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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"Qualcomm-owned quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform."

(source: Adafruit linkedin.com/posts/adafruit_op)

Oh boy, that was fast! Somehow we need to find more future-proof models for open-source hardware. Letting the market do its thing is showing its true colors once again. Pure evil! 👿

Qualcomm-owned Arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform.
The new documents introduce an irrevocable, perpetual license over anything users upload, broad surveillance-style monitoring of AI features, a clause preventing users from identifying potential patent infringement, years-long retention of usernames even after account deletion, and the integration of all user data (including minors) into Qualcomm’s global data ecosystem. Military weird things and more.

Several sections effectively reshape Arduino from an open community platform into a tightly controlled corporate service with deep data extraction built in. The most striking addition: 

users are now explicitly forbidden from reverse-engineering or even attempting to understand how the platform works unless Arduino gives permission. That’s a profound shift for a brand long embraced by educators, makers, researchers, and open-source advocates.
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Incoming urban fantasy story premise (via this Threads user): the Fae created Github, now Microsoft are trying to take over the Summer Kingdom in order to fill it with AI data centres. Of course, the threadrippers are promptly squatted by the entire gremlin population of faerie:

Screencap of a toot from a Threads user:

missjenbeck 2d

Romantasy question: are the fae open source? I had only known them from SJM books, but didn't expect to see them in Quicksilver!
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🍺 Today I'm proud to announce Homebrew (@homebrew) 5.0.0 bringing you download concurrency by default, official support for Linux ARM64/AArch64, timescales for deprecating macOS Intel and removing macOS Gatekeeper bypass behaviours.

Read more at brew.sh/2025/11/12/homebrew-5.

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I try to be polite when I write prompts for LLMs. Especially in languages like Korean or Japanese that have grammatical honorifics, I make sure to use the formal, respectful form of speech (what's known as 敬語—gyeongeo or keigo). I joke with my friends that I'm using polite language early on to be pardoned for my sins when AI eventually takes over the world, but the real reason is that I don't want to get used to speaking to someone in a commanding tone. It makes me think I might start believing it's “okay” to order around certain intelligent beings, almost like condoning slavery.

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