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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One might imagine that CHERI and Wasm are similar technologies, since they both talk a lot about security and capabilities and so on.

However, CHERI works by making Unix processes safer, while Wasm works by not having Unix processes at all. It's "take the C virtual machine and make pointers smarter", vs. "make a new virtual machine". There is some overlap in the problems they can solve, but very roughly speaking, they work in opposite ways.

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A look at the state of , as it turns 10. It’s getting traction in some areas (though notably game engines aren’t one of them), though a pain point is its low-level model and lack of any standard implementation of structured types or garbage collection making interfacing with dynamic languages, or indeed the web DOM, a pain. As with Java, though, the web may not be where it ends up.

queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=37

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Does have some kind of sshd connection throttling mechanism that is outside the PerSourcePenalties config? (I set mine to 'no')

Use blacklist is set to no.
pf is not running either.

Getting really strange intermittent timeouts where I just can't log in yet I can get to the banner with telnet on port 22.

Some PAM thing with FreeBSD perhaps?

Running tcpdump, the FreeBSD machine is constantly sending its own list of KexAlgorithms until the connection times out.

FreeBSD is based sshd: 9.9p2
Connecting client is Linux openssh 10.0p2

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今天接待一對老朋友在 Banyuwangi 玩,2011 年我跟老婆在雅加達辦結婚的時候,他們夫妻讓我們借住家中,是莫大的恩情。

晚上跟大哥聊天,我約略知道他創辦了一家網路獨立媒體,因為前陣子稍微研究了下「印尼新聞自由議題在無國界記者的排名中是全球第127名」這件事,於是跟大哥問起這件事。沒想到,就遇到苦主了!

大哥說,他們媒體關注印尼國內各種邊緣的人權議題,從 LGBTQ 到羅亞興難民等議題都有含括;而在前兩年他去大學課堂分享了巴布亞省 (Papua) 的原住民人權議題後,發現他跟妻子的手機都被駭了!社群媒體的帳號遺失,有人用他的 Grab 下了一堆無效訂單、害他賠錢;妻子的手機收到的大量恐嚇簡訊,「叫你丈夫注意一點蛤,他在哪裡上班,你們家的地址,我都知道……」

聽了整個毛骨悚然!大哥說,應該就是印尼政府做的。巴布亞對政府來說是個非常敏感的議題,島上蘊含大量金礦,但島的西半邊是印尼巴布亞省,東半邊則已獨立為巴布亞紐幾內亞,巴布亞省也有分離主義運動;而省內至今仍處於戒嚴狀態,並有軍隊常駐。

但是他們還是很努力地在經營。即使受到威脅,即使今年川普把 USAID 砍了害他們差點關門,還是堅持下去!真是太猛了,第三世界的媒體人!

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よっこらどっこいしょ :saba:

b628a98d32 (upstream/main) Bump version to v4.4.0 (#35291)
d8fa807998 Bump linzer to 0.7.7 (#35258)
ef66d8379c Add option to set emoji preferences behind feature flag (#35282)
8ee6cee36e Better error response to malformed headers (#35278)
71b2120e5c New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#35286)
b10078633c chore(deps): update dependency libvips to v8.17.1 (#35283)

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Toronto has at least one cybertruck that survived the winter, because yesterday evening I saw one parked at the Christie & Davenport Loblaws. In person those things are ... something. And bigger than I expected, but of course they would be, they're part of the American SUV genre. Even in Toronto we have too many giant SUVs.

I admit that when I first saw it from what turned out to be the front I wasn't certain if I was looking at the front or the back. (Once I saw the back it was obvious.)

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For today's , I'd like to thank everyone who supports the Fediverse. So, that means *you*. Yes, you, the one reading this.
Thank you!

The Fediverse truly is for everyone: if you don't have the skills or means to set up your own instance, you can join one of the public instances that aligns with your aspirations. If you can and want to, you can create your own instance, and thanks to lightweight (and interoperable) software, you can do it with spare hardware or very affordable VPS.
So thank you to all of you, friends of the Fediverse!

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For today's , I'd like to thank everyone who supports the Fediverse. So, that means *you*. Yes, you, the one reading this.
Thank you!

The Fediverse truly is for everyone: if you don't have the skills or means to set up your own instance, you can join one of the public instances that aligns with your aspirations. If you can and want to, you can create your own instance, and thanks to lightweight (and interoperable) software, you can do it with spare hardware or very affordable VPS.
So thank you to all of you, friends of the Fediverse!

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v2.4 is out!

This new version brings the theme up to date with Mastodon 4.4, with support for all the new features included in the release, and more.

This includes support for displaying Quote Posts, for Mastodon's revamped navigation on smaller screens, for the new Featured tab and Pinned Posts carousel on profiles pages, as well as for the new List editor.

To install, follow the instructions in the README document as usual: github.com/nileane/TangerineUI

• More on Tangerine UI v2.4 here: github.com/nileane/TangerineUI
• More on Mastodon 4.4 here: blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/

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v2.4 is out!

This new version brings the theme up to date with Mastodon 4.4, with support for all the new features included in the release, and more.

This includes support for displaying Quote Posts, for Mastodon's revamped navigation on smaller screens, for the new Featured tab and Pinned Posts carousel on profiles pages, as well as for the new List editor.

To install, follow the instructions in the README document as usual: github.com/nileane/TangerineUI

• More on Tangerine UI v2.4 here: github.com/nileane/TangerineUI
• More on Mastodon 4.4 here: blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/

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The whole concept of Fedora Silverblue does seem intriguing. I think the early weeks will be good to give a bunch of distros a try.

My hunch is that I’m going to end up with Gnome for DE. KDE looks way too windowsy for my taste. I will still try it though.

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