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.
PRESS RELEASE: https://www.seti.org/press-release/meteorites-geologic-map-asteroid-belt
Where do meteorites of different types come from? Astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid belt.
“This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue,” said Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center. “We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt.”
めかよじだ
Evan Prodromou shared the below article:
Evan Prodromou @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org
The Social Web Foundation took part in the Fediverse House at South by Southwest on March 9-10 2025. We hosted the networking meetup on day 1, as well as a developer meetup immediately afterwards. We were lucky enough to have Manton Reece present micro.blog and Charles Krempeaux (@reiver) present spacehost.one and robin.live.
I (Evan) also spoke on stage with Peter Cottle of Threads, Mike Masnick of Techdirt, and David Imel. We had a great conversation about the way the Fediverse is developing in 2025, how the different connected networks are interoperating, and what to look forward to in the coming year.
One compelling part of the Fediverse House experience was the outreach to different communities that can benefit from using social web technologies: marketers, creators, and publishers. I think addressing broader sets of needs can be helpful for spreading the technology. The talks were recorded and will be released online over the coming months.
Thanks to everyone who attended or spoke at Fediverse House; especially to Cory Doctorow, who gave a great talk about enshittification and the social web. And a special thanks to the team at Flipboard, including Mike McCue, Marcie McCue, and Mia Quagliarello for making the whole event happen and for inviting SWF to participate. We look forward to even more Fediverse events at SXSW 2026!
Evan Prodromou @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org
The Social Web Foundation took part in the Fediverse House at South by Southwest on March 9-10 2025. We hosted the networking meetup on day 1, as well as a developer meetup immediately afterwards. We were lucky enough to have Manton Reece present micro.blog and Charles Krempeaux (@reiver) present spacehost.one and robin.live.
I (Evan) also spoke on stage with Peter Cottle of Threads, Mike Masnick of Techdirt, and David Imel. We had a great conversation about the way the Fediverse is developing in 2025, how the different connected networks are interoperating, and what to look forward to in the coming year.
One compelling part of the Fediverse House experience was the outreach to different communities that can benefit from using social web technologies: marketers, creators, and publishers. I think addressing broader sets of needs can be helpful for spreading the technology. The talks were recorded and will be released online over the coming months.
Thanks to everyone who attended or spoke at Fediverse House; especially to Cory Doctorow, who gave a great talk about enshittification and the social web. And a special thanks to the team at Flipboard, including Mike McCue, Marcie McCue, and Mia Quagliarello for making the whole event happen and for inviting SWF to participate. We look forward to even more Fediverse events at SXSW 2026!
It's around the 1.5 year anniversary of me running this silly account so here's some updates!
• profile makeover!
• all posts will now be getting alt text with attribution when i have access to it!
• feel free to submit memes by sending me it in a mentions-only post!
shipping of MNT Pocket Reforms to 
@crowdsupply / Mouser continues! (photos by 
@theawesomerandomness)
おちごと 
547658f086 (upstream/main) Fix handling of malformed/unusual HTML (#34201)
4ad5d8e6e5 Lock `aws-sdk-core` to pre-checksum-required version (#34202)
dc21104c04 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#34178)
9d5cbbbf0f Fix account notes not being displayed (#34166)
6bce43cdb8 chore(deps): update dependency mime-types to v3.6.1 (#34196)
795d465f8d Convert `disputes/strikes` spec controller->request/system (#34191)
8ef546fe6b Convert `oauth/tokens#revoke` spec controller->request (#34174)
Do I want to risk another Playdate situation (waiting 2.5 years after the initial quoted date) or a PocketC.H.I.P. situation (apparently I was very lucky to get mine because I bought it normally and a lot of kickstarter backers didn't even get theirs), and spend $150/$225 to get the new Pebble? Hmmm....
「Microsoft Copilot」アプリが勝手に自動アンインストール、2025年3月の「Windows Update」適用で - 窓の杜
https://search.app/jGqyFh2vJLqJjHsZ7
えぇ…?
New blog post: Silly Mastodon Apps https://halcy.de/blog/2025/03/18/silly-mastodon-apps/
featuring: posting from your phone like it‘s 2008, posting from the file system, posting from the browser but in a very roundabout way, posting sideways, maybe more
Proof of Concept for a personal #FreeBSD installer in #Lua
https://alfonsosiciliano.gitlab.io/posts/2025-03-18-poc-installer.html
THE SHIRTS ARE BACK IN STOCK
worldwithoutcaesars.com
MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS — A WOR...
公式のBskyアカウント見つけたらとりあえずAPub側からブリッジ経由で照会かけてる
お客さんみんな楽しそうなのしあわせだなあ！
YOASOBI「HEART BEAT」 from 『YOASOBI ASIA TOUR 2024-2025 “超現実｜cho-genjitsu”...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vuEl3u-va-k
Replaced Chum Rod in Moby's Shop with Chum Sinker.Rodが使えなくなってたのこれかぁ
Microsoft sent me an email telling me to throw my computer in the trash. 🤷
skyblockに釣り関係のアプデ来ててうっきうきになってる
I've read this piece recently by an Electron maintainer that makes the case for why Electron is (still) a good choice and stands behind it.
https://felixrieseberg.com/things-people-get-wrong-about-electron/
Still, the numbers just don't lie... Consider Matrix clients. The resource hog is just obscene for any Electron option compared to a native or Tauri alternative.
Maybe it's just me and my aging machines that I run slim stacks on to get stuff done? And the answer is to increase power? What a sad, unsustainable answer to arrive at.
LLM and GenAI rant by Drew DeVault
"We are experiencing dozens of brief outages per week, and I have to review our mitigations several times per day to keep that number from getting any higher."
"If you personally work on developing LLMs et al, know this: I will never work with you again, and I will remember which side you picked when the bubble bursts."
https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html
Holy shit, Drew has _had_ it.
And this, folks, is why some of us are so passionately hating LLMs and generative AI.
Do you use github or gitlab or codeberg or something else for hosting open source projects that you run?
I would love to hear your reasons! I have mostly been using github, but would love to move away from it.
shipping of MNT Pocket Reforms to @crowdsupply / Mouser continues! (photos by @theawesomerandomness)
깜짝이야 이게뭔데
You can look through a file in a nice text-based interface by typing
less filename
After extracting all of the URLs linked to from blog posts, and removing all the ones that obviously aren't actually URLs, the longest URL is currently 6917 characters.
Curso "Programación lógica (2007-08)". https://jaalonso.github.io/cursos/d-pl-07 #ProgramaciónLógica #Prolog #IA
"Protestors are standing outside Tesla lots and waving anti-Musk signs. Celebrities and influencers are going viral with videos announcing the sell-off of their Musk-branded EV. People are throwing molotov cocktails at Teslas, spray painting them with swastikas, stealing their tires, and setting them on fire.
[...]
As the news, and insurance claims, pile up, insurers are driving up rates."
https://gizmodo.com/tesla-hate-is-making-insurance-more-expensive-for-owners-2000577467
Fediverse Report #108
Newsletter publisher Ghost is now connecting to the fediverse in public beta, updates about the bridge that connects the fediverse with Bluesky, and more.
The public beta for connecting Ghost to the fediverse is here, and the ActivityPub integration is now available for Ghost Pro subscribers. Ghost is a publishing platform for sending out blogs via email. With this latest update, Ghost now has another method of distribution, namely via the fediverse. Ghost’s integration with the fediverse consists of two parts: sending out long-form articles published on Ghost into the fediverse, and a reader app to the fediverse from Ghost.
Publishing Ghost articles on ActivityPub makes them accessible to the rest of the fediverse, similar to how WordPress with the ActivityPub plugin works. For users of Ghost this is an easy sales pitch, it is simply another free and automatic distribution channel for their blog. The second part of Ghost’s integration with the social web is a reader app. This app allows Ghost users to browse and read posts on the fediverse. It is split up into two parts: an inbox for reading other long-form posts from Ghost or WordPress, and a feed for all other types of posts. This allows accounts on Ghost not only to send out posts via the ActivityPub integration, but also to connect, respond and follow their audience. It even allows you to post short-form microblogs (notes), just like you’d use on Mastodon, that do not show up on the Ghost website. This makes the Ghost integration a full fediverse experience.
A New Social is the non-profit organisation that builds and manages cross-protocol tools for the open social web. The organisation currently manages Bridgy Fed, the connector that allows accounts to ‘bridge’ between both ActivityPub, ATProto, Nostr and more, and is currently in the process of setting up and launching the organisation. In their first update they shared this week, A New Social shared that they have a board of directors, consisting of Erin Kissane, Ben Werdmuller and Susan Mernit. Bridgy Fed Config is the first upcoming launch that they announced, scheduled for early April. To bridge their account, Bridgy Fed currently requires people to follow the Bridgy Fed account on their platform, which can be confusing and opaque for people as to what is actually happening and if it is working. The upcoming Config settings page allows people to log in with their social web account (Bluesky, Mastodon, Pixelfed) and turn the bridging on with a simple switch. A New Social also mentions supporting Threads with the new Bridgy Fed Config update, which is currently not supported by Bridgy Fed.
Forte is a new fediverse platform, that comes from the lineage of Hubzilla and Streams, created by the same developer Mike Macgirvin. Forte’s major feature is that it has Nomadic Identity over ActivityPub. Nomadic Identity means that you can port your entire account, including your posts, settings, social connections, etc. It is slightly different than the account migration that Mastodon has, which transfers your social graph to a new account. With Nomadic Identity, you create a single identity that can be connected to multiple different servers, so when one server becomes unavailable, all your personal data can be transferred and accessed from another server linked to your account. Forte, as well as Hubzilla and Streams, remain on the bleeding edge on what’s possible with ActivityPub. However, Forte also suffers from the same issue that its predecessors have, namely that getting to use the software is surprisingly difficult. By design there is no way to see a list of Forte servers. Forte mainly targets people with technical know-how, as the code repository does not include guide on how to setup your own Forte server. It leads to the funny situation where I would like to give Forte a try because I’m interesting in trying out the new features, but I legitimately do not know how.
Myo is a new image-focused client for the open social web, and allows you to connect your Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr accounts into a single timeline. Combining multiple accounts into a single timeline is similar to OpenVibe, but Myo instead focuses media, in a design that is more reminiscent of Instagram than Twitter. Myo is made by the same developer as SoraSNS, which is also a multi-protocol app that focuses on microblogging instead. Myo and SoraSNS are both available for iOS.
ActivityPub badges is a new project that is currently in development to build a badges/credential system similar to Credly on ActivityPub. The project is currently at the proof-of-concept phase, where badges can be created and send over ActivityPub.
IFTAS, the non-profit for collaborative work on trust & safety on the fediverse, recently had to shut down various of their services due to a lack of funding. In their latest update, the organisation talks about how they are rescoping and moving forward, as the organisation itself is not shutting down. IFTAS will continue with various community support projects, such as their community platform IFTAS Connect. They will also continue providing insight into commonly blocked domains, in a scaled down version of the shut-down FediCheck program.
A new form of spam/scam has recently emerged on the fediverse, and it involves private messages from an account that identifies itself as ‘Nicole the fediverse chick’. So many people have gotten a variation of this message that it is quickly becoming a meme on the fediverse. It is unclear what the exact purpose of this spam is, with either a doxing ex or an elaborate 4chan troll as likely explainers.
This article by Fassbender examines how state surveillance treats federated and decentralised social networks, focusing on the BlueLeaks dataset, which contains a large amount of internal documentation of state surveillance organisations. Fassbender writes: “[…] surveillance actors are less interested in understanding decentralization within platforms, but rather look at organizations first, then take an interest in all platforms that they spread to. This means that any platform (or in the case of the fediverse, grouping of platforms that share a method for interconnecting) can become suspect.”
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:
New: Fediverse Report #108
This week's news:
- Ghost's (
@indexBuilding ActivityPub) connection to the #fediverse is now availabe in public beta for Ghost Pro users, with both an #ActivityPub connection to send long-form posts into the fediverse, and a reader app to read/comment/interact with the fediverse
- 
@anewsocial , the organisation that manages the bridge between the fediverse and #bluesky shared their upcoming plans
寝るかぁ
にゃーん
Fediverse Report #108
Newsletter publisher Ghost is now connecting to the fediverse in public beta, updates about the bridge that connects the fediverse with Bluesky, and more.
The public beta for connecting Ghost to the fediverse is here, and the ActivityPub integration is now available for Ghost Pro subscribers. Ghost is a publishing platform for sending out blogs via email. With this latest update, Ghost now has another method of distribution, namely via the fediverse. Ghost’s integration with the fediverse consists of two parts: sending out long-form articles published on Ghost into the fediverse, and a reader app to the fediverse from Ghost.
Publishing Ghost articles on ActivityPub makes them accessible to the rest of the fediverse, similar to how WordPress with the ActivityPub plugin works. For users of Ghost this is an easy sales pitch, it is simply another free and automatic distribution channel for their blog. The second part of Ghost’s integration with the social web is a reader app. This app allows Ghost users to browse and read posts on the fediverse. It is split up into two parts: an inbox for reading other long-form posts from Ghost or WordPress, and a feed for all other types of posts. This allows accounts on Ghost not only to send out posts via the ActivityPub integration, but also to connect, respond and follow their audience. It even allows you to post short-form microblogs (notes), just like you’d use on Mastodon, that do not show up on the Ghost website. This makes the Ghost integration a full fediverse experience.
A New Social is the non-profit organisation that builds and manages cross-protocol tools for the open social web. The organisation currently manages Bridgy Fed, the connector that allows accounts to ‘bridge’ between both ActivityPub, ATProto, Nostr and more, and is currently in the process of setting up and launching the organisation. In their first update they shared this week, A New Social shared that they have a board of directors, consisting of Erin Kissane, Ben Werdmuller and Susan Mernit. Bridgy Fed Config is the first upcoming launch that they announced, scheduled for early April. To bridge their account, Bridgy Fed currently requires people to follow the Bridgy Fed account on their platform, which can be confusing and opaque for people as to what is actually happening and if it is working. The upcoming Config settings page allows people to log in with their social web account (Bluesky, Mastodon, Pixelfed) and turn the bridging on with a simple switch. A New Social also mentions supporting Threads with the new Bridgy Fed Config update, which is currently not supported by Bridgy Fed.
Forte is a new fediverse platform, that comes from the lineage of Hubzilla and Streams, created by the same developer Mike Macgirvin. Forte’s major feature is that it has Nomadic Identity over ActivityPub. Nomadic Identity means that you can port your entire account, including your posts, settings, social connections, etc. It is slightly different than the account migration that Mastodon has, which transfers your social graph to a new account. With Nomadic Identity, you create a single identity that can be connected to multiple different servers, so when one server becomes unavailable, all your personal data can be transferred and accessed from another server linked to your account. Forte, as well as Hubzilla and Streams, remain on the bleeding edge on what’s possible with ActivityPub. However, Forte also suffers from the same issue that its predecessors have, namely that getting to use the software is surprisingly difficult. By design there is no way to see a list of Forte servers. Forte mainly targets people with technical know-how, as the code repository does not include guide on how to setup your own Forte server. It leads to the funny situation where I would like to give Forte a try because I’m interesting in trying out the new features, but I legitimately do not know how.
Myo is a new image-focused client for the open social web, and allows you to connect your Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr accounts into a single timeline. Combining multiple accounts into a single timeline is similar to OpenVibe, but Myo instead focuses media, in a design that is more reminiscent of Instagram than Twitter. Myo is made by the same developer as SoraSNS, which is also a multi-protocol app that focuses on microblogging instead. Myo and SoraSNS are both available for iOS.
ActivityPub badges is a new project that is currently in development to build a badges/credential system similar to Credly on ActivityPub. The project is currently at the proof-of-concept phase, where badges can be created and send over ActivityPub.
IFTAS, the non-profit for collaborative work on trust & safety on the fediverse, recently had to shut down various of their services due to a lack of funding. In their latest update, the organisation talks about how they are rescoping and moving forward, as the organisation itself is not shutting down. IFTAS will continue with various community support projects, such as their community platform IFTAS Connect. They will also continue providing insight into commonly blocked domains, in a scaled down version of the shut-down FediCheck program.
A new form of spam/scam has recently emerged on the fediverse, and it involves private messages from an account that identifies itself as ‘Nicole the fediverse chick’. So many people have gotten a variation of this message that it is quickly becoming a meme on the fediverse. It is unclear what the exact purpose of this spam is, with either a doxing ex or an elaborate 4chan troll as likely explainers.
This article by Fassbender examines how state surveillance treats federated and decentralised social networks, focusing on the BlueLeaks dataset, which contains a large amount of internal documentation of state surveillance organisations. Fassbender writes: “[…] surveillance actors are less interested in understanding decentralization within platforms, but rather look at organizations first, then take an interest in all platforms that they spread to. This means that any platform (or in the case of the fediverse, grouping of platforms that share a method for interconnecting) can become suspect.”
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:
If you wish we can backchannel so we can block all Nicole accounts?
うにゃー
You can look through a file in a nice text-based interface by typing
less filename
気がついたら3時だし
大惨事って感じ
（画像略）
Get the fuck off X, for fuck's sake!
No more 'I don't agree with Hitler, but I need the Reich Chancellery for my business/friends/followers' excuses.
You are part of the problem now. You are an enabler.
Vreselijk nieuws uit Hongarije: zojuist stemde het parlement in met Orbáns wetsvoorstel dat Pride verbiedt.
Wij zijn opnieuw het strijdtoneel van de cultuuroorlog van extreemrechts.
Samen met rapporteur
@tinekestrik.bsky.social
en 31 andere MEPs roep ik de Commissie op om snel actie te ondernemen.
Dutch parliament sends motion to government, asking them to make sure the DNS (Domain Name Service) for the .nl TLD (Top Level Domain) is running on infrastructure that is physically located in the Netherlands. The planned outsourcing of (parts of) the infrastructure to AWS is to be reversed and the government shall inform the parliament of the outcome before the summer break. https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/114184175675997330
Die nächste Wahlkampflüge der #CDU entlarvt sich: Das Gebäudeenergiegesetz (GEG) bleibt – denn Deutschland ist verfassungsrechtlich zu effektivem #Klimaschutz verpflichtet.
Zur Erinnerung: 2020 wurde das GEG vom Kabinett Merkel IV entworfen und vom Bundestag verabschiedet, um die Klimaziele im Gebäudesektor zu erreichen. Habeck hat es schließlich umgesetzt, um die beschlossene #Wärmewende voranzutreiben.
➡️ https://www.merkur.de/politik/cdu-nun-gegen-abschaffung-von-habecks-heizungsgesetz-zr-93631730.html
ガムが手元にあるとずっと噛んじゃって顎駄目になるよ
融けたいかも
うにゃあ
Overheard at today's P6 Solar Eclipse workshop at Towerbank Primary.
"WOW - that is SO COOL"
"Is that really the Sun? But it's so small!"
"This is the best thing we've done at school, ever" 🥳
Headmaster: "now that's what we call a wow moment"
🙏 for clear skies for the real event on 29th March! 🤞🔭
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ok3ms3dzop7gcwejp7lswhpi/post/3lklklwcqbc2y
ガムとか買うべきかしら
よくない
手元にお菓子があるとついつい食べちゃうにゃ
んー
にゃーん
かんぺきになりたさがある
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