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.
Amused to read an article by Bryan Newbold (BlueSky apologist) about how he successfully set up a full ATProto relay for a mere $34/month.
Meanwhile, one can federate with the ActivityPub universe by running Snac² on a $1/month VPS instance³.
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¹ https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lo7a2a4qxg2l
² https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2.git
³ https://lowendbox.com/blog/1-vps-1-usd-vps-per-month/snac2.git
“노키즈존 그냥 두면, ‘노노인존’ ‘노성인존’ 생길지도 몰라요”
시민단체 ‘노키즈존은 차별입니다’ 캠페인
수정 2025-05-02 17:04 www.hani.co.kr/arti/society...
“노키즈존 그냥 두면, ‘노노인존’ ‘노성인존’ 생길지...
보수 정치인이 일부러 광주, 호남 방문해서 시민들한테 항의받는 모습 연출한 다음 지지층 결집하는 수법 진부해서 지긋지긋하다. 그렇다고 광주시민분들이 잘못 대응했다는 뜻은 아니고.
미국 캘리포니아의 주립대학인 UCLA 캠퍼스에 다큐멘터리 영화를 관람하는 학생들을 진압하러 전경이 출동
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vxgwfru7yvgj2bt62bphlnt6/post/3lo4uuc6bis2p
홈플러스가 자금 조달 부담을 이유로 기업회생 절차를 밟고 있는 가운데, 지역 노동계와 시민단체에서도 노동자 생존권 보장을 촉구하고 나섰습니다.
2025-05-02 andongmbc.co.kr/main/news/ne...
\'홈플러스 사태 해결 촉구\'.. 영주 공대위 발족 ...
[준표청산] ‘서울 시민’으로 돌아간 홍준표, 시청 익명게시판 부글부글 “박정희 동상도 가져가라”
대구시청 공무원 익명 게시판, 홍준표 비판글·댓글 봇물
“‘파워풀 대구’도 빼자”, “군위 편입이 잘한건가?”, “박정희 동상, 북한이냐”
2025-05-02 22:26
www.newsmin.co.kr/news/118035/
[준표청산] ‘서울 시민’으로 돌아간 홍준표, 시청 익...
Sooo excited to see a project like this! 
Librelingo, FOSS alternative to Duolingo
#Languages #Humanities #Duolingo #LibreLingo #CommunityDriven #FOSS #Learning
type of Guy who makes a trivially falsifiable claim and will waste an infinite amount of your time gradually walking that claim back to something less-unreasonable if you let him
my kingdom for a fedizen that fucking reads bio before following
If you want to customize/modify and build your version of FreeBSD Foundation [1] OpenZFS Cheat Sheet then you now can.
Instructions are [2] here.
[1] https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/blog/tree/main/openzfs-cheat-sheet
[2] https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/blog/issues/2#issuecomment-2848069422
おめでとうございます🎉
2025年5月3日でYづドン 
は8周年を迎えました🎉
Yづドンは9年目もFediverse 
のみなさんと楽しんで運用していけたらと思っています！
今後ともYづドンをよろしくお願いします 
Speeding up test times. Very cool. Did not know about “python -X importtime” https://mastodon.social/@python_discussions/114437055728317856
起きたけど早すぎる。もう1回寝るか
Beschwerden an die #ARD unterschreibe ich immer mit "Danke und trotzdem viele Grüße an die Maus".
The Fediverse summarized in one picture
@laurenshof "federation policy" is the term myself and IFTAS have been using, e.g., https://connect.iftas.org/library/community-management/why-should-i-have-a-federation-policy/
(I also use this language in FIRES, but extend it beyond domain level to also account and other entities)
Birchtree @matt@birchtree.me
Nilay Patel on this week's The Vergecast:
You can just see that they picked the finances over the product over and over again. And if they had just figured out a way to make in-app purchases worth more to developers than leaving the ecosystem, developers, I think, would have picked in-app purchases every single time. It's just easier. And they didn't. Instead, they punished the ability to compete.
This is such a good way of putting it, and it really makes me think back to how Microsoft behaved when they had massive market power. "What are you going to do about it?" is a strong position to have, but it doesn't make you a lot of friends.
And I know some people will read this and say, "Matt, Apple has always existed to make money, you just finally noticed," and honestly, I find this to be an extremely reductive way to look at companies and how they make decisions. People act like companies are legally beholden to their shareholders to act like a dick, when that's simply not the case. The reason Apple was able to develop the sort of following that they have is by making products that are genuinely useful to people, and from product designers who prioritized great experiences compared to what you could get from other products on the market. The challenge, and the temptation, is that when you get power, it's hard not to use it. It's hard to walk into a meeting and explain how you're going to reduce revenue, right? I think something like that has happened with App Store revenue. It's not their primary revenue source, nor is it even a major one in the grand scheme of things (Tim Cook seemed nonplussed that Trump's tariffs would likely cost Apple just under $1 trillion in the next quarter, so it's not like they are desperate for every last penny). But it's hard to look at an amount of money that you're making and say, "we don't want to make that money anymore."
But you have to consider the other costs here, and those are reputational costs that you suffer from being a dick. People like me have been arguing for years that the reputational cost of Apple's dickish position on App Store rules is a risk, and they should make changes before they're forced to. This week, their hand was forced, and they had to make changes on someone else's schedule and with someone else's requirements.
It's a shame because, despite all of the issues we have with the company, in my opinion, Apple still makes the very best computers, tablets, phones, watches, and more. I'm writing this on my Mac, and I love this computer. My iPhone is in my pocket, and it's an outstanding piece of consumer technology. These things are amazing, and it's so frustrating to have this anti-competitive App Store thing lingering over all of it.
The Cannae Problem
Link: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-cannae-problem/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43869288
Images of Soviet Venus lander falling to Earth suggest its parachute may be out
Link: https://www.leonarddavid.com/old-soviet-venus-descent-craft-nearing-earth-reentry/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873531
@vtrlxVictoria i personally still actually think this is something that can be attached to the code itself (upon the git merkle tree using git-notes) but architecting ephemeral messages intended to be attached to a merkle tree is really hard and requires essentially the same mental gymnastics as running an app "on the blockchain". i think there is a limited form of this that can be usefully attached to a commit tree, but it's definitely much easier to architect as a distinct service which merely interfaces with the git tree
@vtrlxVictoria one issue i have with making things "federate" is that AP requires hosting a server that can receive requests. if we can stick things into git, we can use existing git infrastructure for it, and we can architect the protocol to query messages from a particular time span, or touching a particular file—all things git is already great at doing!
Prompt chaining reimagined with type inference https://lobste.rs/s/dsczpg #ai #plt
https://www.haskellforall.com/2025/05/prompt-chaining-reimagined-with-type_2.html
@hipsterelectrond@nny mc² @vtrlxVictoria
wishing for another identity model instead of oauth is wishing for the exact thing that we just said isn't likely to happen in the next few years. we're all for it, and as you know, the keypair-is-identity thing is also our preference as long as it's not done in an ancap way, but then we're talking about long-term goals rather than things that will be ready while the git-forge thing is still a hot topic
@hipsterelectrond@nny mc² @vtrlxVictoria like there needs to be a round of social experimentation around keypair-as-identity stuff to sort out the different forms of interpersonal and group conflict that will arise from it, to make sure that the social remedies to those problems actually work
Quickly everyone, observe my precious child.
Servers
- Sharkey v2025.2.3
- Hollo v0.5.6
- Mitra v4.1.1
- NodeBB v4.3.0
- Manyfold v0.109.0
- Pleroma ActivityRelay v0.3.5
- Gathio v1.5.2
- Misskey v2025.4.1
- gancio v1.26.0
- Iceshrimp v2023.12.14
- NeoDB v0.11.6.2
- Gush! v0.0.17
- Vernissage Server v1.11.0
- Images, profiles, and preferences (Ghost)
- BadgeFed: Early Decentralization Experiments + OpenBadges Export! - Second April 2025 Update
- PieFed development update Apr 2025 - S3, OAuth, Federation retry queue, Stripe
- Forgejo monthly update - April 2025
- places.pub: A service that makes OpenStreetMap geographical data available as ActivityPub objects
Clients
- Pachli v2.12.0
- Voyager v2.33.0
- Tesseract v1.4.38
- Blorp v1.2.5
- Interstellar v0.9.2
- PeerTube Mobile v1.0.1
- Phanpy changelog
For developers
- Masto.js v7.0.0
- FediAlgo v0.23.0
- apsig v0.5.2
- apkit: Powerful Toolkit for ActivityPub Implementations (Python)
Protocol
- ActivityPub/Primer/Inbox
- ActivityPub/Primer/Outbox
- ActivityPub/Primer/Activity Streams 2.0
Articles
- How I made a blog using Lemmy - a write-up
- Steps Forward in Long-form Text
- Does The Fediverse Need Influencers To Survive?
- Fediverse Report – #114
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01966ea0-7d42-6181-9fdd-ccfe31dab1e2
If anyone else is looking to leave #Spotify and (re-)build a proper MP3 collection from scratch – I just discovered this extremely handy tool for exporting Spotify playlists into CSV files:
GitHub: https://github.com/watsonbox/exportify
(I'm aware that Spotify lets you export your playlists in one big JSON file, but even converted to CSV it's a hot mess. Exportify's CSVs are per-playlist and listed just the way you'd expect it. 👌)
So cool to see projects appearing out of the blue that are building on top of #iroh. We must be doing something right at 
@n0irohiroh
Wait, did I miss something, I just stumbled upon a "carnivore bread" recipe. And, well, hum, isn't this basically meatloaf?!!?
Hey #Fediverse what is the FULL user@domain called? Obviously the first part is user, the second domain, but what do we call the FULL thing? Social Address (SocAddr)? Fedi Address(FAddr)? Full User Domain ID (FUDI)? Full Account Path (FAP) oh that's a bad one.
Some more impossibly dumb bullshit is happening with respect to fluoride but rather than just get mad about that from a hundred different headlines, please watch this lovely video from 
@acollierastroAngela Collier which — among other things — actually explains the mechanism of fluoride, so you actually know what it’s doing rather than just being nebulously good for your teeth https://youtu.be/GefwcsrChHk
Servers
- Sharkey v2025.2.3
- Hollo v0.5.6
- Mitra v4.1.1
- NodeBB v4.3.0
- Manyfold v0.109.0
- Pleroma ActivityRelay v0.3.5
- Gathio v1.5.2
- Misskey v2025.4.1
- gancio v1.26.0
- Iceshrimp v2023.12.14
- NeoDB v0.11.6.2
- Gush! v0.0.17
- Vernissage Server v1.11.0
- Images, profiles, and preferences (Ghost)
- BadgeFed: Early Decentralization Experiments + OpenBadges Export! - Second April 2025 Update
- PieFed development update Apr 2025 - S3, OAuth, Federation retry queue, Stripe
- Forgejo monthly update - April 2025
- places.pub: A service that makes OpenStreetMap geographical data available as ActivityPub objects
Clients
- Pachli v2.12.0
- Voyager v2.33.0
- Tesseract v1.4.38
- Blorp v1.2.5
- Interstellar v0.9.2
- PeerTube Mobile v1.0.1
- Phanpy changelog
For developers
- Masto.js v7.0.0
- FediAlgo v0.23.0
- apsig v0.5.2
- apkit: Powerful Toolkit for ActivityPub Implementations (Python)
Protocol
- ActivityPub/Primer/Inbox
- ActivityPub/Primer/Outbox
- ActivityPub/Primer/Activity Streams 2.0
Articles
- How I made a blog using Lemmy - a write-up
- Steps Forward in Long-form Text
- Does The Fediverse Need Influencers To Survive?
- Fediverse Report – #114
-----
#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01966ea0-7d42-6181-9fdd-ccfe31dab1e2
TVerで流してる番組のちょっと先の内容をなんとなく予知できる感じになってて、疲れてるしデジャブみたいのが起きてるのかねえと思ってたんだけど、30分くらいしてからふと確認したら単なる再放送だったぬ
Trump DOJ Launches Shocking Investigation Into Chris Krebs
The Scientific-Python Development Guide has been updated with SPDX licenses (PEP 639) and dependency-groups (PEP 735)! There's more uv, too; the cookiecutter/copier template now sets up uv everywhere for ultra fast CI. New repo-review checks, too. https://learn.scientific-python.org/development/guides/ #python
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#198 Two More Weeks...
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/05/twig-198/
Commodore 64 Assembly, part 6 - substracting numbers and other math
https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/commodore-64-assembly-part-6-substracting-number-and-other-math/
I am very close to actually drawing stuff on the screen.
Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
https://www.theverge.com/news/660548/firefox-google-search-revenue-share-doj-antitrust-remedies?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Tech News 
@tech-news-thevergeTech News
Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy
Link: https://openai.com/index/expanding-on-sycophancy/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43870819
Show HN: GPT-2 implemented using graphics shaders
Link: https://github.com/nathan-barry/gpt2-webgl
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43870998
Jetzt gilt es.
Noch 2 Wochen, um die Unterschriften zu sammeln. Komm dazu!
#Hamburg #Werbefrei #DirekteDemokratie #StadtGestalten #Mitgestalten #Sammeln #Partizipation #Volksbegehren #Initiative #Volksentscheid
Waterfox, the open source browser developed by a British developer from 🇬🇧, has just released a new metasearch engine powered by Google results.
They promise it'll be an engine with no tracking, no invasive advertising, and a cleaner interface. It'll have custom themes, advanced search options and a domain block list. And no AI.
Their business model is based on contextual ads (they ask you to disable your ad blocker) and maybe a subscription-based tier that removes all ads. If they can't make money, they say they might have to rethink their approach.
Official statement:
https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-private-search
Mitsammeln? Leicht gemacht! Schnapp dir ein #Klemmbrett, ein paar Rückumschläge und los geht's!
In der #Caffamacherreihe 47 gibt es alles, was du brauchst.
Verhilf #Hamburg #Werbefrei zum Erfolg! 📝
Made the mistake of buying a bunch of pea protein before discovering that only vegans are allowed to eat it, now I don’t know what to do
My cousin seems to think my fears about Pierre Pollieve taking away women's rights and building concentration camps are overblown. I reminded her that Trump is literally sending US citizens to concentrations camps. No due process, nothing.
Her response?
"They can't just take people off the street. There must be a reason they are taking them."
And this my friends, is how Nazi Germany happened.
Introducing Lifty the elevator. https://github.com/dabeaz/lifty
Now, could you actually write code to properly control it? Who am I to say?
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just small circles 🕊
Quincy
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Stefano Marinelli
