What is Hackers' Pub?

I wonder if there's an easy way to make the Python lxml package use a modern Python HTTP/HTTPS client, like urllib or requests, when loading external entities and DTDs. If I just pass no_network=False to XMLParser, that seems to use a client built into libxml2, which doesn't support HTTPS.

Or maybe I need to figure out how to put the DTDs I'm working with into a catalog.

整数IDがいいねとActiveRecordが言ったから4月15日(UTC)はぼっち記念日

> SELECT created_at FROM accounts WHERE id=1;
created_at
----------------------------
2017-04-15 02:47:37.894054
(1 row)

SQL pie chart (2009) https://lobste.rs/s/l5bstc #databases
https://code.openark.org/blog/mysql/sql-pie-chart

You know why I love Juniper gear so much? reason #44617:

Backing up the configs is a fracking shell script executed via cron. It's just a for loop that grabs the configs and set statements for each device on the network via SSH, ran however often I want it to. I stash them locally, and stash more copies remotely. Done.

Hello, if you care about Servo, the alternative web browser engine that was originally slated to be the next gen Firefox but now is a donation-supported project under the Linux Foundation, you should know Servo announced a plan to as of June start allowing Servo code to be written by "Github Copilot":

https://floss.social/@servo/114296977894869359

There's a thoughtful post about this by the author of the former policy, which until now banned this:

https://kolektiva.social/@delan/114319591118095728

FOLLOWUP: Canceled! https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114376955704933891

Happy Fediverse Day! 🎈🎉🥳🎊

April 11th is Fediverse Day! 🎈

@hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)
RE: https://hollo.social/@hongminhee/01962326-c160-7895-84dd-4e6f5ebe6025

#DeSo #Fediverse #FediverseDay #HappyFediverseDay

@hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) I'm all for a "Fediverse day". Today is as good as any other!

Very excited to be at an in-person @Mastodon aperitivo at #IJF25. @andypiper is welcoming us all and setting the stage. The #fediverse can help build a more free, more international, more democratic social web.

Selhosted P2P E2EE File Transfer & Messaging PWA

* #OpenSource
* #CrossPlatform
* #PWA
* #iOS, #Android, #Desktop (self compile)
* App store, Play store (coming soon)
* Desktop
* #Windows, #MacOS, #Linux (self compile)
* run `index.html` on any modern #browser
* #Decentralized
* #Secure
* #NoCookies
* #P2P #encrypted
* No registration
* No installing
* #Messaging
* Group Messaging (coming soon)
* Text Messaging
* #Multimedia Messaging
* #Screensharing (on desktop browsers)
* Offline Messaging (in #research phase)
* #FileTransfer
* #VideoCalls
* #DataOwnership
* #SelfHosted
* GitHub pages Hosting
* #LocalOnly storage

Check it out!

https://positive-intentions.com

(Degoogled links to the apps)
- Chat: https://chat.positive-intentions.com
- File: https://file.positive-intentions.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/positive-intentions

See you Monday

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#195 Typed Weather
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/04/twig-195/

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#195 Typed Weather
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/04/twig-195/

#GNOME #TWIG

Utter bullshit. @argyleinkAdam Argyle did SO MUCH for them. People like him were why I thought that Google can't be all evil.

Welp 🤷

If anyone's looking for one of the world's best dev-rels, here you go:

https://front-end.social/@argyleink/114320655479972337

Cannot unsee. https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

@stefanoStefano Marinelli I got my dad to quit using proprietary anti viruses (avira) just this week. Finally!

cardiline

drawing on autopilot-chan

@stefanoStefano Marinelli

I love the logic of "We were running late because of traffic so we stopped somewhere beautiful that we love"

I should learn this lesson better.

Thanks.

Introducing “Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji”!

‘😂’ explores where the world’s newest language came from, how it works, and where it is going. It will not help you master emoji — only a tween could do that, and they will be too busy texting — but it will provide an indispensable guide to the most vibrant part of modern language.

It will be published in July, and you can pre-order the paperback from all the usual places. Visit https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2025/04/face-with-tears-of-joy-revealed/ to learn more!
1/3

@ayoAyo! the web is an active warzone

经典流程

@dolmengi@mastodon.online
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Happy #NationalPoutineDay to those who celebrate! #April11

How to Make a Longbow

Link: https://www.howtomakealongbow.co.uk
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43652160

油断してたら雨は本降りになるしルンバさんどこかで遭難してるし #おっさんぽ悲報

Hmmm.
In the hospital canteen. A Warrens "chicken" pasty apparently contains a surprising 12% chicken.
I couldn't actually find any.

今日互联网

Interview with Vibe Coder in 2025 https://lobste.rs/s/ux7cx2 #video #satire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeNS1ZNHQs8

The Korean fediverse community is proposing to establish April 11th as “Fediverse Day” (聯合宇宙(연합우주)의 날). Since this idea emerged today in conversations among Korean fediverse users, they've suggested making today's date the official celebration going forward.

We're sharing this initiative with the broader fediverse community and would love to know if you'd support and participate in an annual Fediverse Day!

#FediverseDay #연합우주의날 #聯合宇宙의날 #フェディバースの日 #Fediverseの日

In today's Rare Earth on concrete, I somehow omitted my favourite thing about it:

To make concrete you need cement, which needs limestone. And the calcium in limestone was all collected by tiny sea creatures, building their shells atom by atom from the water around them. So the calcium in every single bit of concrete has passed through a sea creature. We only have skyscrapers because of marine life.
[The ace pic is from a WSJ column I wrote on this]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029rqw

A new independent publisher for the fediverse! @nybooksThe New York Review of Books joined last week (h/t to @FediFollows for letting us know). Here’s their review of historian Catherine Hall’s “Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism.” [Story may be paywalled]

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/charting-an-unheroic-past-lucky-valley-catherine-hall/

#Books @bookstodonbookstodon group #Reading #History @histodonshistodons group #Jamaica #Slavery #HistoryOfSlavery

The progress of the web shouldn’t be dependant on a corporation that discards one of the real forces of progress overnight like they’re nothing. Extremely poor form, Google. Truly disgraceful behaviour. nerdy.dev/ex-googler

G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶r̶… ex-Googler. · ...

What’s the best poll answer

#askmastodon #askfedi

Very excited to be at an in-person @Mastodon aperitivo at #IJF25. @andypiper is welcoming us all and setting the stage. The #fediverse can help build a more free, more international, more democratic social web.

Leaked Meta data reveals massive campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts

Link: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655603

We're looking for an experienced open source developer and designer to support our team in building a platform-native web browser for Linux, using GTK and libadwaita: https://kagi.peopleforce.io/careers/v/115930-gnome-app-developer

Here's why you might enjoy working at Kagi: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/hiring-kagi.html

#Kagi #FediHire #Remote #Linux

You can use the 'fetch' command to retrieve files over ftp, http or https.

fetch https://www.FreeBSD.org/images/beastie.png

will download the beastie image from the FreeBSD web site.

@ayoAyo! "Is this a good poll?"

Bellissimo intervento dei rgazzi di mastonon al festival internazionale del giornalismo.
Un grazie a @clabruClaudio per l'invito #IJF25 #MastodonAtIJF

Google Fitでは歩数が強調されていたのでいちにちの歩数を目標におっさんぽしてたんだけど、Forerunnerでは散歩中に歩数を簡単に確認することはできないみたいだ。目標を経過時間に戻そうかねえ。

@laurenshof.onlineLaurens with grade A journalism as usual, even picking up my lil shade

"one singular large network, with a ... variety of clients and apps all taking their own interpretation ... a client like Skylight reinterprets the ... network as a video-first network, and the Blacksky community takes a section of the entire network that is specifically for the Black community"

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd/post/3lmi7jlaht227

Ready for our aperitivo at #IJF25 - with some news and chat about Mastodon for journalists and newsrooms. Come hear from me, @mellifluousboxFelix Hlatky and @philipkristians and our friends from #SaveSocial @bjoernstaBjörn Staschen #MastodonAtIJF

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@fstateaudioFugue State Audio - Deep In

https://faircamp.fstateaudio.com/fugue-state/

#unix_surrealism #music #technomage

新しい靴をはいたので雨が近づいてきている #おっさんぽ速報

G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶r̶… ex-Googler.

https://nerdy.dev/ex-googler