Hackers' Pub

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`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

mhoye @mhoye@cosocial.ca

2/6/2026, 2:33:20 AM

Public

It's the odds. I keep coming back to the odds.

If antilock brakes just let go one time out of ten thousand, globally? Tens of millions of accidents every day.

A pacemaker fails one time out of a million? 100bpm average heartbeat times 10,080 minutes and you're dead in a week.

A generation of austerity politics was inflicted on the world by a fucking excel mistake, the famous Reinhart-Rogoff Error.

A just, humane society won't tolerate those failure rates in load-bearing software. We can't.

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