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.
ah yes
ねねば
にゃーん
I invite you to do an image search "salmiak cats" the Finnish cat coat named after their salty licorice.
Taking a line (approximately) from 
@neilNeil Brown
I don't have a specific thing to say on Trans Day of Visibility, but I would like to say something.
Interacting with and listening to so many trans people here and on the larger internet (and even in my small town) has helped me be a better more empathetic person. I see you and I am glad you're you.
btw libadwaita is currently maintained by a trans person (me) :3
RE: https://floss.social/users/GTK/statuses/114257879317637490
I closed 500 tabs today.
Recent datepicker experience:
1. Control is presented as three separate spin controls, supporting the Up/Down Arrow keys to increment and decrement the value as well as manual typing. But because they're not text inputs, I can't use the Left/Right Arrow keys to review what each separate one contains, only to move between day, month, and year.
2. I tab to year.
3. I press Down Arrow, and the value is set to 2075. I'm unclear how many use cases require the year to be frequently set to 2075, but I can't imagine it's many so this seems like a fairly ridiculous starting point.
4. I press Up Arrow, and the value gets set to 0001. The number of applications for which 0001 is a valid year is likewise vanishingly small.
5. I delete the 0001, at which point my #screenReader reports that the current value is "0". Also not a valid year.
6. Out of curiosity, I inspect the element to see which third-party component is being used to create this mess... only to find that it's a native `<input>` with `type="date"` and this is just how Google Chrome presents it.
A good reminder that #HTML is not always the most #accessible or user-friendly.
🥳 Vraiment une excellente journée : j'ai été Nicolé une 4ème fois !
Such an excellent day : I've been Nicoled for the fourth time !
The February 2025 report for the Laptop Support and Usability Project is now live! This month’s highlights include:
⭐ Laptop Sleep Enhancements: Introducing S0ix and s2idle low power states for deeper sleep modes.
⭐ Faster WiFi: Test WiFi 4 (802.11n) and WiFi 5 (802.11ac) for high-speed connectivity on modern chipsets.
⭐ Linux WiFi Driver Support: Improved LinuxKPI translation layer for seamless driver adaptation.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/february-2025-laptop-support-and-usability-project-update/
Oh, do you now regret your vote for Donald Trump because his actions are personally affecting your life and your family?
Ok. Here's what I want you to do. I want you to go to every single liberal person you know - family, friends, co-workers, even that liberal you know on Facebook that you're constantly sending offensive memes to. I want you to go to them - in person if possible - and personally apologize to them. Tell them you're sorry for putting their life in danger because you wanted cheaper eggs or some shit. Tell them that you're regretful that your shortsightedness and bigotry is now causing them pain and suffering. Tell them that you apologize for your lack of empathy, and that in the future, you will listen to people who are more empathetic than you without ridicule or mockery. Tell them all that.
Oh, you're not going to? Okay then, I guess now we both know that your so-called "regret" was a lie. What you're actually feeling is just more selfishness.
Latest episode is out! #426: Committing to Formatted Markdown #python with 
@mkennedyMichael Kennedy 
@brianokkenBrian Okken 
https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/426/committing-to-formatted-markdown
And it's here. The post we've all been waiting for. My god, it even has movies!
https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/msite/
"My new Emacs (and Ruby) based Static Site Generator"
#licesing question.
People share (a)gpl code on github. Github is not available everywhere (even read access I think).
Does that break the GPL?
"...must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software"
(AGPL 3, section 13)
MLB says Yankees' new "torpedo bats" are legal and likely coming
Link: https://thelibertyline.com/2025/03/30/yankees-new-torpedo-bat/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43536146
i can tell I've been writing this terminal zine for too long because I just had the thought "oh, it might be fun to read `man bash`”
Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed
Link: https://9to5google.com/2025/03/31/honey-extension-users-dropped-chrome-march-2025/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538113
Want to use sed(1) to edit a file in place? Well, to replace every 'e' with
an 'o', in a file named 'foo', you can do:
sed -i.bak s/e/o/g foo
And you'll get a backup of the original in a file named 'foo.bak', but if you
want no backup:
sed -i '' s/e/o/g foo
What do you need from #Nix flakes? What would get you to replace them with something else?
The only Ghibli I want to see on my feed is actual Ghibli.
I wonder where they are off to?
btw libadwaita is currently maintained by a trans person (me) :3
RE: https://floss.social/users/GTK/statuses/114257879317637490
tl;dr — how do PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin handle cross-posting?
Currently, when a NodeBB admin moves a topic from the uncategorized pseudo-category into a local category, we federate out an as:Announce, people typically think of that as a "boost" or "share".
That worked fine when the entirety of the category list was your local categories plus the "uncategorized" pseudo-category. However, now that NodeBB is moving towards supporting remote categories (via group actors), this UX makes less sense. We wouldn't want to "move" a topic out of the category it is supposed to be in, just for visibility to other local users. Additionally, topic moving was limited to administrators, and from the get-go we knew it would eventually cause issues because people other than admins would want to share topics to other local users.
This is where the "cross-post" functionality comes in, which is entirely new to NodeBB. I don't think this is new to other AP-enabled threaded discussion software. The idea would be that if a new topic comes in, whether it's uncategorized or not, any user could "cross-post" that topic to a local category, where it would be visible to other users on that instance. On the ActivityPub side, we would then federate out an as:Announce as we already do.
Is this what PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin already do, if they support cross-posting? What other alternative solutions would there be to this problem?
cc @rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz @andrew_s@piefed.social @nutomic@lemmy.ml @bentigorlich@wehavecookies.social
Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta
Link: https://turso.tech/blog/turso-offline-sync-public-beta
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535943
France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking
Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/france-fines-apple-e150m-for-excessive-pop-ups-that-let-users-reject-tracking/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43537593
`<span>`
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`<spandex>`
I’m excited to share that today I started my new position as Director of Information Security at 4DMedical!
After my recent involuntary departure from USDS and the VA (Thanks, DOGE! /s), I was more certain than ever that I wanted my next role to be in a mission-driven organization making the world better in real ways for real people. I'm certain that 4DMedical fits the bill.
I'm excited to bring my skills and experience to bear leveling up 4DMedical's already solid infosec posture.
Le niveau du débat public est :
Because it's a subject that's often discussed with me, I'm sharing (and will pin this) this video, which helped me about naming yourself (again, thanks MallBat (https://youtube.com/@mallbat)).
Hoping that this will help you too <3
Today brings 84 new features in Safari 18.4!
• Declarative Web Push
• Screen Wake Lock API for Home Screen Web Apps
• Viewport presets in Responsive Design Mode
• Ogg Opus & Vorbis
• Image Capture API
• WebM support in MediaRecorder
• `view-transition-name: match-element`
• `::details-content`
• `sideways-rl` & `sideways-lr`
• `shape()`dialog.requestClose()
• JavaScript Iterators
• CHIPS
• new Web Extension APIs
• alpha & transparency in color picker
and a LOT more!
https://webkit.org/blog/16574/webkit-features-in-safari-18-4/
Organizational update: FediForum, this time, is organized entirely by 
@j12tJohannes Ernst . The previous co-organizer is no longer involved.
Johannes' previous announcement said "transitioning out" because there were a lot of accounts to transfer and settings to change and responsibilities to be moved so the transition could not be immediate. However, we have been scrambling and believe it is now complete.
(It is possible we missed something. If so, please point this out, gently if possible :-))
iPad vs Linux平板，使用後的思考。買了iPad Air 6後，Linux平板PineTab 2怎麼了 · Ivon的部落格
https://ivonblog.com/posts/pine64-pinetab2-after-purchasing-ipad-air-6/
I'm Dynamo-Deepblue 💙 (she/her)
I draw #furryart, #fanart, and I make #merch!
🎨 Website & Commissions: https://www.dynamo-deepblue.com/
🛍️ Shop: https://www.dynamo-deepblue.com/
☕ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/dynamodeepblue
🖼️ Telegram Art Channel: https://t.me/dynamodeepblueart
🔗 My Other Platforms: https://ko-fi.com/dynamodeepblue
Here's another photo from yesterday's LBM visit, with Reno from FF VII. This one was taken in the glass hall, where a lot of cosplayers meet. It's a weird location. It has the best photo spots, but it's also much louder and much warmer than the other exhibition halls. You can tell how much sun gets in there by my glasses, which started to turn dark because of the UV light.
New intro now I am retired...
Looking to get into some #Indie #GameDev now I have time. Want to write the games I wanted to write all along: #Roguelike #Roguelite #ProceduralContent...
Also available to help other people with projects/personal development... Commercial or unpaid, drop me a message, the worst can happen is I don't know or am too busy.
Skills: #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDesign
#C++ #Teamwork, #C++, #Online
ニヤッとしてしまった。言われてみればエイプリルフールだったけどこの様な投稿がされるとは思わなかった。
Reminder that 
@fediforum is hosting a conference starting tomorrow (this Tuesday), with some big names.
One of the (two) organizers is very openly transphobic, in a bunch of different (and obviously harmful) ways.
While there's been a statement from @j12tJohannes Ernst that eventually she'll be leaving the organization, we still have no answer about if she will be participating in (or profiting from) tomorrow's conference.
Boosts appreciated, so that everybody attending has a chance to cancel.
📢 MisskeyHQの新事務所がオープン 📢
このたび、MisskeyHQは破格での土地の購入に成功しました！
つきましては新事務所はこれより添付の場所となりますので、おいでの方は旧事務所と混同しないようご注意ください。
アクセスには羽田から新東名高速道路が便利です。
今後ともMisskey.ioをよろしくお願いします。
方姆敢表態真的很佩服
認識的繪圈大手就她出來喊而已，其它人一聲都沒吭，什麼時候台灣的創作者可以不用這樣🙄
In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much
(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)
Today’s bread is a handsome one
Deutschland von Frankreich schockiert: Politikerin wird zur Rechenschaft gezogen.
tl;dr — how do PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin handle cross-posting?
Currently, when a NodeBB admin moves a topic from the uncategorized pseudo-category into a local category, we federate out an as:Announce, people typically think of that as a "boost" or "share".
That worked fine when the entirety of the category list was your local categories plus the "uncategorized" pseudo-category. However, now that NodeBB is moving towards supporting remote categories (via group actors), this UX makes less sense. We wouldn't want to "move" a topic out of the category it is supposed to be in, just for visibility to other local users. Additionally, topic moving was limited to administrators, and from the get-go we knew it would eventually cause issues because people other than admins would want to share topics to other local users.
This is where the "cross-post" functionality comes in, which is entirely new to NodeBB. I don't think this is new to other AP-enabled threaded discussion software. The idea would be that if a new topic comes in, whether it's uncategorized or not, any user could "cross-post" that topic to a local category, where it would be visible to other users on that instance. On the ActivityPub side, we would then federate out an as:Announce as we already do.
Is this what PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin already do, if they support cross-posting? What other alternative solutions would there be to this problem?
cc @rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz @andrew_s@piefed.social @nutomic@lemmy.ml @bentigorlich@wehavecookies.social
BSides Saskatoon is back for another year!
Join us for the #1 infosec event in Saskatoon! On August 22, 2025 we'll be taking over the Broadway Theatre for the 2nd annual BSides Saskatoon.
There will even be a half day of training on the 21st. Stay tuned for details!
Visit us at https://bsidesyxe.ca for more information, tickets go on sale on Friday April 4, 2025!
Horizon Haskell (Road To GHC 9.14) #2: Building GHC from master
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj5Vyl6LUs4
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj5Vyl6LUs4
I miss Weird Sony
GTK
+ 
Stefano Marinelli
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
@
Emelia 👸🏻
rob pike
wakest ⁂