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.

My projects use C, making this the third language I've used for . The graphics were based on the 32-bit version for the Psion Revo, but the 4-greyscale monochrome graphics were recoloured in the most colourful or gaudy of palettes: blue, green, red, yellow. This palette gives a number of possibilities for dithered colours, so I have purple mountains, brown city walls, and forests in all kinds of autumnal shades. cyningstan.itch.io/barbarians-

A screenshot from the MS-DOS version of Barbarians, showing off the palette. The thick forest shows the various autumnal shades this palette is capable of through dithering: purples, oranges, browns, and various shades of green.

I worked from the OPL source code, which is easier to read than the Z80 I used on the . Presentation is a combination of all previous machines, with graphics reminiscent of the Psion versions, and a menu system like the Spectrum. The controls are designed like the Spectrum version to allow full play with just directions and a fire key, making playable in emulation on a mobile phone. cyningstan.itch.io/barbarians-

Selling resources on the MS-DOS and ZX Spectrum versions of Barbarians, showing how similar the interfaces are. The graphical Psion versions leaned more heavily on the operating system's own GUI elements, things not available on the ZX Spectrum or MS-DOS.
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CHART OF THE WEEK: 24 states have asked Congress to propose a constitutional amendment restoring authority to limit election spending. SCOTUS decisions including Citizens United enabled unlimited outside spending. Oklahoma is the latest, per American Promise.

Map showing status of resolutions promoting a constitutional amendment.
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@promoviczprom™️ @laurenshof It's "entertaining content" for sure, but what it also gets at is not just the technical side of things, but the social one, and how we are caught between both, and our systems are the output of the conflicts between technical goals and social dynamics.

@evanEvan Prodromou is my friend, and I'm not super proud of that exchange, because I lost patience publicly, because this is a sore issue for me. But of course, you tear things back, and Evan and I had a nice chat afterwards, and actually have hung out quite a bit before and since, and behind all of that, both of us were going through things in our personal lives.

And yet the decisions we make in these messy social dynamics influence the kinds of technical systems which in turn influence the kinds of social systems we can have!

@promoviczprom™️ @laurenshof @evanEvan Prodromou It does worry me though, and there's a reason it's so personal to me. The lack of signing of messages and content-addressing have lead to serious issues that, while ATproto does worse than us on the aspects of power distribution, it does better in terms of content survivability and portability, and these are things I thought were important *all the way back in ActivityPub standardization*, but we couldn't get to yet.

There is no "technical problems vs social problems" dichotomy. Social situations influence technical design, and technical design informs the kinds of social systems that are possible. Protocol development is all of this, mass multiplied.

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退勤ランニング中に「…こういうアプリあったらいいなあ!」と思いついてしまったので、帰宅からさっきまでずっとGeminiとスマホアプリ作ってました​:blob_bongo_cat_keyboard:

スマホ画面見なくてもイヤホンなどでドル円を音声で教えてくれるアプリでございます

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お久しぶりです。
数年ぶり(定かではない)に髪を切ってきました
今まで前髪は顔が隠れるくらいの長さ
後ろ髪は肩にかかるくらいの髪の長さでした
お店の方に大変申し訳なかったです。

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はじめての百合スタディーズ 읽기 시작했다. 책 펼쳐보고서야 알았는데 저자 셋이서 대화하는 형태로 되어 있네. 그래서 그런지 꽤 읽기 쉬운 느낌? 1장 시작은 각자의 퀴어 성향이나 백합과의 만남 이야기하는 거라 친근감도 들고.

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こんにちは。ごきげんよ〜。
最近 Cloudflareによるの人間チェックの代わりに、獣耳の女の子がでてくるケースを見かけるようになってきていたのですが、これオープンソースなのね。昨日自分の VPS に住まわせました〜。
:Shiropuyo_coffee:
https://anubis.techaro.lol/
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Digital ID checkpoints could erupt across the Internet 🆔

The UK government is seeking a power grab. And it's not just social media.

Every adult will have to do ID checks to access whatever online services the government – any government – decides to restrict or curfew.

Watch ORG's @JamesBaker explain ⬇️

peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w

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