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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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm: @markwyner@mas.to
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Spotify is literally hosting an Andrew Tate podcast on “how to recruit and exploit women for pornography.”

They were hosting three of them. Two were removed because of public pressure, but one remains. He literally should have no platform for any reason.

Please boycott Spotify until they end this. And contact them to let them know that he’s a repugnant pile of shit who needs to be punched in the face.

support.spotify.com/us/article

Spotify logo and a quote from Andrew: “trafficking women and keeping their earnings. I take all the money from all my girls. I take it all. I pay fractions to them because I give them enough to do their nails and hair so they stay pretty. So they can make me more money. It’s all about me.”Spotify logo and a quote from Andrew: “how to make money selling women. The girl has to be smiling. She has to be happy. The men aren’t going on there to see some miserable bitch. Their wife is a miserable bitch. They’re spending money to see a happy girl.”Spotify logo and a quote from Andrew: “how to trick women into commercial sexual exploitation. We’ll give you a fake name, a fake location. No one’s going to know it’s you. Just lie. Someone will probably recognize her eventually. By then it’s too late.”
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Sarah Jamie Lewis @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
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Shared by Olivier Forget

Request: Looking to connect with people who are thinking about the future of software, specifically in the areas of:

- Diversification of large/core software development efforts beyond US/EU funding
- Post non-profit organizational frameworks (e.g co-op networks)
- Alternative funding paths (In wider context of the world at large)
- Responding to increasingly locked down operating systems

Very interested in talking to folks (esp. in Canada) who are taking or want to take action in these areas.

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eeeee @eeeee@community.nodebb.org
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I followed mander@medicine.xyz from my account on this instance, and another nodebb instance.
This one shows Following, the other shows pending!
Follows dont need acceptance do they, why the difference?
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Also, why a settings icon only on my nodebb instance?!

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zunda @zundan@mastodon.zunda.ninja
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おしごとしようね :saba:

420ffdfb62 (upstream/main) Add delay to profile updates to debounce them (#34137)
725a68d273 Fix unnecessary rerenders in composer dropdown menu (#34133)
9041ce3c18 Refactoring: Move rack middleware (#34140)
6d5a1fbe1d Assert on page contents while progressing through `new_statuses` system spec (#34139)
325b55485e Convert `admin/settings/branding` spec controller->request (#34130)
bedf808e02 Move feature flag test setup into config (#34124)
dc43699b77 Assert on page contents before reloading report for interface JS spec (#34132)
72d7297bc4 chore(deps): update dependency rack to v2.2.13 [security] (#34135)

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Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo: @paul@tapbots.social
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Fun, once again the latest Mac update turns on Apple "Intelligence" even though I had turned it off. I could see the first update doing it as some sort of accident/bug, but no its just Apple being aggressively shitty.

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Sarah Jamie Lewis @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
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Request: Looking to connect with people who are thinking about the future of software, specifically in the areas of:

- Diversification of large/core software development efforts beyond US/EU funding
- Post non-profit organizational frameworks (e.g co-op networks)
- Alternative funding paths (In wider context of the world at large)
- Responding to increasingly locked down operating systems

Very interested in talking to folks (esp. in Canada) who are taking or want to take action in these areas.

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🕊🍉 @POGO@mstdn.jp
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先月やった展示の写真一覧と解説を記しました

関西学院大学 文化総部写真部 卒業展示会『バイバイ、アウラ』出展作品解説｜POGO @POGO🕊🍉 note.com/pogomi3/n/n835a79d551

関西学院大学 文化総部写真部 卒業展示会『バイバイ、アウラ』出展作品解説｜POGO

こんにちは。ポゴです。 先月開催した弊学写真部の卒業展示会に出展した写真作品についての解説とか感想とかを記します。堅苦しいのはできるだけ避けて書いていきます。 📍[神戸,花隈駅]神戸まちづくり会館 2/7(金)~2/11(火祝) 🕚11:00~18:30(最終日17:00迄) レセプション2/8(Sat) 16:00~ 自己紹介とまえがき ポゴです。普段は関西学院大学で社会福祉の勉強をしながら、大阪アメ村を中心にクラブシーンのカメラマンやDJ、客、イベント主催などをしています。趣味はフィルムカメラ、自転車など。 ここを見ればだいたいわかる、たぶん→ https

note.com · note（ノート）

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Jordan Sissel @whack@hachyderm.io
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Another carpentry project and another reminder that the worst part about imperial units isn’t the baffling unit conversions, it’s the fractions. Can I my measuring tools have tenths or hundredths? No.

Half of (5 and 7/16ths minus 3 and 13/64ths)

sure statements dreamed up by the mindless mad folk.

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Tim Finnerty @TimFinnerty@toot.io
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No end to any on until they:
a) return to 1992 borders, including
b) pay full reparations to and
c) remove all troops from , , , and the entire continent
d) hold free and fair elections
e) hand over all indicted individuals to the
f) return all and kidnapped citizens
g) disarm
h) say thank you

Don’t let Russia off the hook | Andriy Yermak theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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Connected Places @fediversereport@mastodon.social
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New: Fediverse Report 107

This week's news:
- @pixelfed finishes their Kickstarter campaign, raising 138k CAD. The project has expanded significantly in scope, and the team has grown with it as well.
- @encyclia is an upcoming way to connect ORCID (a unique ID for researchers) to the fediverse, allowing you to follow any scientists work, even when they are not on the fediverse.

Read at: fediversereport.com/fediverse-

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Adam @adamsaidsomething@mastodon.social
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Fusion centers act as back doors for I.C.E. in sanctuary cities. Fusion centers in sanctuary cities need to stop sharing a roof with I.C.E. agents, and stop sharing fucking surveillance data with them!

Fusion centers are inherently deeply problematic, but stopping illegal cooperation with I.C.E. in sanctuary cities is an obvious and urgent first step to minimizing harm!

stopspying.org/deportation-dat

Deportation Data Centers: How Fusion Centers Circumvent Sanctuary City Laws — S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

DHS fusion centers, funded with over $400 million annually, enable ICE to access local police data and surveillance tools, bypassing protections for undocumented immigrants. These centers operate with little transparency, allowing civil rights violations without accountability.

www.stopspying.org · S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

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Laurens Hof @LaurensHof@fediversereport.com
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Shared by Connected Places

Fediverse Report #107

Pixelfed raises 138k Canadian dollars for their project, and a new way to connect researchers to the fediverse with an upcoming ORCID bridge.

The News

The Pixelfed Kickstarter campaign has concluded, and the project has raised 138k Canadian dollar (88k EUR/95k USD). The campaign raised money from over 2100 backers, and reached far past it’s original goal of 50k CAD. The campaign has grown significantly in scope, and indicates that the Pixelfed campaign is much more than just about the image-sharing platform Pixelfed. Pixelfed itself has also grown, and there are now reportedly 8 people joining the team. With the money, the team is working on the following:

  • Further development of Pixelfed, as well as supporting the pixelfed.social and pixelfed.art servers
  • Development of Loops, and getting it to a state where it can be made available as open source. In the most recent update Pixelfed says that this will be “once it is ready in 2025”.
  • Building a dedicated server environment around the world, that can handle “the 1000s of TBs of video traffic (plus storage requirements)”.
  • Building Fedi-CDN to host and serve Loops videos, as well as offering “excess compute/bandwidth to other fediverse platforms as a collaborative shared service.”
  • Building an E2EE messaging platform Sup, with the near future focused on development planning.
  • The latest update of the Kickstarter also notes that Pixelfed has started another side project, FediThreat, for fediverse admins to share information about lower-risk harmful actors such as spam accounts. This project is currently in the proof-of-concept stage.
  • Launching a Pixelfed Foundation. Setting up a foundation was originally put behind to a 200k CAD stretch goal, but it seems like this will still happen, even though the goal is not met. The latest Kickstarter update notes that a Pixelfed Foundation is currently being worked on, as a non-profit under the government of Alberta, Canada.

The amount of money that Pixelfed has raised is significant, especially by fediverse standards. At the same time, this is a lot of different types of projects that the team is undertaking. Pixelfed has a history of overpromising and underdeliving, for example the Groups feature has been announced to be released “soon” for over 2 years now, and this is a feature that they have gotten an NLnet grant for. The new projects that Pixelfed is working on, such as a shared CDN are definitely valuable for the fediverse. But with the attention of the Pixelfed team being pulled in so many different directions, and a lack of clarity on which projects will get focus, it is unclear on which timeline Pixelfed can deliver the planned features.

Encyclia is a newly announced project to make ORCID records available on the fediverse. ORCID, Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a unique identifier for researchers and scientists. Every researcher can have their own unique ORCID, and with it, every publication become records connected to that ORCID. With Encyclia, all these ORCIDS can be followed from your ActivityPub account, meaning that you can always keep up to date with research, even when the researcher does not have a fediverse account. Encyclia is currently still in pre-alpha, and not yet available for use by the public.

This weekend was the SXSW festival, and Flipboard hosted the Fediverse House, with quite some well-known names within the fediverse community, as well as representatives from Bluesky and Threads, as well. There does not seem to be recordings available, but Jeff Sikes was there and had a good live blog if you want to also experience some FOMO.

In my recent updates on Bluesky and ATProto I talk about how Bluesky is increasingly becoming a political actor, due to the presence of various high-profile people who are actively speaking out against the Trump/Musk regime. This impact so far is less visible on the fediverse, as there are no politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez using the platform to speak out. But resistance does not only come from high-profile individuals, it comes from people on the ground that organise themselves. To that end, Jon Pincus wrote two articles on organising on the fediverse: If not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next has an overview of the current state of the networks in relation to organising. Notes (and thoughts) on organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere has a lot more practical details, examening various softwares that can be used in practice. Both articles are great sources of information to get more practical details for people who are considering using decentralised social networks.

The Links

Decentralized Social Networks & WordPress with Alex Kirk. The Open Web Conversations has a new Fediverse series, hosted by WordPress ActivityPub plugin creator Matthias Pfefferle. They discuss talk about how a WordPress blog can be build into a full decentralised social networking node with the Friends plugin by Kirk and the ActivityPub plugin by Pfefferle.

Standards War? – Robert W. Gehl. Gehl compares IFTAS’ funding struggles with the Free Our Feeds campaign, who are raising money to build alternative ATProto infrastructure, and describes it as an illustration of the emerging standards war between ActivityPub and ATProto.

A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of Social Media – John Markoff/New York Times. The NYT interviews Flipboard’s CEO Mike McCue to talk about how the company is using building a new decentralised social web with Flipboard and timeline app Surf.

The Software Sessions podcast did an interview with Hong Minhee. Hong is the developer for ActivityPub framework Fedify, as well as Hollo, a single-user microblogging platform.

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:

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Detail in the city of Gouda
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Laurens Hof @LaurensHof@fediversereport.com
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Fediverse Report #107

Pixelfed raises 138k Canadian dollars for their project, and a new way to connect researchers to the fediverse with an upcoming ORCID bridge.

The News

The Pixelfed Kickstarter campaign has concluded, and the project has raised 138k Canadian dollar (88k EUR/95k USD). The campaign raised money from over 2100 backers, and reached far past it’s original goal of 50k CAD. The campaign has grown significantly in scope, and indicates that the Pixelfed campaign is much more than just about the image-sharing platform Pixelfed. Pixelfed itself has also grown, and there are now reportedly 8 people joining the team. With the money, the team is working on the following:

  • Further development of Pixelfed, as well as supporting the pixelfed.social and pixelfed.art servers
  • Development of Loops, and getting it to a state where it can be made available as open source. In the most recent update Pixelfed says that this will be “once it is ready in 2025”.
  • Building a dedicated server environment around the world, that can handle “the 1000s of TBs of video traffic (plus storage requirements)”.
  • Building Fedi-CDN to host and serve Loops videos, as well as offering “excess compute/bandwidth to other fediverse platforms as a collaborative shared service.”
  • Building an E2EE messaging platform Sup, with the near future focused on development planning.
  • The latest update of the Kickstarter also notes that Pixelfed has started another side project, FediThreat, for fediverse admins to share information about lower-risk harmful actors such as spam accounts. This project is currently in the proof-of-concept stage.
  • Launching a Pixelfed Foundation. Setting up a foundation was originally put behind to a 200k CAD stretch goal, but it seems like this will still happen, even though the goal is not met. The latest Kickstarter update notes that a Pixelfed Foundation is currently being worked on, as a non-profit under the government of Alberta, Canada.

The amount of money that Pixelfed has raised is significant, especially by fediverse standards. At the same time, this is a lot of different types of projects that the team is undertaking. Pixelfed has a history of overpromising and underdeliving, for example the Groups feature has been announced to be released “soon” for over 2 years now, and this is a feature that they have gotten an NLnet grant for. The new projects that Pixelfed is working on, such as a shared CDN are definitely valuable for the fediverse. But with the attention of the Pixelfed team being pulled in so many different directions, and a lack of clarity on which projects will get focus, it is unclear on which timeline Pixelfed can deliver the planned features.

Encyclia is a newly announced project to make ORCID records available on the fediverse. ORCID, Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a unique identifier for researchers and scientists. Every researcher can have their own unique ORCID, and with it, every publication become records connected to that ORCID. With Encyclia, all these ORCIDS can be followed from your ActivityPub account, meaning that you can always keep up to date with research, even when the researcher does not have a fediverse account. Encyclia is currently still in pre-alpha, and not yet available for use by the public.

This weekend was the SXSW festival, and Flipboard hosted the Fediverse House, with quite some well-known names within the fediverse community, as well as representatives from Bluesky and Threads, as well. There does not seem to be recordings available, but Jeff Sikes was there and had a good live blog if you want to also experience some FOMO.

In my recent updates on Bluesky and ATProto I talk about how Bluesky is increasingly becoming a political actor, due to the presence of various high-profile people who are actively speaking out against the Trump/Musk regime. This impact so far is less visible on the fediverse, as there are no politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez using the platform to speak out. But resistance does not only come from high-profile individuals, it comes from people on the ground that organise themselves. To that end, Jon Pincus wrote two articles on organising on the fediverse: If not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next has an overview of the current state of the networks in relation to organising. Notes (and thoughts) on organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere has a lot more practical details, examening various softwares that can be used in practice. Both articles are great sources of information to get more practical details for people who are considering using decentralised social networks.

The Links

Decentralized Social Networks & WordPress with Alex Kirk. The Open Web Conversations has a new Fediverse series, hosted by WordPress ActivityPub plugin creator Matthias Pfefferle. They discuss talk about how a WordPress blog can be build into a full decentralised social networking node with the Friends plugin by Kirk and the ActivityPub plugin by Pfefferle.

Standards War? – Robert W. Gehl. Gehl compares IFTAS’ funding struggles with the Free Our Feeds campaign, who are raising money to build alternative ATProto infrastructure, and describes it as an illustration of the emerging standards war between ActivityPub and ATProto.

A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of Social Media – John Markoff/New York Times. The NYT interviews Flipboard’s CEO Mike McCue to talk about how the company is using building a new decentralised social web with Flipboard and timeline app Surf.

The Software Sessions podcast did an interview with Hong Minhee. Hong is the developer for ActivityPub framework Fedify, as well as Hollo, a single-user microblogging platform.

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:

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Detail in the city of Gouda
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