What is Hackers' Pub?

Apple blossoms starting to emerge

How PieFed federates feeds (aka multi-reddits or multi-comms)

Recently PieFed added a way to group communities into collections of related communities, which we called a “Feed”. Unlike Topics, Feeds are federated, can be created by anyone and can be public or private. There are now hundreds of feeds at https://piefed.social/feeds.

A feed being federated means that people using other instances can subscribe to feeds that were created on your instance, in the same way that people can subscribe/join communities on remote instances.

I’ve written up the technical details of how this all works behind the scenes at:

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/activitypub_examples/feeds.md

#threadverse

ニセ科学とか反ワクチンみたいな陰謀論をトランプが推すことでアメリカ以外の国が相対的に賢くなったいってるように見える現象

Trump wants China to buy but not sell, basically, and to eat the costs of tariffs to avoid imposing those costs on Americans, which is never going to work.

Xi and his people have dealt with Trump before, however, and know they just have to politely refuse and wait him out. And in the meantime, they are coaxing Europe to move away from the US and realign with them.

I'm demonstrating tomorrow against Trump and Musk (May 1st) If you're in the US, please https://www.fiftyfifty.one/ and find one near you. We won't fix this by sitting on the sidelines.

ほんの少しワクチン接種率が下がるだけではしかが爆発的に流行してしまう可能性がある - GIGAZINE
https://gigazine.net/news/20250430-small-vaccine-drop-measles-endemic/

アメリカで爆発的流行で多くの人が死ぬのでは？そうなってからでは遅いと思うんだけど。なのにテロリストのドナルド・トランプを支援して国の破壊に協力するアメリカ人がいることに、驚きしかない。

I was a meeting where someone started talking about "vee-bay coding" at length.

I said "you mean vibe coding? like programming by vibes? like good vibrations ala the beach boys?"

They said, "wait, really? that's what it is? i thought it was some new technical term"

Threads tops 350M monthly users after adding 30M in the quarter https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/30/threads-tops-350m-monthly-users-after-adding-30m-in-the-quarter/

The psychological swoop of a good mastodon feed is unrivalled.

Content moderators are organizing against Big Tech https://thever.ge/QgyAT #Creators #YouTube #Google #TikTok #Labor #Meta #News #Tech

I do hope there will be an Extraction3. I wonder how much they can...... *extract* from the premise..... 😎

Apple blossoms starting to emerge

一個ください！！！！

Breaking news: the unpaid interns (AKA outstanding community members) have TAKEN OVER... And v2 is looking better than ever (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ:･ﾟ✧. Big shoutout to Rysz for fixing a ton of deadlocks in this release 🏆

https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta.2

Wanna join the community? Check out https://charm.sh/chat

燃えろ​​ #火曜日なので火っぽい絵を貼る

Kate Winslet on the importance of complimenting our young daughters: “If we do not tell them that they are beautiful and that we are so proud of who they are, they might not hear it from anyone else” https://www.inbella.com/1026221/kate-winslet-on-the-importance-of-complimenting-our-young-daughters-if-we-do-not-tell-them-that-they-are-beautiful-and-that-we-are-so-proud-of-who-they-are-they-might-not-hear-it-from-anyon/ #Podcasts🎙 #PopCulture #SeriousGossips

I was thinking about PCMCIA and its replacement Express Card and what replaced that...

Sometimes I want to go back in time and explain how weird computers have gotten.

"PCMCIA? nah, we don't do that anymore. Now we just attach external devices to our laptops by running PCIe over the power cable"

Eeny, Meeny...

耳かきしてたら感動するほど耳垢とれて快感すぎた

while(🦆)

The psychological swoop of a good mastodon feed is unrivalled.

The universe keeps expanding…

Thanks for taking us past 2 million monthly npm downloads, astronauts! 🤯

Liebe Mitbürger; so ziemlich das letzte Softwareprodukt, bei dem ihr auch nur die leisesten Zweifel an der Betriebssicherheit haben solltet, sind solche, die eure Gesundheitsdaten vorhalten. Stellt euch einfach vor, dass der Mensch, der euch am meisten hasst, Belege dafür hat, was euch in euren verletzlichsten Momenten die Beine weggerissen hat. Oder euer Chef. Oder Alice Weidel. Oder der Polizist, der gerade geklingelt hat. Stimmt der #ElektronischePatientakte nur zu, wenn euch das egal ist.

冷やしてないあい

Future of OSL in Jeopardy | OSU Open Source Lab https://lobste.rs/s/g4596m #culture
https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

Problem with React Update Model https://lobste.rs/s/leou7z #javascript #performance
https://blog.bloomca.me/2025/04/20/problem-with-react-update-model.html

あーもーいろいろ悲しいなあ今日はビール冷やしてないあいなあ

The universe keeps expanding…

Thanks for taking us past 2 million monthly npm downloads, astronauts! 🤯

How much of your news comes from the Fediverse?

#EvanPoll #poll

good post by @fediversereportConnected Places @laurenshof on the FOSStodon drama, with an important takeaway that all servers need governance systems that allow for better and earlier rotation of administrative power. https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-114/

An other banger, sire

the existence of henry david thoreau implies the existence of henry david sloppy. in this essay I will—

Dude’s got a ton of let them eat cake energy. https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/114428946535261829

OH: when i was 12 i thought VHDL stood for verilog hardware description language

A friend I hadn't spoken to for a while just messaged me to say she was moving house and taking the washing line down, and to thank me for putting it up five years ago and tying it so securely it never came down. She said she had thought of me every time she used it. Until she reminded me I'd completely forgotten I did that for her.

A lovely reminder that the tiniest things you do can make peoples' lives better without you even knowing it.

It occurs to me that this may be funny to some americans

can i borrow an æthernet cable

interesting thing i've noticed with they/them: i vary between using "themself" or "themselves" varies, but for the most part, i don't really know what my internal criteria for whether to pick one or the other is. however, i recently realised that one of the factors is whether the sentence includes "they".

for example, i'll probably say "they found themselves on the map" - "they found themself on the map" feels off in a way i can't put my finger on. in contrast, "morgan found themself on the map" sounds more natural to me than "morgan found themselves on the map".

After the community feedback Servo TSC would like to share that we have decided to not modify the AI policy and keep it as is.

Future discussions on this topic (if any) will happen on public channels.

More details: https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/36379#discussioncomment-12898169

My latest blog post: I'm presenting at the 2025 Open Hardware Summit

https://mikecoats.com/presenting-at-ohs-2025-cta/

I'm excited to announce that in one month's time I'm presenting at @oshwassociationOSHWA's Open Hardware Summit 2025. My talk's titled "VanSpoof and F**dG3ar: Reverse engineering proprietary bike components to prevent e-waste" and covers everything involved in designing replacement, open source, parts to repair VanMoof e-bikes.

#electronics #eBike #hardware #openSource #reverseEngineering #vanMoof

Who just said pspsps??

Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/google-play-sees-47-decline-in-apps-since-start-of-last-year/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43849383

So you want to block threads.com and threads.net, but Mastodon UI is making it difficult?

Tip! Use Mastodon's Import function:

1. Create a file, any filename will do as long as it ends with `.csv`. For example: `blocked_domains.csv`.

2. Put these two lines in the file (without the backticks):

```
threads.com
threads.net
```

3. Save the file.

4. Go to the Mastodon import settings (`/settings/imports`).

5. In the form on this page, select import type "Domain blocking list".

6. In the form, select your newly created CSV file as the Data file.

7. In the form, select "Merge " instead of "Overwrite" (this should be the default value) as the import strategy.

8. Upload your file.

9. Profit!

#FediTips

#EU wants to ask app (and app store) developers about their interactions with app stores (specially of the very big kind) in the context of the Digital Services Act #DSA

The study aims to better understand content moderation practices, recommender systems, advertising mechanisms, and emerging challenges within the app ecosystem.

If you have 15-20 minutes to share your experience, make sure you visit the link until Tuesday May 27th, 2025.

Go: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/c7161c9d-9db5-c881-5f50-7faab4af7387

The Oregon State University's Open Source Lab needs your help 🤝 !

We at #Inkscape rely on them for hosting our website 🌐 , mailing lists 📨 , mail servers 📮 and DNS ℹ️ .

They are also a host for many other open source projects - e.g. #Drupal, #Gentoo Linux, #Debian, #Fedora, #phpBB, #OpenID, #Buildroot/#Busybox, #Cinc, …

Please consider donating 💌 to them so they can keep their services running for all of us!

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

#osuosl @osuoslOSU Open Source Lab