What is Hackers' Pub?

I'm thinking of proposing a #fediverse/social web community track at @COSCUP 2026 (Aug 8–9, Taipei)—think FOSDEM's Social Web devroom, but in East Asia. Before I submit the CFP, I'd love to get a sense of what to call it. What do you think?

(Boosts appreciated!)

#ActivityPub #SocialWeb #fedidev #COSCUP

The argument that capitalists are needed to provide workers with means of production, and profit is their reward for doing so, is nonsense.

All capitalists have are paper or digital claims on the right to allocate means of production or material resources. All of the actual material resources -- means of production and raw materials -- are entirely the product of labor acting on free gifts of nature.

The entire point at issue is the legitimacy of the process by which capitalists happen to be in possession of those paper or digital claims, and how workers come to be dependent on those claims. Why, instead of groups of workers simply acting on the free gifts of nature, advancing streams of material resources to one another, and using a simple unit of account to track the balance of these advances of material resources and who owes what to whom, do they have to go to someone who is in possession of stockpiles of these imaginary paper claims?

Why are capitalists able to interpose themselves between groups of workers, and create the illusion that they are "providing" something when they are in fact simply controlling a toll gate?

The problem is the myth that money is a "thing," some sort of commodity with an independent existence and value of its own, when in fact it is simply a unit of measurement like an inch or a pound. We have a money and credit system based on the myth that a certain class of people must accumulate a pile of paper claims and then "lend" credit "against" them -- a "service" for which they are entitled to payment.

It's as nonsensical as the idea that, in order to cut lumber and build something, a carpenter must first find someone in possession of a pile of inches who can provide them. Imagine all the wasted resources, all the impeded production, if such a bizarre state of affairs actually existed. Imagine how much housing would go unbuilt, how much food would go uneaten, if before the carpenter could saw lumber or the butcher could weigh a cut of meat they had to go to the owner of a supply of inches or pounds and pay tribute for using them. There would be an entire class of people whose incomes came from such tribute for not impeding production. Great amounts of use-value would go unproduced despite the producers having the labor and materials required for production, for want of enough money to pay for the inches and pounds. The owners of inches and pounds would use their revenue to pay for still more inches and pounds, continuing to concentrate the ownership of them, so that they could charge higher and higher prices. There would be great accumulations of inches and pounds, far more than could be used, and equally great amounts of labor and material resources going idle, because producers could not afford the inches and pounds needed to put their labor and materials to use.

This is the world we live in.

FINAL EDIT: We've been making good progress with EVi! We've fully settled on version 9.1.0 with no AI code, we're on IRC @ #evi irc.oftc.net, we've gained a lots of popularity and we've been working on fixing tests and removing platforms that are deemed exotic with other cleanups. Thank you to everyone who has supported us this week!!!

hard-forked vim at release 9.1.0 (Jan 2024)

https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/evi

maybe we can get a group of people behind this??

Fuck AI.

#VIm #FuckAI #Tech #Technology

Some women's day reading for techies:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191130180008/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-computer-programming.html

(archived version of this NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-computer-programming.html)

Anti-Suffragette postcard ca. 1910s Happy International Women's Day, bicycle friends!

I filled out this UK Government consultation on the future of BBC. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/britains-story-the-next-chapter-the-bbc-royal-charter-review-green-paper-and-public-consultation Some of my feedback: do continue the license fee, don't run ads, do be impartial, don't become a booster for (US-tech-giant dominated) AI, do be critical and double down on the (IMO) great work of BBC Verify, don't engage in other "platforms" (which are mostly also run by US tech giants), do run your own Fediverse instance, and do continue to invest in R&D and innovation.

違う、マスカラ！！！！！！！！！​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​も考えるとおもろい

FANBOX、今週のまとめ雑記を書きました。
どうぞお楽しみください～​​​​​​

https://www.fanbox.cc/@ricounco/posts/11531884

마르쉐 씨앗장에 다녀왔어요. 수제맥주와 안주와 씨앗과 모종을 사 왔답니다.

Haha 😆

sleepy dog

That's it, I've practically finished with the first release of Catodon, I want to go through a few details later today, then I'll start setting up a public server so that you can all see what I've been working on non-stop for the past couple of months. I'm extremely happy with the result and I think you'll like it.

I will probably launch the server alongside the first RC for the stable release. This week!

#Catodon

そして時は動きだす

안경감사합니다

ぷっぷ～をめっちゃ運転した

Sometimes I have said I want to run off and live in a cave, this is a little fancier that what I envisaged

From: @bbcnewsfeedBBC News Top Stories
https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/116192438532297061

[覚え書き] 「日本語」は必要とされるか
スペインのサンチェス首相の演説全文。これは読む(聞く)価値がある内容。自分はスペイン語は全然わかりませんが、原文でも聞きたくなります。この演説はスペイン語学習のための、よい学習材になるでしょうし、なんなら、この演説をきっかけにスペイン語に興味を持った人もいるのでは。
ひるがえって、日本の政治家の演説で日本語学習の学習材になるようなものがあるでしょうか。首相の国会答弁などは絶句するほどひどいものばかりです。
自分は日本語教師なので、世界の日本語学習者が増えることを願っています。しかし、そのためには聞く(読む)価値がある内容を日本語で発信する人が必要です(日本人とは限りませんが)。どこかにいませんか▼
https://digital.asahi.com/articles/ASV354QQDV35UHBI030M.html?ptoken=01KK2X1G70JA3MSM9MM7GR3A14

写真展終わって実家への土産買ってホテル帰投した

#ハムスターとして生きる
先週に引き続き食欲に振り回された週　おなかすいてイライラするよりは良いかなって

오늘은 세계 여성의 날입니다. 모든 여성의 삶을 응원합니다! 🌹🌹🌹

川奈のステンドグラス美術館行ってきた〜
パイプオルガンの生演奏とかアンティークオルゴール聞かせてくれて良きでした​​

3周年！

そして時は動きだす

So Israel is being accused of using ambulances to infiltrate a Lebanese village. I ask of all of the “Hamas used ambulances for bad things” crowd now, should Lebanon and anyone else in Israel’s crosshairs now start targeting Israeli ambulances? That’s how that works right?

Stop bombing healthcare, stop using it as cover, stop assassinating people in healthcare settings. Leave us out of your bullshit. We’re here to take care of people. Keep those lines bright.

Une minute de silence pour toutes les victimes de l'extrême droite et des néonazis.

[1보] 오세훈, 국힘 서울시장 후보등록 안해…"당 노선변경 촉구" 송고2026-03-08 18:22 www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2026...

[1보] 오세훈, 국힘 서울시장 후보등록 안해…"당 노...

에어소프트 용품 나눔합니다

제가 일하는 팀에서 채용중입니다. https://careers.linecorp.com/ko/jobs/2964/

회사 이름이 LINE 으로 시작하지만 메신저는 안만듭니다. 국내외 선물 시장에서 거래하는 자동매매 전략과 그 전략을 서빙하는 플랫폼을 만듭니다. Rust, FPGA, AI 같은 키워드를 나열할 수 있긴 한데, 그냥 코딩 잘하시는분이면 좋겠습니다. 시장은 몰라도 됩니다. 근데 혼자 코딩 잘하는거 말고 AI랑 같이도 잘 코딩해야 합니다.

저는 이런 사람입니다 https://github.com/youknowone/

같이 일할 @perlmint 님은 https://github.com/perlmint/

함께 일하고 싶으신 분을 찾습니다.

아까 앉아있는데 내가 지원한 회사에서 내 이력서 열람했다고 알림이 왔다...

보드게임을 사면 주기적으로 자주 같이 할 사람들이 없긴 하지만 머핀타임을 시고싶다 사둘까 흐으으으으음..

Kaya[ L] and Gerda[R] are beautiful black cats 🐈‍⬛ 🖤. Do we all agree ?

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #caturday

엿판 아닌지요

おまけ
八重咲のセツブンソウさんと浅間山直上に軌跡を描く人工衛星たち
#Misskey写真部

Fixed another little OBS Linux bug! Thanks Adi for reporting it ^^
Updates coming to Fedora in the next ~24h.

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/13198

If you stream on Linux, join our Discord at https://lina.yt/discord! I'm working on Lina's Guide to Streaming on Fedora ^^

제가 일하는 팀에서 채용중입니다. https://careers.linecorp.com/ko/jobs/2964/

회사 이름이 LINE 으로 시작하지만 메신저는 안만듭니다. 국내외 선물 시장에서 거래하는 자동매매 전략과 그 전략을 서빙하는 플랫폼을 만듭니다. Rust, FPGA, AI 같은 키워드를 나열할 수 있긴 한데, 그냥 코딩 잘하시는분이면 좋겠습니다. 시장은 몰라도 됩니다. 근데 혼자 코딩 잘하는거 말고 AI랑 같이도 잘 코딩해야 합니다.

저는 이런 사람입니다 https://github.com/youknowone/

같이 일할 @perlmint 님은 https://github.com/perlmint/

함께 일하고 싶으신 분을 찾습니다.

#겹친소 짧게 돌리는 겹친소🌟😇🌟 성인이고 그림 잘 안 그리는 그림러입니다. 잡소리 일상얘기 덕질얘기 이것저것 다 해요. oc, 근육맨, 회색도시, 검은방 주력으로 덕질해요. 요즘 차도 마시고, 잘 안 올리지만 필사도 꾸준히 하고있습니다✍️~~ 흔적 남겨주시면 성향 맞으시는 분들 위주로 찾아갈게요 ᵔ ⩊ ᵔ

사실 초고추장은 뭐든 다 맛있게(똑같은 맛으로) 만들지

Brilliant European women powered progress, but the credit did not always go to them.

Melitta Bentz invented the coffee filter. History called her a ‘housewife’.
Marthe Gautier found Down Syndrome’s extra chromosome. Her boss took the spotlight.
Maria Anna Mozart composed masterpieces. Wolfgang Amadeus’ name survived, hers vanished.
Janet Sobel pioneered drip painting. Jackson Pollock was the genius.

This International Women’s Day, let’s restore their stories and give the credit they deserve!

道の駅 美ヶ原高原展望台で星景撮影。
この時期は冬季閉鎖されていますので、直近の美ヶ原長和町営駐車場に駐車して歩きで向かいました。流石に誰とも会わなかったので今日この時間のこの景色は僕だけのものになったようです。
二枚目が撮れた時ボッチだったのもあって​​​​で「アザーーーーーッッッっっス！！！！！」っつっちゃった☄
#Misskey写真部

Heute ist ✨ Weltfrauentag ✨

Schreibe jetzt, deiner Lieblingsfrau, dass sie ein Girlboss ist! 🫰

That's it, I've practically finished with the first release of Catodon, I want to go through a few details later today, then I'll start setting up a public server so that you can all see what I've been working on non-stop for the past couple of months. I'm extremely happy with the result and I think you'll like it.

I will probably launch the server alongside the first RC for the stable release. This week!

#Catodon

🍝 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님, 절 구하소서.
😋 저의 주님, 어서 오셔서 저를 도우소서.

영광이 미트볼🧆과 소스🥫와 성면(the Holy Noodle)🍝께.
처음과 같이 이제와 항상 영원히. 라-멘 🍜

🍝 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님께서 당신 뜻과 함께 하는 사람들을 언제나 도와주고 계시니, 감사드리는 마음으로 기도합시다.
😋 저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님, 저희에게 은총을 베푸소서.

"19. 저희 가난한 마음에 당신의 풍성한 탄수화물을 채워주시어, 나눔의 기쁨으로 가득 차게 하소서."

저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님,
이 몸을 편히 쉬게 하시고, 우리가 오늘 애써 뿌린 씨가 영원한 열매를 맺게 하소서.
라-멘 🍜

2026-03-08T18:20:07+09:00

#FlyingSpaghettiMonster #FSM #HolyNoodle #TheMeatball #TheSauce #Spaghetti #Ramen #Pastafarian #NoodlyAppendage #FSMism #FSMist #Pirate #DivineOffice #DailyOffice #Breviary
#날아다니는스파게티괴물님 #성면 #면발 #스파게티 #라멘 #파스타파리안 #해적 #성무일도 #성무일과 #매일전례 #시간전례

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