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 still can't even that my now nearly 80 year old mom has been on Fedora on a thinkpad e520 (2011) for a decade and it all just works.

I checked her laptop just now and it's fully up to date on fedora 43, so she's done like 20 version upgrades autonomously too. The battery has degraded a little but the whole thing still works fine and she's very happy with it.

This is how things should be, this is peak computing tbh.

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RE: mastodon.social/@glyph/1162203

Since I've gotten this feedback a couple times, I want to address it:

I know Cory is writing about *his specific* colleagues who he believes are using AI successfully, not devs in general, whose problems he has already implicitly acknowledged; I've moved the goalposts back to "developers in general".

That is, technically, an accurate description of what I did, but in the next post down in the thread, I explained *why*: I don't think his friends are special any more than mine are.

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What's your favorite AI Coding agent CLI/GUI that can use Codex / Copilot subscriptions?

* Codex is pretty bad from my experience
* Copilot is quite better
* OpenCode I haven't tried recently but I have heard good things.
* Squad, quite good, from a multi-agent perspective, used at work, haven't setup it at home

Any others that you would recommend?

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What I'm listening to today: "The Party Don't Stop", Mia X

This is it: The greatest track No Limit ever created. Their in-house production shop ("Beats by the Pound") as their name implies were all about *quantity*, but when they cared they could deliver pure gold, deliciously cheesy like those cover photoshops. This track is perfect, a joyous block party. And Foxy Brown's here, because like, OK, it's 1997, something incredible is happening, of course Foxy Brown's here.

youtube.com/watch?v=gD00hgwbpac

What I'm listening to today: "The Man Right Chea", Mystikal

Yes, my 90s southern hip hop mixtape is 50% No Limit by volume. Here's the thing: So was the radio in 1997. This is a loopy, hypnotic bit of experimental techno packaged as hip hop and I'm still kinda shocked radio stations played it

Beats by the Pound getting the most technique out of the cheapest synthesizers; Mystikal doing oddly experimental vocals that seem to have departed "rap" and approach skat singing

youtube.com/watch?v=iEQJZ8Ccpqc

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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

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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

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Hello 🌘
How are you today?

There has been a very impressive sandstorm in Khan Yunis 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 🫂💔🌙⭐️
👉 gofund.me/e4c7d56a4

With all my love for you.

Khaled Zeyada, 21 years old, from Rafah, Gaza Strip, PalestineKhan Yunis covered in a sand stormKhan Yunis covered in a sand storm
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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.
govexec.com/pay-benefits/2026/

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🤖 & 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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