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.

Why reactive moderation isn't going to cut it, aka, "The Sucker-punch Problem".

Imagine you invite your friend—let's call him Mark—to a club with you. It's open-door, which is cool, because you like when a lot of folx show up. Sure, it might get a little rowdy, but they have a bouncer, and you've never seen things getting out of hand.

So, you're busy dancing when a new guy walks in wearing a "I Hate Mark" shirt and promptly sucker-punches Mark. You didn't see it happen, but Mark is upset and tells the bouncer, who kicks the guy out.

A few minutes later, the same guy walks back in and sucker-punches Mark again. Same result. Some people in the club say they'll tell the bouncer if they see him come in again.

Mark wants to leave, but you tell him it's not that bad—after all, you've never been punched, and you didn't see Mark get punched, so maybe he's just being sensitive.

A different guy walks in wearing a "I Plan On Punching Mark" shirt. No one tells the bouncer, because they've never seen *this* guy punch Mark.

He sucker-punches Mark. At this point, Mark is pissed and yelling about being punched.

The club members talk about putting up a "No Punching Mark" sign, but the owner is worried it'll hurt his club's growth.

Another Mark in the club proposes they turn away anyone wearing an anti-Mark shirt or espousing anti-Mark rhetoric at the door, but this gets shot down for the same reason as the sign idea—then someone sucker-punches him.

By the end of the night, your friend Mark is beat to fuck and says he'll never come to this club again. In fact, he's going to tell anyone named Mark to stay clear of this place.

The next time you go to the club, half the folx there are wearing "I Kill Marks" shirts, but there aren't any Marks there, so it doesn't come up.

I've been sucker-punched every day, for the last three days in a row by some of the most vile hate-speech and imagery. The accounts are using open registration servers and signing up with variations on the username "heilhitler1488". I fully expect it'll continue as long as we have open registration servers.

And no, username pattern blocking alone won't fix this, it'll help a little, but mostly it'll just make them wear a different shirt while they sucker-punch us.

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It is time for the annual State of Rust Survey! 📝✨️

Whether you've just begun using Rust, are an experienced Rust user, stopped using Rust, or might use Rust in the future, we'd like to hear from you! 🦀

Available in ten languages and open until December 17th: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/11/17/

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"Children’s toymaker FoloToy says it’s pulling its AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” after a safety group found that the cuddly companion was giving wildly inappropriate and even dangerous responses, including tips on how to find and light matches, and detailed explanations about sexual kinks"

AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pull...

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We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for the second "Funding the FOSS Ecosystem" devroom at FOSDEM 2026, along with @fsfeFree Software Foundation Europe, @linuxfoundationThe Linux Foundation @nlnet, and @PrototypeFund 🥳

This devroom is for developers to gain insights into funding strategies, and encourages funders to better understand and support developer needs in FOSS projects.

Call for participation is open until December 1, 2025!

➡️ pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026

FOSDEM signage for the devroom
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At @osxp_parisOpen Source Experience, Michael Meeks, CEO at Collabora Productivity, and Guy-Christian Facia, Consultant in collaborative open source software at Arawa, will present how two French government ministries are making a major shift from proprietary office suites to .

This real-world migration — led by @arawaArawa - Collab. Open Source and Collabora Online, highlights the strategy, challenges, and user adoption behind a nationwide shift.

Explore more
🔗 opensource-experience.com

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이전에 중국쪽 연합우주 서버중 하나랑 연결된적있는데
그 서버가 나중에는 그냥 로컬전용으로 돌렸는지 연합이 끊어지더라구요

예전에 연합우주 클라이언트를 회사 내 SNS전용 서버로 쓴다는 것도 보기도해서
실제로는 더 많을것

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1cpu 2gb로 1인 서버 돌릴 때가 생각나네요; gotosocial이 초기버전일 때이기도 해서 난리굿판이었던 기억이 납니다.;; cpu는 문제가 안 되는데 램은 4GB는 필요하다고 생각해요.

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칼 세이건의 "창백한 푸른 점"(Pale Blue Dot)의 일부

우리의 모든 기쁨과 고통이 저 점 위에서 존재했고,

인류의 역사 속에 존재한 자신만만했던
수 천 개의 종교와 이데올로기, 경제체제가,

수렵과 채집을 했던 모든 사람들,
모든 영웅과 비겁자들이,
문명을 일으킨 사람들과
그런 문명을 파괴한 사람들,
왕과 미천한 농부들이,

사랑에 빠진 젊은 남녀들,
엄마와 아빠들,
그리고 꿈 많던 아이들이,

발명가와 탐험가,
윤리도덕을 가르친 선생님과
부패한 정치인들이,
"슈퍼스타"나 "위대한 영도자"로 불리던 사람들이,

성자나 죄인들이
모두 바로 태양빛에 걸려있는
저 먼지 같은 작은 점 위에서 살았습니다.

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연합우주 특성 상 해킹등의 비정상적인 접근을 제외한
일반적인 가입공격 스팸공격 팔로우봇 등의 괴롭힘 행위를 방지하기 위해서는
궁극적으로 1인 1서버가 이행되어야 합니다
하지만 모든 개인에게 그런 어려운 일을 시키는건 불가능하죠
즉 해킹의 위험성에 대해선 다른 사이트들과 동일한 리스크인데
가입을 완전히 개방 할 경우 리스크가 늘어만 나는
보안과 이용자들의 편안한 사용을 위한 측면에서는 안심하기 힘든 구조인것 같습니다

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