there and we gotta pay bills, so here's a thread of tech for good* roles for all y'all looking for work right now.

*or just less evil, I hope!

#FediHire

OK here is my LXMF address and I'll add it into my Mastodon bio too while I'm at it:

LXMF Address c72355885808468cace245e407b9d8a4

Oh cool PCWorld just printed lies/slop I guess.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong

SingleFile: Web Extension for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file https://lobste.rs/s/ii2iaw #web
https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

The foxes that live in my back garden often play with each other, just like dogs

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#fox #dogs #wildlife #animals

Andrew "buinnie" Huang's Dabao, which I wrote about back in January, is now crowdfunding: under $10 (plus shipping, admittedly) for a microcontroller board built around the Baochip-1x - a #RISCV part with "mostly open RTL," and packaged in a way you can peer beneath the silicon's surface with an infrared torch and a modified inspection camera.

https://www.hackster.io/news/andrew-bunnie-huang-opens-crowdfunding-for-the-radically-open-dabao-baochip-1x-dev-board-be3fc5add565

#Technology #News #Hackster #OpenSilicon #OpenHardware #Microcontroller

Demà continuarem amb el #MSC Mobile Social Congress també al @canodrom amb #SomNuvol amb la 2a Jornada @dolibarrDolibarr ERP CRM per desconnectar dels ERP extractivistes de dades que creen dependència de les grans corporacions.

https://femprocomuns.coop/ii-jornada-dolibarr-amb-somnuvol-programari-lliure-per-la-gestio-dentitats/

**Juana García (Indigenous journalist, alterNativa) at #msc26 #msc2026**

*"When companies arrive with their megaprojects, they start by tearing apart the social fabric, and then they violate everything that defines us as Indigenous peoples."*

Thanks to @sobtec
@setemcatSetem Catalunya & @femprocomuns for collaborative note taking with Teixidora.net #mobilesocialcongress2026

#directoryTraversalMemes

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116168638948762892

Yeah so add PCWorld to the list of outlets you can't trust anymore. This report was bogus.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong

筆慣らしアコ

3つのLLMでブラインド多数決！構築中の Claude Sonnet 4.6 翻訳パイプラインを検証してみた
https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/claude-sonnet-4-6-translation/

#dev_classmethod

As the #PicoIDE campaign on Crowd Supply enters its final hours (https://www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics/picoide), @ctrlaltreesRees 🦆 has come out with a fantastic video all about the PicoIDE! And wow it looks good in that baby AT case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_t0Ti3_rY

MacBook Neo? 🤔

Now at #msc26

Roland Mimi Ngoy from *Dignité RDC*:
*"The role of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is fundamental: we provide the raw materials. What comes from Congolese soil is then decided by governments—where it goes, who buys it, etc. But we play NO other role; it is very sad."*

Thanks to @sobtec organised by @setemcatSetem Catalunya and supported by a range of cooperative actors. #mobilesocialcongress2026

#52WochenFotoChallenge

2026/10 #Spiegelungen

WOIMS WEDNESDAY

ngl, one reason i am not going to start using LLMs (besides all the other reasons) is that literally everyone i've ever encountered who goes all-in on slopcoding ends up talking like a fucking cult evangelist about them, and i'm not interested in becoming a fucking cult evangelist.

like even the (very) few slopcoders that i actually still like and mostly respect: i don't think y'all understand how incredibly fucking creepy you sound all the time!

Video accounts about #Linux to follow:

@vkc - Video guides to Linux, FOSS etc
@gbryantGardiner Bryant - Videos on Linux gaming & FOSS news
@thelinuxexperiment - Linux & FOSS news
@artarthur.pizza - Linux & FOSS tutorial vids & vlogs
@linuxuserspace - Linux history & news
@veggero - KDE developer's vlog
@hatnix - Linux gaming (in German & English)
@ronnietucker - Full Circle podcast, Ubuntu & Linux community news
@kde_community - Official KDE video account
@lasLinux App Summit - Linux App Summit video account

#PeerTube

Shipped!

📝 This community write-up on Unison asks: what if service boundaries didn’t mean serialization, versioning pain, or extra operational complexity?

Check it out here: https://medium.com/@thomas_alexandre/unison-the-language-that-makes-microservices-feel-like-a-monolith-64fa9cc5072c?utm_source=mastodon
Or here: https://github.com/ThomasAlexandre/programming/blob/main/unison-article-feb-2026.md?utm_source=mastodon

https://medium.com/@thomas_alexandre/unison-the-language-that-makes-microservices-feel-like-a-monolith-64fa9cc5072c?utm_source=mastodon

Hello internet friends and friendly internet strangers.

Things are rough out there and we gotta pay bills, so here's a thread of tech for good* roles for all y'all looking for work right now.

*or just less evil, I hope!

#FediHire

Pocket ID: Easy Passkey Authentication https://lobste.rs/s/lw8rsa #security
https://runtimeterror.dev/pocket-id-easy-passkey-authentication/

Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config

Link: https://joshua.hu/firefox-making-right-click-not-suck
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251480

I ship out tomorrow morning for #SCaLE23x , where I'll be supporting the civic data nonprofit @civicband !

It's my first SCaLE ever and I'd love to meet some of you. If you're attending, please come through the booth and say hi!

At #msc2026 Youssef M. Ouled from @AlgoRace explaining their research on racist & militarist uses of AI, like in ‘Lavender’ (the AI machine directing Israel’s bombing in Gaza) and biases in new uses of AI by Spanish police, where cops adopt similar to ICE algorithm-guided tools for making decisions on spot about "who is more violent". Also about collective efforts like the citizen's-AI coalition: https://iaciudadana.org/ for forcing EU to make deliberative calls and deliberation with citizens

who called it casting with verbal but absent somatic or material components and not “speak and spell”

はてさて

1add29cf40 (upstream/main) Redirect to short account URLs when requesting HTML for one of the AP endpoints (#38056)
a70079968c Break `ScrollableList` component into parts (#38059)
3fbb7424fa Emoji text input and character counter components (#38052)
43b0113a4a Update ES versions in CI/devcontainer to match primary compose (#38041)
a89754f288 Re-run `db:schema:dump` with rails 8.1 (#38044)
8a0261c51c Add `missing_attribution` boolean to preview cards (#38043)
5472ab251a Fix existing posts not being removed from lists when a list member is unfollowed (#38048)
078b87bdc1 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#38047)
177f4ee3ae Update haml_lint to version 0.72.0 (#38042)
0a4f96be21 Update dependency tzinfo-data to v1.2026.1 (#38035)
0f2ad41f89 Update dependency public_suffix to v7.0.5 (#38034)

Somebody would like you to know his memoir Doing Life Right will be published later in 2026.

#CatsOfMastodon #FediCats #Cats

Overreliance

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

애플, 99만원 '맥북 네오' 공개…중저가·교육용 시장 겨냥
(샌프란시스코=연합뉴스) 권영전 특파원 = 애플이 중저가 맥북을 내놓으며 크롬북이 장악한 중저가·교육용 시장에 뛰어들었다.
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260305003600091

#news #뉴스

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10196-1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249809

I'm excited to be back in Barcelona in two weeks!

p.s. if we're moots and you're in BCN hmu and maybe we can meet up and say hi?

Fastly is headed to Wasm I/O 2026 in Barcelona, March 19–20! 🇪🇸

We’ve got 3 amazing speakers lined up:
🎤 Sy Brand — Co-operative Multithreading & the Component Model
🎤 Erik Rose — Componentizing Fastly Compute
🎤 Luke Wagner — Towards a Component Model 1.0

If you care about WebAssembly, components, or cloud compute, don’t miss this. ⚡ @webassemblyeu @webassembly

More info: https://2026.wasm.io/

#WASMIO2026 #WebAssembly #EdgeComputing

the bad neighbor has loudly announced to the building group chat that they would rather block fiber internet installation to all 36 units indefinitely than allow a technician into their apartment for five minutes, as they have a god-given right to privacy

so how many skeletons do you think we're talking?

The infrastructure phase of AI governance has begun. Recently, CC attended the AI Impact Summit in Delhi, and what became clear is that AI governance is shifting. The conversation is moving beyond high-level principles and into harder, more structural questions about infrastructure, stewardship, and power.

Read our reflection on the biggest takeaways from Delhi and what we believe is CC's critical role in filling a global implementation gap.

https://creativecommons.org/2026/03/04/ais-infrastructure-era/

I never seen such a detailed write-up of any other talk I have given before as this one of my talk about using FOSS tools in FOSS projects by @jzbJoe Brockmeier (jzb) in @lwnLWN.net I feel honored by the article, it really captures the spirit of my talk! https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1060649/915a0f56ade5d760/
#FOSS #LWN