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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"The next time you go to Las Vegas, you’ll notice that there are no 13-year-olds in the casinos. The reason is not because a series of longitudinal studies proved to the satisfaction of the gaming industry that gambling causes anxiety and depression. Rather, there are no 13-year-olds in casinos because we know that the environment is designed to exploit them."

platformer.news/social-media-s

@CaseyCasey Newton is going to keep calling big tech on their persistent, culpable, shameful neglect of online safety

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Canadians know monopolies are driving up prices. A public option for groceries would give people a real alternative and bring costs down immediately. It’s affordable, practical, and within reach.

Read our plan for Public Options: avilewis.link/public_options

Want to see a cost breakdown and some solid modelling for how public grocery stores could work in Canada? Read a detailed new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: avilewis.link/ccpa-public-groc

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Heads to users - I've moved the Elisp sources to a dedicated folder today (`lisp/`), which makes the repo layout leaner and is common practice for bigger Elisp projects in general (e.g. Magit). This shouldn't affect the MELPA packaging, but if you notice any problems - let me know. More details github.com/clojure-emacs/cider

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我很喜歡那種寫自己生活經歷寫得很有樂趣的作者,不管是開心、溫馨、悲傷或者是荒謬,事後(?來看都有種愉悅的氛圍,騷夏《人生喜事》就是屬於這種,所以讀起來很愉快,會忍不住一話一話不間斷看完。

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Take a deep breath.

One day after launch of our campaign for Hootsuite to drop their contract to provide ICE "social listening" tools– this letter.

Their CEO writes she is glad people are "showing up" and "being vulnerable", but they'll keep the ICE contract. Their ToS prohibits individual surveillance, and that's enough.

hootsuite.com/letter-from-irina

Is that enough to anyone else?

A reminder, Hootsuite is a B corp- legally required to consider the impact of their work on the public.

Does selling "social listening" tools to 2026 ICE, and angling for up to a billion dollar contract, strike you as B corp behaviour?

If it doesn't, speak your mind here:
openmedia.org/NoTech4Ice

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Amazon have reported "hundreds of thousands" of pictures of child sexual abuse material found in shared AI training data... but is refusing to tell regulators which data sets.

If you're using generative AI tools, there's a pretty good chance you're generating imagery with child porn training data behind the scenes.
bloomberg.com/news/features/20

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Funfact: DB Eventtickets - die meist günstiger sind als normale Tickets - sind immer über den Link eventanreise-bahn.de/de/events/<id> abrufbar. Diese IDs sind aber natürlich nicht zufällig sondern :trommelwirbel: aufsteigend!

Aber Keine Sorge, zur Sicherheit rechnet die DB immer +3 bei der ID, nicht dass jemand einfach die IDs errät. Aber bitte nicht einfach einen beliebigen Eventticket Link nehmen (z.B. eventanreise-bahn.de/de/events) und dann die Zahl um 3 erhöhen.

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People who like growing things tend to be the least "zero sum" people I've ever met. I meet activists who act like sharing their time will inevitably lead to their death, but gardeners are always sharing.

We give each other seed, baby plants, cuttings, vegetables, greens, eggs - sometimes even before we know each other. If I say to someone "I wish I could grow tomatoes better" they'll jump in and offer last generation's regionally adapted seed without hesitation.

Because perhaps there's something to the experience of planting a bean and watching it turn into hundreds of beans, all from one bean. Or a single squash seed and seeing it produce dozens of squash and thousands of seeds. Or watching an enormous tree grow from a tiny seed and then a little sprout, and bring owls back where there weren't any before. And realizing that sharing only spreads the abundance, and never takes it away. If my tomatoes grow better, and hers fail, she knows I'll probably offer her that even better performing seed right back, and some extra tomatoes.

One of our friends on the border said he realized capitalism is bullshit the first time he grew tepary beans and watched a single bean turn into pounds of food and plenty of seed to save for next time. Why would anyone control your access to food when it's just that simple?

And the homesteading folks seem to like to make it seem really difficult, but they'll plant 10 acres to grain instead of oak trees and lament having to rent a harvester combine instead of having food literally fall out of the trees (and have a forest of other food and habitat for game, to boot), which is a failure of planning rather than the reality of what growing food is actually like.

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It's FOSDEM this weekend!

The Social Web track, and many of the others, are a great opportunity to learn more about projects on the Social Web.

As always, we're really excited to hear more about what our friends and supporters are up to.

If you're not there in Brussels, you can follow along online with us. Check out the schedule below 👇

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/

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According to journalist Jen Psaki of The Briefing with Jen ,
Trump’s administration has
seized the physical ballots from the 2020 election,
all tabulator tapes,
and all ballot images from the original ballot count,
breaking the line of custody
and contaminating the files.

Crucially, they also seized all voter rolls from Fulton County.

“This is a seismic event,”
Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) told Psaki.

“This should have people across the country absolutely shook.

This is a huge deal.

This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office....

This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections.

He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020.”

Ossoff warned that Americans must be prepared
as Trump tries to take away Americans’ right to choose their elected officials in 2026.

On January 6, 2026, Trump explained to Republican lawmakers:

“You gotta win the midterms.

Because if we don’t win the midterms, it’s just gonna be
—I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me. I’ll get impeached.”

heathercoxrichardson.substack.

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