What is Hackers' Pub?

I started my career in tech as a technical writer, but that was only because I wanted to become a webmaster (which I achieved after a year). Living the web dream in the 90s…

“I'm a fucking webmaster
Back in 1993, you weren't a designer, developer, copywriter or in devops. You were a fucking webmaster, and your name was at the bottom of every page.”
https://justinjackson.ca/webmaster/

アイコン納品 #イラスト #イラスト

How much time per week are you willing to devote to political participation?

#EvanPoll #poll

Happy #caturday

A year of funded FreeBSD development

Link: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-06-06-A-year-of-funded-FreeBSD.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44204224

I started my career in tech as a technical writer, but that was only because I wanted to become a webmaster (which I achieved after a year). Living the web dream in the 90s…

“I'm a fucking webmaster
Back in 1993, you weren't a designer, developer, copywriter or in devops. You were a fucking webmaster, and your name was at the bottom of every page.”
https://justinjackson.ca/webmaster/

Happy #caturday

I only had a few fleeting moments to catch the #FediForum today. But wow was I so glad to have been there!

@_elenaElena Rossini ⁂ premiered a new video that introduces the fediverse to mainstream social users, and it was very well produced. I got a little emotional about it! I believe it will be released on PeerTube within the week.

Something to look forward to, and share generously. You'll want to shake the cobwebs off your old Twitter and Facebook accounts and post it! :)

ActivityPub is the network with the highest percentage of Firefox users, and also the highest percentage of people mad at Mozilla all the time

I didn't know Hubzilla had been doing quote-posts for so long — very cool.

Miss #Pocket? 🥲 We have a fix! 👋

Nextcloud Bookmarks helps you organize and sync your links, offering extra privacy and integration opportunities on top of that. And it's open source. And people love it!

https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/bookmarks

okay #golang I want to fight.

why the FUCK is the fucking reference date January 2, 2006 when you cannot tell just by looking at "01" and "02" which one is a month and which one is a day, and when most of the world uses the properly nested YYYY-MM-DD or DD-MM-YYYY but the fucking US insists on, like, MM-DD-YYYY.

and if you are only using the last two digits of the year it's even worse. 06-01-02: is it 6 January, 2002? June 1, 2002? February 1, 2006? June 2, 2001?!

something like December 31, 1969 is far less ambiguous. "31" can't be a month, "69" can be neither a month nor a day.

go? more like STOP

Here's some content to get new folks started with FreeBSD! I'll be watching this as I prepare to install FreeBSD 14.3 Release on my new Framework laptop. https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/three-ways-to-try-freebsd-in-under-five-minutes/

窮人要會容忍啊我操要容忍

It just can't be the case that I'm the only computer geek who played AD&D as a child and now finds themselves with enough management duties that they spend more time than they'd like looking at spreadsheets.

If that describes you as well, tell me something. On those situations where you are looking at cell D20 in #LibreOffice, do you internally process the string “D20” as “twenty-sided die” ?

It just can't be the case that I'm the only computer geek who played AD&D as a child and now finds themselves with enough management duties that they spend more time than they'd like looking at spreadsheets.

If that describes you as well, tell me something. On those situations where you are looking at cell D20 in #LibreOffice, do you internally process the string “D20” as “twenty-sided die” ?

When I drag my cursor to the bottom right hand corner of my screen, this happens. If pressed, I could tell you a tedious story about the series of interactions which makes this a normal and predictable thing to happen. But it only happens once every few months and it delights me every time.

Update: YouTube has just reinstated the video, after what I presume is a human review process. I wish it didn't take making noise on socials to get past the 'AI deny' process :(

Go forth, and self-host all the things! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hFas54xFtg

Self hosting your own media considered harmful (according to YouTube...). https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful

Hotel booked for https://fedicon.ca 🥳 ✈️

Ancora un anno, ancora ti ripresenti nei nostri pensieri, nei nostri discorsi.
Ricordiamo i tuoi sbuffi, le tue facce finte pietose per scroccare qualcosa, purché non ci fossero i funghi.
Aspettaci fratello, aspettaci Buck; quando arriveremo sarà di nuovo tempo per le passeggiate insieme.

@lndn I loved it! And today (day 2) was great as well.

@SnoopJ even better, what a time to be having panic attacks!

I have a piece of spam, almost certainly LLM-derived, which made it through my filters. This is highly customized spam which, given other parameters, would probably have fooled me momentarily given the very specific attributes of my writing that they are referencing (until I got to the "guest post" part of the pitch, which is always a dead giveaway). But the subject line is absolute chefs-kiss perfection:

"Re: i love panic attack mention"

ワンドロに手を加えたばみさん落書き　乗算とハードライトありがとうの気持ち

Making a good logo even better—featuring the inimitable Jon Hicks.

https://griffin.com/blog/making-a-good-logo-even-better #brand #branding #logo #logos #design

I would genuinely like to understand what's going on with the Eglinton LRT.

youtu.be/hTZTEt6UwaA?... 와

이재명 대통령이 "퇴행" 비판한 경찰국...폐지 수순 ...

しゅいろﾏﾝﾏ！Chu！

Hey, folks who understand alt text and limited vision accessibility:

I have need to write alt text for the diagram below. The alt text needs to be comprehensible to somebody who is encountering this kind of diagram for the ••very first time••. I could describe the images using the relevant jargon, but that would only serve people who already know the thing this activity is teaching them!

Any suggestions for how I could write good alt text for something like this? Is it possible? (The horizontal black bars are minus signs, i.e. subtraction. This is clear from context in the text, but probably not clear in the image.)

PLEASE NOTE: I am looking for people with ••relevant accessibility expertise••, not just random best shots from people who (like me) don’t really know much about this kind of problem.

最近話題のSwitchってやつ手に入れたからやってみるか

how far off do we think this is from being the default shell startup on every platform

https://thepit.social/@peter/114601765045842916

강제로 소셜 믹스하는 SNS가 있었으면 재밌겠다... 물론 누가 쓰겠냐만은...

★ Truth Social Is Just Trump’s Blog
https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/truth_social_is_just_trumps_blog

카카오뱅크에 데브렐이 있다고? 그런데도 카뱅 앱은 아직도 한국에 거주하면서 세금 내는 외국인들을 차별해서 가입도 못하게 하냐? 데브렐이 있다면 이런 D&I 정도는 고민을 해 봐야 하는 거 아니냐? 법규정이 없는 것도 아니고 이미 2019년부터 모든 제반 규정이 갖춰졌는데도 안하는 거 보면 그냥 못하는 거 아님? 그럴려면 데브렐 딱지는 떼야지?

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@cwebber@social.coopChristine Lemmer-Webber Dave & Buster's is a prime example of ActivityPub, being both activity and pub

Hacking is Necessary https://lobste.rs/s/birojb #practices
https://scharenbroch.dev/blog/hacking-is-necessary/

One of my favourite gigs this year (but there are many) was wachi 蛙池 in Tokyo in April. From Guangdong Province in China, it was one of most joyful and energetic shows I've seen recently. Not many people know them outside China (even in Tokyo the majority of the audience was Chinese), so here we go...

#wachi #蛙池

https://youtu.be/cdKp4fJHnBo?si=ZsFC0pGfiP4Y6ORu

I whinged at @lenarySam and he added the missing single-letter extensions to https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-c-api-doc/pull/109, so my plans for "bigger misa" continue apace. Thank you!

洗濯物ほしたのでえらい

【英語お達者民の皆さま】
これは先日、ドローン徘徊があった時の各外務省へのアクション依頼の投稿ですが、現在もうあと僅かでパレスチナというところで近付いたら攻撃するとイスラエルから警告が来ているそうです。今こそ、パレスチナへ寄港出来るように各外務省に働きかけませんか？
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKecwtkonse/?img_index=3&igsh=aGwweTB2ZW42M2pw

For my fellow #canadian folk, here is a handy site mapping the current wildfire smoke impacts:

https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

Remember - this is the worst fire season of your life... so far.

#canada #wildfire #canadawildfires

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber activitypub is a polycule for webservers

Tfw you’re writing charlotte’s web and you have a spider question and the only bug guy you know is vladimir nabokov

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber activitypub is a polycule for webservers

家電量販店あるある６月ごろからセミのBGM流しがち。