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.
Some of you belong in pun jail. A pun-itentiary of sorts.
Serious question how many of these bets would have to fail before Facebook just didn't have money to fund their basic product anymore https://bsky.app/profile/theverge.com/post/3lrbcv2scbh2b
"Our Fall 2025 Accelerator is for Black-led cooperatives who want to get to the next level in their business."
Dear Fedi friends,
I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great features and benefits (interoperability, no ads, no surveillance...) and I set it in contrast to the world of Big Tech social platforms. I argue that, with the rise of Big Tech oligarchs and the current political climate, there has never been a better time to join the fediverse.
I hope you will enjoy this video and that you will find it useful (maybe as a tool to introduce your friends, family, colleagues, school administrators, local government officials to it).
The fediverse has truly changed my life, making me a better, more empowered digital citizen. I am endlessly grateful for it, so this is my contribution to the cause ❤️
I am also incredibly thankful for the work of 
@samaabergSamuel Aaberg and 
@patel.riyenThe Life of Tarzan who helped me bring my vision to life with their amazing cinematography skills and their assistance throughout the process, providing brilliant feedback to the script / edits from the POV of fedi newbies.
And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: 
@janJan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦 
@fritjofFritjof 
@erikkempErik Kemp 🇪🇺🟥 
@sknob 
@severin 
@clabruClaudio 
@tarcisiosurdiTarcísio Surdi ⁂ 
@hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) 
@danielcasanueva 
@ainaliJan Ainali 
@naclyPen
Lastly, I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to premiere the video last week at #FediForum - thank you 
@j12tJohannes Ernst and 
@anca
The video is up on my self-hosted PeerTube instance (thank you 
@yunohostYunoHost 
) and for now it is unlisted as I have no idea how my VPS will hold up. I also included an alternate location in the blog post.
I hope you'll enjoy it! It's been a real labor of love (a month of full time work on it)... I see it as my love letter to the fediverse 💌
Edit/update: THANK YOU for all the people who volunteered to have their avatar show up in the last shot. There were 750+ submissions and only 135 spots - sorry I couldn't include everyone 🥲
#TheFutureIsFederated
Dandelion #Florespondence #BloomScrolling
So like
Rust has the ownership model
The ownership model says that you can have EITHER one writer XOR many readers
The ownership model has two benefits:
- Allows safe, exact memory management (concrete)
- Decreases bugs (claimed by Rust fans)
Say I wished to remove the XOR from the ownership model— I write a linear typed language, and my rule is only "at most one writer". Is there any reason this would be impossible? (Say I don't care about the claimed bug reduction, only memory management.)
Someone help me out here, I basically need to run FFMPEG as a service so I can make these GIFs. Whats the cheapest way to do it?
TechBash 2025 Early Bird Extended 3 Weeks - Check Out This Week's Featured Speaker from Microosft.
#techbash #devconference #techevent #nepa #poconos #kalahariresort #familyfun #developers
"Users really don’t care about your application – they have specific goals and will do only the absolute minimum necessary to achieve those goals." https://blog.codinghorror.com/on-necessity/
On Necessity
When working with users, I am frequently reminded of this conversation in David O. Russell’s movie Three Kings: 0:00 /0:51 1× GATES What is the most important thing in life? TROY What are you talking about? GATES What’s the most important thing? TROY Respect? GATES Too
blog.codinghorror.com · Coding Horror
Link author: 
Jeff Atwood@codinghorror@infosec.exchange
Episode 57 of Linux Matters: Nerdy Day Trips 🐧️🎙️
Martin heists disk space from GitHub. Alan reboots a very nerdy website. Mark has been punishing his Steam Deck.
It's cybersecurity awareness month! Do you know how to tell if an email you received is safe? It's simple! Look for https:// in the address bar
(Our lawyer advised us to add "in Minecraft" as a disclaimer at the end of this post)
Slow-burn boyfriends-to-girlfriends fic
finished listening Rock The Universe 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
Mama let him play https://genius.com/Jerry-doucette-mama-let-him-play-lyrics
finished listening Rock The Universe 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
Mama let him play https://genius.com/Jerry-doucette-mama-let-him-play-lyrics
Time is almost up to support #peertube ! Even a $1 #donation goes a long way! I know it doesn't sound like it. But you know the speech. :-D
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/
I think LLMs will absolutely change what kind of job you have in the future.
... and that would also be true of any groundbreaking tech change.
yet, as the saying goes, 'the more things change, the more they stay the same'. learning and adapting _is_ our job.
purpose > tech.
I think LLMs will absolutely change what kind of job you have in the future. ... and that would also be true of any groundbreaking tech change. yet, as the saying goes, 'the more things change, the more they stay the same'. learning and adapting _is_ our job. purpose > tech. roe.dev/ama #ama
Looking to lure people to the fediverse? Share 
@_elenaElena Rossini ⁂'s explainer with them. It's a four-minute video that makes things simple for anyone to understand.
https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
#Fediverse #FederatedSocialMedia #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ElenaRossini #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #Tech #Technology
The #fediverse, a collection of #decentralised web products, aims to provide a viable #open web alternative to corporate #socialmedia.
💗 While it has a #passionate user base, it remains a #niche platform.
📲 At #FediForum, new apps like #Bounce, #Surf, and #Bandwagon were showcased, demonstrating progress in social graph migration, feed management, and monetisation for creators.
👉 https://thenewstack.io/bringing-joy-back-to-the-web-fediverse-vs-centralized-apps/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
I HATE WORDPRESS I HATE WORDPRESS I HATE WORDPRESS OH MY GOD HOW IS WORDPRESS NOT ABLE TO SIMPLY SIT AT REST AND NOT DEVELOP NEW PROBLEMS
United States based folks who also have non-US citizenship, how seriously are you currently considering moving abroad?
hey #berlin are you a cool hacker person who could help us pick a simple mailbox lock?
our collective cannot get to our own mail right now because someone kindly replaced our lock but also didn't give us the key 🤣
we even have a new replacement lock to go in there! i think in the right hands this would take all of 30 seconds to do. let me know
@nazokiyoubinbouNazo good choice :) what do you use?
@heartshadows haha. yes they do.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
A technological artifact of the 50/60hz split in Japan. The timer will run at a different rate so rather than sell separate models with the timer painted differently, they just have two marks for 50 or 60hz. Beautiful.
#electronics #electricity
Building a Debugger is now officially released!
It guides you through writing a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes.
Even if you don't care about writing a debugger, you can read it to your cat.
DW's Berlin Briefing today claims:
> An additional working day would increase the gross domestic product by up to €8.6 billion ($9.8 bn).
Yet, as far as I know, research has also proven that a four day working week actually increases productivity.
So that's fun.
@thisismissemEmelia 👸🏻 Huh? Again? This was in ~Tagesschau about a month ago, *and* in news one month before that. Someone is working really hard to try to get this into media.
It's a prime case for where journalists should have more math literacy, say in percentages. Then they could ask "8.6 bn sounds like a lot" (which is what whoever is trying to place this is counting on) "how much is that in %?"
The answer is 0.19% GDP.
One day more is, btw, 0.39% more work time.
I wonder where the 0.2% end up.
Building a Debugger is now officially released!
It guides you through writing a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes.
Even if you don't care about writing a debugger, you can read it to your cat.
From Google blog: With Android 16, you can now activate Advanced Protection 2 , Google’s strongest mobile device protection. It enables an array of robust device security features that protect you from online attacks, harmful apps, unsafe websites, scam calls and more. Whether you’re a public figure or you just prioritize security, Advanced Protection gives you greater peace of mind that you’re protected against the most sophisticated attacks https://blog.google/products/android/android-16/
https://security.googleblog.com/2025/05/advanced-protection-mobile-devices.html
The Wall Street JournalはWWDCに対して厳し目の記事を書いてますね。
Apple Fails to Clear a Low Bar on AI
The company’s hardware-first business model is putting it at a disadvantage in the AI age
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/apple-ai-strategy-wwdc-challenges-bdae4fb5
I pressed Ctl-Win-Q, and THIS happened.
Coming soon to @cloudflare.social workers... import { promises } = from'node:fs'; const fh = await promises.open('/bundle/config'); console.log(await fh.readFile()); await fh.close(); that's right, Workers will have a new virtual file system with Node.js fs API support.. oh, and WebFS APIs also
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
35 years ago, EFF was founded to ensure tech empowers people—not the oppressors.
From defending encryption and privacy to fighting censorship and surveillance, we've been on the frontlines for your digital rights. https://www.eff.org/35
catgirls
How are we STILL not sure if they're giants or not
Kamala was right, again.
Schedule for streaming is a bit different this week, which observant followers will have already noticed via the calendar (if you did, you receive 7 internet points, congratulations). In any case, hopefully live in about 15 minutes: https://www.twitch.tv/glyph_official/
While I understand and on some level commend Apple's dedication to requiring "apps" to keep current with platform technology (it's irresponsible to connect stuff to a network that doesn't have active security support), this is a good reminder that you should never buy games that you might care about from Apple because they all stop working eventually, with no compatibility layer, emulator, or shim that will help you get them running again https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/apple-details-the-end-of-intel-mac-support-and-a-phaseout-for-rosetta-2/
@glyph The contrast with the Windows platform is striking. I recently helped a blind student get started with a program called Talking Typing Teacher that, as far as I can tell, was last updated in 2006. It runs fine on his Windows 11 laptop.
おやすみ…
TIL: Bypass the #python virtualenv wrapper scripts altogether by using
uv init --script myscript.py
uv add --script myscript.py 'somemod'
And using the following shebang line in myscript.py
#! /usr/bin/env -S uv run --script
When you start myscript.py it will create a python virtualenv on the fly with uv https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#declaring-script-dependencies
How are we STILL not sure if they're giants or not
just small circles 🕊
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