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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TechCrunch @TechCrunch@mstdn.social
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SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a constellation of up to 1 million solar-powered satellites that it said will serve as data centers for artificial intelligence. The company’s filing lays out a grandiose vision, not just describing these planned satellites as “the most efficient way to meet the accelerating […] techcrunch.com/2026/01/31/spac

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TechCrunch @TechCrunch@mstdn.social
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SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a constellation of up to 1 million solar-powered satellites that it said will serve as data centers for artificial intelligence. The company’s filing lays out a grandiose vision, not just describing these planned satellites as “the most efficient way to meet the accelerating […] techcrunch.com/2026/01/31/spac

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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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For many people who’d been inside that bubble of comfort, particularly at national news orgs, the story •started• with those two murders. They now seem to have a half-formed mental narrative that runs something like this:

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1. First the Trump administration started deporting a lot more people.
2. Then ICE murdered Good and Pretti.
3. Those two escalations caused widespread unrest in Minneapolis.
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That narrative is wrong.

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Nolan Lawson @nolan@toot.cafe
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People keep citing water/energy use to me and I remain unconvinced. The single best thing you can do for the planet is to have one less kid. A distant #2 and #3 are avoiding cars and flights: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

A recent estimate says using Claude Code is similar to running a dishwasher: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/20/

If you are a vegan monk who never drives and also hates LLMs, good for you: you have my respect and admiration. But I don't think this is what's motivating most people's arguments.

The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions

The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions, Wynes, Seth, Nicholas, Kimberly A

iopscience.iop.org

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life@mas.to
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I've mentioned in the path that we aren't in an AI bubble but instead in an OpenAI bubble. This morning, I realized that the bubble is already beginning to pop when you consider the stock prices of the companies whose growth was based on their partnership with OpenAI.

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private

Link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

US Has Investigated Claims WhatsApp Chats Aren’t Private

US law enforcement has been investigating allegations by former Meta Platforms Inc. contractors that Meta personnel can access WhatsApp messages, despite the company’s statements that the chat service is private and encrypted, according to interviews and an agent’s report seen by Bloomberg News.

www.bloomberg.com · Bloomberg.com

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Elena Rossini 📍 FOSDEM @_elena@mastodon.social
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Packing for 🥳

I have so many items of clothing promoting the Fediverse that I could change outfits multiple times a day 😂

If anyone is interested in a forest green sweatshirt that says "the future is federated" (size small, unisex) let me know. I had it remade (comped) because v1 came out differently than my mockup.

I'll have it with me tomorrow, just ask.

See you around! I'm sooo exciteeeeeed

a photo of several t-shirts and sweatshirts folded on a teal bedspread. Top left: navy blue t-shirt that reads "united federation of the fediverse" under it a yellow t-shirt that reads "never mind the billionaires here's the fediverse". Center: a dark green sweatshirt that reads "the future is federated". Right: a blue t-shirt that reads "Mastodon& Pixelfed&" and below it a black t-shirt with "the future is federated" written in white
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BoltsMag.org @bolts@journa.host
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“State constitutionalism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence white noise,” Hawaii Justice Todd Eddins wrote in a recent ruling that assailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority.

boltsmag.org/hawaii-supreme-co

Hawaii Supreme Court Expands Rights of Defendants, and Once Again Rebukes SCOTUS

The justices ruled that Hawaii’s constitution requires police to record interrogations. And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaii residents—unlike, they said, the Roberts Court.

boltsmag.org · Bolts

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Raphael Albert @r_alb@mastodon.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

The Austrian Data Protection Authority ruled that the use of tracking cookies in Microsoft's 365 Education products violates data protection law.

Austria is paying Microsoft an obscene amount of money per year for the "privilege" of exposing children to digital exploitation. Microsoft, on the other side, is cashing in twice - by selling user licenses and by selling their users.

That's how techno-capitalism works. Not for us, but for someone else.
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Ramsey Nasser @nasser@merveilles.town
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sometimes i think about unity's scene file format and what a disaster it is and what an alternative would look like. i generally prefer to have everything defined by code as that presents the fewest assumptions but sometimes i noodle around with the idea of an XML file that straightforwardly compiles into C#, a little like e.g. Vue components. i am not sure if this is a good idea or worth exploring.

<boss-scene enemies="100" difficult="true"> <walking-enemy-spawner start-x="30" start-y="100" /> <walking-enemy-spawner start-x="130" start-y="200" /> <power-ups chance="0.5"> <health max="80" /> <speed /> </power-ups> </boss-scene>public static partial class Assets { public static BossScene Load() { var boss_scene = new BossScene(enemies:300, difficult: true); boss_scene.AddChild(new WalkingEnemySpawner(start_x:30, start_y:100)); boss_scene.AddChild(new WalkingEnemySpawner(start_x:130, start_y:200)); var power_ups = new PowerUps(chance:0.5); power_ups.AddChild(new Health(max:80)); power_ups.AddChild(new Speed()); boss_scene.AddChild(power_ups); return boss_scene; } }
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Nina Kalinina @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt
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I've got my paws on "Stop! Hibari-kun!!" - a queer (or, rather, trans?) rom-com manga written for normies, back from 1981. The manga is really, truly problematic in many ways. But it also shows me that despite right-wing folks crying "oh no! but the pro-LGBT agenda!" for years, LGBT folks in 2026 are still facing generally the same class of problems are LGBT folks did in 1981.

Some things got a bit better, sure, but the stuff (violently) depicted in this comedy book still happens today even in the most progressive countries.

Somewhat off-topic: Hibari is very pretty, and has a good style. I should learn a few things from her.

Also: I should read more LGBTQ stuff. Ideally LGBTQ stuff made by LGBTQ creators.

A cover of manga "Stop!! Hibari-kun!" by Hisashi Eguchi, showing a young pretty lady in a cute top and rebel-looking jeans with holes, sipping a juice from a cup through a straw; a bad-ass looking electric guitar resting on her laps and tummy.
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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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ICE is disappearing people.

This is a grim and difficult piece, but it is heartening to read it one particular way: the broader national and global conversation is finally, finally starting to pick up on what so many of us have been yelling for weeks and months: the Department of Homeland Security is acting as Trump’s secret police, a group of Brownshirts with a military-sized budget whose horrors extend far beyond two murders.

emptywheel.net/2026/01/29/the-

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The Disappearances in Minnesota - emptywheel

Right now, all the focus is on competing videos of conflicts involving Alex Pretti and his murderers. But the bulk of kidnapping that proves this is a paramilitary occupation remains disappeared. 

emptywheel.net · emptywheel

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leyrer @leyrer@23.social
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Die @linuxtageGrazer Linuxtage so: "... nehmen wir voraussichtlich maximal eine Einreichung pro einreichender Person an ... lass dich deswegen aber nicht davon abhalten, mehrere Themen einzureichen. Wir wählen jene Einreichung, die unserer Einschätzung nach am besten ins restliche Programm passt."

Der Leyrer so: OK :D

screenshot meiner Inbox mit den bestätigungsmails für sechs einreichungen
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Linux in a Bit @Linux_in_a_Bit@infosec.exchange
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:blobcatbusiness: What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?

Not the installation process.
Not finding a distro.
Not getting programs to work.
Not troubleshooting.
Not hardware compatibility.

The most common complaint about Linux I've seen is this:
For a normal computer user, asking for help is just about impossible.

They ask a simple question and:
People respond "Did you Google it?"
People complain that the question wasn't asked "correctly".
People respond "RTFM"
People get mad??? at them for making an easy mistake.

We can't expect normal people to know to, or even know how to deal with any of that stuff.

Search engines these days are awful, manuals are hard to read for most people (especially stuff like ArchWiki), and normal people make mistakes we think are easily avoidable.

The solution to making Linux more popular is not ruthless promotion. The solution is to actually help the people who are trying to use it. :ablobcatattention:

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Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
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The Trumpists will continue to escalate. But in Minneapolis, we can see the limits of MAGA’s assault.

Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not.

Some thoughts from my new piece for Zeit Online (gift link):

zeit.de/digital/2026-01/us-reg

US-Regierung: Wie der Widerstand gegen Maga eine Chance hat

Der Minneapolis-Moment offenbart die Schwächen der Trumpisten. Und er zeigt, wo der Widerstand gegen den US-Präsidenten in Zukunft erfolgreich ansetzen kann.

www.zeit.de · DIE ZEIT

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benjojo @benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
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I do appreciate the future proofing of gnu coreutils's "free" command having a --pebi (show output (of RAM) in pebibytes), at the current right I think that might be a little preemptive

# free --pebi
               total        used        free 
Mem:               0           0           0 
Swap:              0           0           0

Suppose you could probably(?) configure a PiB of Swap though...

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