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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Big news for Mastodon GmbH. They have formally joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

If you’re not in the design/tech world, trust me when I say this is a big step for the fediverse. The W3C establishes the standards used for the internet.

This is a solid path forward for small tech.

github.com/w3c/socialwg/blob/m

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As a software engineer and engineering manager, I am mildly concerned for my employability in the future. However, I've had a good career, with much more luck than I deserve. People in my profession have been notably pampered and paid extremely well. As automation turns its Sauron-like eye to my own industry, it's hard to say with a straight face that we have been unfairly treated. I also think that there are, and will be for the foreseeable future, a lot of options for people who like to code.

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Is there an account you follow that boosts other people too much? Do you like reading their own posts, but you don't want to see their boosts?

In Mastodon you can hide an account's boosts by doing the following:

1. Go to their profile page
2. Click the ⋯ button on their profile
3. Select "Hide boosts"

You will still see their posts, it will only hide boosts. If you change your mind, go to ⋯ and select "Show boosts".

They will never know you have hidden their boosts 🙂

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Question about Excession by Iain M. Banks

spoilers

I've always been a bit confused by the infinite pregnancy relationship plot in this book.

In retrospect it seems like a terrible idea to send Byr Genar-Hofoen, and Dajeil Gelian off to a remote research outpost together. The Sleeper admits to Byr this was their call. And it says "it was a mistake"

Did the ship know that when it made the choice? Is it "eccentric" after all or just pretending?

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Oh, nothing, just individually locating and downloading 9.5gb worth of (200+) high-rez (3600px wide) scans out of a 16th C book of extremely satisfying machines from the Library of Congress, one at a time, labeling them, and putting them in a folder for future collage work.

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since unixy OSes have recently adopted TOCTOU-resistant path operations like `openat` and friends, has there been any consideration of doing something similar for the current executable? seems like it would be useful for a process to be started with the fd the image was mapped out of available to it, with `execat`/`posix_spawnat` syscalls to open an executable by fd rather than by path, so that you don't have to reconstruct the current executable path and hope it didn't change under you

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I'd like to setup my own openwebui and ollama server at home sometime, but I haven't gotten around to it. I think it'd be nice to use open weight models instead of cloud services. But I'm doing ok otherwise.

I don't agree with many of the arguments against LLMs I see on the Fediverse.

LLM usage is not a GHG-intensive activity, especially compared to other everyday activities.

It disturbs me when people imply that LLMs are primarily responsible for climate change. This is not remotely true, and it ignores our real responsibility for working on the climate emergency.

cosocial.ca/@evan/115580076628

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It's kind of nuts how polarized people are on this. I've been following this technology since 2015 (I, as an artist, taught myself Linux so I could run my own style transfer neural networks locally) and it feels a little disorienting the kerfuffle that stirs.

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如果甜甜圈的構成是圓形的麵包跟中間的空洞,那在你在一口咬下甜甜圈時,破壞了麵包本體,中間的空洞不再是完整的圓的時候,這個甜甜圈是不是已經消失了?

下次你想吃甜甜圈的時候,要記得甜甜圈只有一口的份量,剩下的都是麵包,想減重的可以丟給別人吃(欸

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Mastodon has a new human-over-AI contribution policy.

tl;dr:

- The human contributor is the sole party responsible for the contribution.

- If AI was used to generate a significant portion of your contribution (i.e. beyond simple autocomplete), we require you to disclose it in the Pull Request description.

- If you cannot guarantee the provenance and legal safety of the AI-generated code, do not submit it.

- Cases of repeated violations of these ... guidelines could result in a ban from our repositories.

github.com/mastodon/.github/bl

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I use Claude and Thaura for search in my daily life.

I use Claude as a rubber duck for coding. On occasion, I'll let CoPilot or Claude add a few lines of code directly. I don't "vibe code".

I enjoy both uses. I don't feel guilty about either.

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