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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@ianthetechieIan Wagner @panda @gamingonlinuxLiam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
Great to see more people making the jump! I have finally completely switched to Ubuntu - Mint was not an option because it is not supported by an application which is critical for my work, but Ubuntu works like a charm. Boot-up is also much faster than Win.
It took me a bit of effort (and some help from ChatGPT) to get everything up and running (I kept Win on the machine as dual boot, as backup in case in the future I have some critical compatibility issue), but I'm happy with the result.
In some cases the UX of certain apps is suboptimal, but that's because I'm trying to switch out of as many US providers as possible, and MSFT/Google environments currently have good alternatives, but not as seamlessly integrated.

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今日この頃、コピーガードの方式がまた新しくなってぽくてラップトップで映画が見れなくなった。

そもそも海賊版を作成する人々はハードウェアを偽装したりしてコピーするんだから一般のユーザーが不利益を被っているだけに見える。

例えば通常通りBlu-rayレコーダーで再生してHDCPの無効化すればどんなにダビング規制を強めたり暗号化しても無意味である。

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滷肉飯上面要不要放黃蘿蔔?

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uspol, trans safety, more on getting out

A final comment.

A frequent question I hear amongst my friend group is: do they really have the power?

Look at what they have been doing to Venezuelans.

Look at how the Trump administration has still not complied with an order from the SUPREME COURT

Remember that Trump has directly said he wants to "deport" US citizens

Yes, they have the power. And in the places they don't, they are assembling it.

Please don't ignore this. Please be safe. Thanks. 💜

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uspol, trans safety, more on getting out

If you have a group of people, maybe your polycule, and hey, all likeliness it's a pile of people with executive dysfunction.

Organize a meeting, maybe over video calls. Start mapping things out in a shared document (maybe on a CryptPad), look at everyone's options.

You might have to split the party, at least eventually.

Start now. Please don't wait. Know your options.

Help those who need help.

Thank you.

uspol, trans safety, more on getting out

@cwebber@social.coopChristine Lemmer-Webber an addendum to splitting the party: it will be sad, but we live in the times where that will be the least impactful.

If you have signal, discord, threema, email, matrix, or anything else - especially if you can be mildly anonymous and it is decentralized - you can keep on touch. This won't be like flees prior, where you'll at best have letters and there's a high likelihood of never finding each other again.

With instant communication, the party can be reunited in the future, and you can still be part of each other's lives

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滷肉飯上面要不要放黃蘿蔔?

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Great stuff from @lornajane

“Start with a good README, clear getting started instructions, and some key usage points, and you won’t go far wrong…Documentation is one of the most valuable and transferable skills for developers too, so it’s very much worth your time and effort personally as well as for the project.”

lornajane.net/posts/2025/just-

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Blocking users

Building ActivityPub @index@activitypub.ghost.org

Welcome back, intergalactic explorers. Pull up a chair and join us on a Monday morning social web detour. Your todo list can wait. You've got the entire week still ahead of you!

Last week, we introduced brand new preferences for ActivityPub, the ability to edit your social web profile, and dedicated sharing settings for Threads and Bluesky. Each week, Ghost publications in the fediverse become a little more unique. It's lovely to see!

What's new with ActivityPub?

This week, we shipped our first set of moderation controls: The ability to block users from interacting with you, if you don't want them to.

If you've spent any amount of time in the Fediverse over the past 6 months, there's a good chance you've come across Nicole in your mentions.

But you can call her the Fediverse Chick.

Nicole (not her real name) is a not-so-convincing spam bot with hundreds (thousands?) of profiles across different Mastodon servers, and uses the @mention feature to promote her warez. The same warez. Every time.

The good news: Now you can send her out the airlock.

When a user is blocked, they can see your public posts, but they can no longer interact with you. Any requests they make to follow, like, reply, repost, mention, or interact with your profile are automatically rejected.

Being able to block users is important because healthy communities grow on the principle of consent. Every participant should be able to decide who can reach them, who can’t, and when the conversation is over.

In an open, federated environment like ActivityPub—where posts can flow in from thousands of independent servers—bad-actors, drive-by harassment or spam aren’t hypothetical edge-cases; they’re statistical certainties.

Robust user-level moderation tools turn that reality from a deal-breaker into a manageable nuisance. They allow you to publish publicly without surrendering your personal boundaries, so you can curate a meaningful experience.

That being said, the astute pugs among you will have noticed a shortcoming in this argument.

Nicole is so famously persistent because the spam doesn't just come from a single user. You can block her, but invariably she'll pop up again a few weeks later with a new username on a new server.

In reality, it doesn't take just one feature to facilitate thoughtful moderation; it requires a collection of tools that can be used together in concert. User blocking is our first step down this road, but there's much more yet to come.

Our long-term goal is simple: Each Ghost publication should be able to define its own social atmosphere. That means putting the dials and levers of moderation directly in the hands of publishers, whether that’s blocking a single nuisance account, muting an entire server, or setting up automated filters.

Your publication, your rules, your community.

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