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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Just published a deep look at where open social networks stand in 2025: Mastodon’s leadership change, Bluesky’s trajectory, AT Protocol, ActivityPub, cross-network tools, and more. For newsrooms and public service orgs, this moment really matters. werd.io/the-state-of-the-open-

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Remember that time Mozilla said it was going to stop working with the personal data removal service Onerep after I published a story showing Onerep's CEO was actually running several people search sites at the same time?

krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mo

krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/ce

Yeah, that was in mid-March 2024. In February I wrote about how it had been almost a year since Mozilla said it was going to kick Onerep to the curb and stop offering it as part of their Mozilla Monitor Plus service.

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/ne

Well today Mozilla announced that it is finally "winding down" its partnership with Onerep by winding down Monitor Plus.

"After careful consideration, we’ve made the decision to discontinue Monitor Plus, which offered data broker site scans and automated personal data removal."

"We will continue to offer our free Monitor, data breach service, which is integrated into Firefox’s credential manager, and we are focused on integrating more of our privacy and security experiences in Firefox, including our VPN, for free."

"We explored several options to keep Monitor Plus going, but our high standards for vendors, and the realities of the data broker ecosystem made it challenging to consistently deliver the level of value and reliability we expect for our users."

"Current subscribers will retain full access through the wind-down period."

I asked how long this wind-down period would extend, and they said it ends Dec. 17.

support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/m

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“lazy use of unwrap blew up a process and took out the internet” bzzt. wrong. judicious use of unwrap blew up a process instead of allowing an Extremely Named CVE to happen and spraying your bank account credentials all over the public internet

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3danwc67lo7obz2fmdg6jxcr/post/3m5yplwbogk2h

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Goodbye, Cavities? Scientists Just Found a Way to Regrow Tooth Enamel

Scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed a new protein-based gel that can restore tooth enamel by mimicking the body’s natural growth processes.

A newly developed material has been used to create a gel capable of repairing and rebuilding tooth enamel, offering a potential breakthrough in both preventive and restorative dental care.

scitechdaily.com/goodbye-cavit


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“lazy use of unwrap blew up a process and took out the internet” bzzt. wrong. judicious use of unwrap blew up a process instead of allowing an Extremely Named CVE to happen and spraying your bank account credentials all over the public internet

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3danwc67lo7obz2fmdg6jxcr/post/3m5yplwbogk2h

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The Wagtail Space 2025 YouTube playlist is LIVE! 🔥 Don't miss your chance to recreate the conference experience at home (and maybe escape your family for a bit during the holidays 😂 ).

Check it out here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfw

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I am still at a point where I feel like this is irrational catastrophizing, but not, like, completely: every time I open Feedback Assistant now, I think, "if I submit a sysdiagnose along with this feedback, will the information it contains be used to imprison or kill me or a politically active member of my family"? It's a question I wish that journalists would ask Cook.

mastodon.social/@daringfirebal

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Also, nostalgia is nostalgia. It's easy to wipe out all the awful things in the process, or turn them into something you find charming.

One thing about the Attention K-Mart Shoppers tapes is the GOD-AWFUL new sitcoms they'd announce. They're so terrible! And partly because they're terrible but *distant*, they're kind of fun now.

But I would have groaned so hard suffering through them back when they originally came out, of course.

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Also new in today's v1.110 release: We’ve redesigned the “who can reply” settings to make them clearer and easier to use. You can also now save your choices as the default for future posts, giving you easier control over the conversations you start.

A before and after comparison showing the updated "who can reply" settings for posts, including the new "Save these options for next time" checkbox.
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New, from me: The Cloudflare Outage May Be a Security Roadmap

An intermittent outage at Cloudflare on Tuesday briefly knocked many of the Internet’s top destinations offline. Some affected Cloudflare customers were able to pivot away from the platform temporarily so that visitors could still access their websites. But security experts say doing so may have also triggered an impromptu network penetration test for organizations that have come to rely on Cloudflare to block many types of abusive and malicious traffic.

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/th

A screenshot of the Cloudflare.com error page yesterday showing an Internal Server Error.
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cloudflare themselves get it: blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-... writing their code differently is only one of four steps here. because this kind of mistake should not be able to cause this much damage. that's approaching problems in a systematic way rather than via band-aids

Cloudflare outage on November ...

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