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.
Every time I fire up an Elementary Linux host or VM I am struck by how nice the desktop environment looks. Maybe I'll switch back to it at some point.
Testing negative for covid after 3 days (Thank god for Paxlovid), but still symptomy. Thank you all for understanding my lack of writing - my team has been on top of things and picking up the slack with the news stories this week. Lots of things going on. Take care of yourselves this weekend.
Servers
- GoToSocial v0.19.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v5.8.0
- NeoDB v0.11.6.0
- Vernissage Server v1.10.0
- NodeBB v4.2.2
- Custom usernames (Ghost)
Clients
- Fedilab v3.32.2
- Fread v1.3.1
- Voyager v2.31.0
- Blorp v1.1.0
- pl-fe changes summary
Tools and Plugins
- Fediphoto Lineage v7.5
- FediFetcher v7.1.16
- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.4.3 (WordPress plugin)
For developers
Protocol
- FEP-8a8e: A common approach to using the Event object type
- Activity Streams/Primer/Language mapping
- Activity Streams/Primer/Relationship type
Articles
- If I ran Mastodon
- How decentralized is the fediverse
- Fediverse Report – #113
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01964a3e-3eef-f858-31a1-b1385bd0971c
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#197 XML Parsing
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/04/twig-197/
I'm Paul, a freelance PHP developer and Linux sysadmin based near Manchester in the UK. I post about tech, trains and Doctor Who. I generally follow back if we have shared interests.
I used to be 
@pwaring@fosstodon.orgPaul on Fosstodon
You might know me from any of the following places/groups:
OpenBSD Folks, 
@bsdcan 2025 has talks for you !
A distributed filesystem for OpenBSD · BSDCan Indico
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#197 XML Parsing
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/04/twig-197/
A silly little thing I got nerdsniped into making: https://gaydient.com lets you customise CSS gradients of pride flags and then copy the code
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective https://lobste.rs/s/gcq1i1 #historical #osdev
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/
Another pressrelease-masquerading-as-journalism service from Kevin Roose here. Continuing the proud tradition of disinformation on behalf of the broligarchy. Here are a few questions he could have asked instead.
1. What cults are the Anthropic crew in, and what is the ideological ancestry of these cults? (We've done the work for him here, hint hint, its eugenics: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636/11599
The Linux mascot is a penguin named Tux because Linus Torvalds, the creator of the #Linux kernel, was bitten by a penguin. Seriously, he claims he didn't actually get sick, but it solidified his affection for them. This is the best origin story for a tech mascot ever. Happy World Penguin Day.
OpenBSD Folks, @bsdcan 2025 has talks for you !
A distributed filesystem for OpenBSD · BSDCan Indico
Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems https://lobste.rs/s/chpmcp #linux #security
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Anti-Case-Fold
This is a Finnish "possumunkki" or "piglet doughnut", with apple jam inside.
#FediDonutFriday
よーしおとおさん
Ruby version 3.5.0-preview1 is now available
https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/3228
朝のおっさんぽを終わって電池残量が13%になっていた夕方のおっさんぽ分が残っていなさそう。だけど一度限界まで試してみるのもわるくないよぬ…
The initial version of the #NixCon2025 website is live!
I'm looking very much forward to meeting again a lot of cool Nix people.
Never taken the U12 before, it's never come up as a recommended route so this is my #first for today
Q: What's the plural of regex?
A: regex{2,}
/ht Dathan Bennett
70% Size, 100% Accuracy: Lossless LLM Compression via Dynamic-Length Float
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11651
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43796935
おちごとしようぬ 
a97647158c (upstream/main) Add REST API for featuring and unfeaturing a hashtag (#34489)
49b6a49c76 Change "Pin on profile" to "Feature on profile" for posts in web UI (#34492)
d4944a2467 Fix incorrect redirect in response to unauthenticated API requests in limited federation mode (#34549)
91db45b197 Change account search to be more forgiving of spaces (#34455)
7a70d95435 Add warning for Elasticsearch index analyzers mismatch (#34515)
1326c8cb1d chore(deps): update dependency rqrcode to v3 (#34541)
199acce481 Fix sign-up e-mail confirmation page reloading on error or redirect (#34548)
b1b949f16c New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#34546)
“Evaluating The Effects Of Anycast On DNS Root Nameservers”: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-393/
some interesting statistics for (among other things) reliability of stateful (TCP) connections on anycast nodes, specifically in the context of DNS.
it is from 2006, so i wonder how numbers have changed in the mean time.
thanks, usbguard documentation, this is exactly what i was looking for in the way of job security
Setting up the first part of the second network cabinet at the new 40k sq/ft warehouse today. (Just the essentials to get a few desktops up, and setup outgoing network connections for them; did the cameras previously).
nuintari's rules of networking 0x62:
When you move infrastructure to the cloud, you remove the necessity of repairing much of it if and when it fails.
That's good!
You also lose the ability to repair most of it when it fails.
That's bad.
You also lose an enormous amount of visibility into said failures.
...
That's bad.
You Wouldn’t Steal a Font…
@warragul@au.fedimeteo.comWarragul - FediMeteo (Warragul - FediMeteo)@warragul@au.fedimeteo.comWarragul - FediMeteo (Warragul - FediMeteo)"On tourne vert" met à votre disposition une gamme complète d’outils et de ressources pour rendre vos tournages, studios d’animation ou d’effets visuels plus durables.
Venez découvrir des guides, un répertoire de fournisseur, l’accréditation, le calculateur carbone adapté aux productions, des études et bien plus encore pour vous aider à intégrer des pratiques écoresponsables dans vos activités quotidiennes.
感謝國冥黨的活動，讓每年的今日再多了一點特殊感…
The Rust Foundation believes that the Rust community is stronger when more voices are heard.
If you're thinking about submitting a talk to 
@rustconf 2025, taking place in Seattle & online this September, this is your moment! 🦀🧡
Speaking application closes on April 29: https://sessionize.com/rustconf-2025 #rustconf
Fact Check: Lists Claiming Hundreds Of Trans Women Are Dominating Sports Are Dangerous and Incorrect https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check-lists-claiming-hundreds
Check out Voyager's new two-column mode!
Check out Voyager's new two-column mode!
@Turre 
@tfbThomas exactly, it looked so sharp, compared to the bigger tv set I used to connect to my C64: a late 70ies 14" Grunding
@stefanoStefano Marinelli @Turre I sometimes used my C64 with a friend's family's small portable TV. 6 or 7" and it looked amazing
nuintari's rules of networking 0x62:
When you move infrastructure to the cloud, you remove the necessity of repairing much of it if and when it fails.
That's good!
You also lose the ability to repair most of it when it fails.
That's bad.
You also lose an enormous amount of visibility into said failures.
...
That's bad.
公園のヤシの木の葉や実を高所作業車で落としていた
Oh no! The ear thief has struck our house! #rabbitsofmastodon #BunnyToots #bunniesofmastodon #ZeldaSugar #EarThief
fosstodon
I have moved my mastodon account from fosstodon.org to floss.social. I want to make the reason I have done this crystal clear.
There is a person on the moderation team at fosstodon.org that goes by the name carrotcypher. This person appears to have posted concerning views on reddit multiple times, which you can see detailed here: https://floss.social/@lo__@mastodon.social/114370692794472318
ネルソン・コーヒーロースターさんのエチオピアゲイシャ #コーヒー を開けたよ！すっきり良い酸味♪
With this plugin you can enable South and Southeast Asian scripts for OpenStreetMaps rendered in Web GL
Scripts supported: Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Khmer, Malayalam, Myanmar, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu
Wir sind morgen auf den Grazer #Linuxtagen für die Keynote zur netzpolitischen Situation und haben einem Infostand. Kommt vorbei, gratis Eintritt! https://www.linuxtage.at/
Have you ever considered running for the PSF board elections? You may find my post describing what it's like to serve on the board useful: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/18/board-of-the-python-software-foundation/
#introduction I am Jeremy Soller.
I work at 
@system76System76 
as Principal Engineer where I maintain our Linux distribution 
@pop_os_officialPop!_OS , port @coreboot@mastodon.technology and open source embedded controller firmware to our laptops, work on the new desktop environment 
@COSMIC_desktop, and more!
I also am the creator and BDFL of a microkernel operating system primarily written in 
@rustRust Language called 
@redoxRedox OS. I am damn near crazy about #Rust and use it anywhere and everywhere!
Follow if you are interested in these things 🙌 🦀
How to achieve Ultimate developer skills:
Step 1. Humble yourself by starting with the raw, unforgiving power of C.
Step 2. Attempt to purify your soul and memory safety by rewriting it all in Rust.
Step 3. Ascend to a higher plane of functional enlightenment (or utter confusion) by rewriting it again in Haskell.
Step 4. Congratulations! You are now Ultimate developer. Your code is perfect and immutable, and absolutely no one else on your team will understand a single line of it.
Setting up the first part of the second network cabinet at the new 40k sq/ft warehouse today. (Just the essentials to get a few desktops up, and setup outgoing network connections for them; did the cameras previously).
GNOME
Dr. Anna Latour
Andy Piper
Tom Casavant
