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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Quick poll:

Whether you are one or not, do you know what a "spoonie" is?

Boosts appreciated for broader sample size. Danka!

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さてさて :saba:

e8d2432e6a (upstream/main) Fix intermittent failure of TOS model spec from effective date collision (#35244)
2af17adc34 Use `ActiveModel::Attributes` in admin/status_batch_action (#35255)
e97f43399b Fix error handling for blank actions in account moderation action form (#35246)
c66c5fd73d New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#35250)
3c0767f543 fix: Remove focus highlight when status is clicked in light mode (#35251)
70cd1fdc63 fix(deps): update dependency vite-plugin-pwa to v1.0.1 (#35223)
39028dde40 chore(deps): update dependency scenic to v1.9.0 (#35226)
6e39b5ef04 Use `ActiveModel::Attributes` for admin/account_action boolean values (#35247)
49db8a9662 Use `Account#targeted_reports` association where needed (#35249)

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A slightly unhinged calculator fact: in the golden era of electronic calculators, some Japanese shopkeepers were reluctant to trust the newfangled tool, so Sharp made a line of combination calculator / abacus devices.

Here's a photo, next to some other stuff I own.

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☁️ How to install FreeBSD on providers that don't support it with mfsBSD • Stefano Marinelli

"This is a set of scripts that generates a bootable image (and/or ISO file), that creates a working minimal installation of FreeBSD (mfsBSD) or Linux (mfslinux). It is completely loaded into memory."

it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/02

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☁️ How to install FreeBSD on providers that don't support it with mfsBSD • Stefano Marinelli

"This is a set of scripts that generates a bootable image (and/or ISO file), that creates a working minimal installation of FreeBSD (mfsBSD) or Linux (mfslinux). It is completely loaded into memory."

it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/02

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I would not be able to make and share my unique art if it wasn't for open source libraries and open source hardware. I'm planning on including this Crowd supply only Open Source Hardware faceplate when my project launches! I used the MSA wiki page for open source hardware for the arabic, figured that was the best way to go about it.

A circular PCB. 5 mounting holes circle the board in a 5 point star pattern. On the top there are drawn moon phases, in the middle there is subtlely visible gear with the words for open source hardware in modern standard arabic. Surrounding the gear are ornate flowing lines filling up the space all the way to the edges of the board.
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This how a failed GEOM Gate device in a mirror looks like after a ungraceful shutdown. The load on my 15+ year old laptop was too high I guess. suddenly logged me out after like 2 seconds, I couldn’t even login directly in front of the laptop. Console messages along the lines “jid0 couldn’t reclaim memory”. Had 3 jails, 2 VMs and a deduped ZFS pool running. Let’s see if I can keep this running if the Win7 VM’s memory is halved. Perhaps it is worth having a look at rctl…

Screenshot of the output of several FreeBSD commands. zpool status shows the ZFS mirror setup in status DEGRADED since the remote disk /dev/ggate0 is not available for the moment after a hard shutdown. The outputs of sysctl hw.model, sysctl hw.physmem, grep -E “memory.size|wired” vm-config and finally zfs get all zpool | grep dedup indicate that the system runs on an old AMD A4-5000 and 12GiB of memory while reserving 8GiB of memory for one VM and having deduplication activated. A final rctl command shows that resource control mechanisms have not been configured.
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I shut down all my ads while I rebuild my website from scratch.

Anyways, now no one's buying any books.

Please buy my books. They’ll make you laugh – either because they're funny or because I had the audacity to charge money for such drivel. One way or the other, you'll be laughing.

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Cartoon dog astronaut floats against a dark sky beneath a rainbow of planets. Image of The Left Hand of Dog by Si Clarke. Text reads: When you need a little dose of joy.
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