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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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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I am, and have been for some time, confused about when it is appropriate to refer to it as the "Czech Republic" and when it is more appropriate to call it "Czechia". My definition of "appropriate" is "were a Czech person to stumble across my writing, what rubric would they prefer I use?"

Can any of the Europeans reading this help me here?

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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Shared by Wouter Tebbens ⁂

But really, relicensing a GPL codebase to MIT is uninteresting.

Let's do the interesting one, which is: vibe code a "clean room" reimplementation of an entire proprietary codebase! After all, Microsoft released a "shared source" proprietary version of Windows. Now try seeing what happens if you run THAT through the "turn it into public domain" machine

Win-win outcome, no matter how it goes

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tante @tante@tldr.nettime.org
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Shared by Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉

This case shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code and tests through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being accumulated and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded in front of our eyes.

github.com/chardet/chardet/pul

Summary This PR is for a ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet. It maintains API compatibility with chardet 5.x and 6.x, but with 27x improvements to detection speed, and highly accurate suppo...

chardet 7.0: ground-up MIT-licensed rewrite by dan-blanchard · Pull Request #322 · chardet/chardet

Summary This PR is for a ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet. It maintains API compatibility with chardet 5.x and 6.x, but with 27x improvements to detection speed, and highly accurate suppo...

github.com · GitHub

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yosh @yosh@toot.yosh.is
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Yeah no but okay like, @fasterthanlimeamos‘s Tracey tool is really cool. I’ve never really worked with specification tools before, and I'm only half-assing things right now.

But like: I see the vision. Especially when working against something that has an existing, established spec this seems incredibly valuable. Honestly wish I'd had this when I was still working on HTTP tooling.

a screenshot showing the tracey dashboard, listing specifications
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maschmi @inw@mastodon.social
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Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands

theguardian.com/world/2026/mar

> Global survey shows young men and boys hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations

Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands

Global survey shows young men and boys hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations

www.theguardian.com · the Guardian

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世界末日铃鼓手 @mayflower@pari.cafe
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你皮小学就开始和蚊子斗智斗勇, 可以提供一些细节给想画蚊子的人:

→蚊子可以在多数粗糙表面上停留, 甚至倒挂, 包括脏玻璃、结有水碱的浴帘横杆、磨损的手机壳侧边;
→蚊子站立的时候是驼背的;
→蚊子被电死后, 所有腿都会打直并拢, 很像意大利人的那个常用手势......
→部分电死的蚊子扔在水里会疯狂旋转一分钟以上.......
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AlpCHI Conference 2026 @AlpCHI@hci.social
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🥁 We're happy to announce the location for the next AlpCHI conference!

Following the inaugural version this year, AlpCHI 2028 will be in beautiful Constance, Germany at the Lake Constance! It is situated <50 km away from the Säntis (2501 m above sea level) in Switzerland, and thus qualifies as a suitable AlpCHI location 😉

Stay tuned for more information!

An areal photo of Konstanz, Germany showing the city center and the Rhine river. An overlay shows the "AlpCHI 2028" logo on the top right in white. In the center white bold text says "See you at AlpCHI 2028" with thinner text saying "The next AlpCHI will happen in Konstanz, Germany. Stay tuned for more information."
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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But really, relicensing a GPL codebase to MIT is uninteresting.

Let's do the interesting one, which is: vibe code a "clean room" reimplementation of an entire proprietary codebase! After all, Microsoft released a "shared source" proprietary version of Windows. Now try seeing what happens if you run THAT through the "turn it into public domain" machine

Win-win outcome, no matter how it goes

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody@mastodon.social
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Shared by Evan Prodromou

Tell your MP: No to ID checks for web access action.openrightsgroup.org/no- I've just done this fwiw. please write if you can.

No ID Checks for Web Access

Take action! What’s the problem? The Government has proposed amendments to the Children Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which would give Ministers the power to restrict access to "internet services". This is supposed to give the Government the power to ban under 16s from social media but “internet services" is a very broad definition, which means any online platform can be included. The wording of the amendment means they could do this without even having to prove that these sites are harmful for children.

action.openrightsgroup.org · Open Rights Group

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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Shared by Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:

But really, relicensing a GPL codebase to MIT is uninteresting.

Let's do the interesting one, which is: vibe code a "clean room" reimplementation of an entire proprietary codebase! After all, Microsoft released a "shared source" proprietary version of Windows. Now try seeing what happens if you run THAT through the "turn it into public domain" machine

Win-win outcome, no matter how it goes

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