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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睇到公海不時有人讚嘆簡中女嘅文字。

以前做嘢嗰時認識咗個大陸女同事,至今仲好好朋友,會咁老友嘅原因係我地好鍾意彼此嘅文字而佢又怒鍾意香港文學。我有好長一段時間都唔知佢鍾意我啲字啲乜,畢竟在我眼中看來佢啲文字嘅功力實在太深厚,好多嘢不明言細說驟似講完好似無講,但行文中總會無啦啦捅人一刀,嗰份後勁係我只能望塵莫及。

而我問佢鍾意我啲字啲乜,佢話佢好羡慕我行文間嘅自信同俐落,總係可以三言兩語就交代咗件事係咩,唔似得佢好似要扭嚟扭去先可以搵個位攝啲真正嘅諗法出嚟,佢好想學但始終學唔到。

後來逐漸明白,成長環境係孕育文字風格嘅土壤,喺佢地嘅成長環境底下好多人係慣性壓抑自己嘅想法同感情,越聰明嘅人就越習慣壓抑,越清醒越痛苦,嗰種痛苦唔單單係針對某個題目、比如感情、而係全方面地學識迂迴曲折地表達,嗰種行文裡滲透嘅陰鬱係其他地區好難仿效。

香港人唔慣曲筆書寫,係因為我地嘅環境曾經容讓我地直白表達,嗰種陰陽冷諷嘅藝術唔係一朝一夕可以培養。明白呢個道理之後,會以欣賞對方嘅文字角度出發,而唔再勉強自己刻意模仿,但都會努力從中汲取營養。

呢種文字嘅交流係會令人好滿足。

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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:

us.macmillan.com/books/9781250

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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:

us.macmillan.com/books/9780374

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25 november 2025 markeert een belangrijke dag voor Suriname en Nederland: het is precies 50 jaar geleden dat Suriname onafhankelijk werd. Mijn ouders komen uit Suriname, maar ik ben in Nederland geboren, waardoor ik mij met beide landen verbonden voel. Ik schreef er een blog over:

rulesbyrosita.nl/50-jaar-onafh

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Intentionally not a Pluribus spoiler, but guarded for the extra cautious

The fact that Carol Sturka has not yet commissioned Firefly Season 2 is such a plot hole that the show is borderline unwatchable.

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I made a quick video about (by @cheeaunChee Aun 🤔)

I’m sorry it is kinda scattershot, but you can see some cool features like catch-up, which is really unique among masto clients, as well as the various layouts, the boost carousel, and threaded replies.

I don’t mention this in the video, but in Safari on iPhone, if you click share and “Add to Home Screen”, it will create an icon that lets you open phanpy like an app (so no extra extra extraneous browser UI elements).

fedimovie.com/w/vBubkiaMTSEXzF

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Vallejo’s Surveillance Advisory Board approved a tighter policy for use of Flock Safety’s gunshot detection technology Thursday and directed its subcommittee to draft a new audit plan for how the Vallejo Police Department uses all Flock products.
vallejosun.com/vallejo-surveil

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I wonder if programming language innovation will drop off post-AI. Like there's not much point learning a new language if you're not programming it directly, and LLMs know less about them.
You'll just reach for the language with the most (non-LLM generated) training data which will always be the older ones.

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"It may not be a trend many of us particularly like, but here in 2025 there’s a sense that the browser has reduced our computers almost to the status of a terminal. It’s thus perhaps the most important piece of software on the device, and in that light I hope you can understand some of the concerns levelled in this series."

I echo this sentiment. is almost an operating system for me, not a browser.

hackaday.com/2025/11/25/so-lon

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In my new article "The rebellion will be federated – 2025 edition" I discuss the key role of the Fediverse in this political and cultural climate... and argue that digital sovereignty and the ability to self-host are now more important than ever:

🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/the-rebe

Plus I had a chance to look back at my Fediverse advocacy in 2025 😊

Psst: my Ghost blog is now federated (@eleElena Rossini) thanks to @jannisJannis Fedoruk-Betschki and his amazing MagicPages (@heyMagic Pages) 🥳 🪄 📄

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your browser isn't supported please use a different browser
your os isn't supported please use a different computer
your email contains an invalid character please get a new email address
character limit exceeded please change your name
your name contains an invalid character please stop being french
please transition to a supported gender
please change your street name so our satnav can understand it
please relocate to a supported time zone
invalid character, please reform the orthography of the language you speak
please grow a second arm to continue
please ensure both of your eyes are the same colour
please invent time travel and go back in time to subtly alter the circumstances of your birth to a supported year

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RE: infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115

A hill I will die on: almost all consumer electronics devices with a lithium-blah battery in them would be just fine with NiMH. They would last years in a drawer without turning into a pillow, and could be repaired easily.

There's a few devices where the extra density really makes a difference, but for the rest, I think it's lazy engineering, and a way to "externalize" costs: you get slightly longer on-battery time, and you push the problem of maintenance and environment on the consumer.

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