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.
On a train with 64 type theorists. Ticket inspector wished me luck.
Got a DM in response to this post: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/114660783479488180
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Do you know irritating it is when you wake up in the morning check your mastodon timeline and the first toot you [see] is this?
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So I'm curious, how irritating is it?
Ow fuck ow #ADHD
Plants hear their pollinators, and produce sweet nectar in response
Link: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-51-quirks-and-quarks/clip/16150976-plants-hear-pollinators-produce-sweet-nectar-response
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44211971
It’s rare to see a talk that so effectively demonstrates not just the tools for performance analysis, but the approach that leads to good results. This is a talk I wish I’d thought to give, but Matt absolutely crushed it. Comfortably my favourite session of WWDC 25: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/308
Fediverse Report - This week's fediverse news:
- 
@fediforum happened, with a ton of demos, sessions and keynotes
- 
@bonfire gets close to a formal 1.0 release, and is already available for usage
- 
@anewsocial announces Bounce, a tool to migrate your social graph from #atproto to #activitypub
- shutdown of a lemmy server provides opportunity for 
@piefedadmin
and much more!
Fediverse Report – #120
Fediforum happened this week, porting your social graph cross-protocol with Bounce, Bonfire gets closer to release, a prominent Lemmy server shuts down, and much more.
I also run a weekly newsletter, where you get all the articles I published this week directly in your inbox, as well as additional analysis. You can sign up right here, and get the next edition this Friday!
The FediForum unconference was this week, with three days of sessions, keynotes and demos. The event was originally scheduled for April, but got cancelled at the last minute due to drama around transphobic statements made by one of the co-organisers. The individual in question left FediForum, and instead FediForum set up an advisory board with a number of community members. This edition of FediForum had keynotes for the first time, by ActivityPub co-creator Christine Lemmer-Webber, author Cory Doctorow, and Ian Forrester, who lead a Mastodon instance at the BBC. There were also a large number of demos (list here) and unconference sessions about a wide variety of subjects. I’ll write more about both the demos and the keynotes once the videos of them will become available online, likely next week.
Bounce is a newly-announced tool that allows people to migrate their social graph across protocols. It is made by A New Social, the organisation behind Bridgy Fed. The ability to port a social graph from AT Protocol to ActivityPub reshapes what is possible within the Open Social Web. For that reason, I think Bounce is a meaningful release, with its power mainly being in altering the shape of these networks. I wrote an essay on that this week that goes into the philosophical side of Bounce. For more practical information I can recommend this coverage by TechCrunch and The Verge. Meanwhile, A New Social’s CTO Ryan Barrett has shared all the updates and new features that have happened to Bridgy Fed over the recent months.
Music sharing platform Bandwagon shared more information during Fediforum on their development work, and how they are working on integrating album sales. A dev blog by Bandwagon recently shared their plans on adding a premium subscription, and how album sales work. During a Fediforum session, developer Ben Pate shared some screenshots on what this looks like. WeDistribute has a deep dive into Bandwagon and the current state of development based on the latest FediForum session.
Bonfire is an upcoming fediverse platform that has slowly been reaching the end of the line for development, and they announced the release candidate version of Bonfire 1.0. It is a framework and platform for building communities on the fediverse, and has a large variety of features and extensibility. One of the standout features is circles and boundaries. Circles allow users to define lists of accounts, and boundaries allows users to determine on a per-post basis to what circles each post gets shared. This creates a significant amount of flexibility on how to handle private posts, something which is in huge demand within the open social web. Bonfire also gives users a large amount of control over how they see and filter their feed. For more of a philosophical take on that, I recently wrote about how Bonfire’s approach on custom feeds compares to Bluesky’s approach. The developers are inviting people to install their own instance and experiment with the new features. It is unknown when Bonfire will be ready for a full 1.0 release. For another look at Bonfire, TechCrunch also covered the story.
Filmmaker and fediverse evangelist Elena Rossini has released her fediverse promotion video, which was highly anticipated by the community. The video can be viewed here, and tells the story of why the fediverse matters for a lay audience. The video is worth paying attention to for two reasons: first of all, it is a well-produced promo video for the fediverse that explains some of the core ideas in an accessible manner. Secondly, the video has gotten a huge amount of support from within the fediverse community, with a large number of prominent people within the community supporting Rossini’s work. One of the challenges of analysing a decentralised community is that there is no singular decentralised community, there are a wide variety of different groups and cultures. However, by seeing how and who responded positively to the video, it becomes clear that Rossini’s video does represent a dominant and popular understanding of what the fediverse is, and why it matters. In that way, analysing the video does provide good insight into the one of the more dominant and popular cultures of the fediverse.
Lemm.ee, one of the biggest Lemmy servers, is shutting down at the end of June. The team says: “The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.” This has some significant impact on the wider Threadiverse community, as the lemm.ee hosted a significant number of popular communities. This makes server shutdowns on Threadiverse platforms signficantly more impactful, as they also impact people who do not have an account on the platform. Community migration is challenging, and there are no specific tools to help with a community with migrating to a different server.
The shutdown of the Lemm.ee server provides an opportunity for PieFed, a link-aggregator platform similar to Lemmy. PieFed is over a year old, that has seen significant development and new features beyond Lemmy, but has not managed to gain traction yet, with growth of users being slow. However, now that communities on the lemm.ee. server need to find a new place, PieFed is emerging as one of the main destinations. In turn, this is giving PieFed some much need promotion and awareness within the Threadiverse community, with PieFed doubling the number of accounts within a week. Lemmy clients are also starting to add support for PieFed, with the Lemmy client Interstellar already supporting PieFed. PieFed also uploaded two PeerTube video walking through all the moderation and administration features the platform has.
Ghost’s work on implementing ActivityPub is getting close to an official release. In their latest update, Ghost said that their ActivityPub integration will be part of the Ghost 6.0 release, which will come in ‘a few weeks’. The team has been working on ActivityPub for over a year, and have grown from 3 people to 8 people now working on their social web integration. For Ghost, the ActivityPub integration is more than just another connector, describing it as ‘a statement that the open web still matters’.
Mastodon is planning to release a new update, version 4.4, with the first beta now available. Some of the new features include the ability to set more feature content on user profiles, more list and follow management tools. For admins, there are better tools for setting legal frameworks, moderation tweaks and more. The biggest feature of the patch is that it will display quoted posts. The highly requested feature will only be fully available in version 4.5, which will include the ability for users to create quoted posts. Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput says that he expects version 4.4 to be released at the end of June, with version 4.5 scheduled a few months later in September of October. The organisation also shared their monthly engineering update for May.
PeerTube released their latest version, 7.2, with a new design for video management and publication pages. PeerTube also now has more features for handling sensitive content. Creators can now add an explanation of why the content is marked as sensitive. Users also have more flexibility with how they want sensitive content to be handled, with various different configurations between hiding, blurring or warning about a video with sensitive content. PeerTube is also running a crowdfunding campaign for the mobile app, which has now crossed the halfway mark at 35k EUR. This milestone is for video management from the mobile app, with the next milestone being for livestream support in-app. The PeerTube app developer also shared a blog post with his thoughts on the technical framework considerations for building the app.
Hollo is a single-user microblogging platform, and their latest release has a significant number of new features, including better OAuth and various upgrades to the UX. Developer Hong Minhee also announced that independent fediverse developer Emelia Smith will join as a co-maintainer for Hollo.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:
一整個家庭倫理劇🤷
Can we get #Playground to execute within the context of the current running simulator, sometime after appDidFinishLaunching? I don't care if its practically impossible, I just want it to work that way.
This is ok
AI Toolkit for VS Code June Update - Integrated evaluation, built-in agent evaluators, function calling, version management, evaluation comparison & more.
«The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.»
It's nice to see places where community can help course correct!
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash/
Fediverse Report – #120
Fediforum happened this week, porting your social graph cross-protocol with Bounce, Bonfire gets closer to release, a prominent Lemmy server shuts down, and much more.
I also run a weekly newsletter, where you get all the articles I published this week directly in your inbox, as well as additional analysis. You can sign up right here, and get the next edition this Friday!
The FediForum unconference was this week, with three days of sessions, keynotes and demos. The event was originally scheduled for April, but got cancelled at the last minute due to drama around transphobic statements made by one of the co-organisers. The individual in question left FediForum, and instead FediForum set up an advisory board with a number of community members. This edition of FediForum had keynotes for the first time, by ActivityPub co-creator Christine Lemmer-Webber, author Cory Doctorow, and Ian Forrester, who lead a Mastodon instance at the BBC. There were also a large number of demos (list here) and unconference sessions about a wide variety of subjects. I’ll write more about both the demos and the keynotes once the videos of them will become available online, likely next week.
Bounce is a newly-announced tool that allows people to migrate their social graph across protocols. It is made by A New Social, the organisation behind Bridgy Fed. The ability to port a social graph from AT Protocol to ActivityPub reshapes what is possible within the Open Social Web. For that reason, I think Bounce is a meaningful release, with its power mainly being in altering the shape of these networks. I wrote an essay on that this week that goes into the philosophical side of Bounce. For more practical information I can recommend this coverage by TechCrunch and The Verge. Meanwhile, A New Social’s CTO Ryan Barrett has shared all the updates and new features that have happened to Bridgy Fed over the recent months.
Music sharing platform Bandwagon shared more information during Fediforum on their development work, and how they are working on integrating album sales. A dev blog by Bandwagon recently shared their plans on adding a premium subscription, and how album sales work. During a Fediforum session, developer Ben Pate shared some screenshots on what this looks like. WeDistribute has a deep dive into Bandwagon and the current state of development based on the latest FediForum session.
Bonfire is an upcoming fediverse platform that has slowly been reaching the end of the line for development, and they announced the release candidate version of Bonfire 1.0. It is a framework and platform for building communities on the fediverse, and has a large variety of features and extensibility. One of the standout features is circles and boundaries. Circles allow users to define lists of accounts, and boundaries allows users to determine on a per-post basis to what circles each post gets shared. This creates a significant amount of flexibility on how to handle private posts, something which is in huge demand within the open social web. Bonfire also gives users a large amount of control over how they see and filter their feed. For more of a philosophical take on that, I recently wrote about how Bonfire’s approach on custom feeds compares to Bluesky’s approach. The developers are inviting people to install their own instance and experiment with the new features. It is unknown when Bonfire will be ready for a full 1.0 release. For another look at Bonfire, TechCrunch also covered the story.
Filmmaker and fediverse evangelist Elena Rossini has released her fediverse promotion video, which was highly anticipated by the community. The video can be viewed here, and tells the story of why the fediverse matters for a lay audience. The video is worth paying attention to for two reasons: first of all, it is a well-produced promo video for the fediverse that explains some of the core ideas in an accessible manner. Secondly, the video has gotten a huge amount of support from within the fediverse community, with a large number of prominent people within the community supporting Rossini’s work. One of the challenges of analysing a decentralised community is that there is no singular decentralised community, there are a wide variety of different groups and cultures. However, by seeing how and who responded positively to the video, it becomes clear that Rossini’s video does represent a dominant and popular understanding of what the fediverse is, and why it matters. In that way, analysing the video does provide good insight into the one of the more dominant and popular cultures of the fediverse.
Lemm.ee, one of the biggest Lemmy servers, is shutting down at the end of June. The team says: “The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.” This has some significant impact on the wider Threadiverse community, as the lemm.ee hosted a significant number of popular communities. This makes server shutdowns on Threadiverse platforms signficantly more impactful, as they also impact people who do not have an account on the platform. Community migration is challenging, and there are no specific tools to help with a community with migrating to a different server.
The shutdown of the Lemm.ee server provides an opportunity for PieFed, a link-aggregator platform similar to Lemmy. PieFed is over a year old, that has seen significant development and new features beyond Lemmy, but has not managed to gain traction yet, with growth of users being slow. However, now that communities on the lemm.ee. server need to find a new place, PieFed is emerging as one of the main destinations. In turn, this is giving PieFed some much need promotion and awareness within the Threadiverse community, with PieFed doubling the number of accounts within a week. Lemmy clients are also starting to add support for PieFed, with the Lemmy client Interstellar already supporting PieFed. PieFed also uploaded two PeerTube video walking through all the moderation and administration features the platform has.
Ghost’s work on implementing ActivityPub is getting close to an official release. In their latest update, Ghost said that their ActivityPub integration will be part of the Ghost 6.0 release, which will come in ‘a few weeks’. The team has been working on ActivityPub for over a year, and have grown from 3 people to 8 people now working on their social web integration. For Ghost, the ActivityPub integration is more than just another connector, describing it as ‘a statement that the open web still matters’.
Mastodon is planning to release a new update, version 4.4, with the first beta now available. Some of the new features include the ability to set more feature content on user profiles, more list and follow management tools. For admins, there are better tools for setting legal frameworks, moderation tweaks and more. The biggest feature of the patch is that it will display quoted posts. The highly requested feature will only be fully available in version 4.5, which will include the ability for users to create quoted posts. Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput says that he expects version 4.4 to be released at the end of June, with version 4.5 scheduled a few months later in September of October. The organisation also shared their monthly engineering update for May.
PeerTube released their latest version, 7.2, with a new design for video management and publication pages. PeerTube also now has more features for handling sensitive content. Creators can now add an explanation of why the content is marked as sensitive. Users also have more flexibility with how they want sensitive content to be handled, with various different configurations between hiding, blurring or warning about a video with sensitive content. PeerTube is also running a crowdfunding campaign for the mobile app, which has now crossed the halfway mark at 35k EUR. This milestone is for video management from the mobile app, with the next milestone being for livestream support in-app. The PeerTube app developer also shared a blog post with his thoughts on the technical framework considerations for building the app.
Hollo is a single-user microblogging platform, and their latest release has a significant number of new features, including better OAuth and various upgrades to the UX. Developer Hong Minhee also announced that independent fediverse developer Emelia Smith will join as a co-maintainer for Hollo.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:
Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
Link: https://github.com/rommapp/romm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247964
Nextcloud on FreeBSD, custom or port install? 🤔
This is ok
Proving completeness of an eventually perfect failure detector in Lean4 https://lobste.rs/s/adl5af #distributed #formalmethods
https://protocols-made-fun.com/lean/2025/06/10/lean-epfd-completeness.html
Slightly special day for this account: it was exactly 5 years ago today that I created the original FediFollows account! 🎂
Things were very different on the Fediverse in 2020, there were far fewer people on here and FediFollows usually only recommended one account per day. It was very quiet compared to the Fedi of 2025! You can see the first FediFollows post at https://mastodon.online/@FediFollows/104331509949080526
FediTips and my other accounts came a bit later, FediFollows was where I started 🙂
Here, have some cake: 🍰
A new attack dubbed 'EchoLeak' is the first known zero-click AI vulnerability that enables attackers to exfiltrate sensitive data from Microsoft 365 Copilot from a user's context without interaction.
Disney and Universal are suing the AI company Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that its AI-generated images include famous characters like Darth Vader and Spiderman. IEEE Spectrum was first to shine a light on Midjourney's visual plagiarism problem: https://spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-copyright
I'm frequently asked "how much does 
@compiler_explorer cost to run". I've done some digging and posted https://xania.org/202506/compiler-explorer-cost-transparency which is a high-level breakdown of the costs (and revenue); and links to a more in depth report if you want all the gory details.
Of all the fediverse things, I think the Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin universe has the best chance of unseating the incumbent (Reddit)
I'll make a few videos on my adventures in the future but in the meantime put together this little "How to"
https://fedihost.co/blog/slug/getting-started-on-lemmy
Look who I found! It's ServeTheHome's Patrick Kennedy! (he knows the best breakfast spots)
Of all the fediverse things, I think the Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin universe has the best chance of unseating the incumbent (Reddit)
I'll make a few videos on my adventures in the future but in the meantime put together this little "How to"
https://fedihost.co/blog/slug/getting-started-on-lemmy
Ueela 
@stefanoStefano Marinelli
NEW WINDOWS CVE 8979876097986968
Here we have proof why Windows is so bad. I can spy your Password in the mirroring "Window" 😜
Have a great time up there! §8-)
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Is there a way in Google Calendar to change the default so that it gives you the email notification 1 hour before the event instead of 10 minutes before the event
We have some love to give SF Symbols 7:
Apple’s new Draw animation system is great, and the included tools for making your own are killer! You can fill in the blanks for symbols that didn’t get animations, or animate custom ones relevant to your projects. #WWDC25
It’s wild to see professional, commercial printed materials with a qr code on them that used a generator service that makes all links go through them
It’s wild to see professional, commercial printed materials with a qr code on them that used a generator service that makes all links go through them
@Crazypedia
🌬️
big compliment, thx!
If you have a CD-ROM drive in your machine, you can make the CD-ROM that is
presently inserted available by typing 'mount /cdrom' as root. The CD-ROM
will be available under /cdrom/. Remember to do 'umount /cdrom' before
removing the CD-ROM (it will usually not be possible to remove the CD-ROM
without doing this.)
Note: This tip may not work in all configurations.
The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson Dies at 82
Link: https://pitchfork.com/news/the-beach-boys-brian-wilson-dies-at-82/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44249467
Seeing Gavin Newsom on the news last week: This ruthless opportunist will do anything to get on TV (derogatory) Seeing Gavin Newsom on the news today: This ruthless opportunist will do anything to get on TV (neutral)
Just a sample I generated in Milkysynth, it's pretty simple, here's the file, works in Milkytracker 1.05.01 (which is in Guix, I pushed it yesterday) https://dustycloud.org/tmp/shiny-sketch.xm
updated to add a couple more, now it's a ringtone basically
V-JEPA 2 world model and new benchmarks for physical reasoning
Link: https://ai.meta.com/blog/v-jepa-2-world-model-benchmarks/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44248165
Brian Wilson viewed Pet Sounds (1966) as a solo album and attributed its inspiration partly to marijuana use and an LSD–rooted spiritual awakening. Galvanized by the work of his rivals, he aimed to create "the greatest rock album ever made", surpassing the Beatles' Rubber Soul (1965) and extending Phil Spector's Wall of Sound innovations. His orchestrations blended pop, jazz, exotica, classical, and avant-garde elements, combining rock instrumentation with layered vocal harmonies, found sounds, and instruments not normally associated with rock, such as French horn, flutes, Electro-Theremin, bass harmonica, bicycle bells, and string ensembles. Featuring the most complex and challenging instrumental and vocal parts of any Beach Boys album, it was their first in which studio musicians, such as the Wrecking Crew, largely replaced the band on their instruments, and the first time any group had departed from their usual small-ensemble pop/rock band format to create a full-length album that could not be replicated live. Its unprecedented total production cost exceeded $70,000 (equivalent to $680,000 in 2024).
Brian Wilson viewed Pet Sounds (1966) as a solo album and attributed its inspiration partly to marijuana use and an LSD–rooted spiritual awakening. Galvanized by the work of his rivals, he aimed to create "the greatest rock album ever made", surpassing the Beatles' Rubber Soul (1965) and extending Phil Spector's Wall of Sound innovations. His orchestrations blended pop, jazz, exotica, classical, and avant-garde elements, combining rock instrumentation with layered vocal harmonies, found sounds, and instruments not normally associated with rock, such as French horn, flutes, Electro-Theremin, bass harmonica, bicycle bells, and string ensembles. Featuring the most complex and challenging instrumental and vocal parts of any Beach Boys album, it was their first in which studio musicians, such as the Wrecking Crew, largely replaced the band on their instruments, and the first time any group had departed from their usual small-ensemble pop/rock band format to create a full-length album that could not be replicated live. Its unprecedented total production cost exceeded $70,000 (equivalent to $680,000 in 2024).
"Ambient house" if you think about it aren't all houses ambient
Xlibre; it's a toxic hot potato!
While there are some legacy machines and edge cases that require Xorg to function properly...Xlibre, would've been an alternative that ordinarily I would've talked about and read more about.
However, Enrico Weigelt's direct involvement has made it a "dead to me" thing. Linus put this man on blast for the anti-vaccine disinformation incident of 2021, there is also the fact Enrico disdains DEI practices which do equalize the playing field.
Having many voices in a project and perspectives can cause software to become better. To quote him directly from the README file, "It's explicitly free of any "DEI" [diversity, equity, and inclusion] or similar discriminatory policies."
*sighs* It's 2025, can we stop being so unwelcoming and hostile to the next generation of coders, developers, open source enthusiasts...Perhaps a more inclusive fork could be made to undermine Enrico's effort make right-wing talking points a part of open source. Who knows, as I'm just a boy.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/xlibre_new_xorg_fork/
Anti-Vax incident involving Enrico Weigelt and Linus putting him on blast for the misinformation/disinformation: https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/11/linus_torvalds_vaccine_smackdown/
Edit: be to we
"Ambient house" if you think about it aren't all houses ambient
Brian Wilson, the co-founder and primary songwriter of the Beach Boys, has died, his family announced. The beloved musical auteur, who helped pioneer the studio-as-instrument, influencing generations of musicians in pop and beyond, was revealed in early 2024 to be living with a neurocognative disorder akin to dementia. Wilson was 82 years old.
Without Brian Wilson there would be no Sargent Peppers. He changed the way music was made.
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-beach-boys-brian-wilson-dies-at-82/
I will be at the NGI Forum in Brussels next week!
On Thursday I will participate in the NGI Impact Stories panel to explain how 
@ngiNGI Outreach Office is helping Mastodon, and on Friday on a another panel to discuss tech sovereignty and what can bring in Europe with 
@openwebsearcheu
You can still register to attend online: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/
If you also attend, please come say hi! I will have some Mastodon stickers to distribute and will be happy to discuss anything Mastodon / Fediverse related
wowwww Bill Atkinson and Brian Wilson in the same week, RIP
and Sly Stone which for some reason feels like it was last week, holy shit
The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson Dies at 82
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-beach-boys-brian-wilson-dies-at-82/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into News 
@news-pitchforkNews
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