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.
Systemd's run0 is going to make me learn Polkit, isn't it, so that I can force members of group wheel to have to authenticate as root instead of themselves (and so polkit will stop asking me to pick which group-wheel login to authenticate as).
This is my not entirely happy face.
(I have no deep objections to run0 as a thing, it certainly deals with a variety of long-standing su/sudo problems. Although it adds its own limitations, it's not for everything.)
Had a couple of conversations with folk recently about the joys of time sheets — and why tracking an individuals work is often / usually a terrible idea, as well being a PITA.
But it reminded me of a practice I've found super useful in the past when I've been forced to do it myself.
TL;DR: Don't track time on task. Track interruptions.
Block out the time for the primary task - then log and subtract time spent on interrupting tasks. I found this useful coz: (1/3)
I declare that today, Nov. 19, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of BitBLT, a routine so fundamental to computer graphics that we don't even think about it having an origin. A working (later optimized) implementation was devised on the Xerox Alto by members of the Smalltalk team. It made it easy to arbitrarily copy and move arbitrary rectangles of bits in a graphical bitmap. It was this routine that made Smalltalk's graphical interface possible. Below is part of a PARC-internal memo detailing it:
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W with MicroPython on OpenSUSE Leap 16.0.
The terminal emulator minicom is not available on Leap, but picocom is:
$ sudo zypper install picocom
$ sudo usermod -aG dialout $USER
Log out, and back in.
$ picocom --quiet --baud 115200 /dev/ttyACM0
Type Ctrl-a Ctrl-x to exit.
Thonny IDE can be installed as a flatpak from flathub.
The minicom terminal emulator can be used from a Tumbleweed distrobox, but then you need to setup udev rules, see link.
ask your doctor if lying down in the forest to be consumed by the earth is right for you
Trauma freezes you in time
they should make burner laptops you can snap in half after one zoom meeting
And this is why @tangled.org@bsky.brid.gyTangled and #atproto in general is really promising. They provide centralized indexer over decentralized data. So someday, if bsky or Tangled becomes an evil, we can still opt-out and choose different indexer to view the *our* data.
(3/3)
Because we've all seen what's happening with Youtube. We cannot opt out because all our data over the decades is there, locked behind Google's service. I can degoogle the search engine but not YT. While google doesn't own the web, YT owns the videos. This kind of things should not happen. (2/3)
To be honest, I don't hate github that much. I do trust them and actually I like them if I have to choose a side. Sure, their recent movements are questionable, but they are yet neutral enough as a hub. But the problem here is that GH is centralized. That itself is enough to get feared. (1/3)
Ways to stop being a man:
- Transitioning
- Growing feathers
Mozilla's TABS API helps developers build AI agents to automate web tasks, and interested users can now sign up for access.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/mozilla-tabs-api-ai-web-agents
AI will make your ex-wife come back, and now she's also got a younger, hotter sister. Only with AI.
Have your children gone no-contact with you? Well AI will make them love you again.
Say what you want about the problems of social media today, but it’s kind of magical that I find a 50-year-old memo from Dan Ingalls announcing bitblt availability on the Alto coming across my Mastodon timeline, letting me send a “Happy 50th anniversary of bitblt for all those that celebrate” message to my former-Xerox-PARC buddy. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@fvzappa/115574872559813280
Trauma freezes you in time
Why does Jared Leto get cast in *anything*? Lee Pace is *right* *there*
Inside a global campaign hijacking open-source project identities via 
@nfriedlyNathan Friedly https://lobste.rs/s/t7mtqi #security
https://www.fullstory.com/blog/inside-a-global-campaign-hijacking-open-source-project-identities/
I gotta say... I met so many cool people at W3C #TPAC
It was especially great meeting all the incredible champions who have dedicated their careers to accessibility work.
OMG new Stargate?! And it's not a reboot?! (via 
@JonathanGerlach)
As someone who was there, I will say that Perl 6 absolutely killed Perl. It was always coming Real Soon Now but was never going to be backwards-compatible with Perl 5, so every new line of Perl 5 code you wrote was instant technical debt; something you were (in theory) going to have to rewrite in the not-too-distant future.
Your choices were to wait for Perl 6 or switch to a different language. If you waited, you were waiting for a long time. Like most people, I eventually switched.
A lot of this comes down to naming. If they'd called it Raku from the get-go rather than Perl 6, nobody would have seen it as obsoleting Perl 5.
This gets at one of my longstanding hobby horses, to wit: names mean things, or more accurately, names REPRESENT things. They are handles our brain uses to grasp abstractions. Applying the same name to wildly different things is slathering grease on the handle. The brain can't grasp it. It slides right off.
If you are making a new version of an existing product, and that new version is so different as to effectively be a completely new product, just give the new version a different name. It will save you so much heartburn.
Happy #InternationalMensDay to my fellow dudes!
Great opportunity to reflect on our shared privilege. We all need to work together to address toxic masculinity and gender inequality that are at the root of so many of today's world's problems.
We need to learn to call each other out, just saying "not cool, man" can make a big difference.
And we also need to embrace being vulnerable and not be afraid to ask other men for help. And be there for other men seeking help.
It's not the responsibility of other gender groups to provide us with free emotional labor.
✨ Author Spotlight: 
@ricmacRichard MacManus ✨ Richard sat down with ActivityPub creator Evan Prodromou to talk about the protocol's history and the future of decentralized social media.
https://thenewstack.io/the-creator-of-activitypub-on-whats-next-for-the-fediverse
筋肉痛の脚でバランスボール椅子に空気しゅこしゅこ断熱圧縮でポンプほかほか
US gov is giving $1bn for Microsoft to restart a nuclear power plant at a former nuclear power plant disaster site, because AI. https://gizmodo.com/us-approves-1b-loan-to-restart-three-mile-island-as-microsoft-data-centers-drive-demand-2000688138
ちいかわって大成功した軽いリョナ作品だよね
The November 18th, 2025 Jail/Zones Production User Call is up:
We discussed Podman updates and support utilities such as a GUI for various operating systems, the FreeBSD OCI Runtime announcement, did a deep dive into kqueue, kevent, knote, klist, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
Tech workers!
Open Source now powers just about every technology out there.
If you find yourself in that magical position of having more money than time to donate, please reach out to the projects you use and the projects you love.
The global to do list ranging from coding to documentation and more is endless but we all do our part.
I can guide you on OpenZFS, bhyve, and several aspects of FreeBSD.
❤️
Installing #openbsd is easy, but what does it take to keep your system in trim?
Here is a piece I wrote, "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html to provide some pointers (also at https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-have-installed-openbsd-now-for.html if tracking is not a thing you worry about) #maintenance #sysadmin #dailytasks #dailydriver
寝れぬ
these labels are incredibly useful btw
bsky.app/profile/stechl...
夏の影、大宮、さいたま市
GoPro Hero 3 White Edition
They should rename .unwrap() to .foo().
Young coder: "Why TF is it called that?"
Old coder: "Wait, that's the actual name?"
Book author: "Finally!"
The erosion of privacy rights we are seeing worldwide is directly linked to the rise of authoritarianism we are seeing worldwide.
#Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #ChatControl #AgeVerification
Had a couple of conversations with folk recently about the joys of time sheets — and why tracking an individuals work is often / usually a terrible idea, as well being a PITA.
But it reminded me of a practice I've found super useful in the past when I've been forced to do it myself.
TL;DR: Don't track time on task. Track interruptions.
Block out the time for the primary task - then log and subtract time spent on interrupting tasks. I found this useful coz: (1/3)
No more website boy!
Obsidian 1.10.5 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.
https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-11-19-desktop-v1.10.5
Helpful tip for web server operators¹: if you want to know all of the network address space associated with a particular organization in a nice text form, find out their ASN (perhaps from https://bgp.tools/ with an IP address) and then:
whois -h whois.radb.net -- ' -i origin AS150436'
Dump that in a file, get all of the 'route:' entries, and feed them to your favorite CIDR/netblock calculator to minimize them and give you a nice list for your web server ACLs/etc.
@cksChris Siebenmann I would recommend bgpq3 (or 4) as an alternative. Both faster and gives a more accurate result. Switched from whois and it works a lot better.
bgpq3 -F '%n/%l\n' AS150436
TLが動かんぞ
.............클라 뜯어서 나온 스크립트에 적힌 담당자 ID로 사찰을 했다고. 악의가.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a6qvfkbrohedqy3dt6k5mdv6/post/3m5yvfjcfys2u
今日もきょうとて 
ea616ac4a4 (upstream/main) Improve media modal swipe animation (#36916)
01b11c328c chore(deps): update dependency i18n-tasks to v1.1.0 (#36907)
bc7c83ba76 Update `glob` dependency (#36940)
366856f3bc Fix theme-related Vite errors even when `theme_tokens` feature flag is disabled (#36936)
4d0aab4a31 Fix `g` + `h` keyboard shortcut not working when a post is focused (#36935)
c22b203bca Fix quoting overwriting current content warning (#36934)
52b92bdc9c chore(deps): update dependency bootsnap to '~> 1.19.0' (#36906)
4f6a7e44d1 Update rubocop-rspec to version 3.8.0 (#36853)
81ffd1d3c7 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#36933)
9872197d1f Fix `Rails/RedirectBackOrTo` cop (#36930)
On the weekdays, they were one of those places that had chefs that would literally feed you for breakfast/lunch/dinner, and holy shit it was amazing food. But on the weekend, they left open a "sandwich bar", so I would buy a can of Amy's Vegetable Lentil Soup with generous amounts of hot sauce and make a cheese and vegetable sandwich.
And echoing around my desk, the sounds of distorted cheery consumerism from another era. It was odd and comforting
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber I love doing stuff like this! I used to put on https://otcs.minuspoint.com/ and some 80s vaporwave and vibe. But I think old department store muzak goes harder.
@gerrymcgovern I think this is part of the thing, people keep saying "oh well water use is not that bad"
We don't fully KNOW how bad the water usage of datacenters is. But we do know that communities living near them are being impacted hugely.
But we should know.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @gerrymcgovern
Yes. Here it is in case anyone missed it.
The Great AI Bubble
"What we’re seeing is a closed doom loop underpinned by…well, what exactly? The promise of a world-changing technology that, guess what, isn’t here yet and there’s no real sign that it ever will be. These companies are stealing every scrap of data they can find, throwing compute power at it, draining our aquifers of water and our national grids of electricity and all we have so far is some software that you can’t trust not to make things up."
Carole Cadwalladr
Glyph
Darius Kazemi
Evan Prodromou
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Stefano Marinelli
불가사리 소년 
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Fullmetal Alejandro