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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@lcamtuf @shapr@recurse.social ... also, radium, francium, actinium and promethium are inexplicably edible. It seems to have gotten the message that two of the actinides aren't that bad, but it did the wrong ones. It's thorium and uranium that should be green. (and thorium is the healthier one)
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Long thread/22

But the downside is that Facebook has its own ideas about whether Google is going to absorb its market, and they are prone to forcefully make the case that this won't happen.

After a few tumultuous years, tech giants switched to promoting growth via speculative new markets - metaverse, web3, crypto, blockchain, etc. Speculative new markets are *speculative*, and the weakness of that is that no one can say how big those markets might be.

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Long thread/23

But that's also the *strength* of those markets, because if no one can say how big those markets might be, then who's to say that they won't be *very* big indeed?

There's a different advantage to confining your concerns to imaginary things: imaginary things don't exist, so they don't contest your public statements about them, nor do they make demands on you.

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Long thread/21

At first, these companies claimed that they were on the verge of eating one another's lunches (Google would destroy Facebook with G+; Facebook would do the same to Youtube with the "pivot to video").

This has a real advantage in that one need not speculate about the potential value of Facebook's market - you only have to look at Facebook's quarterly reports.

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Long thread/22

But the downside is that Facebook has its own ideas about whether Google is going to absorb its market, and they are prone to forcefully make the case that this won't happen.

After a few tumultuous years, tech giants switched to promoting growth via speculative new markets - metaverse, web3, crypto, blockchain, etc. Speculative new markets are *speculative*, and the weakness of that is that no one can say how big those markets might be.

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지선 관련 내란당 꼬라지를 보면 제법 가관인데, 그렇게까지 마냥 강건너 불처럼 보이지도 않는 것이, [지고 있는 당이 지는 원인은 졌기 때문]이라는 어떤 빠져나오기 힘든 굴레가 비쳐보여서다. 정확히 같은 이유로 이쪽이 힘들었다. 조질 구도의 선거에 고개 디밀고 싶지 않은 후보에 후보도 없이 조질 수는 없는 당이 엇나가고 개판 나는게 저쪽만의 일은 아니었으니까. 그 힘든 걸 이겨낸 것이 계엄령 선포 내란이었다는 걸 생각하면 희구한 꼴을 봤다는 생각이 새삼 들지 않을 수가 없다.

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이란 폭격에 골프게임 합성해 “홀인원!”…美백악관 공식영상 논란 n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl... 닌텐도 Wii스포츠에 폭격 합성해 참전용사 출신 상원의원 더크워스 “전쟁은 빌어먹을 게임아냐” 비판 작가 존 윌트샤이어도 “이 영상 자체가 전쟁 범죄”라며 “트럼프 행정부는 모두 죽음을 농담거리로 삼는 사이코패스들”이라고 강도 높게 비난했다.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a6qvfkbrohedqy3dt6k5mdv6/post/3mgvpoxpvqs2b


이란 폭격에 골프게임 합성해 “홀인원!”…美백악관 공식...

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RE: flipboard.com/@cbcnews/ottawa-

Mandatory tracking being proposed. Even with guard rails, I'd rather not have that data be collected.

Also, can't they determine our locations already based on which cell towers you're connected to? Why is this needed?

cbc.ca/news/politics/lawfull-a

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RE: flipboard.com/@cbcnews/ottawa-

Mandatory tracking being proposed. Even with guard rails, I'd rather not have that data be collected.

Also, can't they determine our locations already based on which cell towers you're connected to? Why is this needed?

cbc.ca/news/politics/lawfull-a

"Officials said that if CSIS wanted to track a terror suspect, for example, its agents are often forced to physically track them in person at great expense to the federal government, limiting how many operations they can undertake. "

GOOD. I'm all for doing my part and making sure Canadians are safe, but getting hard evidence SHOULD be hard and in real life. We can fake so much online now. Let's not make it easier to arrest people wrongly.

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Long thread/19

But once those companies' growth slows down, investors revalue those shares at a much lower PE multiplier, which makes individual executives at the company (who are primarily paid in stock) *personally* much poorer, prompting their departure, while simultaneously kneecapping the company's ability to grow through acquisition and hiring, because a company with a falling share price has to buy things with cash, not stock.

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