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.

Glyph @glyph@mastodon.social
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It's been too long, but today I finally got around to removing the last of the twitter embed scripts from my blog archives. Sadly there are still lots of links to twitter, because finding (and making) archives to link to for everything is a major project, but at least you can visit blog.glyph.im/ now without risking loading a script from an embed.

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julian @julian@community.nodebb.org
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Hi @andrew_s@piefed.social/@freamon and @nutomic@lemmy.ml —I'm working (not-so-secretly) on refactoring NodeBB so that it is able to "browse" remote audiences/group actors, and that would include things like PieFed and Lemmy communities.

N.B. Given varied nomenclature (group/category/community/subforum), the ForumWG calls this structure an "audience".

Where I am at now is working through the logic for slotting an object into a category.

The most obvious choice here would be to look at as:audience. It's even specified in 1b12, and the majority of threaded implementations follow 1b12.

I am making this post because nutomic explicitly removed the audience from being served in Lemmy (as of January this year), so I don't think relying on that property would be wise.

I asked in that issue whether Lemmy finds community via to/cc (it does). Does PieFed do the same?

Would this also open up the possibility of a topic/context being part of multiple audiences/communities? Interesting...

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Mastodon Engineering @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social
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We just released Mastodon 4.3.6, 4.2.19 and 4.1.24. They contain important security fixes.

We recommend server administrators to update as soon as possible if they use SAML, or are on the development version.

If you are using our nightly releases, a container image with the fix has been published with the nightly.2025-03-14-security tag.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page:

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r

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katzenberger 🇺🇦 @katzenberger@mastodon.de
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, the Children's Fund, is providing support for world-wide, and also in and .

If you can afford it, consider to donate

for children in Gaza:
unicef.org/emergencies/childre

for children in Ukraine:
help.unicef.org/ukraine-emerge

Please note that depending on your country, directly above the "Donate" button, there may be a tiny link "Designate to children in…". Make sure the selected region reflects your preferences, or pick "globally". No wrong choices here.

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Philipp Johannes Weber @phil_phonetix@mastodon.social
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"Freiheit ist der Wille, für sich selbst* verantwortlich zu sein."

Friedrich Nietzsche

*und meinen Kater

"Ich glaube nicht an die Freiheit des Willens. Schopenhauers Wort, der Mensch kann wohl tun, was er will, aber er kann nicht wollen, was er will, begleitet mich in allen Lebenslagen und versöhnt mich mit den Handlungen der Menschen, auch wenn sie mir recht schmerzlich sind ..."

youtube.com/watch?v=nPqtJYqXLL0

Albert Einstein

Albert und die Philosphie

Provided to YouTube by ColumbiaAlbert und die Philosphie · Die Fantastischen VierLauschgift - Jubiläums-Edition℗ 1995 Sony Music Entertainment (Germany) GmbH...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna@mathstodon.xyz
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Sir Terry Pratchett was one of two people who I quoted directly in my dissertation. This line from Feet of Clay was the motto for my introductory chapter:

"This is where we’ve filled ourselves up with so many questions that they’re starting to overflow and become answers."

It resonated with me, because this is what doing research often feels like for me.

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Chris Lamke @crlamke@mastodon.social
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John Kenneth Galbraith's observation about conservatism is as relevant as ever.

"The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

wist.info/galbraith-john-kenne

The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities. The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor. The man who has struck it rich in minerals, oil, or other bounties of nature is found explaining the debilitating effect of unearned income from the state. The corporate executive who is a superlative success as an organization man weighs in on the evils of bureaucracy. Federal aid to education is feared by those who live in suburbs that could easily forgo this danger, and by people whose children are in public schools. Socialized medicine is condemned by men emerging from Walter Reed Hospital. Social Security is viewed with alarm by those who have the comfortable cushion of an inherited income. Those who are immediately threatened by public efforts to meet their needs — whether widows, small farmers, hospitalized veterans, or the unemployed — are almost always oblivious to the danger.
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Glyph @glyph@mastodon.social
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I really wish I understood why sometimes a link to a toot on another server in the fediverse takes me to a view of that toot on mastodon.social and sometimes it takes me directly to that other server

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phildini @phildini@wandering.shop
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If you are part of a community of faith in a deep suburban or rural area, do you feel the members of your community, as a whole, have the tech skills they need for the modern world?

I’d really appreciate boosts for reach on this one ✨

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jacobian @jacob@social.jacobian.org
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A lot of tech people, particularly more junior folks, are looking for jobs right now. A short but important note for them: newcomers should generally ignore career advice from people who've been in the field longer than 10 or 15 years.

The way the industry treats us is so dramatically different from the way it treats newcomers that most advice is just flat out wrong.

jacobian.org/2025/mar/13/bewar

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social
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I will admit too, re: my last post about dehumanization, that beyond all of my training, my experience of being severely ill and fearing for my life and then disabled in a society that did not give a single shit about whether I died really changed my brain as well. We wrest humanity out of the entropy of the universe. What more extraordinary accomplishment could there be. How little your intelligence and little niche demonstrations of technicality matter compared to that.

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