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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A reminder: today is the Trans Day of Remembrance. For those unfamiliar, this is when we remember trans people who were killed by acts of violence.

On a day like this, and in the current broader crisis as well: it can be hard to remember that you are loved and to allow yourself to feel that love. Please take extra care of yourselves today.

Practicing both compassion for ourselves and compassion for each other is incredibly important in grief. Although many of us have lost people directly, there are also many who have not and who want to support those in their lives who have.

Here are a couple of resources that will hopefully help.

Self-compassion in grief:

apenneyforyourthoughts.com/men

Compassion for others in grief:

cedarcounselingandwellness.com

**Edit** I wanted to add a more explicit request in here, rather than just leaving it to inference: please tell trans people in your life that you love and appreciate them every day but especially today. :trans: :blobfoxheartcute:

Simple image with a plain black background, trans pink blue and white candles, and the text: Transgender Day of Remembrance November 20
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Dell Now Shipping Laptop With Qualcomm NPU On Linux Ahead Of Windows 11

Dell announced today that their new Pro Max 16 Plus laptop with a Qualcomm discrete NPU is now shipping... That is if you are running Ubuntu Linux while the Windows 11 pre-load option is expected in early 2026. An exciting twist with the Linux version of the Dell Pro Max 16 Plus shipping before Microsoft Windows...
phoronix.com/news/Dell-Pro-Max

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So, the IACR held an election, but one of the three trustees lost their private key, which prevented them from verifying the results of the election. Forcing them to start over.

The cryptography association was foiled by key management.

See also, this gem from @leakLeaKissner

hachyderm.io/@leak/11078428997

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I am a parent of *many* children, most of them now young adults.
And I am an Elder Millennial, but was on the internet earlier than most of my cohort because my parents ran a BBS and I built my first computer when I was 11.

And I am asking other queerfolk to stop it with shit like "Minors DNI"
A 🧵

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Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
"Today, we’re preserving a cornerstone of gaming history that is near and dear to our hearts. Together, Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License. Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of students, teachers, and developers so they can study it, learn from it, and, perhaps most importantly, play it.
"...The games remain commercially available via The Zork Anthology on Good Old Games."
opensource.microsoft.com/blog/
github.com/historicalsource/zo
And an Ars Technica article about that:
arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11

I originally beat Zork in the original PDP-10 version, arpanet-ing in to MIT to play it.

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I have quite a few projects I'm super excited to publish in the coming weeks. But honestly, the main thing that's consuming my brain cycles story-wise is a year-end piece about just how badly this administration has fscked our cybers in so many ways.

This won't be a polemical soliloquy. I intend to document all of the specific actions this administration has taken that appear to weaken, redirect, or fully castrate our cyber capabilities. Your assistance would be appreciated (and possibly noted).

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I have quite a few projects I'm super excited to publish in the coming weeks. But honestly, the main thing that's consuming my brain cycles story-wise is a year-end piece about just how badly this administration has fscked our cybers in so many ways.

This won't be a polemical soliloquy. I intend to document all of the specific actions this administration has taken that appear to weaken, redirect, or fully castrate our cyber capabilities. Your assistance would be appreciated (and possibly noted).

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RE: mstdn.plus/@privacynews/115577

Hey folks! We're trying out a new experiment through the end of the year, which is being more consistent about sharing important news in the security & privacy space, every single day at: privacyguides.org/news/

Every story/brief we post will also be shared here on Mastodon, but we're going to do so from the new @privacynewsPrivacy & Security News account, because the content and volume of posts we're going to be sharing is a bit different than what we usually post here.

Plus, that account is more automated, while all the posts here are ✍️ hand made.

If you just want the absolute top stories and news from our team we will continue to share them here on @privacyguides as usual, but if you want to keep up with all the news in this space go give that account a follow as well! 😎

Please give us feedback on these stories and let us know if you find our new news tools useful!

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I've been bedridden for the last 10 months for medical reasons, and I'm still about 1000$ behind on being able to pay for my car and storage. I'm sorry to keep asking, but if you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive.

ko-fi.com/fooneturing

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PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!

"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."

malwarebytes.com/blog/news/202

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