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.

I saw a post recently that was arguing that you should stop using alcohol wipes when giving yourself hrt injections because it's too wasteful, literally saying that the possibility of sepsis is worth not using a square inch of cotton per week.

They weren't arguing for more efficient solutions, ways of recycling the material, or anything like that. It was just "you should facetank risk of infection in order to not create waste"

And goddamn isn't that everything I've been noticing lately about how people talk about technology and progress and waste these days; a kind of reactionary tech-pessimism.

I recently had a student argue that we should never have invested in NASA or the space program because rocketry can also be used for weapons, damn all the other things that came out of it like weather satellites.

Westerners literally make up stories about the Fukushima Daiichi plant, talking about people who are walking-dead cleaning up the site since they'd already had a lethal level of radiation exposure. Sorry, what's that? No one died from radiation exposure when Fukushima Daiichi failed? That doesn't feel right.

The power grid! My god, the power grid. Everyone is so hung up on "what if we ban datacenters" but, guys, the US power grid has been decaying from austerity and intentional conservative sabotage for decades. Remember when rotted infrastructure caused wildfires a few years ago in California? The primer driver of your power bills is that, not facilities still under construction. We have to fight and build solar and improve transmission between states so we can actually send that electricity places!

Like we can't embrace our own "reject modernity". We just can't. The answer can't be "stop using air conditioning", "stop using electricity", "stop using satellites", "stop using alcohol wipes".

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What right will we have to criticize Putin if he kills Ukrainian president Zelenskyy?

From a legal standpoint, the US has illegally killed the leader of Iran in an illegal war which our leaders are not even criticizing. They are just accepting that the US takes out a leader they do not like, thereby destabilizing a nation of 93 million people.

International law does not allow this, but if we do not uphold international law, what boundaries do we have left to limit dictators like Putin?

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새로운 한 발을 내딛습니다. 문화와 산업의 현장에서 활동해 온 사람으로서, 정치에서도 그 질문을 이어가려 합니다. 게임과 문화산업, 청년창업 영역에서 창작자와 노동자, 소비자와 창업가가 겪는 현실을 가까이에서 보아 왔습니다. 그 경험을 바탕으로 경기도가 만들고, 일하고, 즐기는 터전이 될 수 있도록 정책으로 풀어가겠습니다. 문화, 산업, 사람을 이해하는 정치 만들고, 일하고, 즐기는 경기도 현 게임소비자협회 사무국장 전 경기청년유니온 위원장 더불어민주당 경기도당 권리당원 이종찬

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@deadsuperheroSean Tilley

I think the Bluesky founders are good people. (I've met them in person. Talked to them. Etc.)

And, I do want them to succeed. I think they are our friends. I think they have similar goals to us on the Fediverse.

...

But, if this is actually an investor driven "coup" — it makes one of the worries of some of those critical of bsky more likely.

I'm not saying it is a "coup". I don't have the information to know. But I do wonder.

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@deadsuperheroSean Tilley

I think the Bluesky founders are good people. (I've met them in person. Talked to them. Etc.)

And, I do want them to succeed. I think they are our friends. I think they have similar goals to us on the Fediverse.

...

But, if this is actually an investor driven "coup" — it makes one of the worries of some of those critical of bsky more likely.

I'm not saying it is a "coup". I don't have the information to know. But I do wonder.

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https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/11b899e57c524ae8d53f5c6bd057b98e73b8a264 ファシズム云々のくだりは間違いな気がするけど、「内部にいる者の実感としては、政府は“閉館”という選択肢を十分に考えていると思います。別の新聞報道には、財務省幹部が“撤退”や“統合”を考えていると発言しているようです。こんなの事実上の“閉館”と同じですよ」というのはそうなんじゃないかな。財務官僚が報道に「閉館」を示唆するというのは、館に対する脅迫の意図だとしか思えない。

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Emelia Smith( @thisismissem.social@bsky.brid.gyEmelia )にBluesky PBCからグラントが出た。W3CでFedCM(Federated Credential Management API)の標準を策定し、分散型Web全体で使えるようにする作業への資金支援。ATProtoのOAuthが依拠するIETF internet draftの共著者でもある。 atproto.com/blog/working-to-decentralize-fedcm

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FreeBSD系など一部のオープンソースOS、米国の一部の州での利用が禁止に。その理由とは【やじうまWatch】 - INTERNET Watch internet.watch.impress.co.jp/d

> 一部のオープンソースOSで、米国の一部の州での利用を禁止する条項をライセンスに追加する動きが相次いでいる。

> これはカリフォルニア州など米国の一部の州で、ユーザーの年齢確認機能をOSに組み込み、傘下のアプリストアへの通知を義務付ける法案が承認されたことによるもの。これらはMicrosoftやAppleなどの商用OSでは大きな問題はないが、FOSSと呼ばれるフリーのオープンソースOSではコスト的に見合わないばかりか、そもそもアプリストアが存在しないことから遵守するのが困難で、やむなく該当の州における利用を禁止する条項をライセンスに追加して対処に代えている。

ちょっと意味がわからない

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PSA: claude has been used in neovim.

Don't know whether this indicates that "vibe coding" is happening in the project. Hopefully not.

But if it is, then I'll be looking forward to the neovim-before-ai fork.

[post edited from original phrasing to allow for the possibility of non-vibe uses of claude]

a screenshot of the github page for the neovim project, which (for me) contains a warning indicating that the claude "a.i." has "contributed" to neovim.
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평양-베이징 국제열차 12일부터 운행 재개…코로나19 이후 6년만종합)
(베이징·도쿄 경수현 한종구 특파원: 북한 평양과 중국 베이징을 오가는 국제열차 운행이 코로나19 이후 약 6년 만에 재개된다.
yna.co.kr/view/AKR202603101137

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HA使っとると結構いろんなデバイスがBluetoothのadvertiseで情報出してるんだなあと思うのところ, 電動ハブラシもいまの圧力とか, 方向とかの情報を出しているので, 「あっいまあいつ歯磨きしてる!」ということが近くの人はわかる. これを使ってミステリとかできませんか? できませんね, すみません

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特定の文章ないしは説明を否定するものではない前提なんだけど、たとえ話って万能ではないし使う場面に依っては相手に思考する隙を与えなくするツールになるなあって思った

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