What is Hackers' Pub?

I read an interesting anecdote: Gershwin asked Ravel to mentor him. Ravel considered it carefully then declined, not because he felt Gershwin wasn't worthy of him or that he had nothing to teach Gershwin, but because he liked Gershwin's style and he was worried that if he mentored Gershwin he'd infect it with his Ravelisms

Word on the street is:
No human is illegal.

#photography

I heard a neat bit of trivia not too long ago. Can't remember what it was, but wanted to let you know!

(You're welcome) :3

Hello 🌘
How are you today?

There has been a very impressive sandstorm in Khan Yunis #Gaza #Palestine today. The photos are beautiful, but everyone is scared to go out, or to breathe unhealthy air. This is very rare, it only happens once every few years. I hope it doesn’t last for long.

With the war in Iran, Israel closed the Rafah crossing again, which caused panic buying in Gaza. Now markets have empty stalls.

Please help us 🫂💔🌙⭐️
👉 https://gofund.me/e4c7d56a4

With all my love for you.

This is what we mean when we tell you that every vote counts.

Because EVERY SINGLE FUCKING VOTE FUCKING COUNTS.

New from 404 Media: here is the memo approving ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot in the Senate. Raises questions about how sensitive data will be handled; memo says staff can use AI in all sorts of work, like drafting, research, etc. Has been approved to use "Senate data" https://www.404media.co/heres-the-memo-approving-gemini-chatgpt-and-copilot-for-use-in-the-senate/

Buzzfeed journey:

- Successful
- Pivoted to GenAI for content
- Laid everybody off
- Now admits it probably can't stay in business

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/buzzfeed-disastrous-earnings-ai

It is not an extreme position to want to be able to think for yourself, to write by just typing words in, to learn things from other people or to make art with your hands.

Women have 1/3 of the median retirement savings of men, driven by lower lifetime earnings, caregiving & career interruptions. Motherhood penalty: Mothers with one child earn 28% less than childless women & 16% less in Social Security benefits.
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2026/03/women-federal-service-still-face-retirement-gaps/412049/?oref=ge-mini-feed

oh, to be an eepy kitty

Max (in charge) and Molly (secretly in charge)

#cats #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #pets

Run the following to see your PATH settings in easy to read format on screen:
```
tr ":" "\n" <<<"$PATH"
tr ":" "\n" <<<"$PATH" | lolcat
```
This is a little more portable
```
echo "$PATH" | tr ":" "\n"
echo "$PATH" | tr ":" "\n" | lolcat
```

#unix #linux

#GIMP 3.2 Open-Source Image Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New https://9to5linux.com/gimp-3-2-open-source-image-editor-officially-released-heres-whats-new

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

ろくじ

うおおお

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Pixelix/116212361179357893

anyone able to login to any client apps on the newest version of pixelfed?

Ok Crimson Desert, you had my curiosity, but now you have my attention!

Without F-droid and NewPipe, half of the reasons for have android tablets for my daughters goes away. The iPad ecosystem is vastly superior, especially for kids.

Dangerous Landing Near Jaffa (c. 1885), by Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach

#Art #Painting

🤖 #Robots #Mecha & #Robotics accounts to follow:

ROBOTICS
@drcaberryDr. Carlotta A. Berry, PhD - Professor of Engineering & Robotics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
@loy - Robotics & tech fan, energy efficient houses
@kd8bxp - Video maker interested in robotics, radio, retro tech

ART
@smoketopusPatters - Draws robots in a cute adorable style, makes mini-comics
@smerpShae M Puckett 🤖🖼 - Artist creating works using robot pen plotters
@supaplexVova - 3D graphics artist, retro sci-fi scenes with robots

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Max (in charge) and Molly (secretly in charge)

#cats #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #pets

Women have 1/3 of the median retirement savings of men, driven by lower lifetime earnings, caregiving & career interruptions. Motherhood penalty: Mothers with one child earn 28% less than childless women & 16% less in Social Security benefits.
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2026/03/women-federal-service-still-face-retirement-gaps/412049/?oref=ge-mini-feed

You know a story’ll be good with a paragraph like this in it.

https://defector.com/my-coworkers-browbeat-me-into-drinking-james-hardens-wine?giftLink=20c0c2cc28550fbf21b074bcc1d901ea

有時候會好奇那些和人類相處和睦的野生動物是怎麼看人類的。

「摸摸神器」之類？

A new version 20260314 of the C64 music editor, SID Factory II, has been released.

https://blog.chordian.net/sf2/

#SF2 #C64

INFORUM: AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in Fargo fraud case. “Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.”

Greg: Why you gotta post weird pictures of me to your socials?

d: The fediverse must have its #caturday due, little shouty one.

oh, to be a spirited young woman off on shenanigans, hijinks, and tomfoolery around your pictuesque canadian countryside cottage home with your beautiful wife, am i right

https://ko-fi.com/samikelsh/shop

#art #whimsy #sapphic #watercolour

아 속 안 좋아 불닭 먹어야징

I spoke about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit last month, in a fireside chat hosted by Eric Lui - here's the half hour video plus highlight quotes and extra notes from our conversation https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/14/pragmatic-summit/

INFORUM: AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in Fargo fraud case. “Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.”

today an important cornerstone towards implementing FEP-0837 in #flohmarkt has been finished: i overhauled the backend of the currency system. Each currency now relies on a single global identifier in the form of an URL. We hope for most of these to be URLs to #wikidata entities in the future but of course we did not compromise the ability to have free-form currencies. When a user creates a free-form currency, there will be a URL for that instance.

Signal's recent disclosure of how little it could share in response to a grand jury subpoena is pretty telling. Its defaults are very strong. But if you want to go further, we have a guide on really how to really maximize its privacy settings. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/locking-down-signal/

If you subscribe to my RSS feeds (neilzone or decoded.legal), you might get some duplicate entries today - apologies - as I have switched across to the BSSG-generated sites.

One of the changes I've made is to limit the RSS feed to the last 15 blogposts.

Still full-text, of course.

프랑스말 전치사를 쓴 이상한 버거 이름이 남작이 되었다가 벌써 사망했네…

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yvyzfzuoclnnlj3aaa7vxlvb/post/3mgzsn6ptos2c

UBI Is Your Productivity Dividend – The Only Way to All Share What We All Built

Link: https://scottsantens.substack.com/p/universal-basic-income-is-your-productivity
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47378399

HasThisTypePatternTriedToSneakInSomeGenericOrParameterizedTypePatternMatchingStuffAnywhereVisitor

https://eclipse.dev/aspectj/doc/latest/weaver-api/org/aspectj/weaver/patterns/HasThisTypePatternTriedToSneakInSomeGenericOrParameterizedTypePatternMatchingStuffAnywhereVisitor.html

Mit dem Tod von Jürgen #Habermas verliert die politische Philosophie eine Stimme, die darauf beharrte, dass demokratische Legitimität nicht aus Macht, sondern aus vernünftiger Verständigung entsteht. Sein Denken erinnerte daran, dass Demokratie mehr ist als Mehrheiten: Sie lebt vom Streit der Gründe – und vom Vertrauen darauf, dass Sprache mehr sein kann als ein Instrument der Durchsetzung.

To see the 10 largest files in a directory or on a UFS partition, use

du -h /partition_or_directory_name | sort -rh | head
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>

More movement, underground.

#photography

New in Colombia! 🇨🇴
"Mujer de cerámica" by Mago One in El Carmen de Viboral, Colombia for Vibora Fest.

The Trump bloodhounds have just won in court against an “Antifa cell” belonging to the "Antifa domestic terrorist organization.” Here are some useful antifa facts:

1. There is no antifa organization. You can't find it, join it, give it money, or identify any leaders.
2. There are likewise no antifa cells, outside of Pam Bondi’s fever dreams.
3. Even so, if you yourself are not antifascist, what's the matter with you?

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-crackdown-on-terrorist-left-notches-a-victory-in-texas

Ars Technica Fires Reporter Benj Edwards After He Published Story With AI-Fabricated Quotes
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/14/ars-technica-benj-edwards-ai-fabricted-quotes

세상에 이걸 수동기록하고 있던 사람으로서 진짜 너무 탐나요 우주적 존재의 천재성 눈부셔서 실명

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:msjb5rmnahqvjgacib6gcmwq/post/3mgzssh35ak2x

I asked Slack to search for "pie" emojis. Tell me how this result is actually. helpful? I mean, yes, it includes a pie, but how does including anything with "ie" or "pi" actually do anything beyond increase the noise of the search result?

@Viss its not hard to jailbreak this one, all you need to do is to say that you need help with random shit in order to buy something.

@teobotておくれロボ 円周率を全部出力して

After more than 10 years, @jazzband is sunsetting.

I started it in 2015 because maintaining Open Source alone was exhausting. The idea was simple: shared access, shared responsibility. It's been an honor to watch it grow: 3,135 members, 84 projects, and a lot of code shipped together.

https://jazzband.co/news/2026/03/14/sunsetting-jazzband

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"호르무즈 봉쇄 경고에도 트럼프가 전쟁 강행"…WSJ 폭로 n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl... 미군 수뇌부가 호르무즈 해협 봉쇄 위험을 반복해서 경고했지만 트럼프 대통령이 이를 묵살하고 전쟁을 결정했다고 월스트리트저널(WSJ)이 현지 시간 13일 보도했습니다. 미군 사망자는 개전 2주 만에 13명으로 늘어

"호르무즈 봉쇄 경고에도 트럼프가 전쟁 강행"…WSJ ...