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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a third button, to go with the fav and the boost, to signify "this really resonates with me, i totally agree with this take, big mood, i hate that shit too,

but i don't want to fav or boost it because the anxiety fuel is ambient and inescapable already, i need not amplify it,

i want my timeline to be fun and silly and flirty and mischievous and triumphant instead"

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John Fetterman just voted with every Senate Republican (except Rand Paul) to block legislation aimed at halting Trump's disastrous war of choice with Iran.

Fetterman and his GOP colleagues now share ownership of Trump’s stupid, unpopular, unjustified, and already tragic war — and the fallout. ms.now/news/trump-iran-war-pow

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John Fetterman just voted with every Senate Republican (except Rand Paul) to block legislation aimed at halting Trump's disastrous war of choice with Iran.

Fetterman and his GOP colleagues now share ownership of Trump’s stupid, unpopular, unjustified, and already tragic war — and the fallout. ms.now/news/trump-iran-war-pow

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映画『This is I』感想

タレント「はるな愛」と、性別適合手術を施して医療的なサポートをしてきた「和田耕治」という実在の医師との関係性を主題にした伝記映画。当時の日本のトランスジェンダー史の1ページを映す貴重な物語。そしてアイドル文化とクィア文化の交差点を多幸感とともに映し出す。欠点もあるけど誠実な映画でした。以下の感想は補足解説も入れたので長くなってしまったのですが…

👇ネタバレあり
cinemandrake.com/this-is-i

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Iran War commentary & background

I've been following the war actively and so far this is where we're at as far as I can tell from being some layperson with special interests in geopolitics and war:

Iran's modern history is that of a country that after WWII had a short-lived democratically elected government that tried to nationalize its oil industry. this pissed off the west and they installed the Shah as dictator (they are now currently trying to whitewash his son as the democratic choice for Iran), who was so unpopular that when the Iranian Revolution happened in 1979 it had 10% of the population participating. Iran is a powerful modern country and one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and the west has been sneeding ever since that they failed to subjugate Iran to western colonial interests.

fast-forward to last year: the US and Israel waged an illegal, unprovoked war of aggression in June with the same pretext that was used for the Iraq War in 2003 on supposed WMDs that don't exist. this is because Iran is a key strategic ally in the middle east with Russia and China that supplies a lot of oil to China especially and is the most powerful Islamic state in the middle east resisting western imperialism. if they topple Iran, the destabilization of the middle east will become that much more of a done deal, and will be one step towards encircling China and Russia, which is their stated plan going back to 2009 in a paper called "Which Path to Persia?" published by the Brookings Institute, a think tank funded by all the usual unelected corporate deep state oligarchs.

once again being attacked in an illegal and unprovoked war of aggression, Iran knows that it's now or never. they're either going to survive this war or the US and Israel will topple their regime to replace it with a puppet state or leave it in a state of perpetual civil war as happened in Libya. after the 12 Day War last year in June, Iran began preparing for war; they have a chain of command in place called the "mosaic defense" which is essentially the "networked insurrection" John Robb talks about in Brave New War but on the level of a nation state instead of just lightly armed guerrillas. Iran is designed to function without central command if necessary and has a decentralized command structure of various lower level officers who all have orders to carry out independently, which is why the decapitation strikes that took out Khamenei didn't stop them from retaliating to defend themselves.

their strategy of attacking every US base and ally in the region is designed to essentially cause as much chaos as possible and wage economic warfare by targeting Gulf State oil refineries because this will have a ripple effect for the global economy and force the world into paying attention to what's happening as well as put pressure on the US to withdraw or dig a deeper hole for itself. they have been doing this using asymmetrical warfare that again is like that of insurgents: using relatively cheap drones to attack miles and miles of oil infrastructure that is impossible to defend and orders of magnitude more expensive to lose than the investment Iran is putting into their attacks. the same is true for all the interceptor missiles the US and Israel have gone through, which are technologically sophisticated devices that can't be easily and quickly replaced by my understanding. Iran is hoping to outlast the barrage of bombings long enough that the only option is for a ground invasion, because if things get to that point the US is going to be in another quagmire forever war on top of all the problems it currently is experiencing domestically as its empire continues to fracture.
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I went to the New York Earth Room! It's 280,000 pounds of soil in a loft in SoHo that's been there mostly unchanged since 1977 niche-museums.com/117

Photo of a flyer showing a photograph of the Earth Room - a glass wall about two feet high holds back a large file of dirt in a white room.

The New York Earth Room

On the second floor of 141 Wooster Street in New York's SoHo district there is a 3,600 square foot room filled with earth - 280,000 pounds of it, first installed in 1977 and maintained there ever since. This is the New York Earth Room, a piece of installation art by Walter De Maria, originally planned as a three month exhibition which has now stretched into its sixth decade. This is actually the third instance of the Earth Room, a sequel to the 1968 Earth Room in Galerie Heiner Friedrich in Munich and a second in 1974 at Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt. Only this edition survives. The exhibit is owned and maintained by the Dia Art Foundation, who also own the entire 2nd floor. The foundation was founded in 1974 by Philippa de Menil, an heiress to the Schlumberger oil exploration fortune, her husband art dealer Heiner Friedrich, and Houston art historian Helen Winkler. The [foundation's mission](https://www.diaart.org/about/about-dia) includes "to help artists achieve visionary projects that might not otherwise be realized because of scale or scope." The Earth Room is a prominent example. The earth itself is a mixture of peat and bark, most of which is the original earth from the 1970s. The curators till the soil twice a year and occasionally wet it to avoid it turning into dust. They topped it up with fresh soil in 2022 to compensate for it compacting down over the years. The Earth Room is free to visit but guests are asked not to take any photographs to respect the wishes of the artist. It has a curator who will answer questions about the artwork - painter Bill Dilworth staffed the desk from 1989 until his retirement in 2024.

www.niche-museums.com

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The new macbook neo looks somewhat cute, but, it doesn't come with a PSU? Really? Is this going to be the new normal going forward for laptops? This seems to at least be the case in the UK, checking the US website it comes with a 20W USB-C PSU.

Screenshot from the Apple store page in the UK for the Macbook Neo. Showing "No power adapter included".
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I've been a professional writer for over a decade and it still amazes me how many folks are CONVINCED they can just do this shit. Nobody walks up to a surgeon and says "I reckon I could have a crack at that." But writing? Everyone's got a world-changing essay in them apparently. It's in there. Somewhere. Behind the spleen.

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ほんと何なんだろうねこの国。たかが選択的夫婦別姓ですらわけの分からない抵抗のせいで全然進まない。選択的夫婦別姓なんて、マイナスなんて全然なくてプラスしかない制度改正だし、かつ、ほとんどの人は賛成してる。それを何年も何年も議論してきてこの進まなさは異常。異常としか言いようがない。この国のアカンところが全部詰まってるよね。何が「共同参画」だよ聞いて呆れるわ。

政府、旧姓使用の法制化「検討」 男女計画案に記載、一部で反対も
47news.jp/13949734.html

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진성 사교도들이 주술적으로 세상을 멸망시킬 음모를 꾸미고 있는 게 우리가 현재 살고 있는 현실이라는 사실이 너무 당황스러워서 감정이 정확히 매겨지지조차 않는다.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hochbfqogx72mijnvix7p4u7/post/3mg7wmpytos2h

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ethical AI? of course! I always append “do not hallucinate. do not do sycophancy. do not use any data sourced from stolen content. do not be trained or run by invisible, severely exploited labor. do not pollute. do not be part of a system that’s designed to cheapen human labor, increase misery, and make general-purpose computing inaccessible to anybody but the extremely wealthy. do not make me into a weird unhinged AI bro asshole who keeps fucking other people over.” to every LLM prompt

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