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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Rowland Mosbergen @rowlandm@disabled.social
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Why does the BBC have Israel-Gaza war as a topic on their news page?

Doesn't a war usually have two armies?

When you attack civilians isn't that called a massacre?

And if you keep doing it isn't that a genocide?

bbc.com/news/topics/c2vdnvdg6x

Israel Gaza war | Latest News & Updates | BBC News

Follow the latest news on the Israel Gaza war. Get live updates, maps, verified video reports and expert analysis from BBC journalists on the ground.

www.bbc.com

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

Link: bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1733
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a bacterial infection not known to cause widespread hospital admissions. “I can count on my two hands the number of times I’d ever seen mycoplasma pneumoniae before 2023,” says Samira Jeimy, clinical immunologist at the University of Western Ontario. “All of a sudden I feel like everybody has it.”1 Over the past three years similar reports have circulated of rising bacterial infections, flare-ups of old viruses becoming more common, and children landing in hospital with diseases not usually seen in young, healthy people. One explanation offered by public health leaders has been “immunity debt”2—the idea that precautions taken in the covid pandemic suppressed routine exposures to circulating pathogens, leaving people more vulnerable to them when restrictions were lifted. The theory landed in the public consciousness at the right moment. A simple idea that sounded like science, it soothed a public seeking answers just as the world was returning to a semblance of normality. And it served a policy function, allowing governments to focus on economic recovery. But its explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year. A 2024 analysis by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention3 found that invasive group A strep infections saw their most dramatic year-on-year increase from 2021 to 2022, well after most precautions had been lifted in the US. Rates have been abnormally high since then, raising questions about what might be behind the trend. A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems. If correct, their hypothesis will change how we understand everything …

www.bmj.com · The BMJ

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Fat Fat Boy 🐷🐷🐷 @RottingStrawberry@m.cmx.im
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【强奸vs强暴】
看到友邻说自己强行抱猫，我突然想起来强奸和强暴这两个词（？
我以前特别喜欢使用“强奸”，主要是信奉暴力的行为就要使用暴力的语言来描述，一种非常中国乡土直男作家的观念。认为不用这样具有冲击力的词来描述则是一种回避视线。
现在我就不怎么用这个词了，除了在骂“强奸犯”的时候（因为好像很少听说强暴犯这样的词组）。以前不知道为什么“强奸”这个词听起来就比“强暴”有冲击力，只是源于一个文盲对母语的一种天然的感觉，后来才知道是因为“奸”是一个很不好的词。所谓不好除了它大部分出现在中文的贬义词里以外，它原本的意思是“不正当的性关系”。所谓“强奸”就是强行发生不正当的性关系，不知道是不是强调强行吧但是同时也强调“不正当性关系”，多少有点victim blame的感觉。所以之前当然在各个国家的法律里都是没有婚内强奸这个说法的，因为婚内本身就是最正当的性关系。
但是“强暴”这个词就不太一样，因为剥离了对性的描述，反倒给人的体感是强调这是一种暴力侵犯行为，我觉得对受害者来说反倒是一个更加中性的描述。因为确实这就是一种严重的暴力侵害，哪怕是婚内发生的强行的性关系仍旧是暴力侵害。
当然现在其实broader的语境里使用“性侵”这个词更加多了，因为这个词更加中性且vague，也间接省去了去要得知受害者到底被如何侵犯了的这种二次伤害。

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Fedilab Apps @apps@toot.fedilab.app
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Shared by CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:

We are going to publish an app¹ that has nothing to do with Mastodon (this is not the first time we do that). We will need the help of volunteers for testing it.

This is a really simple app for casting media from your device gallery to your TV. It doesn't rely on Chromecast but on the DLNA² protocol.

We will publish it first on our custom FDroid repository³

Don't hesitate to ask us more here.

1- codeberg.org/tom79/CastLab
2- en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLNA
3- fdroid.fedilab.app/

Summary card of repository tom79/CastLab

CastLab

CastLab is an app that allows to cast gallery media through DLNA protocol

codeberg.org · Codeberg.org

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Stefan Eissing @icing@chaos.social
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RIP pthread_cancel() in curl. It was an interesting adventure.

eissing.org/icing/posts/rip_pt

RIP pthread_cancel

I posted about adding pthread_cancel use in curl about three weeks ago, we released this in curl 8.16.0 and it blew up right in our faces. Now, with #18540 we are ripping it out again. What happened? short recap pthreads define “Cancelation points”, a list of POSIX functions where a pthread may be cancelled. In addition, there is also a list of functions that may be cancelation points, among those getaddrinfo(). getaddrinfo() is exactly what we are interested in for libcurl. It blocks until it has resolved a name. That may hang for a long time and libcurl is unable to do anything else. Meh. So, we start a pthread and let that call getaddrinfo(). libcurl can do other things while that thread runs.

eissing.org · icing's blog

Richard Barrell @0x2ba22e11@unstable.systems
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Shared by daniel:// stenberg://

@icingStefan Eissing I think it's reasonable to declare that pthread_cancel() is effectively broken for any nontrivial use on contemporary OSes and it is unlikely to be fixed any time soon.

(I suspect it would actually be easier to cajole libc maintainers into adding an async friendly version of GAI() than to make GAI() cancellation safe.)

If you want a cancellable thing from which you can make blocking calls, the only near-universal option is subprocesses. Unfortunately there are reasons why in some ecosystems it is impolite for a library to start a subprocess.

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder@mastodon.social
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I was Developer of the year yesterday (in Sweden).

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/09/13

Developer of the year

Developers Day is a recent annual Swedish gala organized by the Stockholm-based company Developers Bay. This is its third year running. They have an ambition to highlight and celebrate Swedish software developers (or perhaps it is developers based in Sweden?) and hand out a series of awards for that purpose. A jury that consists of … Continue reading Developer of the year →

daniel.haxx.se · daniel.haxx.se

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Andrea Junker :verified: @Strandjunker@mstdn.social
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The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

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Lena Schimmel @lenaschimmel@chaos.social
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"Und es gibt ganz viele Untersuchungen dazu, dass auch monogame Paare sich das Genmaterial außerhalb dieser Beziehung holen. Nicht nur bei Menschen, auch bei verschiedenen Tieren."

Diese Sätze aus einem ersten, seriösen Podcast kann ich auf (mindestens) zwei Weisen interpretieren. Eine davon hat mich gerade völlig aus dem Konzept gebracht.

🤔😳😱😁😂

Das würde zumindest erklären, wo Zentauren, Werwölfe, Echsenmenschen usw. herkommen. Aber ich glaube, das war nicht gemeint.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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politics, musk, fascism

Elon Musk just gave a speech to a right-wing anti-immigrant UK rally basically calling for civil war bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.b

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)

Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today. "You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."

bsky.app · Bluesky Social

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BrianKrebs @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
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Shared by CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:

The Great Firewall of China has apparently experienced a great data spill. > 500gb of source code, work logs and internal communication records were leaked. Some light reading for the weekend /s

gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_mes

Geedge & MESA Leak: Analyzing the Great Firewall’s Largest Document Leak

The Great Firewall of China (GFW) experienced the largest leak of internal documents in its history on Thursday September 11, 2025. Over 500 GB of source code, work logs, and internal communication records were leaked, revealing details of the GFW's research, development, and operations.

gfw.report · GFW Report

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Alexander Karn @xankarn@mastodon.online
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Shared by Kagami is they/them 🏳️‍⚧️

MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for saying that Charlie Kirk pushed hate.

Meanwhile, over at FOX, Brian Kilmeade floats “involuntarily lethal injection” for the homeless.

mediamatters.org/fox-friends/f

Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them”

www.mediamatters.org · Media Matters for America

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just small circles 🕊 @smallcircles@social.coop
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Hurray! 🥳

The last days of have come. Sped up by an unexpected but uplifting side-effect of the madness perhaps?

🌱 Here comes . According to James O’Sullivan..

> The successor to mass social media is, as already noted, emerging not as a single platform, but as a scattering of alleyways, salons, encrypted lounges and federated town squares — those little gardens.

The archipelago fedi! 😃

socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/

Share what you want SocialHub to be

I would share the Integrity under Culture. Our hypercapitalist society gives unfair advantage to those wielding their vices. It is a distrust-first society. The task of fostering healthy social networking environments, in combined social and technological approaches, should be to forge and sustain safe online spaces where there are increased levels of trust between people, and there’s emphasis on people’s virtues, including the the trust in their integrity. SX for this purpose is based on intrin...

socialhub.activitypub.rocks · SocialHub

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