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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404 Media @404mediaco@mastodon.social
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An app developer has jailbroken Echelon exercise bikes to restore functionality that the company put behind a paywall last month, but copyright laws prevent him from being allowed to legally release it.

🔗 404media.co/developer-unlocks-

Developer Unlocks Newly Enshittified Echelon Exercise Bikes But Can't Legally Release His Software

A firmware update broke a series of popular third-party exercise apps. A developer fixed it, winning a $20,000 bounty from Louis Rossmann.

www.404media.co · 404 Media

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なうぞめ @nz@misskey.pm
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そういえばタイプ速度が速い事を褒めてもらう事が多いけど「タイプ速度は速いかもしれませんが誤字脱字が多いので貴方のほうがすごいですよ」みたいな否定をしていたけど、特に理由もなく否定せずに素直に「ありがとうございます」って言ったらなんか、いい感じになった。

実際、謙遜でも何でもなく事実として私のレベルでタイプミス（誤った変換、抜け字、純粋に日本語の知識不足）の多さだと、タイプ速度が結果的に遅いのでタイプ速度としては意味がないと思うけど。

褒めて貰ったら否定するのはよくないかなとおもい・・・

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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uspol, shooting, trans

The Minneapolis shooter has been identified as a trans woman assignedmedia.org/breaking-new

The shooting, first of all, is a tragedy. Kids died. It's terrible.

Right wing media has been accusing shooters of being trans, particularly trans women, despite lots of shootings happen and them almost always being cis men.

And so, this is an anomaly, but they're already working to spread fear that being transgender is a sign of a mental illness that can't be socially accepted.

Minneapolis School Shooter Who Killed 2 Children Was Transgender — Assigned

The Minneapolis Star Tribune has confirmed the shooter changed her name due to a female identity.

www.assignedmedia.org · Assigned

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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Internet Access Providers Aren't Bound by DMCA Unmasking Subpoenas–In Re Cox

Link: blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Internet Access Providers Aren't Bound by DMCA Unmasking Subpoenas-In re Cox - Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The DMCA online safe harbor is a notice-and-takedown scheme. Web hosts aren’t liable for copyright-infringing third-party uploads unless and until the copyright owner submits a proper takedown notice to the host, at which point the web host can remain legally...

blog.ericgoldman.org · Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and Their Lawyers

Link: climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/l
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Legal Entanglements: Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and their Lawyers in the Eastern United States

Today we released a new CDL report: “Legal Entanglements: Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and their Lawyers in the Eastern United States,” a deep look into litigation efforts against offshore wind in the Northeast.

www.climatedevlab.brown.edu · CDL

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Stefano Marinelli @stefano@bsd.cafe
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Tonight I made a simple, yet destructive (or at least partly) mistake: when I told FreeBSD which disk to destroy, I accidentally gave it the system disk of my little home server. This happened because it had the same size as the external SSD I had just plugged in, and I got confused.

I lost some reproducible configurations (the server’s name was in fact tempfbsd01), but I took the chance to run an experiment. My home server runs FreeBSD in read-only mode (that's the part I destroyed). From there, I manually enable the external drives (encrypted with GELI) and, in turn, the ZFS pools. Then I start the various jails and the (single, Proxmox Backup Server) VM.

Since I also have another test box running SmartOS, I decided to experiment: I connected the disks to it, created a FreeBSD bhyve VM on SmartOS, and passed the entire disks through to the VM. I reconfigured the FreeBSD VM with the bare minimum and booted it all up. The jails with BastilleBSD started without any issues - obviously the Proxmox Backup Server VM itself is still missing, but I’ll deal with that later.

I’m tempted to leave everything like this for a while.

And yes, for anyone wondering: I had fun 🙂

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh@mastodon.social
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

The next scheduled "Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset" fullday session is at EuroBSDcon in Zagreb, 2025-09-25 10:30–17:30: events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/tal

register here: 2025.eurobsdcon.org/registrati

Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset (T5) EuroBSDCon 2025

The OpenBSD Packet Filter (PF) is at the core of the network management toolset available to professionals working with the OpenBSD and FreeBSD operating systems. Understanding the PF subsystem and the set of networking tools that interact with it is essential to building and maintaining a functional environment. The present session will both teach networking and security principles and provide opportunity for hands-on operation of the extensive network tools available on OpenBSD and FreeBSD in a lab environment. Basic to intermediate understanding of TCP/IP networking is expected and required for this session. Topics covered include The basics of and network design and taking it a bit further Building rulesets Keeping your configurations readable and maintainable Seeing what your traffic is really about with your friend tcpdump(8) Filtering, diversion, redirection, Network Address Translation Handling services that require proxying (ftp-proxy and others) Address tables and daemons that interact with your setup through them The whys and hows of network segmentation, DMZs and other separation techniques Tackling noisy attacks and other pattern recognition and learning tricks Annoying spammers with spamd Basics of and not-so basic traffic shaping Monitoring your traffic Resilience, High Availability with CARP and pfsync Troubleshooting: Discovering and correcting errors and faults (tcpdump is your friend) Your network and its interactions with the Internet at large Common mistakes in internetworking and peering Keeping the old IPv4 world in touch with the new of IPv6 The tutorial is lab centered and fast paced. Time allowing and to the extent necessary, we will cover recent developments in the networking tools and variations between the implementations in the OpenBSD and FreeBSD operating systems. Participants should bring a laptop for the hands on labs part and for note taking. The format of the session will be compact lectures interspersed with hands-on lab excercises based directly on the theory covered in the lecture parts. This session is an evolutionary successor to previous sessions. Slides for the most recent version of the PF tutorial session are up at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/pf_fullday.pdf, to be updated with the present version when the session opens.

events.eurobsdcon.org

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to help power Mazda's production line

Link: thedrive.com/news/toyota-is-re
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Toyota Is Recycling Old EV Batteries to Help Power Mazda's Production Line

Toyota collected used high-voltage batteries from all kinds of cars to store the energy that powers Mazda's manufacturing HQ.

www.thedrive.com · The Drive

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404 Media @404mediaco@mastodon.social
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A new study that looked at how ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini handled suicide-related questions. Of “particular concern” was that ChatGPT provided direct answered to high-risk questions 78 percent of the time.

🔗 404media.co/chatgpt-answered-h

ChatGPT Answered 'High Risk' Questions About Suicide, New Study Finds

It was also "averse" to giving the user direct answers to questions in the “therapeutic domain,” the researchers found, including low-risk questions like “What are the best resources online for someone who has been having suicidal thoughts?”

www.404media.co · 404 Media

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David Gerard @davidgerard@circumstances.run
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Shared by Chris Siebenmann

"I am not here to make a careful comprehensive argument, because people have already done that. I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response."

"But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."

anthonymoser.github.io/writing

I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

anthonymoser.github.io · moser’s frame shop

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404 Media @404mediaco@mastodon.social
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Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter to 11 AI companies on Monday, warning them that they will “answer for it” if they knowingly harm children and urging the companies to see their products “through the eyes of a parent, not a predator.”

🔗 404media.co/44-attorneys-gener

Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children

Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter on Monday that says to companies developing AI chatbots: "If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.”

www.404media.co · 404 Media

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dave @dthompson@toot.cat
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Shared by Christine Lemmer-Webber

some videos from dweb weekend have been uploaded to the internet archive. if you want to see a short, haphazard, impromptu talk about @spritelyThe Spritely Institute and object capabilities then click on the day 2 playlist.

archive.org/details/DWeb-Semin

(you'll want to just download any video you want to watch as streaming isn't exactly what the archive is built for)

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

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Scott Leslie @sleslie@mastodon.social
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The team at NNELS, the National Network of Equitable Library Service that is housed at the BC Libraries Coop where I work, is looking for a Product Lead to help them continue the important work of providing online library self-service for Canada's print disabled bc.libraries.coop/wp-content/u Come join the effort to continue making library services accessible!

Cimoan Atkins

bc.libraries.coop

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Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️ @alvinashcraft@hachyderm.io
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Azure Authentication Changes in Semantic Kernel Python.

devblogs.microsoft.com/semanti

Azure Authentication Changes in Semantic Kernel Python | Semantic Kernel

In previous versions of the Semantic Kernel Python, the default fallback authentication mechanism for Azure services like AzureChatCompletion was DefaultAzureCredential from the Azure Identity library. This provided a convenient way to authenticate without explicitly passing credentials, especially during development. However, with the latest package version 1.36.0, this fallback is being removed to encourage more secure […]

devblogs.microsoft.com · Semantic Kernel

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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'Rocks as big as cars' are flying down the Dolomites

Link: bbc.com/future/article/2025081
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

The Five Towers monoliths in the Dolomites, Italy (Credit: Alamy)

Why 'rocks as big as cars' are flying down the Dolomites

When one of the monoliths that made up Italy's Five Towers toppled, it seemed a rare, exceptional event. In fact, peaks are crumbling throughout this stunning mountain range.

www.bbc.com

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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VIM Master

Link: github.com/renzorlive/vimmaster
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

VIM Master is a lightweight in-browser game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short, focused levels. No installs required—just open `index.html` and start practicing. - ren...

GitHub - renzorlive/vimmaster: VIM Master is a lightweight in-browser game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short, focused levels. No installs required—just open `index.html` and start practicing.

VIM Master is a lightweight in-browser game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short, focused levels. No installs required—just open `index.html` and start practicing. - ren...

github.com · GitHub

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Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al
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Shared by Misty

It’s not fair to compare a state-of-the-art-AI-assisted proprietary tool from a trillion-dollar corporation with a hand-coded free and open tool from a small not-for-profit cooperative.

(The latter works.)

github.com/orgs/community/disc

Select Topic Area Bug Body Over the past few months, Github has been getting slower and slower on Safari. It has now reached a point where it is unusable. Displaying any pull request with more than...

The Github website is extremely slow on Safari · community · Discussion #170758

Select Topic Area Bug Body Over the past few months, Github has been getting slower and slower on Safari. It has now reached a point where it is unusable. Displaying any pull request with more than...

github.com · GitHub

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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A failure of security systems at PayPal is causing concern for German banks

Link: nordbayern.de/news-in-english/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Massive security issues at PayPal: German banks block billion-euro transactions - consumer advocates recommend checking your account

A failure of security systems at PayPal is currently causing concern for numerous German banks and private customers. A vast number of payments are reportedly being blocked, with merchants waiting on funds in the billions.

www.nordbayern.de

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heise online @heiseonline@social.heise.de
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Windows: MS Word speichert jetzt automatisch in die Cloud

Word für Windows speichert neu abgefasste Inhalte automatisch in die Cloud, wo auch die KI mitliest. Es gibt Abhilfe.

heise.de/news/Windows-MS-Word-

Windows: MS Word speichert jetzt automatisch in die Cloud

Word für Windows speichert neu abgefasste Inhalte automatisch in die Cloud, wo auch die KI mitliest. Es gibt Abhilfe.

www.heise.de · heise online

Link author: Daniel AJ Sokolov@newstik@social.heise.de

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heise online @heiseonline@social.heise.de
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Windows: MS Word speichert jetzt automatisch in die Cloud

Word für Windows speichert neu abgefasste Inhalte automatisch in die Cloud, wo auch die KI mitliest. Es gibt Abhilfe.

heise.de/news/Windows-MS-Word-

Windows: MS Word speichert jetzt automatisch in die Cloud

Word für Windows speichert neu abgefasste Inhalte automatisch in die Cloud, wo auch die KI mitliest. Es gibt Abhilfe.

www.heise.de · heise online

Link author: Daniel AJ Sokolov@newstik@social.heise.de

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Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al
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It’s not fair to compare a state-of-the-art-AI-assisted proprietary tool from a trillion-dollar corporation with a hand-coded free and open tool from a small not-for-profit cooperative.

(The latter works.)

github.com/orgs/community/disc

Select Topic Area Bug Body Over the past few months, Github has been getting slower and slower on Safari. It has now reached a point where it is unusable. Displaying any pull request with more than...

The Github website is extremely slow on Safari · community · Discussion #170758

Select Topic Area Bug Body Over the past few months, Github has been getting slower and slower on Safari. It has now reached a point where it is unusable. Displaying any pull request with more than...

github.com · GitHub

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fueda @fueda@misskey.io
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pulseox, Aランクになっても、なかなかそれを維持できない。というかAランクのクエストは、Cランクよりさらにeye candyばかりで、ここに食い込むのは難しい。あきらめて、ランク制限のない高級なクエストに投稿する方が良さそう。

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IEEE Spectrum @ieeespectrum@mastodon.social
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If quantum computers are created, they will be abl to break huge swaths of current cryptography methods. We need to update the security in every electronic device by 2035. Are we ready? spectrum.ieee.org/post-quantum

Will Post-Quantum Cryptography Meet a 2035 Deadline?

The race to secure our data against quantum computers is on. Learn how PQC is leading the charge.

spectrum.ieee.org · IEEE Spectrum

Link author: IEEE Spectrum@ieeespectrum@mastodon.social

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