What is Hackers' Pub?

Borb, now with color

"As part of our 25th anniversary later this year, [the game preservation team] will release some iconic games from the past that are now going to be able to be played in entirely new ways," says Jason Ronald 👀

this Amazon ops issues thing is craaaaazy

Connect the dots

I used to paint digitally. This one is from 2022. medium: Procreate, Photoshop #Art #DigitalArt #Illustration #Anime #AnimeArt

[$] California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions

A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification requirement on operating-system providers beginning next year. The language of the Digital Age Assurance Act does n [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1062112/ #LWN #Linux #security #Debian

Thinking again about the text adventure game, A Mind Forever Voyaging, which is probably one of the most salient political pieces relevant to our era, despite coming out in the 1980s. But it was actually exactly about what the future may hold, and it seems right.

I recommend reading the manual and playing the game to everyone. And if you have or do, put thoughts here (CW them with "A Mind Forever Voyaging spoilers" if you do)

Last day to grab yourself a copy of our spirit swap TTRPG zine, so if anyone has 560$ lying around to help pay for beautiful layouts, please check out my (and Takuma’s and hopefully Cris’) next baby.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/softnotweak/spirit-swap-a-slice-of-life-ttrpg

カメラちゃんが電池なくなるよ警告をくれたのでM1 MacBook Airちゃんの電源で充電してみるね

"As part of our 25th anniversary later this year, [the game preservation team] will release some iconic games from the past that are now going to be able to be played in entirely new ways," says Jason Ronald 👀

From my best friend to me. I need to share it:

"It's important to view Mental Health the same way we think of getting a cold. If you were running a fever coughing sneezing sniffling slobbering, you wouldn't do anything but lay in bed and heal. Mental health is no different. If you caught a mental bug & it put you down for a couple days, there's no shame in that. As long as you're getting up and approaching your bare minimum survival. And sometimes that's all you're going to have for yourself."

Microsoft's next-gen Xbox Project Helix details: • next-gen version of AMD’s FSR upscaling • custom AMD chip with “an order of magnitude increase in raytracing performance” • alpha versions of Project Helix to devs in 2027 www.theverge.com/games/893119...

Microsoft’s next Xbox, Project...

마리 한 박스 묘닝.

시력, 집중력, 체력이라는 토큰이 삼중으로 과금되는데 이거 맞나요

🇪🇺🎉 HUGE VICTORY! Thanks to your protests, the EU Parliament voted today to END untargeted mass scanning! 💪
But beware: The final decision will now be made in the trilogue with EU governments. The fight continues! ⚔️
All info: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/historic-chat-control-vote-in-the-eu-parliament-meps-vote-to-end-untargeted-mass-scanning-of-private-chats/

RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/116210928508477743

This is a massive and unexpected win. We should celebrate. 🎉

Not the end of the war over mass surveillance in the EU, but a welcome victory in a very important battle.

Thank you to each and every one who called their MEPs and pushed against Chat Control in any way. Thank you! ✊

#ChatControl

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web

Link: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first-class-language-on-the-web/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331811

I've been saying for a while that we need something like FediCon in East Asia. A dedicated conference is still a stretch, but I've been thinking about a smaller step:

@COSCUP 2026 (Taipei, Aug 8–9) is accepting proposals for community tracks. It might be worth trying to open a Social Web track there—something in the spirit of the Social Web devroom at FOSDEM.

Nothing is decided yet, but if you're working on #ActivityPub, the #fediverse, or anything in the social web space and might be interested in speaking (or co-organizing), I'd love to hear from you.

https://floss.social/@COSCUP/116152356550445285

#SocialWeb #COSCUP #fedidev

In response to large AI models’ extractive relationship with web content, new approaches to governing machine access are emerging. But all of these approaches are predicated on being able to distinguish between different forms of machine use.

Our newest issue brief describes why a common vocabulary for machine use is needed but proving difficult to achieve, and where definitions are currently being debated.

https://bit.ly/categorizing-machine-use-issue-brief

I'm writing this in English.

Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said. The responsibility for that mistranslation would fall on me. It always does.

This is the thing Eugen Rochko's post misses, despite its good intentions.

@GargronEugen Rochko argues that LLMs are no substitute for human translators, and that people who think otherwise don't actually rely on translation. He's right about some of this. A machine-translated novel is not the same as one rendered by a skilled human translator. But the argument rests on a premise that only makes sense from a certain position: that translation is primarily about quality, about the aesthetic experience of reading literature in another language.

For many of us, translation is first about access.

The professional translation market doesn't scale to cover everything. It never has. What gets translated—and into which languages—follows the logic of cultural hegemony. Works from dominant Western languages flow outward, translated into everything. Works from East Asian languages trickle in, selectively, slowly, on someone else's schedule. The asymmetry isn't incidental; it's structural.

@GargronEugen Rochko notes, fairly, that machine translation existed decades before LLMs. But this is only half the story, and which half matters depends entirely on which languages you're talking about. European language pairs were reasonably serviceable with older tools. Korean–English, Japanese–English, Chinese–English? Genuinely usable translation for these pairs arrived with the LLM era. Treating “machine translation” as a monolithic technology with a uniform history erases the experience of everyone whose language sits far from the Indo-European center.

There's also something uncomfortable in the framing of the button-press thought experiment: “I would erase LLMs even if it took machine translation with it.” For someone whose language has always been peripheral, that button looks very different. It's not an abstract philosophical position; it's a statement about whose access to information is expendable.

I want to be clear: none of this is an argument that LLMs are good, or that the harms @GargronEugen Rochko describes aren't real. They are. But a critique of AI doesn't become more universal by ignoring whose languages have always been on the margins. If anything, a serious critique of AI's political economy should be more attentive to those asymmetries, not less.

The fact that I'm writing this in English, carefully, so it won't be misread—that's not incidental to my argument. That is my argument.

🎉 Happpy VeldaTV day to those who celebrate it.

https://djangotv.com/videos/djangochat/2026/from-kenya-to-london-velda-kiara/

🎉@veldakiara

#Django #DjangoChat #DjangoTV #Python

[$] California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions

A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification requirement on operating-system providers beginning next year. The language of the Digital Age Assurance Act does n [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1062112/ #LWN #Linux #security #Debian

pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL? via @fanfTony Finch https://lobste.rs/s/mj2hlf #databases
http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/03/pgplanadvice-plan-stability-and-user.html

Using Unicode Half-Stars Symbols in Ratings https://lobste.rs/s/ndtuji #browsers
https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/half-stars/

리눅스 트랙패드 인식 못하는거 윈도우랑 간섭 생겨서 그런건 줄 알았는데 지금 보니까 걍 랜덤인 것 같음

The pipeline for @civicband is 100% running into this issue @hynekHynek Schlawack documented three years ago: https://hynek.me/til/rq-macos/

Are there more modern python queues that have don't have this issue? Maybe it's too inherent to #python on #macOS

I'm joining OpenAI at the end of the month, and I can't wait to get started!

After 10 years with the amazing Glose team and 5 years at Medium, it was time for me to embark on new adventures!

I'll be working on everything related to Codex, bringing what I learned building Codex Monitor and my 20 years of experience with iOS and macOS.

I'll be joining the developer experience team!

I have so many ideas, and I'm very excited to bring them to life as soon as I start!

Yesterday, I boosted something that maybe I shouldn't have, which made at least one OSS maintainer feel personally attacked. I want to make it clear in case anyone else felt the same:

I think that LLM policies should be short & clear: "Do not use LLMs when working on this project. Don't submit code or comments using them."

I am not angry with people struggling to navigate this topic differently than I am.

“Kunal Shah, the co-chief executive of Goldman Sachs International, said in a call today that the bank’s clients in the private capital industry are ‘glad’ that the Iran war is providing a ‘distraction’ from questions over the sector's exposure to software.”

System Town set #6535: Dumper (1995), page 2

RE: https://mastodon.social/@webology/116210501852395625

I celebrate 😂 😂

It was so fun to do this with @wsvincentWill Vincent and @carltonCarlton Gibson

Give it a watch and enjoy!

I'm this btw

ドーナツの穴みたいなもんかな #とは

System Town set #6535: Dumper (1995), page 2

DjangoCon US Extra-Early Bird Ticket Pricing ends March 16!! Join us in Chicago https://ti.to/defna/djangocon-us-2026

Disable `use_multi_json` for json validator / match_json_schema (#38151) by mjankowski has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/0a216003ffb67b4199747fd2eed2618adb21dfa4

Use bundler version 4.0.8 (#38150) by mjankowski has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/811575a10903cada549580979cc809ca98ad570c

(there are very few custom typemaps and they are anything but "extensive")

300KB/s는 ㅅㅂ

다히예 여행금지에서 베이루트공항이랑 M51도로 제외는 또 뭐냐

I realize that no sane person would visit LinkedIn without a reason, but I have many reasons at the moment.

Anyway, jumping back and forth between Mastodon and LinkedIn is like alternate realities on the impact of AI.

It almost has a cult like feel within LinkedIn. On Mastodon, at least there is some tension and valid conversations going on.

It turns out job-hunting and/or figuring out what's next in terms of an income...well it's more work than my previous day job! The bad news if you sometimes click on my links: Cybercultural isn't being updated as regularly now :( Sorry about that... The good news (depends on your interests tho) is that my personal website is rocking with new posts, new design, and more. If you're interested in the intersection of open web and AI, you might like to read my latest: https://ricmac.org/2026/03/11/webmcp-ai-agents-interact-website/

Hey, Fediverse … Fedi advice needed.

I’m looking for an instance to host an account for my book. I really like .art, but it has defederated a lot of instances so I’m concerned about reach.
I considered bookstodon, but don’t want to CW violence (my book is gothic horror). People like beige, but it feels off brand (see: gothic horror).

So, suggestions?

#AskFedi

Man I love Sony Thăng’s posts so much:

https://xcancel.com/nxt888/status/2031609644112818583#m

아니 apt 업그레이드 속도 개느려

It turns out job-hunting and/or figuring out what's next in terms of an income...well it's more work than my previous day job! The bad news if you sometimes click on my links: Cybercultural isn't being updated as regularly now :( Sorry about that... The good news (depends on your interests tho) is that my personal website is rocking with new posts, new design, and more. If you're interested in the intersection of open web and AI, you might like to read my latest: https://ricmac.org/2026/03/11/webmcp-ai-agents-interact-website/