What is Hackers' Pub?

I don't want to put undue pressure on any country in particular, but I'd like you to please be aware that it's the Ides of March tomorrow.

Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input

Link: https://abjadpro.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47378251

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“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence” https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/

adult cat crimes are concentrated in the butt

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Centralisation makes abuse cheap. Decentralisation makes abuse expensive and cost-prohibitive. That's why the influencer business model doesn't really work in the #Fediverse. Here you can't buy sentiment. But many try (and waste money while trying, good ;)

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I saw southern auroras last night!!!! Rakiura! Holy cow that was AMAZING

(View from a bit south of Arthur's Pass, New Zealand)

@mattblaze
We forgive it not following ISO standards because WE GET PIE!

Pi day is an irrational holiday that was invented by Big US Date Format.

If you are a US citizen and plan to vote, now is the time to get a passport. A copy of your US birth certificate is a good idea too. Or, you might not be able to register and #vote.

#elections #USelections

https://apnews.com/article/save-act-documents-requirements-citizenship-voting-congress-dfb43bcdd0255d3665da588a60286b4e?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-ca

Puffin and Pabu love watching the snow

#Caturday
#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

Today we released GIMP 3.2 with major new features, including vector layers, link layers (smart objects), DDS BC7 export, better PSD import including PSB for large images, MyPaint 2.0 brushes, and much more!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/03/14/gimp-3-2-released/

#GIMP #imageEditor #GPL #openSource #libreGraphics #GIMP3 #GIMP3_2 #GEGL #news #release

Sunny day in the bay

#SanFrancisco #California #Outside

Sunny day in the bay

#SanFrancisco #California #Outside

I get to see my cats sooooon

Americans will use anything but the #metric system

#smol #caturday #caturdayeveryday

Sunsetting Jazzband

Link: https://jazzband.co/news/2026/03/14/sunsetting-jazzband
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379067

guy who does buddhism slightly wrong and ends up in nevada after he dies

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“Genuinely, I felt like I was talking to a cult member.”

https://www.404media.co/ai-psychosis-help-gemini-chatgpt-claude-chatbot-delusions/

@Em0nM4stodonEm Now that you have identified "bitter winter elder", I think there may be a whole genus of us...

You need friends to go swimming.

I was [context omitted], and it occurred to me that "May all your victims outlive you" would be a really good curse

my husband just came in here and said "distims your doshes, refuses to elaborate, leaves" and left

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gostak

#linguistics

I still failed to find a permanent home for these old manuals. Fedi has grown a bit in the interim. Any takers?

https://universeodon.com/@liquor_american/115352317079341823

#RetroComputing

Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI

Link: https://hostilevolume.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379712

I was only reminded that Digg had relaunched when they shut back down again.

One of these days I will not want to do laundry badly enough that I will go buy more socks and underwear…

Hi #mastoAdmins

I'm trying to help a friend out with his Mastodon instance. An upgrade went badly wrong and mastodon would not restart.

We've rebuilt the server using backups and the server is up and running. It is federating. However no one can login.

If I enable debugging log i get the following for a log attempt in the system logs

Errno::ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect(2) for 127.0.0.1:389):
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075]
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/models/concerns/user/ldap_authenticable.rb:11:in 'User::LdapAuthenticable::ClassMethods#authenticate_with_ldap'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:69:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user_from_params'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:62:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/concerns/auth/two_factor_authentication_concern.rb:12:in 'Auth::TwoFactorAuthenticationConcern#two_factor_enabled?'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] lib/mastodon/middleware/socket_cleanup.rb:11:in 'Mastodon::Middleware::SocketCleanup#call'

już 30 dni leży

to był najdziwniejszy prezent urodzinowy jaki kiedykolwiek dostałam

#polsocial

Gimp 3.2 Released

Link: https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/03/14/gimp-3-2-released/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380465

“Genuinely, I felt like I was talking to a cult member.”

https://www.404media.co/ai-psychosis-help-gemini-chatgpt-claude-chatbot-delusions/

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호주와 유럽은 왜 청소년 SNS 이용을 금지하나 www.sisain.co.kr/news/article... 청소년 소셜미디어 금지 정책은 세계 곳곳에서 ‘뉴 노멀’이 될 것으로 보인다. 근본 해결책이 아니라고, 또 실효가 떨어진다고 손 놓고 있을 수는 없다. 플랫폼 안전 설계, 디지털 리터러시 교육이 중요하지만, 당장은 ‘무법지대’에서 아이들을 구해야 한다.

호주와 유럽은 왜 청소년 SNS 이용을 금지하나 [평범...

Heads up you code maintainers who take submissions from people, delete unicode characters. See this: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/supply-chain-attack-using-invisible-code-hits-github-and-other-repositories/ Yes, people put back doors in code using unicode characters that don't show up on the screen. #infosec #foss #github

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Generate cryptographically secure UUIDs in the browser 🔐

`crypto.randomUUID()` is built into the Web Crypto API, no npm package needed.

Works in all modern browsers and Node.js 14.17+.

Learn more 👇
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트럼프 행정부가 이란 전쟁에 대해 비판적 보도를 한 언론사들의 면허를 취소하겠다고 위협 www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/... 국방장관 헤그세스는 “중동 전쟁 격회"를 "이란이 곤경에 처했다" 같은 식으로 애국적 표현해야 한다고 주장

Trump administration threatens...

RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116224448019807850

Easter eggs are when composing: magic happens after typing :fedilab_*:
*: word of an Easter egg. Pretty sure some of you remember those three words. Let's see in the replies.

"End-to-end encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after May 8, 2026."

https://help.instagram.com/491565145294150

Tomorrow: a day of train travel to Berlin, for #fossbackstage on Monday. 🇩🇪

Pi day is an irrational holiday that was invented by Big US Date Format.

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