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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Fedi.Tips @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
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You can post a poll on Mastodon by clicking the 📊 bar chart icon when you're creating a post, then adding options.

If you're using the web interface or a third party app, you can set the poll to allow multiple responses or just single responses. The web interface also allows poll durations to be as short as 5 minutes.

⚠️ You can edit polls, but if you edit a poll's options the votes get reset to zero.

Lots more info about Mastodon polls at:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-to-post-a-poll-o

How to post a poll on Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

fedi.tips

Link author: Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

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Ju @ju@nugole.it
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there is something I think you missed here, back when I was working in a big (well...big for the Italian standard) IT Company, young employees went through courses and lessons, they were sort of indoctrinated to support the Company and the choices the Company made, even if the choices were damaging them. For the Company, because the Company was always right and you were/felt better, successful, safe, following this...weird...sort of doctrine.
It is part of why I quit, and...more than 10 years ago...chose to leave IT technologies and that very f...ed world and build a different life.
What you are seeing is threaded into the IT world and it as been for some years now, I think, maybe since someone somewhere saw profit in it.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
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Twitter's new encrypted DM system stores your private key material on Twitter-owned services, protected with nothing more than a 4-digit PIN. If hostile, or if legally compelled to, Twitter could easily decrypt all your messages. It's also MITMable and doesn't secure metadata. Use Signal.

mjg59.dreamwidth.org/71646.htm

mjg59 | Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones

mjg59.dreamwidth.org

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chesheer @chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that in this day and age with all the modern threats having a text editor that is capable to not only connect to the Internet, but also install some code packages from repositories (and probably do dependency resolving) is a recipe to catastrophe. Sooner or later.
It's probably one thing when you use a curated list of half a dozen addons that you can even personally peruse (or even contribute to). It's a whole other thing when you use some huge "distro" with probably hundreds of packages that also receive constant updates you cannot possibly control.
It's mostly about , of course, but is fully capable of it too. I won't even mention the likes of .
We had a fair share of supply chain attacks in the recent years (npm, pip, even xz in some way). No reason to think no one's gonna use this channel of attack.
Maybe it's just my fibs. But there is some uneasy feeling about the fact that you edit, perhaps, extremely private, personal or sensitive texts while your editor runs some background code doing who knows what. It's one thing to trust people who wrote vim or Emacs and a whole other thing to trust a hundred other unknown parties at the same time.

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에스텔 뉴스계정 @transborder.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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트럼프 “하버드대 유학·연수 외국인 입국 금지” 4일 행정명령 서명…하버드 “외국인 학생 보호할 것” 수정 2025-06-05 19:18 www.hani.co.kr/arti/interna...

트럼프 “하버드대 유학·연수 외국인 입국 금지”

트럼프 “하버드대 유학·연수 외국인 입국 금지”

트럼프 미국 대통령이 하버드대에 오려는 외국인 학생·학자의 입국을 금지하는 행정 명령에 서명했다. 4일(현지시각) 백악관은 ‘하버드대의 위험을 해결하여 국가 안보 강화’란 제목의 행정명령에 트럼프 대통령이 서명했다고 밝혔다. 트럼프 대통령은 이 행정명령 포고문에서 “하

www.hani.co.kr · 한겨레

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Lucas @Moshidon 🇺🇦 @moshidon@floss.social
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Shared by PictoPulse356

Soon the rewritten version of should be ready, and also soon it will be my birthday again!

2nd of June is coming up, and if you wish to give me a little present for celebrating my third birthday with Moshidon (damn time flies) and for working on Moshidon for all this time, please consider throwing a little money at me on either:

Libeapay: liberapay.com/LucasGGamerM/don

Or Github Sponsors: github.com/sponsors/LucasGGame

Thank you for staying with me for all this time, also, happy month!

Donate to LucasGGamerM via Liberapay

Support LucasGGamerM's work with a recurrent donation.

liberapay.com · Liberapay

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Bonfire @bonfire@indieweb.social
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Shared by Danny Garside

🔥 Bonfire Social 1.0 release candidate has landed!

Curious about what the fediverse could look like with real community control?

Try out features like custom feeds, nested discussions, shared profiles, circles, and boundary-based permissions — then let us know what breaks or needs improvement.

More details and video demos: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonf

Announcing the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate

After a long stretch of co-design, development, and reflection, we’re excited to share the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate — a version ready for real-world testing and feedback before the official 1.0 release.

bonfirenetworks.org

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Chris is. @offby1@wandering.shop
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A lot of this match is still available. Plus, my employer matches *my* donations, so you get 2 matches for the price of 1.
wandering.shop/@offby1/1146236

🔷🔶🔷 Chris is. 🔶🔷🔶 (@offby1@wandering.shop)

Hey, Fedi. It's a shitty time in the world, innit? I'm angry about the fate of immigrants and migrants and gays and queers and bi and trans folk. So. Between now and the end of the week, up to $5000, I will match your donations to https://nwirp.org/donate/ or https://www.thetrevorproject.org/. Send me a DM with a screenshot of your donation receipt. I'll track totals here (and, if you're one of the ones who take me over that line, good! be proud!) as they come in. It's not enough, but it's a start.

wandering.shop · The Wandering Shop

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marius @mariusor@metalhead.club
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Finally I've had a very productive day in the land of .

I'm not sure what made it click for me, maybe the 9 hour sleep, maybe finally getting comfortable here in vacation[1], but I've closed many bugs today. I am content.

[1] Just one day before I go away again.

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Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social
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AI/LLM slop and vibe coding

I'm sure that people using LLMs and vibe coding to deal with the year 2038 problem will be extremely fun to watch from a safe distance. What that safe distance is I'm not sure. An isolated self-sufficient farm somewhere?

Of course I hope the LLM vibe coding stuff experiences its inevitable collapse before then, but some people are already probably close to dealing with Y2038 problems today. So they could be vibing it up alarmingly soon.

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Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst@hachyderm.io
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@glyph There is an excellent book called "What Machines Can't Do", by Robert Thomas, which among other things about how Real Engineers suffered the same organizational dysfunctions that motivated DevOps (before it became just another job title for the same dysfunction). It has nothing to do with AI, though there's at least one similarly-titled book that is.

But also it has an afterward suggesting engineers need "an aesthetic of process" and yes the descriptions I hear about LLM coding processes are horrific. Someone yesterday was telling me about how "well, Claude 3.7 has this particular set of quirks where it ignores some instructions" and omg, bad enough my tools have bugs, at least those are fixable.

I do not want tools whose jank is a statistical artifact, impossible to debug and impossible to predict, especially when I'm trying to actually write something that _works_.

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Chris is. @offby1@wandering.shop
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A lot of this match is still available. Plus, my employer matches *my* donations, so you get 2 matches for the price of 1.
wandering.shop/@offby1/1146236

🔷🔶🔷 Chris is. 🔶🔷🔶 (@offby1@wandering.shop)

Hey, Fedi. It's a shitty time in the world, innit? I'm angry about the fate of immigrants and migrants and gays and queers and bi and trans folk. So. Between now and the end of the week, up to $5000, I will match your donations to https://nwirp.org/donate/ or https://www.thetrevorproject.org/. Send me a DM with a screenshot of your donation receipt. I'll track totals here (and, if you're one of the ones who take me over that line, good! be proud!) as they come in. It's not enough, but it's a start.

wandering.shop · The Wandering Shop

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Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️ @alvinashcraft@hachyderm.io
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Catch Up on Microsoft Build 2025: Essential Sessions for .NET Developers.

devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/

Catch Up on Microsoft Build 2025: Essential Sessions for .NET Developers - .NET Blog

Get up to date on all of the .NET sessions from Microsoft Build 2025 covering .NET 10, C# 14, .NET Aspire, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, AI development, and more!

devblogs.microsoft.com · .NET Blog

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Mirai Kumiko @miraikumiko@underground.pm
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I think I've decided that the ideal desktop operating system should contain a Linux kernel booted via EFI_STUB. Own init system as a simple POSIX script. Bash as a shell. Toybox as a basic utils. Musl as a C standard library. Clang as a C/C++ compiler. The logic of dividing rights through users and groups is completely unnecessary on a personal computer, so there will be only one root user. Legacy folders that stretch far back into the past are also not needed, so only: /boot /sys /proc /dev /run /bin /lib /var /etc /root will remain. Bluetooth+Bluealsa should be used as the sound system and iwd+dhcpcd for Wi-Fi.

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Jeff Sikes @box464@mastodon.social
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@liaizonwakest ⁂ I'm not exactly sure how it works...during the migration they show you how many followers and follows you will keep / lose. Definitely going to look into it!

blog.anew.social/bounce-a-cros

Bounce: A Cross-Protocol Migration Tool

0:00 /0:05 1× Introducing: Bounce Today at FediForum, we previewed Bounce: a new tool that uses Bridgy Fed to help migrate your social graph between Mastodon and Bluesky. You read that right: we built a service that moves your social graph not just within a protocol network, but

blog.anew.social · A New Social

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq@mastodon.social
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@box464Jeff Sikes @liaizonwakest ⁂ More than happy to explain!

Bridgy Fed has a custom AP server and a custom PDS (AT Personal Data Server). We're using the move actions on both protocols to migrate from Bluesky to our custom PDS and migrating your bridge actor on our AP server over to Mastodon.

The reason you keep all your followers is because the PDS holds the complete account data you used to have on Bsky, including all the followers we have to distribute your bridged posts to.

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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Google Restricts Android Sideloading–What It Means for User Autonomy and Freedom

Link: puri.sm/posts/google-restricts
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.

puri.sm · Purism

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Michalis Famelis/Φαμέλης @mfamelis@fediscience.org
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Seeing the Politics of Decentralized Social Media Protocols

arxiv.org/abs/2505.22962

by Tolu (@toluTolulope Oshinowo), Sohyeon (@s0hwsohyeon hwang) et al.

Presented and discussed at

arXiv logo

Seeing the Politics of Decentralized Social Media Protocols

Calls to decentralize feed-based social media have been driven by concerns about the concentrated power of centralized platforms and their societal impact. In response, numerous decentralized social media protocols have emerged, each interpreting "decentralization" in different ways. We analyze four such protocols -- ActivityPub, AT Protocol, Nostr, and Farcaster -- to develop a novel conceptual framework for understanding how protocols operationalize decentralization. Drawing from protocol documentation, media coverage, and first-hand interviews with protocol developers and experts, we contextualize each protocol's approach within their respective socio-technical goals. Our framework highlights how control over key components is distributed differently across each protocol, shaping who holds power over what kinds of decisions. How components are arranged in relation to one another further impacts how component owners might offset each other's power in shaping social media. We argue that examining protocols as artifacts reveals how values shape infrastructure and power dynamics -- and that with a holistic framework as a guide, we can more effectively evaluate and design decentralized platforms aligned with the social and political futures we envision.

arxiv.org · arXiv.org

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종이상자@초코말랑과자 :verified: @paperbox@s.mysw.moe
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의욕을 높일 겸 피로도 측정하는 법

1. 단 프로세카를 켠다
2. 악곡을 레벨별로 플레이해본다

새 악곡 Lv.28 풀콤 성공: 최상의 컨디션
새 악곡 Lv.27까지는 한 번에 풀콤할 수 있음: 꽤 괜찮은 컨디션
기존 곡 Lv.26~27까지는 풀콤 잘 됨: 일반적인 컨디션
기존 곡을 Lv.26 이하에서 풀콤하지 못함: 꽤나 피곤한 상황
기존 곡 Lv.24에서도 풀콤이 안 됨: 들어가 주무세요

부작용: 하다가 레벨업이라도 하면 그거 또 소진한다고 한 시간을 게임에 매진하고 있음

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