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.

Hey, Computer People. There was a fire drill with "WeTransfer" with WeTransfer granting themselves some potentially expansive explicit IP rights to files transferred over their service in a new TOS, then backpedaling when people got upset. Bluesky indie games folks are freaking out.

Can anyone recommend an *e2e encrypted* file transfer service of this sort, appropriate for use by Windows/Mac using commercial devs who have moderate tech prowess (e.g., not scripters, not a lot of time to fiddle)?

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🆕 Call for Papers: @w3cWorld Wide Web Consortium and @intarchboardInternet Architecture Board / @ietf are hosting a joint workshop on "Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access", 7–9 Oct 2025, London 🇬🇧
▶️ datatracker.ietf.org/group/age

With rising interest in stronger age checks online, the workshop aims to explore technical and architectural aspects to age-based content restrictions, building on RFC 7754.

Submit talk proposals by 8 August!

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is anyone aware of metrics about the longevity of Fediverse instances by size? I read a diatribe today about how Lemmy/threadiverse is too centralized, lobbying for people to participate in communities on smaller instances. It’s also a common bit of advice given on places like Reddit that people should join small mastodon instances or self host. I think at some level the mastodon guidance has disenfranchised a lot of people who ended up on instances that went belly up, many of which were smaller. But not exclusively so. I think it’s a lot more problematic in the threadiverse for a few reasons: first, most of the software does not permit account migration; second, when the instance that a community resides on goes away, that community effectively goes away along with the future ability to participate in it. Said another way, I think threadiverse users have a vested interest in picking both instances and communities hosted on instances that have some staying power, at least with how things work today. Perhaps there are better ways to structure things so there is much less reliance on an instance, but that clearly is not the case today.

I have this intuition that small instances tend to be set up as somewhat noncommittal hobby projects. Now I’m not advocating that things should be more centralized, just that the way things are seem to create a lot of challenges for the lay person who just wants to use the threadiverse and have it just work.

Anyhow, that’s just today’s shower thought.

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7-9 October 2025, London, UK 🇬🇧

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and W3C are convening a workshop to examine the technical and architectural implications of different approaches to implementing age-based restrictions on access to online content.

Papers that are submitted will be used in developing a workshop program. Position papers from those not able to attend the workshop are also encouraged.

See more at:
w3.org/news/2025/upcoming-iab-

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해외 다니면
여권은 항상 들고 다니되
가방 깊숙한 곳에 넣어서
여권 막 떨어트리고 다니지 않는 게 팁입니다.

출입국 심사할 때 어지간하면 필요하고
여행 다닐 때는 사실상 신분증 역할이에요.

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🆕 Call for Papers: @w3cWorld Wide Web Consortium and @intarchboardInternet Architecture Board / @ietf are hosting a joint workshop on "Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access", 7–9 Oct 2025, London 🇬🇧
▶️ datatracker.ietf.org/group/age

With rising interest in stronger age checks online, the workshop aims to explore technical and architectural aspects to age-based content restrictions, building on RFC 7754.

Submit talk proposals by 8 August!

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瑞典全民國防 退役軍官重徵召年限擬大幅提高到70歲
https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/5109066
值得台灣注意!俄國侵略烏克蘭讓瑞典警覺到俄國威脅日增而提高危機意識,瑞典政府指示的一份檢討報告14日建議將瑞典備役軍官戰時徵召年齡上限從現行的47歲大幅提高到70歲,確保瑞典能為危機做好獨立作戰準備

圖:自由時報

Photo by 新台灣國防軍事網 on July 15, 2025. 사람 4명, 군복, 깃발 및 텍스트의 이미지일 수 있음.
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국뽕 채널 싫은 이유가 너무 애국심을 강조해서 다른 나라 사람들을 삼류악당 내지 병풍으로 묘사함.. 마치 우리나라가 무조건 주인공인 것처럼

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