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.
So - an edtech surveillance vendor is doing something that looks a lot like human subject research on kids.
If you are a parent in a district that uses Securly, ask to see those data sharing agreements.
We are building data breach machines and nobody cares
Link: https://idealloc.me/posts/we-are-building-data-breach-machines-and-nobody-cares/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324058
A very incomplete list of things an ordinary #human can do for or with you that an #AI bot can't:
- Give you a hug
- Give you a kiss
- Snuggle with you
- Hold your hand
- Give you a literal shoulder to cry on
- Do your hair
- Do your housework
- Cook you a meal
- Walk your dog
- Play a physical sport or game with you
Feel free to add to this list
Are the A-series chips in Apple monitors for eventual external Face ID support? Does that allow for the proper level of security then? #Apple
Österreich/Vorarlberg 2026: Infrastruktur ist "Straßen- und Bahnprojekte"
1,1 Milliarden Euro für Vorarlbergs Infrastruktur
https://vorarlberg.orf.at/stories/3345231/
#pol #polAT
Machine translations are often brought up as a gotcha whenever I criticize LLMs. It's worth pointing out two things: Machine translations existed decades before LLMs, and yes, machine translations are useful. However: I would never in my life read a machine translated book. Understanding what a social media post is talking about in rough terms? Sure. Literature? Absolutely not. Hell, have you ever seen machine translated subtitles? It's absolute garbage.
Quick! I need a game design idea for a 3D game that only uses a cube. Cube can be different colors. I need something to match Blender skillz.
It’s incredibly ironic that since AI is trained on buggy code it’s very good at writing buggy code.
Truly a monkey’s paw situation for AI productivity gains as you are now producing bugs at a faster rate.
Machine translations are often brought up as a gotcha whenever I criticize LLMs. It's worth pointing out two things: Machine translations existed decades before LLMs, and yes, machine translations are useful. However: I would never in my life read a machine translated book. Understanding what a social media post is talking about in rough terms? Sure. Literature? Absolutely not. Hell, have you ever seen machine translated subtitles? It's absolute garbage.
@mcc the comparison of building AI to building golden idols is wow a comparison that i had not considered until i read it but now feels so natural im surprised i never did
@emaytchmargot great monuments in space. it is no longer so expensive to build a great stone edifice, we have concrete. so to prove you are so exorbitantly wealthy you can expend it on a proof of your own wastefulness, you put your monuments in space. that is what the "data centers" are
What is the GDPR saying to that ...?
Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt out
https://www.theverge.com/tech/891822/grammarly-superhuman-expert-review-names-without-permission-opt-out-email
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.
근데 왜 새벽 5시에 리셋이지 내가 쓰는 많은 서비스와 게임이
Meh.
Einigung auf neuen IT-KV erzielt
Demnach steigen die Mindestgehälter sozial gestaffelt zwischen 3,1 und 2,7 Prozent
https://orf.at/stories/3423437/
#pol #polAT
The #Forgejo monthly report was published ✨
Forgejo was present at FOSDEM. The Forgejo runner received multiple bug fixes and new features. The helm chart received two minor changes. Improvements were made to the infrastructure.
CSS transition? Good for her.
@mcc never attribute to malice what rampant greed readily explains. They’re all chasing the pipe dream of epic world change returns. From what I’m seeing ‘Capital’ is finally starting to refuse feeding that fire.
@BabblingGeekQue Should we treat "malice" and "rampant greed" as two different things? If so, why?
it's called "blue sky" because it's the part of the cloud reserved for elected democrats
The Book of PF, 4th Edition: It's Here, It's Real https://nxdomain.no/~peter/its_real_its_here.html - now that I have physical copies, I'll bring some to the upcoming conferences such as #asiabsdcon #bsdcan #eurobsdcon #freebsd #openbsd #pf #packetfilter #networking #networktrickery #freesoftware #libresoftware #bookofpf 
@EuroBSDCon 
@nostarchNo Starch Press
➡ AI関連 雑談・ノウハウ・リテラシー 総合
オープンで話し辛いAI活用の話題をひっそり情報共有するチャンネルです。
【原則】
1⃣雑談ベースでゆるく情報共有できればと思います（探求）
2⃣チャンネル内検索機能がナレッジベースになればと思います（蓄積）
3⃣わからない事、新しい技術を解決する場であれと思います（共有）
4⃣進捗・できたもの・やってみたことを共有してお互いの刺激になればと思います（展開）
very cool. this is why i hate the modern web.
After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
Link: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323017
At work the development team keeps getting more and more into "agents" and I am increasingly dreading those meetings because I feel it affecting my relationship to people.
@MigueldeicazaMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
Checking out SwiftGodot here! It’s cool! The tutorial has us copying the dylib manually from SwiftPM’s .build folder into the Godot project. Does this mean that we’d need to copy it every time we update the Swift code? Is there some build config step I’m missing?
Mass surveillance and censorship are escalating in many countries right now. There is a global attack on secure encrypted communication. Often, authorities, politicians, and tech companies work together to push for new laws. One example: when Ashton Kutcher (yes, the actor), through his tech company Thorn, tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens through undemocratic and corrupt methods.
How unprofessional would it be to have stickers on my laptop that say:
- The horrors persist but so do I
- Born to ride dragons, forced to answer emails
- Fueled by coffee, music & books
- No, just, nope
- Didn't Stab Anyone Today. Yet.
Asking for a friend 😅
CCC content:
Heritage railway's new fox mascot was drawn by a furry artist and it works out great
https://boingboing.net/2026/03/10/historic-english-railway-hires-a-furry-artist-for-its-new-mascot-and-it-works-out-great.html
なんか母がガソスタでガソリンが毎日5円ずつ値上がりするってスタッフから聞いたって言ってたのでガソリン入れに行く必要があるけど寝てないのでまずい
寝てないのまずい
I used pulsar detection techniques to turn a phone into a watch timegrapher
Link: https://www.chronolog.watch/timegrapher
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290918
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.
So as Google is forcing me as an individual user to be on a business plan, I'm interested in talking with a lawyer who can force this matter (and claim damages for incorrect billing for the past 4+ years) Hit me up if there's a lawyer I should speak with.
I created a Google account with G Suite in like 2010, on Mar 12, 2013, my account was transitions to G Suite Free Plan. When G Suite became Google Workspace, Google forced me on to Google Workspace Business Starter on Apr 13, 2022. Anyone know a lawyer who can help?
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116127090589590254
I've been thinking about this thread (link goes to final post) and its idea of a "Capital Strike" a lot for the last couple weeks. I'm still not sure if it works in the details (things I struggle with: is any of this intentional? is Jennifer attempting to suggest it is intentional? is "intentionality" a concept which can be ascribed to billionaires?) but in general strokes I think it's touched on something important
wakest ⁂ shared the below article:
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Once again, the Internet is under attack, but this time its enemies are back with a vengeance and with more fury than the corporate and government threats of the 90s and early 2000s. The elitist, billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter, the rogue states of US and Isr*l bought TikTok, and now the drug addicts Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and Larry Ellison are buying up internet security real estate to convert it into a global surveillance network running on AI technology using Palantir and Oracle […]
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Optimum prerequisites: "TerraPower has little experience in operating commercial nuclear power facilities."
Nuclear startup TerraPower wins US approval to build commercial SMR plant
https://www.kedglobal.com/energy/newsView/ked202603050005
Big news for Mastodon GmbH. They have formally joined forces with 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.
https://github.com/w3c/socialwg/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-03-06-WG-kickoff.md
#Mastodon #News #Technology #Fediverse #W3C #SmallTech #FOSS
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Me: are you sure
New on the Blog: Eleventy is now Build Awesome https://www.11ty.dev/blog/build-awesome/
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