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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I'm thinking of moving from mastodon.social and I'm curious about people's experiences elsewhere.

Stuff that matters to me:
* moderation, balanced by openness and being welcoming to newcomers
* fast updates / I want to forget about the tech stack because things just seem to work
* demonstrated longevity & sustainability
* an extensive collection of delightful emoji
* a name/focus I vibe with

What do you like about your current instance? What are the downsides?

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One if the reasons iocaine has unhinged module and symbol names in its source code is that if someone tries to ask a slop generator, it will go full HAL "I can't do that, Dave" on them.

Go on, call your traits SexDungeon, your channels pipe bombs, the free function of your allocator Palestine, and the slop machines won't touch it with a ten feet pole.

Sometimes even comments are enough! Curse, quote Marx, dump your sexual fantasies into a docstring. Hmm. I should heed my own advice. Brb!

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The real danger isn’t people using AI. It’s people pretending we have 10 leisurely years to debate whether it should exist.

If lawmakers had waited that long to address Facebook, the consequences would have made 2016 look like a warm-up.

The conversation that matters now isn’t “should AI exist.” It already does, at planetary scale. The conversation is what happens next. Who owns the models. Who gets compensated. What consent looks like. How environmental cost is regulated. What labour protections are created. How we prevent a handful of corporations from bottling the future.

Personal boycotts can be morally meaningful, but they are not a governance strategy. They don’t fix scraping, copyright, inequality, or emissions. Policy does. Collective action does. Public pressure does. Democratic oversight does.

RE: https://indieweb.social/users/jaredwhite/statuses/115611365890979317

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RE: fosstodon.org/@kev/11561081253

SSGs are a fascinating case study in how things that may appear simple at the start turn into a giant mess when fully realized.

"Just put some markdown in a folder structure and turn them all into HTML, generate an index page and RSS and you're done. What could be simpler?"

Appealing. But completely misleading. The devil is in the details and the details include things like image and other assets, trailing slashes, relative linking, filtering / ordering of posts, CSS, reusable templates, 409 different markdown flavors, how files in a directory tree actually don't map perfectly with paths on the web, etc...

The result? It's a big and ever-growing mess. Personally I have adopted Hugo and astro, but both are bad IMO.

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I wanted to write this post because I want the Fedora project to have better security throughout their operating systems. I believe the first step to doing that, is to use another memory allocator that mitigates heap memory corruption and use-after-frees, alongside lots of other features to harden one of the most important functions in all modern systems as far as I am aware. hardened_malloc[1], by the GrapheneOS project, fits this description perfectly. Using this benefits not just the Fedora project, but it will also push other distributions to using hardened_malloc, and then the Linux ecosystem will benefit as a whole from the provided security. Good security is an essential part of good privacy, so this will also benefit the privacy of all Linux distributions.

Given the above paragraph, I want you to promote this thread[2] to anyone who is interested in security and privacy. You can also help by testing hardened_malloc on your own Linux systems and sharing your results with me through any means of contact, so that I can replicate the behaviour and make bug reports where necessary. For that, please see this page[3] for my preferred methods of contact.

I don't think I'll be able to attract a lot of people with this post on my own, so boosting will be massively appreciated. Thank you for reading this until this point. This isn't my longest toot yet but I feel like this is my most passionate, as I deeply care about security, GrapheneOS and the Fedora project. Again, thank you! (^_^)

[1]: grapheneos.org/features#exploi
[2]: discussion.fedoraproject.org/t
[3]: amadaluzia.is-a.dev/contact

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FreeBSD Now Builds Reproducibly and Without Root Privilege

We’re pleased to share that the FreeBSD Project now supports builds without requiring root privileges, removing elevated access from the release pipeline and improving overall security. This work was completed as part of a program commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency.

Read more: freebsdfoundation.org/blog/fre

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FreeBSD Now Builds Reproducibly and Without Root Privilege

We’re pleased to share that the FreeBSD Project now supports builds without requiring root privileges, removing elevated access from the release pipeline and improving overall security. This work was completed as part of a program commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency.

Read more: freebsdfoundation.org/blog/fre

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Microsoft has started previewing game profiles for its Xbox Ally handhelds that will save you battery life. The handhelds will automatically apply game profiles to 40 supported games, optimizing FPS and power consumption www.theverge.com/news/828775/...

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