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.

We are a family of five trying to fast during Ramadan, but prices have become extremely high and we can no longer afford even a simple meal for iftar.
Among us is a pregnant woman suffering from malnutrition who needs proper food to protect her health and her baby.
We need โ‚ฌ50 per day to provide a simple iftar for our family.
Please stand with us in this difficult time.
Your donation or even sharing this post could help a hungry family this Ramadan. ๐Ÿคฒ
chuffed.org/project/117668-hel

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My Quaker meeting house has been raided by the police, again. The Met have arrested 12 activists at a publicly advertised Take Back Power meeting at Westminster Quaker Meeting House. Apparently more arrests have taken place outside of people who arrived late. (Source: various WhatsApp chats Iโ€™m in)

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I keep seeing lots of people saying "LLMs are like compilers/assemblers for prompts"

Noooooooooo
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

LLMs are not compilers, and they're not assemblers. Determinism is a key aspect to assemblers and compilers.

And they *certainly* can't be part of a reproducible pipeline

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RE: flipboard.social/@TechDesk/116

Update: @SarahpSarah Perez ๐Ÿ’™ of @Techcrunch reports that Meta is being sued over violations of privacy laws after @svdSvenska Dagbladet's investigation into its smart glasses.

flip.it/xBa82y

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I keep seeing lots of people saying "LLMs are like compilers/assemblers for prompts"

Noooooooooo
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

LLMs are not compilers, and they're not assemblers. Determinism is a key aspect to assemblers and compilers.

And they *certainly* can't be part of a reproducible pipeline

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I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines grith.ai/blog/clinejection-whe

But, the agents installed weren't given instructions to *do* anything yet.

Soon they will be. And when they are, the havoc will be massive. Unlike traditional worms, where you're looking for the typically byte-for-byte identical worm embedded in the system, an agent worm can do different, nondeterministic things on every install, and carry out a global action.

I suspect we're months away from seeing the first agent worm, *if* that. There may already be some happening right now in FOSS projects, undetected.

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I keep seeing lots of people saying "LLMs are like compilers/assemblers for prompts"

Noooooooooo
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

LLMs are not compilers, and they're not assemblers. Determinism is a key aspect to assemblers and compilers.

And they *certainly* can't be part of a reproducible pipeline

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None of my current projects would be considered digital infrastructure, but if your project qualifies and needs someone to help it grow, please reach out. Maybe we can apply together!

I've spent the last 10+ years freelancing as an open source developer, community manager and project manager, with a special interest in governance & leadership development.

I have plenty of availability right now and I'd love to spend it supporting open source digital infrastructure.

sovereign.tech/news/2026-fello

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None of my current projects would be considered digital infrastructure, but if your project qualifies and needs someone to help it grow, please reach out. Maybe we can apply together!

I've spent the last 10+ years freelancing as an open source developer, community manager and project manager, with a special interest in governance & leadership development.

I have plenty of availability right now and I'd love to spend it supporting open source digital infrastructure.

sovereign.tech/news/2026-fello

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๐Ÿšซ ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ We are disapointed to report that an application for the role of "Digital Artist in Residence" at University College Cork (UCC) submitted by The Institute earlier this year has not been successful.

The project was titled "The Luddite Academy" and proposed to bring the current resurgence of luddite theory and praxis to bear on the university's digital arts and humanities departments.

We proposed to 1) Audit the university's dependence on Big Tech 2) Experiment with alternatives with students and staff, including but not limited to hosting our own (experimental) digital services and 3) Document everything so that it could outlive the residency.

While this particular application failed we will endeavour to find another home for this work in 2026.

 Diagram summarising all the aspects of the project proposal. the left side has the students, staff, and University College Cork, the right side is the Luddite academy. Both have arrows pointing to a middle column where they meet around the tree main activities of the project: Audit (interviews, office hours, reports/maps), Experiment (online prototypes, workshops), and Document (curated resources, publishing platform). The arrows coming out of the luddite academy towards these activities are labelled with the modes of action of the academy: produce artwork, curate, produce tools/code, teach, publish/host
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ใ‚จใƒƒใ‚ปใ‚ค่จ˜ไบ‹ใ€‚ๅƒ•ใฏ้ฃŸใน็‰ฉใ‚’ๅ™›ใ‚€ใ“ใจใŒๅฅฝใใ ใ€‚ไบบใ‚ˆใ‚Šๅ™›ใฟๆ„ๅœฐใŒๅผตใฃใฆใ„ใ‚‹ใ›ใ„ใงๅ™›ใ‚€ไปฃๅ„Ÿใ‚’ๆ”ฏๆ‰•ใฃใฆใ„ใ‚‹ใ€‚
riq0h.jp/2026/03/05/224605/

ๅ™›ใ‚€ไปฃๅ„Ÿ

ๅƒ•ใฏ้ฃŸใน็‰ฉใ‚’ๅ™›ใ‚€ใ“ใจใŒๅฅฝใใ ใ€‚ไบบใ‚ˆใ‚Š10ๅ€ใฏๅ™›ใ‚“ใงใ„ใ‚‹่‡ชไฟกใŒใ‚ใ‚‹ใ€‚ใชใซใ‹้กžไผผใ—ใŸใ‚‚ใฎใฎไธญใ‹ใ‚‰ไธ€ใค้ธใถๆ™‚ใ€ๅคงๆŠตใฏๅ™›ใฟๅฟœใˆใŒใ‚ใ‚Šใใ†ใชๆ–นใ‚’้ธใถใ€‚ใ—ใ‹ใ—ใ“ใ†ใ—ใŸ้ธๆŠžใฏใ€ใ—ใฐใ—ใฐใ‚ณใ‚นใƒˆ็š„ใชไธ้‡ใ‚’่ขซใ‚‹ใ€‚ๆŸ”ใ‚‰ใ‹ใ็ฒพ็™ฝใ•ใ‚ŒใŸ่ฃฝๅ“ใฎๆ–นใŒๅคง่ก†ใฎๆ”ฏๆŒใ‚’ๅพ—ใฆใ„ใ‚‹ไปฅไธŠใ€ๅคง้‡็”Ÿ็”ฃใฎๆฉๆตใ‚’ๅ—ใ‘ใ‚‹ใฎใฏใใกใ‚‰ใฎๆ–นใงใ‚ใ‚Šใ€ๅ›บๅฝข็‰ฉใ‚ˆใ‚Šๆถฒไฝ“ใ‚„็ฒ‰ใซใ—ใฆใ„ใ‚‹่ฃฝๅ“ใฎๆ–นใŒ่ผธ้€ใ‚ณใ‚นใƒˆใŒๅฎ‰ใไฝŽๅป‰ๅŒ–ใ—ใ‚„ใ™ใ„ใ€‚ใคใพใ‚Šใ€ๅƒ•ใฏไบบใ‚ˆใ‚Šๅ™›ใฟๆ„ๅœฐใŒๅผตใฃใฆใ„ใ‚‹ใ›ใ„ใงๅ™›ใ‚€ไปฃๅ„Ÿใ‚’ๆ”ฏๆ‰•ใฃใฆใ„ใ‚‹ใจ่จ€ใˆใ‚‹ใ€‚

riq0h.jp ยท ็‚นใจๆŽฅ็ทšใ€‚

Link author: Rikuoh Tsujitani@riq0h@letter.mystech.ink

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TIL that

cargo โ€”locked {build,test}

works like

cargo {build,test} โ€”locked

But

cargo โ€”locked clippy

works like:

cargo clippy

That is, the `โ€”locked` is ignored, but the command still โ€œworks.โ€ This is the case for any command not built into Cargo, it seems. So make sure you put that flag in the right place.

(TIL, but Iโ€™m pretty sure Iโ€™ve learned it multiple times.)

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Has anyone made a good guide for how to ask for survival money on the fediverse yet? One that outlines how tagging strangers isn't a good long term strategy. That it can temporarily work for engagement but sooner or later you will either loose your account or get blocked so much that you don't have much reach. There is this influx of people trying to crowd fund for their survival coming here and we should help provide them with the means to continue to do so sustainability.

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