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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It's a notable day today: after 15 years in business I finally closed my business bank account.

Hopefully within 2-3 years from now Germany will calm down and leave me alone and doing taxes will stop being where most of my free time is spent 🎊

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“Sorry, we can’t afford jury trials.”

You can afford warplanes carrying tactical nuclear weapons. You can afford a King. You can afford a Cold War SLBM system. You can afford a subsidised bar for members of Parliament.

Once you get rid of those, come back to me on how you can’t afford to allow people their right to a jury trial.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2m80

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DHS is claiming that things like walking, cycling, and filming cops are "violent activities."

Welcome to the world where anyone who criticizes the government is a "terrorist" and they have dossiers on us all.

"Surveillance of protesters has included the construction of dossiers (known as “baseball cards”) with analysts using high-tech tools to compile subjects’ social media posts, affiliations, personal networks, and public statements critical of government policy."

wired.com/story/dhs-tells-poli

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The recording of the July 10th, 2025 Production User Call is up:

youtu.be/WT2t6XT9Kew

We discussed CPU overprovisioning and pinning, bhyve vs. Proxmox storage performance with Windows Server 2022, VirtIO networking offloading news, guest agents, p9fs news, Eurobhyvecon, the new IBM Power 11 platform, major CPU ID progress, Sylve progress, and more!

Please consider support him directly via PayPal at rosenfeld AT grumpf.hope-2000.org

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

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BSDCan 2025 Keynote: Hardware Support for Memory Hungry Applications by Margo Seltzer

youtu.be/OCWaGRcPO8E?feature=s

For nearly 60 years, we lived in a CPU-centric universe. Today, we are on the brink of a transition -- GPUs are the new golden child and those children demand unprecedented amounts of DRAM to satisfy modern data-hungry applications. I'm going to talk about these hardware trends and what they mean for those of us who build systems.
Speaker bio: Margo Seltzer is Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Systems and the Cheriton Family chair in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests are in systems, construed quite broadly: systems for capturing and accessing data provenance, file systems, databases, transaction processing systems, storage and analysis of graph-structured data, and systems for constructing optimal and interpretable machine learning models.
She is the author of several widely-used software packages including database and transaction libraries and the 4.4BSD log-structured file system. Dr. Seltzer was a co-founder and CTO of Sleepycat Software, the makers of Berkeley DB, the recipient of the 2021 ACM Software Sytems award and the 2020 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award. She is a past President of the USENIX Assocation and served as the USENIX representative to the Computing Research Association Board of Directors. In 2019 recipient of the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award.
For more information, please visit:
bsdcan.org/2025/

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When I was 18 years old, my brother asked me what I wanted for my birthday. I said I wanted a .com domain. I didn’t have a credit card, so he bought it for me.

I’ve been writing there for 22 years. Long chunks of time in the ‘10s where I barely wrote at all, but I always maintained an archive of some sort. I was able to move it through different systems, because I owned the files.

hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/1148

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