What is Hackers' Pub?

thanks to AI demand, Lattice cannot make enough FPGAs to fulfill orders on iCE40's (and probably ECP5's) with less than a year of lead time. this is likely to cause supply chain issues for Glasgow revD

• https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ai-chip-boom-sparks-bt-substrate-materials-shortage-tsmcs-huge-demand-causes-supply-disruptions-for-nand-flash-controllers-ssds
• https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20250527PD236.html

words cannot describe my contempt for this shit, and my disdain for anyone still pushing it

(there is no shortage or supply chain issues with the silicon itself. rather, the problem here is the resin used to make a part of the packaging. in theory it would be possible to just glue a die to the PCB and bond it out during assembly, in practice this would be prohibitively expensive as far as I know)

Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin was the first person to go to space. What this article presupposes is…maybe he wasn’t? It all boils down to what your definition of space is. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2517964-why-yuri-gagarin-wasnt-the-first-in-space-and-who-beat-him-to-it/

Over at @fedihost we get asked about character limits enough times for me to write this up in the hopes of heading off some support tickets.
https://fedihost.co/blog/slug/custom-mastodon-character-limits

Basically, the character limit is hard-coded so you have to run a branch to change the limit to over 500.
Do you guys think that #Mastodon should make the character limit easier to change?

Most economists agree that by the time you're 50, you should be living in a book-filled cottage at the edge of the forest and solving minor mysteries in your village with the aid of a curious ghost cat.

>looking for a politics opinion >ask the account if their politics opinion is self-defeating or anprim >she doesnt understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is self-defeating and what is anprim >she laughs and says "it's a good politics opinion sir" >read the post >it's anprim

Penpot have announced their ambassador program and I’m excited and honoured to be part of the first cohort of ambassadors alongside some fantastic and inspiring folks. https://penpot.app/ambassador-program

Check out the announcement: https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-ambassador-program-is-live/10405

I’ll be building community where I'm based here in the UK but also wherever my connections to open source software and design take me and my work.

I’ve long been a supporter of Penpot and design needs reliable and dedicated tools and teams that support the growing need for design in open source software and transparent and open source design as a practice.

I can’t wait to get working on our collaborative library and share the liberating and collaborative nature of open source design facilitated via Penpot! 💖✏️

Come and join all the ambassadors Penpot Community Hours, 20th March at 3PM UTC.
Sign up here: https://app.formbricks.com/s/ko5b815vsd5d5sz2gq8tiu8i

And of course, check out penpot here https://penpot.app/

#opensource #penpot #design #opensourcedesign #penpotambassador #foss #oss #collaboration

As some people on Fedi are making it seem it is ;)

logged into reddit for the first time in ages again and was presented with this gem:

#coding #programming

this brought to you by the comment "yeah mozilla fucked me up too but just in a different way than it fucked you up"

🚨🚨 URGENT: Multiple political groups are meeting NOW to discuss their voting on the Chat Control amendments TOMORROW. They are being lobbied massively by industry and NGOs. Chat Control hurts everyone. The template has been updated, take contact now: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ !

PSA: You CAN'T use bunny.net as DDoS protection for Mastodon/Fediverse servers.

Their reverse proxy implementation quietly breaks Mastodon request signing, and support just got back to me and said it's intentional and they won't fix it.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/38119

I'm disappointed.

Die 20-Uhr-Ausgabe der #Tagesschau verzichtet bei ihrer Berichterstattung zur #Weimer-Affäre darauf zu erwähnen, dass die 115 Buchhandlungen, die mit dem Deutschen #Buchhandlungspreis nominiert sind, sich geschlossen hinter die drei ausgeschlossenen linken Buchläden stellen.

Building a Package Manager on Top of Meson's Wrap System via @aksAkseli ​ https://lobste.rs/s/ut7ph5 #programming
https://collider.ee/blog/2026-03-09-2328_building_a_package_manager/

Commentators like to compare the US and China’s AI development, but the truth is the two countries hold very different AI goals, so a direct comparison misses important details. https://spectrum.ieee.org/us-china-ai?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline

@lcamtuflcamtuf Fuck . We're doomed.

Habe eine iranische Kollegin. Deren ehemalige Grundschule wurde getroffen, ihr Eltern wohnen am anderen Ende der Straße. Sie haben panisch ihr Haus verlassen, mussten aber zurück, um ihre Medikamente zu holen. Es fühlt sich so absurd an, dass das wirklich passiert.

https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116203951946551089

@lcamtuflcamtuf @hakonaSpeed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦
I hope to god that it has 1M subscribers rather than 1K because most of them have a surreal sense of humor.

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Southern Ontario (or even Canadian) friends... my CAA membership expires in 4 days. Should I re-up so I can get help if I need it (battery assist/towing), or just put a reputable towing company in my address book? ($136/yr vs one-time towing cost of $250)

Didn't need CAA this year, but who knows. Car's 10 years old now, running fine for now.

@lcamtuflcamtuf
Okaaay...the overall subject requires Special Relativity, but I'm sure they'll include that.

"ex-Mozillains are all alike; every ex-Mozillain is unhappy in their own way"

"ex-Mozillains are all alike; every ex-Mozillains is unhappy in their own way"

Finally learned a #figureskating skill that I’ve been trying to master for 15 years!! Power pulls require a huge amount of muscle control and puts a ton of force on your feet and ankles, so when I first tried to learn them, my coach said it was going to take a lot of muscle development to get there. And I finally got them!!

Noch ein Bildchen zum Schluss, was doch ziemlich nahe an der Realität ist 😉

Schönen Abend!

(Disclosure: Using the name and logo of Encyclia – symbolically, since Encyclia is not a legal entity – I have an active monthly donation to @fedifyFedify: ActivityPub server framework on OpenCollective. However, I do not believe that this is getting me any preferential treatment, and in my observation the Fedify project treats all contributors and downstream implementers with equal respect.)

Seems as good a day as any to thank @hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) and team for the exemplary work on @fedifyFedify: ActivityPub server framework. Following Fedify's big 2.0 release, my two largest interoperability pain points in @encyclia can be fixed. 🙂

https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/473 means that people using @gotosocial will finally be able to follow @encyclia accounts soon (whenever I finish the upgrade).

https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/472 will let me (and others) handle more account resolution edge cases and reduce failure mode traffic after Fedify 2.1 is out.

LLMs are bad at vibing specifications https://lobste.rs/s/8goxn3 #formalmethods #vibecoding
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/llms-are-bad-at-vibing-specifications/

Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world

Link: https://www.wired.com/story/yann-lecun-raises-dollar1-billion-to-build-ai-that-understands-the-physical-world/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320600

Happy Marten Day!

(Disclosure: Using the name and logo of Encyclia – symbolically, since Encyclia is not a legal entity – I have an active monthly donation to @fedifyFedify: ActivityPub server framework on OpenCollective. However, I do not believe that this is getting me any preferential treatment, and in my observation the Fedify project treats all contributors and downstream implementers with equal respect.)

Seems as good a day as any to thank @hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) and team for the exemplary work on @fedifyFedify: ActivityPub server framework. Following Fedify's big 2.0 release, my two largest interoperability pain points in @encyclia can be fixed. 🙂

https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/473 means that people using @gotosocial will finally be able to follow @encyclia accounts soon (whenever I finish the upgrade).

https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/472 will let me (and others) handle more account resolution edge cases and reduce failure mode traffic after Fedify 2.1 is out.

how it started / how it’s going

March 6th 2024 / March 10th 2026

#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

this piece by @hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) is excellent. #copyleft

https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/

袁松彪為香港退休警司、案發時為香港特區政府駐倫敦經貿辦行政經理，而衞志樑曾任希斯羅機場的邊防人員、倫敦市的志願警察…案件原涉及第三名被告、曾是英國內政部移民官的馬修·特里克特（Matthew Trickett），但在其被捕後被發現倒斃在住所附近的公園，法庭因而終止對他的起訴。

倫敦經貿辦案：英國港人社群受監視，控方形容涉從事「影子警察」行動 https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/ckg140ewq7jo/trad?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

@lcamtuflcamtuf Somebody posted this for real?

@lcamtuflcamtuf Good to know that it's just a series of swirls.

RE: https://example.viii.fi/posts/69b029a4-2ee5-0f49-b23b-333d1e8ee38b.json

OK! Editing posts now works.

A fully complete #ActivityPub server in under 80KB of code.

https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/

I think supporting polls will be too hard, so I'm declaring this feature complete (although not bug free) for now.

If you have any suggestions for how to improve it - let me know 🙂
#ActivityBot

Tony Hoare :( He’ll be quicksorting in heaven now.

I really identify with this commercial. Including the Barista's height 😆

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5DVWhoz1pM

#Coffee #Cafe #Caffe #Barista

PSA: If you have a very wide monitor [landscape], you also (potentially!) have a very tall monitor [portrait]

*Somehow I had managed to forget this, in spite of using a vertical monitor for many years in the Before Times

EDIT: Swapped the words portrait and landscape, since I had put them the wrong way around!

It's come to this: The Ig Nobel Awards, presented at Harvard or MIT since the 1990s, is moving to Zurich because the US is not safe for foreign visitors
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/research-frontiers/ig-nobels-to-move-awards-to-switzerland-due-to-concern-over-us-travel-visas/91073250

this is just ‘Sent from my iPhone’ for gen zalpha

Well, I guess it's time to start making new friends. 🙃 (And I have no idea how to do that after thirty!)

So, is anyone here from #Sweden, ideally from the #Ramsele area? I'll probably be moving there in May, and it would be nice to get to know someone!

If you live nearby, don't hesitate to get in touch. And if not, at least repost this so I can find someone.

Thanks a lot!

Before No Kings Day on March 28, we highly recommend joining the ACLU’s know your rights training. You will learn about your constitutional right to peacefully protest and best practices for reducing risks while taking to the streets: https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/911730/?utm_source=indivisible

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