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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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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Say I have a series of URLs and I want to put them in an RSS feed, but I don't have "preview" information for these URLs (eg no titles, summary etc). Will RSS allow me to syndicate these? Okay wait wrong question. If I make an RSS feed out of these will clients be able to usefully present the information?

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sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social
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Shared by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

if you're at , @toluTolulope Oshinowo and I are facilitating a session on the politics of protocols and designing with power in mind in about 5 minutes! we want to talk about our recent pre-print (arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22962v1) but it's mostly free-form, open discussion related to the topic

Seeing the Politics of Decentralized Social Media Protocols

Tolulope Oshinowo; Sohyeon Hwang; Amy X. Zhang; Andrés Monroy-Hernández · - Software and its engineering -> Software system structures.- Social and professional topics -> Cultural characteristics.

arxiv.org

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Michalis Famelis/Φαμέλης @mfamelis@fediscience.org
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Shared by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

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

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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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Ángel @angel@triptico.com
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I get more and more surprised about how programmers (specially the youngest) react to posts like yours.
Because the first step toward freedom is always the same: admitting you might be wearing chains.
Can't be said clearer.

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New_ Public @wearenew_public@mastodon.social
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Shared by Andy Piper

@andypiper from Mastodon on our collective attention crisis:
😦We gradually surrendered away control of our digital lives, we didn’t lose it all at once
😀Alternative models prioritize user choice, community ownership, and authentic interaction
🥳Communities excel at synthesizing genuinely new ideas

kathleeninweb3.substack.com/p/

8 Hard Truths About Our Attention Crisis

The path to reclaiming control is closer than you think

kathleeninweb3.substack.com

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♡ Eva Winterschön ♡ @winterschon@bsd.cafe
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@stefanoStefano Marinelli perfectly stated. two aspects that I found especially poignant:

- open office enthusiast who swears the noise and lack of privacy make them "more collaborative", even as their productivity tanks and stress levels soar.
-Every time a generation stops understanding the tools they use, they become dependent on whoever controls those tools.

The only solution here, with management calling the shots, is to understand that these are new tools, they are augmentation, timesavers, **not a replacement**. LLMs are not a monolithic system, there are ones which are excellent at certain tasks and horrible for others. Most people assuming and complaining about the tools as a monolithic manner are exceptionally misinformed.

Similarly, people should be learning about how LLMs work and how they are created, instead of expending so much effort in demanding to have their ignorance be valid opinions.

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Hachyderm @hachyderm@hachyderm.io
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Hello, Hachyfolk!

As part of last week's maintenance, we managed to totally, absolutely break one of our "edge" nodes: these are the infrastructure we deploy across the world to improve your Hachyderm experience. Fortunately, our set up is such that when we lose one of these, you get re-routed to the other hosts.

Naturally, that put extra load on our other edge nodes, so we're in the process of deploying new nodes to get us back to -- and a little beyond -- where we were before.

We'll be rolling these nodes out in this order over the next few days and into the weekend:

- Japan / Tokyo
- US East / Newark (this is where we lost the node last week!)
- EU Central / Frankfurt

As we execute each step, we'll gradually increase traffic to the new node, and only progress further if everything looks good.

If you notice any special bleeps and bloops during this process, let us know!

:blobfoxscience:

~ Hachyderm Infra Team

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wakest ⁂ @liaizon@social.wake.st
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Shared by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

Pretty psyched for @anewsocial's new project ! A tool to move followers across protocols.

@SarahpSarah Perez 💙 already publishing the announcement from @fediforum on @Techcrunch

techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/intr

via threads.com/@quillmatiq/post/D

Introducing Bounce, a tool to move your following between Bluesky and Mastodon | TechCrunch

The overall goal at A New Social is to shift the power of social networks back to the people, not the platform makers, by giving them tools that let them move their account, their followings, and leave if a platform ever fails them in some way.

techcrunch.com · TechCrunch

Link author: Sarah Perez 💙@Sarahp@mastodon.social

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Gorujo @gorujocy@cyberplace.social
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I ironically realized that my posts now has been about shitty M$ and recall and signal.
Don't worry I still have projects work in progress I'm not here to just do this and be a hypocrite or whatever.

Relevant quote I said:

"In case I'll be late at blog posts, Just know I was formally diagnosed with ADHD so."

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Anne Roth @anneroth@systemli.social
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Spannend. Wenn ich in der Bonus App gucke, welche Züge ich gegen Punkte buchen könnte, springt die Oberfläche mitten drin auf Polnisch um, also beim Auswählen konkreter Züge.

Sind hier Leute anwesend, die solche Bugs beheben können?

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gigabecquerel @gigabecquerel@chaos.social
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They say material possessions don't bring you happiness, but being sent parts of the CMS detector sure comes close 😁
This one is part of the endcap if I'm not mistaken. It's a silicon strip detector, basically a few 100 very long PIN diodes that help with identifying and tracking particles of all sorts!
It will definitely get a nice frame and end up on my wall. Thank you so much @diminDima !

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ee @EWDurbin@mastodon.social
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Shared by Hugo van Kemenade

In case you don’t know about these rings, @lorenipsumLoren introd’ me to them a few years back at a PSF staff retreat. I’ve been wearing one daily since, and given hundreds away because it’s fun and they are dirt cheap pot metal.

I’m in the process of having some made out of jewelry grade material. It won’t be exorbitantly expensive, but the upfront costs are a bit higher than I can stomach easily right now.

If you are seriously interested in one please send me a message.

A full length snake ring on Ee’s right ring finger. A glove covers the top part of their knuckles.
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Python Software Foundation @ThePSF@fosstodon.org
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Shared by Hugo van Kemenade

Got questions about the 2025 PSF Board election? Curious about running? Join the upcoming PSF Board Office Hours session next Tuesday, June 10th, at 9PM UTC on the PSF Discord to chat with current board members!
pyfound.blogspot.com/2024/08/a

Ask questions or tell us what you think: Introducing monthly PSF Board Office Hours!

Greetings, Pythonistas- thank you so much for supporting the work of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and the Python community! The curr...

pyfound.blogspot.com · Python Software Foundation Blog

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Sovereign Tech Agency @sovtechfund@mastodon.social
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Shared by Hugo van Kemenade

We are looking for an operations professional to support the Sovereign Tech Agency team and our managing directors. As *team support specialist* you'll be the first point of contact for administrative questions, in addition to being responsible for our office in Berlin. Details ⤵️ sovereign.tech/jobs/team-suppo

Job: Team Assistant (all genders) | Sovereign Tech Agency

The Sovereign Tech Agency is looking for an operations professional to support our team and managing directors.

www.sovereign.tech · Sovereign Tech Agency

Link author: Sovereign Tech Agency@sovtechfund@mastodon.social

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Sarven Capadisli @csarven@w3c.social
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Shared by Evan Prodromou

@classicweb @evanEvan Prodromou

I did the whole frontend (some backend) for . HTML, CSS - no JavaScript.

I take pride in that work b/c it was technically "state of the art".

Progressively enhanced; valid markup, alternate stylesheets, and a tonne of structured data directly in the pages. Essentially enabling a read API.

Something for the fans:

microformats.org/discuss/mail/

microformats.org/discuss/mail/

>the best implementations of microformats in a social
media site

[uf-discuss] Open microblogging and microformats

microformats.org

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