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.

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@ayo Welcome Ayo, you're already part of the indieweb by having a personal website ;)

One thing I recommend every personal website to have is a blogroll. A place where you share the blogs/websites you visit regularly. This way, we can link to each other and discover more great people!

For inspo, here's mine: dominikhofer.me/blogroll

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Pour ce midi, j’ai préparé une tarte aux fraises. J’ai fait ma première crème pâtissière, qui est très réussie, et j’ai refait la recette de pâte de ma tarte aux pommes de l’autre jour, vu qu’elle était délicieuse 🤤

Elle a juste un défaut : elle ne vole pas très bien 🫠

Plan de travail de cuisine, avec des fraises, un saladier de crème pâtissière et une pâte à tarte cuite, éclatée sur un plat
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you are NOT INFORMED about decentralization UNLESS:

  • you keep up with both AP and ATProto
  • you have a crypto-funded proto to sneer at
  • you have a proto which is just 10 people in a chatroom desperately looking for funding that you'll defend with your life as the second coming of federated christ
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모든게 히틀러, 파시즘을 뚜렷하게 가리키고 있음. 건강하지 못함은 애국이 아니다. 건강 보험 예산을 소모하는 것은 애국자가 할 일이 아니다...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hsb3iofnzkivsla3htzvmgfb/post/3ln6hvlt6lc2u

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For years I'd see the latest TV and movie advances and be impressed by the improvement in pictures quality. Lately I've seen some super ultra really HD film clips (I forget the technical term, it all flows into one after a while) and been astonished at how poor they look.

The extreme sharpness and clarity of the picture made everything look exactly as it really was, that is to say a group of people on a film set. The sense of the movie being a real thing collapsed.

Presumably people brought up on these newer formats don't notice it, but those making the films can't be satisfied can they?

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For some time now, I’ve been gradually replacing U.S.-dominated digital services with European-developed alternatives — both on my PC and my phone. This isn’t a one-time switch, but an ongoing experiment in digital autonomy, privacy, and balance.

The screenshot shows one screen of my phone, featuring European apps and platforms that I actively use or am currently testing. These include alternatives to browsers, email, messaging, navigation, video, search, and more.

This journey was inspired in part by the European Alternatives directory — a fantastic, regularly updated list of digital tools created and hosted in Europe. The project was started by Constantin Graf, an Austrian developer who maintains the initiative.

Here’s a selection of European apps I’m actively using or currently testing — some of which appear in the screenshot:

  • Vivaldi: A privacy-focused Norwegian browser
  • Mastodon: Federated microblogging platform. I’m also testing Rodent, a Mastodon client that feels more complete in terms of UX/UI.
  • Pixelfed: Federated image-sharing platform, focused on privacy and decentralization.
  • Qwant: A French search engine
  • Threema: Swiss secure messenger
  • Proton Mail: Swiss encrypted email
  • PeerTube: Decentralized video platform
  • pCloud: European cloud storage
  • Mullvad VPN: Swedish privacy-first VPN
  • Spotify: Swedish-based streaming service — although some question its alignment with European digital sovereignty
  • HERE WeGo: Navigation app developed in Germany. I’m also testing Lokjo, a promising open-source alternative using OpenStreetMap.
  • Le Chat: Chatbot interface for Mistral AI’s French language models
  • European Alternatives: Mobile version of the directory itself

This isn’t about cutting all ties with US services overnight. It’s about creating space — to support platforms that reflect European values like transparency, sustainability, and decentralization.

If you’re curious to explore alternatives, the European Alternatives directory is a great place to start.

Follow me on Mastodon:
TechTonicShift (@TechTonicShift@vivaldi.net) – Vivaldi Social
Gabor Hrasko (@ghrasko@mastodon.social) – Mastodon

https://techtonicshift.vivaldi.net/2025/04/20/replacing-us-big-tech-my-ongoing-shift-toward-european-digital-alternatives/

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I’ve been using Tapestry and Reeder to get one consolidated timeline of everything I follow, but I’ve noticed that it feels a bit like window shopping. Looking at people’s posts, but never interacting with them. Then the latest TestFlight build of Tapestry goes and solves that problem. Combined with the crosstalk feature it’s great to see how the @IconfactoryThe Iconfactory continue to nail it.

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LLM botによるクローラーでアクセス急増、危うくVercelでクラウド破産(7000ドル)しかけた話。ちょっと気になるのは古いコンテンツを網羅的に取得してたらしく、それは検索エンジンのクローラーなのでは?と思いました。
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LLM bots + Next.js image optimization = recipe for bankruptcy (post-mortem) | Metacast Blog
metacast.app/blog/engineering/

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Fedi how can I tell if it's legal for me to publish full PoC exploit chain for a not yet published vuln

Hypothetically speaking if I ever find smth nice (I doubt I will but yk)

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LLM botによるクローラーでアクセス急増、危うくVercelでクラウド破産(7000ドル)しかけた話。ちょっと気になるのは古いコンテンツを網羅的に取得してたらしく、それは検索エンジンのクローラーなのでは?と思いました。
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LLM bots + Next.js image optimization = recipe for bankruptcy (post-mortem) | Metacast Blog
metacast.app/blog/engineering/

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The amazing inductively coupled PCB memory uses NO electronic or mechanical components per bit. The data is literally stored in the PCB traces. There is one diode per 64-bit word (512 doliodes total), 48 line drivers, and 64 sense amplifiers
This technology was never used again, as bipolar PROM semiconductor memory chips appeared in 1969.
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The HP 9100 calculator uses core memory to store a user program and data, but the internal read-only control store (microcode) is stored in a novel and patented inductively coupled printed circuit board memory (512 words of 64 bits), and a core rope (or wire braid) memory (64 words of 29 bits).
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The amazing inductively coupled PCB memory uses NO electronic or mechanical components per bit. The data is literally stored in the PCB traces. There is one diode per 64-bit word (512 doliodes total), 48 line drivers, and 64 sense amplifiers
This technology was never used again, as bipolar PROM semiconductor memory chips appeared in 1969.
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