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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Super happy with this photo I got when coming out of London City Airport a few days back!

Only minimally edited via the raw reprocessing on the camera body, plus then some light watermark (sorry) in case some knob wants to print it on something without credit etc

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"Django is old."

Flip-side:
- stable, i.e. "seasoned"
- lots of documentation, example code, tutorials, forum posts, etc
- LLMs are usually correct because of last 2 points
- fewer security issues because it is battle-hardened
- conferences, event, community, etc is already established

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The “Plan Vert” open letter to request that on disassociate from DHH is only 7 signatures away from reaching 100.

It includes a former Rails core member, Eugen Rochko creator of Mastodon, Aaron Sumner of Everyday Rails, Ryan Bigg author of many Rails books, Lucas Dohmen author of “The Rails Way” series, Peter Boling maintainer of OAuth gems, Denis Defreyne creator of nanoc, and many others.

This is a significant milestone!

Have you signed the letter yet?

github.com/Plan-Vert/open-lett

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Is nodebb-plugin-dbsearch working fine?

Lenko @lenko@community.nodebb.org

<p>We migrated our forum to nodebb almost 9 years ago and we're thrilled with how fantastic everything is except for the searches.</p> <p>Even though I have the plugin enabled, the searches aren't very good. Often, we know we've written a certain message and try to search for it using a word we know should be there, but it doesn't appear. Then, we often find it directly by going into the threads, and the message is there, with the searched word, but it simply doesn't appear.</p>

Read more →
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Remember Kids:

Don't gatekeep or harass people about the tools they use!

It's okay to gently offer a suggestion and ask their reasoning for using something, but constantly bugging them to use "X" or making them feel bad for using a thing that works for them is not good!

Let people use the tools that they know, work well with, and work well for them! Don't be an asshole!

But I would like to say, if at all possible, especially in the FOSS space, we should try to guide people away from using things that are built by bigots, abusers, transphobes, etc, those projects don't deserve the support.

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@evanEvan Prodromou @wjmaggoswilliam.maggos you're making a category error, Evan.

People who aren't us don't give even the tiniest shits about which protocols they're using. 5G phones happily talk to 2G phones over SS7, and the only thing anyone knows about "5G" is that it's "fast" – and they don't even know what that means.

You just said approx. "that doesn't make any sense; it's like saying that you want NG-RAN and SS7 to be mutually intelligible" and people will care about as much as someone who literally says that.

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@Nonilex I just woke up to see the announcement that troops are being sent to Portland. We are in Portland now. Yesterday we walked around the Pearl District, visited Pioneer Place, and enjoyed the peace and beauty of a NW autumn day. Below are a few photos I took. As you can see, it is not ravaged by violence. Yet another distraction.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

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Like you, I'm sick to the back teeth of talking about AI. Like you, I keep getting dragged into AI discussions. Unlike you‡, I spent the summer writing a book about why I'm sick of writing about AI⹋, which Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish in 2026.

‡probably

⹋"The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI"

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/eco

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A Zimbabwean one hundred trillion dollar bill; the bill's iconography have been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' and a stylized, engraving-style portrait of Sam Altman.

Image:
TechCrunch
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sam_Altman_-_TechCrunch_Disrupt_SF_2017_(36522988343).jpg

CC BY 2.0
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Cryteria (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

CC BY 3.0
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