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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If you should ever find yourself with a lower leg injury that requires you to be non-weightbearing, try to get your hands on an iWALK knee crutch. It's an amazing piece of technology. Being able to walk around while still having the use of both hands (unlike when using crutches or a knee scooter) is so helpful. I can make a cup of coffee and carry it to the couch.

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I'm back to thinking about CSRF: why is it useful for sites to be able to embed resources (like <img src="othersite.com/whatever.jpg">) and for the browser to send the user's cookies to the third-party site?

There's "ads" and "tracking" obviously but I feel like there's another actually-useful-to-users reason I'm not thinking of

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It's me, the person who Causes Discourse but is Reasonably Nice About It but not everyone else involved is as careful with language and maybe not everyone else should or needs to be but ultimately the people involved aren't sure whether to be mad at her or mad at the people reading what she says or maybe this whole thing is in her head

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A ground up rewrite of a project transitively used by millions would be extremely concerning even without AI usage.

It raises serious questions of stewardship and the responsibility of project maintainers to not create unnecessary churn for downstream consumers.

Maybe this instance will be ~fine.

Maybe other projects get used to doing python3/vue3 level backwards compatibility breaks every few releases.

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chqdaily.com/2017/07/paul-raus

As for the nation’s literature, Brandeis may have been the first .. to refer to the Constitution as a “living organism, capable of growth and adaptation.”

“This approach allows the fresh context of the present to perform alchemy with the wisdom of the past, to offer new ways to make the law and faith relevant and responsive to present conditions,” he said. “Prophetic witness cannot set its gaze backward on a frozen history with an unrecognizable context. Instead, it faces forward, informed by the past, yet determined to bring back vision into the world in the present age.”

This no longer works, unfortunately.. how does the constitution change when it is effectively impossible to amend due to Constitutional Calcification .. only "interpret" through a ridiculously gerrymandered (thanks Mitch M) SCOTUS? infosec.exchange/@codinghorror

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"Archi, a Daghestanian language traditionally assigned to Lezgian group, has an amazingly rich system of inflectional morphology. The mere size of verbal paradigm strains credibility: grammar description calculates that a verb has in principle 1,502,839 forms (Kibrik et al, 1977)."

digitorient.com/wp/wp-content/

batsav.com/pages/archilanguage

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Lots of renewed talk about static site generators 'round these parts (which is awesome), so let me do a little shoutout to Pelican getpelican.com @pelican

I chose this over 11ty (which I did try!) because it's written in Python, which is one of the few (the only?) languages I know(ish), and because I'm more comfortable with their upgrade schedule (more like yearly instead of what felt like weekly with 11ty - that just stresses me out - YMMV, of course).

Anyway, it's a great little SSG if the other ones out there don't float your boat. It powers my site at: mitten.lol

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What's your Coffee at home Level?

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You could have all the accessibility toolkits and plugins and AI agents in the world and it still won’t mean much if your design practice itself is ableist.

Unlearning the ableism we are all taught is a much more important part of this work.

I should know, I’ve been doing it.

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