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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I suspect from the eyeroll that she took particular offense to the video's short preamble in which I say that if my efforts lead to this piece being staged again, it will be the most important video I've made. (nearly all of my followers on tiktok are professional opera singers, hence my request being made directly to the viewer)

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Seeing as my personal web server is constantly overloaded by AI crawlers, I'm now spinning up a honeypot based on rnsaffn.com/poison3/ as a supplementary service to the current infinite maze of garbage data. Plan is to pull several gigs of poisoned text from that poisoned well and serve as static files without any bandwidth restrictions. Let them eat cake.

For extra fun, I'm backdating all the files to the pre-LLM era to make them extra attractive.

It'll take several days to fill the honeypot, but that's okay, that's something that can run in the background.

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WebPKI and You

There’s been a push over the last twelve years to move web traffic off unencrypted HTTP to encrypted HTTPS, to protect the general public from dragnet surveillance, gaping assholes on public wifi>airpwn, backhauls over unencrypted satellites, that kinda thing. HTTPS relies on a public key infrastructure to make sure only authorized servers have keys for specific websites. [>oid]: an OID or “Object IDentifier” is intended [brs]: https://cabforum.org/working-groups/server/baseline-requirements/documents/CA-Browser-Forum-TLS-BR-2.1.8.pdf [crtsh]: https://crt.sh/?q=blog.brycekerley.net [lol-diginotar]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar#Issuance_of_fraudulent_certificates [iv-ocsp]: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/03/18/revocation.html [>mac-ocsp]: Jeff Johnson’s [>crlite]: these use cascading bloom filters which [>short-lived]: the CA/BF baseline requirements [trustico-chrome]: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/chromes-plan-to-distrust-symantec.html [trustico-gone]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/trustico-website-goes-dark-after-someone-drops-critical-flaw-on-twitter/ [trustico-compromise]: https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.security.policy/c/wxX4Yv0E3Mk/m/o1cdfx2nAQAJ [>enclaves]: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and [>history]: i mean, i remember from when it happened [>parasite]: You may have realized that I don’t think [van-halen]: https://snackstack.net/2023/07/03/in-search-of-van-halens-brown-mms/ [>osi]: I’m not going to hit you with a [>responsibility]: in every part of your life! [>bloom]: [>later]: At time of publishing, it’s March 8, 2026 [hsts]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Strict-Transport-Security [>hsts]: This is generally a hardcoded value, [>cattle]: “cattle” is when there’s [ari]: https://letsencrypt.org/2025/09/16/ari-rfc [>caddy-ari]: I checked Caddy, the front-end server [>left]: there may be value in trying to renew [audits]: https://cabforum.org/about/information/auditors-and-assessors/audit-criteria/

blog.brycekerley.net · Bryce’s Blog

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Seeing as my personal web server is constantly overloaded by AI crawlers, I'm now spinning up a honeypot based on rnsaffn.com/poison3/ as a supplementary service to the current infinite maze of garbage data. Plan is to pull several gigs of poisoned text from that poisoned well and serve as static files without any bandwidth restrictions. Let them eat cake.

For extra fun, I'm backdating all the files to the pre-LLM era to make them extra attractive.

It'll take several days to fill the honeypot, but that's okay, that's something that can run in the background.

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가정폭력 신고를 받고 출동한 경찰의 현장 조사를 거부한 가해자는 앞으로 형사처벌을 받게 됩니다. 12일 국회 본회의에서 ‘가정폭력방지 및 피해자보호 등에 관한 법률’(가정폭력방지법) 개정안이 통과됐습니다. 개정안에는 가정폭력 사건 현장에서 경찰의 현장조사를 방해하는 행위에 대한 제재 강화 내용이 담겼습니다.

가정폭력가해자, 출동경찰 현장조사 거부하면 징역형

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웹툰 그림작가 교체는 보통 둘 중 하나임 1. 작가가 더는 못 버텼음 - 스튜디오가 요구하는 퀄리티 맞춰가며 주간 연재로 넘기다가 몸과 정신이 박박 갈려서 중지, 창작노동 강도에 비해 급여가 말도 안 되는 수준이라 해당 계약으로 생계 유지가 불가능해짐, 혹은 둘 다임. 아무튼 당장 사람이 죽게 생겨서 리타이어. 2. 스튜디오가 돈 더 안 쓰려함 - 시즌별 작가 교체로는 이 이유도 많음. 작품이 잘 풀려 수입이 잘 나오거나 시즌 단위로 계약 갱신하는데 기존 작가의 작업 단가를 올려주기 싫거나 깎고 싶어서 돈 덜 드는 작가로 교체.

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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.

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IIRC the first samples of a desktop graphics card using Imagination Technologies GPUs was shown late last year by a Chinese vendor. It's remarkable seeing the company come back to the desktop after two decades (if you ignore Apple GPUs of course). It also makes sense given the market leader is distracted and clearly doesn't care anymore about its consumer GPU business.

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