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.
webmd isn’t about spider health??
I’m looking for some accounts on certain subjects, who/what would you recommend?
- #sociology (macro, urban, digital, antiracist criminology, cultural, transformative)
- #PublicInterestTech (inequality, advocacy, ethical/responsible tech)
- #sts (sociology, technology, race, policy)
- #police (technology, surveillance, segregation in the US)
- advocacy groups in the US that focus on any of the above
- other things you think I might like!
1. https://slime.global/@ticky/115487801203271779
2. https://betakit.com/gander-social-raises-1-million-to-build-a-canadian-alternative-to-x-and-meta/
I sincerely believe Jack Dorsey created Bluesky to prevent the widespread adoption of ActivityPub by funding a replacement protocol that would serve the interests of big corps like Twitter rather than individuals. I believe what we see above is Dorsey's original plan working.
Sharing passenger records between agencies to determine benefits is another example of function creep. The collection and sharing of airline data, which once purportedly prevented terrorism, is now being used to decide whether children in the UK receive their government allowance
Learn more about the UK's use of intrusive surveillance practices on beneficiaries, and the frequent incorrect application of its systems here https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4395/shedding-light-dwp-part-1-we-read-uk-welfare-agencys-995-page-guide-conducting
Innocent families were deprived of a vital benefit because they had taken different routes to exit and re-enter the country, changed their travel plans, or had flights cancelled. Of 23,500 affected families, only around 500 have had their benefits reinstated.
Sharing passenger records between agencies to determine benefits is another example of function creep. The collection and sharing of airline data, which once purportedly prevented terrorism, is now being used to decide whether children in the UK receive their government allowance
This latest revelation means that the UK's HM Revenue and Customs, which administers the Child Benefit, was accessing airlines' passenger bookings data to inform its assessments, without checking whether flights were actually taken.
Innocent families were deprived of a vital benefit because they had taken different routes to exit and re-enter the country, changed their travel plans, or had flights cancelled. Of 23,500 affected families, only around 500 have had their benefits reinstated.
Thank you 
@tommiTommi 🤯 and 
@fraxinas for standing up.
🚨UK tax authorities forced to re-evaluate their policy of suspending benefits without due diligence after 23,500 families had their child benefit payments wrongly cut. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/29/hmrc-pauses-child-benefit-crackdown-after-23500-families-caught-up-in-data-error
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*acts surprised*
EXPOSED: Raisa Blommestijn naait Nederlandse belastingbetaler voor TONNEN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2abFzOrnjFs #ON #extreemrechts #oplichterij #Blommestijn
ABSTRACT/DV_UFO.GIF
A collection of links that existed about Anguilla as of 2003
Link: https://web.ai/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798892
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
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A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say they feel targeted just going about their lives.
https://www.propublica.org/article/memphis-safe-task-force-police-harassment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Memphis #Tennessee #NationalGuard #Trump #Police #Law
Apple製品OSアップデート祭り開催しなきゃ
Ciaran says, "would you like a cat post?"
Social platforms lack downregulation. Disagreement is often expressed through quote posts, amplifying what users oppose. We’re testing new signals, eg like/dislike ratios, to see if there’s an effect on the healthiness of conversations online. Stay tuned
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gsbue2dtbtqzw5du5btlh7p2/post/3m4jdl2y2kk26
Can You Hurt Your Cat’s Feelings? | PetMD
https://www.petmd.com/cat/general-health/can-you-hurt-your-cats-feelings
Few people take the time to think of all the shit they have survived up until this point, but yet, here you are. You go, motherfucker. You are awesome.
おあよ
Thank you, NetApp, for hosting the upcoming FreeBSD Vendor Summit, taking place November 6–7, 2025 at NetApp Headquarters in San Jose, CA.
We’re looking forward to joining industry partners, developers, and contributors for two days of collaboration, technical discussions, and strategic planning to help shape the future of FreeBSD.
🔗 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/november-2025-freebsd-vendor-summit-registration-1763651331609
This content is confidential.
Says the public API documentation for an unnamed vendor.
Oh, there's no denying that 
@dansup has done a great job.
I'm even pleasantly surprised by the addition of the playback "speed" option. But on the app, it's not yet possible to pause playback as you can on the web interface.
Enjoy ^^ That will be for a future version!
EDIT: Okay, not absent but complex to use.
the problem with taking my cat outside with me is she runs off, eats grass, gets sick and later throws up the nasty kind of vomit that's impossible to clean.
the problem with not taking my cat outside with me is she sits in the window & cries at me the whole time.
今年も誕生日を迎えましたっ
落ち着いたらまたイラストたくさん
描きたいです
If everyone was refusing to provide official IDs to verify their identity and age on social platforms, and just let their account rot there unused instead, we would soon see platforms themselves starting to advocate against these invasive laws to recover their users.
Just saying.
They need you more than you need them.
Stop complying with invasive requests.
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
Remember, on ad-supported platforms, you are NOT the customer. You are the product that is being sold to the real customer -- the advertisers.
🚀 Die Grazer Linuxtage 2026 stehen vor der Tür!
Am 10. und 11. April 2026 verwandelt sich die TU Graz (Inffeldgasse) wieder in das Zentrum für Open Source, Linux und Freie Software.
Freut euch auf spannende Vorträge, Workshops und jede Menge Community-Spirit! 💻🐧
👉 Mehr Infos: www.linuxtage.at
If everyone was refusing to provide official IDs to verify their identity and age on social platforms, and just let their account rot there unused instead, we would soon see platforms themselves starting to advocate against these invasive laws to recover their users.
Just saying.
They need you more than you need them.
Stop complying with invasive requests.
@Em0nM4stodonEm MS just told me when I turned on my Xbox in the first time in forever that I need to either submit a photo of my ID or let AI scan my face to confirm my age or I'll lose access to 'social features'.
Okay? I've never once thought "Let me turn on my XBox to see what the person I played Forza with 10 years ago is up to"
Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict access to content online have been multiplying in recent years. This is bad news for your privacy. https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/
Age Verification Wants Your Face, and Your Privacy
Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict access to content online have been multiplying in recent years. The problem is, implementing such measure necessarily requires identifying each user accessing this content, one way or another. This is bad news for your privacy.
www.privacyguides.org · Privacy Guides
Link author: Em @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
"Tesla new car registrations - a proxy for sales -🚨dropped 89% in Sweden, 86% in Denmark, 50% in Norway and 48% in the Netherlands, local industry data showed. Its sales in Spain were down 31% in October, while industry-wide sales of fully-electric and plug-in hybrid models jumped 119%..."
⚡Europeans soundly reject Musk's Nazism & his Tesla cars.
#Musk #Tesla #EV #Nazis #USPol
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-sales-plunge-again-some-european-markets-october-2025-11-03/
This sounds really innocuous, but Teen Vogue just axed their whole politics desk — everybody working on it has been laid off. This is devastating: it was a publication with a lot of reach and it was consistent in how it spoke out against this administration.
https://www.vogue.com/article/teen-vogue-is-joining-voguecom
いきなり冷えましたね。
秋が無い。
Sure, go off with your AI-powered threat detection or whatever.
Meanwhile, humans: let's make the password to the Louvre's NVR Louvre.
Security conference talks fall into two categories
* we designed a distributed entropy siphon to perform a black-box hypervisor side channel escape and chain-load a persistent rootkit into the CPU cache
* we looked behind the sofa and found an entire industry of products/services that have made no attempt at security at all and are therefore vulnerable to the most basic issues that we've been finding in everything for the past 30 years, and no-one else had bothered to look.
The Continual Learning Problem
Link: https://jessylin.com/2025/10/20/continual-learning/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45701810
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5qajnbvk5q6puhozmgx6bdkz/post/3m4qop7egf22p
The last thing your toe will ever see
the problem with taking my cat outside with me is she runs off, eats grass, gets sick and later throws up the nasty kind of vomit that's impossible to clean.
the problem with not taking my cat outside with me is she sits in the window & cries at me the whole time.
🚀 Die Grazer Linuxtage 2026 stehen vor der Tür!
Am 10. und 11. April 2026 verwandelt sich die TU Graz (Inffeldgasse) wieder in das Zentrum für Open Source, Linux und Freie Software.
Freut euch auf spannende Vorträge, Workshops und jede Menge Community-Spirit! 💻🐧
👉 Mehr Infos: www.linuxtage.at
My backyard rewilding, soil remediation & lawn replacement longterm project is going well. The mixed #clover seeds I scattered after removing useless lawn grass looks like this now.
😊💚☘️🍀💚
#iHateColonialLawns #Rewilding #Saanich #VancouverIsland #Green #SilentSunday
Apparently I'm going to have some articles, screencasts, and curriculum to update after 3.15 is released! 😅
Python SC accepted PEP 798
PEP: https://peps.python.org/pep-0798/
Acceptance: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-798-unpacking-in-comprehensions/99435/60
So this:
[*row for row in list_of_lists]
Will do the same thing as this:
[x for row in list_of_lists for x in row]
I often tell new #Python learners that there are 4-ish uses of * and 3 uses of **. That'll now be 5-ish uses of * and 4 uses of **.
Do you use US Mobile for your phone provider?
If so, have you had any problems with it?
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