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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RE: nileane.fr/@nileane/1162069369

I’m reminded of this post about how Reddit is always super knowledgeable about areas that I’m not an expert in. LLMs always seem to have exciting applications in *some other* field until we hear from the experts. And it’s funny how it’s usually areas like accessibility and localization

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There’s a meme going around that an Open Source project “can’t” prevent LLM use by contributors because there’s no technical means to enforce this. This is idiotic and shows just how disingenuous slopmongers will be when told they can’t just submit slop.

Did you know there’s also no technical means to enforce that you didn’t copy some code you’re contributing from a proprietary codebase and say it’s original work? Somehow we haven’t given up on that!

The enforcement mechanism is exactly the same: There’s no *technical means* to prevent someone from being a filthy fucking liar. But there are *social means* to prevent them from contributing: You make sure that if they’re caught, they’re held publicly accountable for all of the rework and mess that resulted from their lies.

This has worked pretty well for decades in Open Source, and won’t stop working just because slopmongers wish really hard. Fucking scrubs.

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"桜の季節の土曜日ということで、オープン初日は大混雑になると思います。"

まぁでもせっかくだし、初日に覗きに行こうかな

3月28日(土)、いよいよ荒川区内3店舗目となるスタバが日暮里にオープン! | 荒川区のはなし arakawa-story.com/?p=18946

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AI Bullshit, mild Mastodon critique

RE: mastodon.social/@Gargron/11620

I always bring up auto-captioning as a (non-LLM) technology that is probably a net-win for accessibility, but that still led to Youtube ending up with *WORSE* closed captioning, because as soon as they got machine transcription, they dropped community transcription options.

Adding machine transcription to Youtube led to a local maximum where community options that often resulted in better transcriptions are now unavailable and everything is kind of meh.

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I know about issue trackers that store issues inside a git repo and are thus clonable. Is there a variant of that that can “pull” issues and PRs from GitHub and other forges into the repo-issue format?

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RE: post.lurk.org/@rra/11620663117

I really wonder what kind of implications this will have for the collective safety model in this space. Things like DMs, follower-only, blocks, federated deletes etc are dependent on correct implementation of those things.

These are things that depend not only on the local software working well, but also the remote one.

Seems like fully vibecoded instance software could lead to a massive federated whoopsie.

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