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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Sam Chavez (she/they/he) 🌈🌱🏜️🤠 @rootschange@federate.social
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RE: federate.social/@rootschange/1

Happy Women’s History Month!

No matter how much water you carry for the patriarchy, women will always get burned.

apnews.com/article/trump-homel

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Thomas Adam @thomasadam@bsd.network
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Hi all.

Just putting the feelers out as I'd love to know how many folks are using got on MacOs.

@teajaygrey does an amazing job every time I make a release of gameoftrees portable, but I could do with knowing how many of you are using it.

I made a change in the 0.123 release to fix socket handling for services such as gotwebd, which is good, but it's telling that it's taken this long, so I wonder how many users we have.

Let me know -- you can always email me at: thomas.adam22@gmail.com

Please boost this as much as possible, I'd appreciate it.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com@bsky.brid.gy
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This board member turned hater sold Twitter to Elon and just laid off 40% of his other company for AI. Bluesky, as an organization, and the Atmosphere at large is better off without his vote of confidence.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7r6qv3rw/post/3mgfx6i3gdc2l

Rudy wants revolution. (@rude1.blacksky.team)

board member turned hater - should be a lesson not to let just anyone in your circle. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

bsky.app · Bluesky Social

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pki @pki@bsd.cafe
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

If choosing between bsd.ad or unix.ad - which one would you prefer?

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Peter Gleick @petergleick@fediscience.org
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Shared by Dizzy

Oil going thru the roof.

The higher the price of oil, the higher the cost to the average American. But the higher the price of oil, the more renewable energy looks both attractive and necessary. Too bad Donald Trump is trying to kill the US electric-vehicle and renewable energy markets.

Oil going thru the roof. Graph of crude oil prices dollars per barrel over the last month. Rising from around $65 to over $90 because of the Iran War.
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pki @pki@bsd.cafe
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If choosing between bsd.ad or unix.ad - which one would you prefer?

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian@toot.cafe
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RE: mastodon.social/@mgifford/1161

(I asked Mike on LinkedIn.)

Has anyone tried this, measured outcomes?

Asking because:
arxiv.org/abs/2602.11988

It found AGENTS‌.md “files tend to reduce task success rates compared to providing no repository context, while also increasing inference cost by over 20%.”

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Fedi.Tips @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
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Mastodon includes an optional feature which lets you automatically delete your posts after a certain amount of time. There's a guide to using this feature including lots of questions answered at:

➡️ fedi.tips/deleting-posts-autom

It's off by default, it only deletes stuff if you switch it on. You can also set it to keep certain posts, more info in the guide.

I've tried to answer questions about this feature in the guide, but let me know if I've missed anything.

Illustration of a stylised fox opening a treasure chest. Inside the chest are icons of various Fediverse services including Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube as well as the overall Fediverse logo.

Deleting posts automatically in Mastodon after a certain time period | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

fedi.tips

Link author: Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

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Stefano Marinelli @stefano@bsd.cafe
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I've loved this musical since the first time I watched it.
I almost know it by heart.
Despite the religious background, I simply love it.

Today, after more than 20 years, I was driving while listening to this piece and sang it at the top of my voice, just like I used to do on certain days 20 years ago.

Well… I felt better.

Too bad I missed the performance in Ferrara about ten years ago with Ted Neeley.

song.link/y/ndZ6B1EaJEs

Image for Jesus Christ Superstar | Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say) by Universal Pictures

Jesus Christ Superstar | Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say) by Universal Pictures

Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

song.link · Songlink/Odesli

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jnkrtech @jnkrtech@treehouse.systems
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Did the JS spec seriously special-case variable scoping in `for(;;)` loops, just because of the common loop closure bug? Because its behavior now is way less intuitive, IMO. I had no idea that this:

```
for(let i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
setTimeout(() => console.log(i), 1000)
}
```

Would log out 0 1 2. If you understand the rules around closure scope this seems way more bizarre than the 3 3 3 behavior that `var i` will give you.

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Robin DeRosa @actualham@social.coop
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I am taking a required online training on "internet security" at my new university. In order to get the course to run properly, I was advised to enable all cookies and pop-ups and relax several other security settings in my browser. Good times.

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zunda @zundan@mastodon.zunda.ninja
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じゃがすくりぷとはまず%-デコードするのかしら

$ node
Welcome to Node.js v20.20.1.
> URL.parse("http://%3192.168.0.1/")
URL {
href: 'http://192.168.0.1/',
origin: 'http://192.168.0.1',
protocol: 'http:',
username: '',
password: '',
host: '192.168.0.1',
hostname: '192.168.0.1',
port: '',
pathname: '/',
search: '',
searchParams: URLSearchParams {},
hash: ''
}

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Peter Gleick @petergleick@fediscience.org
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Oil going thru the roof.

The higher the price of oil, the higher the cost to the average American. But the higher the price of oil, the more renewable energy looks both attractive and necessary. Too bad Donald Trump is trying to kill the US electric-vehicle and renewable energy markets.

Oil going thru the roof. Graph of crude oil prices dollars per barrel over the last month. Rising from around $65 to over $90 because of the Iran War.
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Matt Campbell @matt@toot.cafe
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Question for people who choose not to use generative AI for ethical reasons: Do you make that choice despite accepting the growing evidence that it works (at least for some tasks, e.g. coding agents working on some kinds of software)? Or do you reject it because of the ethical problems *and* a belief that it doesn't actually work?

I'm thinking that principled rejection of generative AI might have to be the former kind, *despite* evidence that it works.

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Jon 🇨🇦 @SamuraiSakura@bsd.cafe
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

Using an old Mac is possible if you practice safe internet "hygiene".

# indieweb

basic.bearblog.dev/using-a-mac

Using a Mac from 2011

I have a collection of old Apple Macintosh computers and enjoy using the older versions of MacOS. I don't own any PowerPC models any longer but would love to...

basic.bearblog.dev · Jon’s Blog

Link author: Jon 🇨🇦@SamuraiSakura@bsd.cafe

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Nikolas Kozloff @Nikolas@federated.press
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Shared by Dizzy

Time for epic journey

discoverwildlife.com/animal-fa

"First-of-its-kind event." Whale shark swims "astounding" 1,200km from Madagascar to Seychelles | Discover Wildlife

Gentle giant’s epic journey highlights the need for transboundary conservation strategies, say researchers.

www.discoverwildlife.com · Discover Wildlife

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McNadoMD @mcnado@mstdn.social
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Shared by Dizzy

If BBC’s reporting is correct, what we are seeing in Iran right now is the same playbook Israel used in Gaza. They aren’t sticking to military targets. They are targeting society, and the country’s culture and heritage. To what extent US targeting is following their lead is unclear, but hospitals, schools, historic landmarks, and civil infrastructure are being destroyed with the clear intent of collective punishment. It is abhorrent, heinous, and criminal.

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Anirvan Chatterjee @anirvan@mastodon.social
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Shared by Darius Kazemi

“The sinking of the Dena seems to be part of Hegseth’s new policy of ignoring ‘stupid rules of engagement’ and ‘punching them while they’re down,’ and it raises questions of what the Trump administration would say if a country like Iran attacked an American ship it knew was unarmed.”

newrepublic.com/post/207429/us

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship

The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

newrepublic.com · The New Republic

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