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.
It's people like Elon Musk that make incompetent drug-addled fascist narcissists look bad.
I notice that Israel has been curiously silent about its main benefactor, the United States, threatening to annex other countries.
Funny that.
#israel is committing #genocide in #Gaza and the #WestBank in #Palestine.
#Trump #GOP #USPol #CDNPoli #Greenland #Panama #Denmark #annexation #Canada #ElbowsUp
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Check out this wild creation from our community member Mictronics, shared in our Discord community! He built a #meshtastic node into an old #nokia 5130, and yes, the multi-tap keyboard works. Absolute retro tech wizardry.
#RetroTech #DIY #MakerCommunity
reddit music fans: ok but you do realise that's objectively their worst album? if you put Dark Tango above Flyin' Wheels there is genuinely something wrong with your brain. Dark Tango is C tier at best, even if you ignore the horrendous outro "song".
tumblr music fans: why did nobody tell me about this artist before ๐ญ i am liTERALLY SCREAMING this is perfect!! if you're not into wagstop you're gonna want to mute me for the next hour because i will NOT shut up about this so help me aphrodite
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Just kidding horseshoe theory is fake and we live in hell
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Mi churri se ha abierto un Pixelfed y me pregunta por cuentas de recetas veganas, ยฟquรฉ conocรฉis? ๐
I am.... Upset. I had to reboot my personal Windows machine to finalize a driver update so I could play Monster Hunter, and upon rebooting, Windows sprang open some sort of new "welcome" dashboard which "helpfully" displayed a massive full color photo of someone EXTREMELY upsetting to see when I was not intentionally bracing myself to check how bad the news is today and it gave me a PTSD panic attack.
Allegedly turning off the Taskbar -> Widgets setting should prevent this, but we all know it will randomly turn back on for no reason
ATmosphere Report - This week's atproto news:
- Bluesky releases a protocol roadmap and a proposal for handling user intents
- @tangled.shTangled is a git collaboration platform on atproto
- Blacksky is working towards Cypher, an AppView with local-only posting
fediversereport.com/atmosphere-r...
ATmosphere Report โ 2025march....
Servers
- Mitra v3.19.0
- Mastodon v4.3.6
- GoToSocial v0.18.2
- Pleroma v2.9.1
- tootik v0.15.4
- Misskey v2025.3.1
- Gancio v1.24.4
- NeoDB v0.11.5.1
- kmyblue v17.3
- NodeBB v4.1.1
- Vernissage Server v1.4.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, February 2025 (Mastodon)
- Actually, I take that back (Ghost)
- Gush! - A federated social media platform for sharing the things you love
- Forte: Nomadic fediverse server
- Merp Relay: Lightweight Fediverse message relay
Clients
- SubwayTooter v5.549
- Fedilab v3.30.1
- Mastodon for Android v2.9.5
- Impressia v3.1.0
- Voyager v2.25.0
- Phanpy changelog
Tools and Plugins
- PeerTube livechat plugin v12.0.3
For developers
- ActivityPods v2.1.0
- Granary v8.1
- Roboherd: A framework for building Fediverse bots
Protocol
- Activity Streams/Primer/Tombstone type
Articles
- Why Content Creators should consider the Fediverse
- Mastodon to GoToSocial Migration
- Fediverse Report #107
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01957251-017a-d6e9-a72a-7e34ac1e1a86
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I often help friends with their engineering projects. Sometimes, a 15 minute chat with someone more experienced can save hours of research. I don't think it's fair to restrict this to privileged people who live in Berlin, so I set aside some time each week for free online consulting.
If you'd like to bounce off project ideas, want someone to review a drawing, or just need a little encouragement, you can book a chat with me here:
Our dear @steveklabnik.comSteve Klabnik has inspired me to write a bit. It started off as a rebutal about no-one deliberately choosing the wrong tool for any given job... well, it started that way.
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https://x.com/BURGERKINGJAPAN/status/1900004664990720264
Yo! I have added Wii error messages to my https://limes.pink/errors thingy, feel free to check that out!
Our dear @steveklabnik.comSteve Klabnik has inspired me to write a bit. It started off as a rebutal about no-one deliberately choosing the wrong tool for any given job... well, it started that way.
ICE is going to arrest Grok soon.
"We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean."
Babe, are you alright? You've barely touched your cube croissant
Servers
- Mitra v3.19.0
- Mastodon v4.3.6
- GoToSocial v0.18.2
- Pleroma v2.9.1
- tootik v0.15.4
- Misskey v2025.3.1
- Gancio v1.24.4
- NeoDB v0.11.5.1
- kmyblue v17.3
- NodeBB v4.1.1
- Vernissage Server v1.4.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, February 2025 (Mastodon)
- Actually, I take that back (Ghost)
- Gush! - A federated social media platform for sharing the things you love
- Forte: Nomadic fediverse server
- Merp Relay: Lightweight Fediverse message relay
Clients
- SubwayTooter v5.549
- Fedilab v3.30.1
- Mastodon for Android v2.9.5
- Impressia v3.1.0
- Voyager v2.25.0
- Phanpy changelog
Tools and Plugins
- PeerTube livechat plugin v12.0.3
For developers
- ActivityPods v2.1.0
- Granary v8.1
- Roboherd: A framework for building Fediverse bots
Protocol
- Activity Streams/Primer/Tombstone type
Articles
- Why Content Creators should consider the Fediverse
- Mastodon to GoToSocial Migration
- Fediverse Report #107
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01957251-017a-d6e9-a72a-7e34ac1e1a86
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ATmosphere Report - This week's atproto news:
- Bluesky releases a protocol roadmap and a proposal for handling user intents
- @tangled.shTangled is a git collaboration platform on atproto
- Blacksky is working towards Cypher, an AppView with local-only posting
fediversereport.com/atmosphere-r...
ATmosphere Report โ 2025march....
now is the time to sit down and make some calls to friends in these states
I think people should go to therapy for a lot of reasons but also therapy makes your posts better
ATmosphere Report โ 2025march.b
Bluesky PBC shares their protocol roadmap, and a way to indicate user preference to how external parties can handle their data. Tangled is a newly launched Git collaboration platform built on ATProto, and much more news.
Bluesky PBC has published their protocol roadmap for the first half of 2025, containing the projects related to ATProto that the team will be working on. The first project the team has been working on is making it much cheaper to run a relay. In order to validate the data the relay currently stores all the network data, making hosting a relay more expensive. The update that is currently rolling out significantly reduces these requirements, making self-hosting a relay much more accessible.
Auth Scopes makes it possible to make more specific and detailed access permissions when using OAuth. Currently, using OAuth to log into an app with your ATProto (Bluesky) account grants the app full permissions to your entire account. With the upcoming update, an app can set more detailed permissions: for example, a Bluesky client would need read and write permissions for making Bluesky posts, but does not need permissions to read or write posts submitted to Frontpage.
Bluesky PBC is also working on making a web interface for the PDS. The first update is account signup, allowing people to sign up for an ATProto account directly on a PDS, outside of Bluesky. Later on it will expand to broader account management options. This update is one that will help shift the perspective of what ATProto is, and how it can be used. A publicly accessible place to store personal data is a powerful feature. PDS can be seen as a stand-alone component of ATProto, and it does not have to be integrated with a relay and appview for all purposes. A lack of a web interface makes it harder for people to perceive the PDS as an independent stand-alone part. Currently, the PDS gives people power to own their data. Allowing people to log in on their PDS and perform account management gives people the perception and awareness that they need to understand that they own their data.
Further into the future, Bluesky PBC will be working on shared private data. Work on this highly-demanded feature will only start after Auth Scopes have been completed, as this is a requirement to get to private data. Only after that will Bluesky look at on-protocol E2EE DMs.
Bluesky PBC has published a proposal on how to let people set their preference (โuser intentโ) on how their data should be handled outside of the protocol. This concerns things like using their data for generative AI training, being bridged to other protocols, and having their data archived. The proposal is similar to robots.txt: a machine-readable format that good actors are expected to abide by, but is not legally enforceable.
Defining intent (and consent) in a machine-readable format is a major missing piece of the fediverse. The inability to clearly define what a person consents to and does not consent to regarding their data has been a major contributing factor to drama over the years. Implementing such a system on a protocol level is sorely needed, and this is a great step in the right direction for ATProto. It turns out that not only have people different opinions on whether they want their data to end up in training sets for generative AI, many people also have a hard time coming to terms that other people have a different answer to this question than they have.
Building a system that defines user expectations and behaviour requires defining what the default setting of such a system is. Most people will not change from the default setting in any system, so there is significant power in declaring what the default state of a system is. The solution Bluesky PBC is proposing is to set a default value of โundefinedโ. This shifts the problem to the projects that want to use the data, leaving them to decide how to process data with an โundefinedโ user intent. Because the currently proposed user intents cover the entire ATProto account, and not only Bluesky data, it is understandable that Bluesky PBC does not set default values. Doing so would have further cemented the soft power the company already has in the ecosystem. Bluesky PBC is aware of the dynamic here, by proposing that the user intents are not governed by a Lexicon that is under Bluesky PBCโs control, and floating the possibility of community ownership with community.lexicon.
Tangled is a newly launched ATProto software forge platform. Tangled focuses on making a decentralised network for code collaboration, using the ATProto identity system. To do so, Tangled introduces a new entity, a โknotโ. A knot is a lightweight headless server that anyone can host, and that stores the Git repository. A knot can be seen as a slightly different PDS: a PDS stores your personal data that is used in the ATmosphere, and a knot stores your Git repository that is used in the network. You use your ATProto account to control a knot. Tangled provides an AppView, which shows all activity on the network, and allows people to access and contribute to other repositories hosted on other knots.
From a protocol perspective, Tangled works in a similar manner to Stream.place. Stream.place is an upcoming livestreaming platform that is integrated with ATProto. Both platforms add their own software pieces: Tangled adds a knot to store the Git repositories, and Stream.place adds their own software parts that handles the actual streaming part. They both use the PDS to store a public key. With this public key Tangled verifies that the Git repository is indeed owned by your ATProto account, and Stream.place that it is indeed your account that is streaming.
Blacksky continues on its path towards become a fully independent place in the ATmosphere. Founder Rudy Fraser announced that Blacksky received a 30k grant from Skyseed, which will be used to further build an entirely separate ATProto implementation in Rust.
Fraser also announced that Blacksky is developing Cypher, an AppView for Blacksky that features local-only posting. Local-only posting is a concept first introduced in the fediverse, and means that posts are only visible to that specific server, and do not travel outwards to the rest of the fediverse. This is more challenging to do on ATProto, where everything is publicly accessible by default. Fraserโs proposal for local-only posting sidesteps this by having local-only posts be stored on the AppView, not on a PDS. This locks the data into the Blacksky AppView. It sacrifices interoperability, but does provide a pragmatic solution for a real problem. My expectation is that weโll see more of these types of solutions over time.
OpenMeet is an event planning app on ATProto, and it positions itself as an open source competitor to MeetUp. OpenMeet is available for use, but still currently in development. One thing that stands out about OpenMeet is that it uses the Lexicons developed by lexicon.community for its events. Smoke Signal is the first event planner app on ATProto, and its developer Nick Gerakines is part of the lexicon.community team, and working to transition Smoke Signal to use lexicon.community as well. This means OpenMeet and Smoke Signal will be the first examples of interoperability between two platforms using a shared, community-owned lexicon.
The ATProtocol Dev initiative is a community-led initiative (unaffiliated with Bluesky PBC) that is working on various community projects for ATProto, and organises the upcoming ATmosphere conference in Seattle as well. They announced receiving a grant by Skyseed to bring location data to ATProto. Foursquare recently released their dataset of 100 million points of interest as open source, and one of the main goals of this new project is to research the best way to make this massive dataset available natively on ATProto.
Skyart is a DeviantArt clone on ATProto that is currently under development. SkyArt is using their own custom Lexicon, as well as giving people the ability to post to the platform using Blueskyโs Lexicon. This creates the challenge of how to communicate these differences to the users. SkyArt shared an initial screenshot explaining the difference between posting to SkyArt and posting to Bluesky. This is a challenge that other apps will run into as well, so I think itโs worth paying attention to how different apps are thinking about and approaching this problem.
This week was the SXSW, a culture and tech festival in Austin, Texas, and Bluesky CEO Jay Graber was one of the keynote speakers. She held a conversation with Bluesky board member Mike Masnick, and the entire keynote can be rewatched here. Graber made the news with her shirt, which resembled one Mark Zuckerberg recently wore onstage. Zuckerbergโs shirt made news with the text โAut Zuck aut nihilโ, meaning โZuck or nothingโ, a reference to the Latin phrase โAut Caesar aut nihilโ, meaning โEither Caesar or nothing.โ Graberโs shirt said โMundus sine caesaribusโ, meaning โA world without Caesarsโ. Bluesky PBC sold the shirt as a limited edition due to the demand from the community, and the shirts sold out in 30 minutes, with the team looking into doing another sales run.
ROOST is a recently launched initiative to build open source tools for content moderation for social platforms, and Bluesky PBC is one of the partners. Juliet Shen, an employee of ROOST, showed a proof-of-concept this week on an integration between ATProto and Metaโs Hasher-Matcher-Actioner. The goal is that media is scanned, to prevent unwanted/illegal content from being stored on a PDS. The integration with Metaโs Hasher-Matcher-Actioner allows illegal content also to be automatically reported to the relevant authorities. For use cases such as scanning for CSAM, such a system also needs access to the relevant datasets. Getting access to these datasets is not easy however. IFTAS tried to get a similar system off the ground in the fediverse, but they had to shut it down due to a lack of funding.
Popsky is a new pop culture review app on ATProto, using its own Lexicons. It is available for iOS, with Android in testing. Popsky joins other ATProto review platforms like skylights.my, but it seems to be the first one to be focused on mobile.
And some more links to ATProto tech:
Thatโs all for this week, thanks for reading! If you want more analysis, you can subscribe to my newsletter. Every week you get an update with all the articles of this week, as well as extra analysis not published anywhere else. You can subscribe below, and follow this blog @fediversereport.com and my personal account @laurenshof.online on Bluesky.
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Today the governor's office picked up, same strategy as yesterday, briefly register complaint, thank the person for answering the phone, re-iterate that I hope callers are being nice to them personally and that they have the hardest job in the Governor's office.
Patiently waiting for responses to my FOIA requeests, and by patiently waiting I mean refreshing the muckrock page every couple of hours even though I know nothing will have changed.
Newsom's Apple podcast rating has dropped below a 3 out of 5.
Presumably the influx of right wing weirdos doing 5 starts post release has waned.
If you haven't left a one star review consider doing so.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-gavin-newsom/id1798358255
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It's the first #FediDonutFriday ๐ฉ I'm starting a donut club for the Fediverse, let's get donuts together!
Completely missed this date. 6 March 2000. 1st ever meeting of bloggers of Montreal. #yulblog (25 years ago).
> YULBlog began in early 2000, when five Web-savvy people living in Montreal (Ed Bilodeau 
@edbilodeau , Michael Boyle https://www.mikel.org , Heather Champ 
@heatherheather champ , Aaron Straup Cope 
@thisisaaronland , and David Petite) got together for drinks and to discuss the new phenomenon of blogging.
https://www.blork.org/blorkblog/yulblog/
I was not there yet. Joined on Jan 2002 with a couple of others.
Life is, of course, terrible.
I think people should go to therapy for a lot of reasons but also therapy makes your posts better
It's the first #FediDonutFriday ๐ฉ I'm starting a donut club for the Fediverse, let's get donuts together!
Okay okay okay I am *excited*
Thanks to the kindness of 
@mhoye , I have now acquired an Artifact. And I am going to get up to some utter nonsense with it
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
March 14,1951
Listening to Daft Punk - Discovery - Aerodynamic while working through some complex spreadsheeeeeets.
I can't believe that CD was 24 years and two days ago.
I remember having a bad flu and crashing at a relative's place while they weren't there. "One more time" was on the radio (remember the radio??) and there was flu boi, dancing like a lunatic in his relative's apartment.
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posting from the file system lol
Going for a space gray accessory vibe today.
No quedarme, no adaptarme, no participar.
you, a fool: you can't dismantle an organization from within chuck schumer: you are like a little baby, watch this
ICE is going to arrest Grok soon.
I'm tired of hot takes and opinions. Show your work or get out.
By the way, if you want some evidence design consulting for your engineering organization from someone who CAN show her work? You know where to find me.
Despite all the stereotypes, sometimes software gets the math wrong ๐
Why care about understanding how software metrics operate in the real world at scale? Because I see tech folks constantly talk big about using terrible aggregations that make no sense.
Without empirical evidence at scale on this, I have held back many opinions for years. But now I have such evidence and I'm ready to say: many approaches are NOT measuring software work with the care it deserves or frankly even basic statistical reasoning
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