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.

Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com@bsky.brid.gy
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And then in response to that, someone pointed out what happened: a repost on the post I was replying to. And that all tracks. I never said (nor do I believe) anything like “all anti ai comments are bots.” I was talking about a very specific instance of a behavior I saw in the moment

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jhx @jhx@bsd.cafe
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

Howto on how to set up a local setup on via featuring and :freebsd:

jhx7.de/blog/webdev-setup-on-f

Webdev Setup on FreeBSD

I wanted a small webdev setup where I could test some Python CGI code and do some shenanigans with PHP. Nothing special here and certainly nothing professional - Not a webdev by trade at all! Let’s delve into setting up that environment. Apache all the way The webserver of choice for me is Apache in this setup. Sure, one can use Nginx, Lighttpd or something else entirely - that is up to the reader. First things first: We need to install Apache and PHP

jhx7.de · Yet Another SysAdmin

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dorubab @dorubab@bsd.cafe
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

So I got a new box today.

Plan on installing FreeBSD and I think I want to give it a shot to pkg base.

Do you recommend installing the latest 15 release candidate and upgrading from there this Friday?.

Or is still better to install latest 14.X and do a major upgrade to 15 on Friday?

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jhx @jhx@bsd.cafe
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

Oh my, the modern web is so bloated/overloaded.
My Thinkpad x260 (Yoga) is dying while playing a Youtube video... let alone dropping a lot of frames.
I know, the CPU is older (i5-6200U) but come on - this is crazy.

I've set the notebook up to play around with on the desktop some more. Running currently and having some dev stuff installed.
handles the notebook like a champ, everything works... sadly that is not the same for using the web with a modern browser.
720p playbook loads up the CPU at a constant 50/60%.
Well, at least surfing the web is kinda ok... but not great tbh.

Times really have changed... for the worse in some aspects.
I still remember surfing the web back than with a tiny AMD single core CPU - which was more then enough.

Enough ranting.

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Ricardo Martín @ricardo@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

Check out what I totally overlooked, if anyone’s into that 😉
forums.freebsd.org/threads/ful

Full Ada programming toolchain now on FreeBSD

Hi all ! As a FreeBSD enthusiast, convinced by the reliability, quality, consistency of FreeBSD ... since 2002 , running a couple of FBSD servers for Ada Components Repository at AdaForge.org with poudriere. I'm pleased to announce the availability of the full GNAT Ada 2022 toolchain for...

forums.freebsd.org · The FreeBSD Forums

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da_667 @da_667@infosec.exchange
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Shared by Jeff Atwood

there's a non-zero chance that if you're here, then you're probably your family's go-to guy. or gal. for just about anything with a computer in it or related to it.

@todbTod Beardsley 🤘 has a nice toot about some stuff you want to check when you forced into the tech support role over here:

infosec.exchange/@todb/1156140

to add to that, for security awareness month, I wrote up some things about IoT security. You know. Those internet enabled things in your home including your routers, printers, network attached devices and everything else in between.

community.emergingthreats.net/

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Cloudflare outage should not have happened

Link: ebellani.github.io/blog/2025/c
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Cloudflare outage should not have happened, and they seem to be missing the point on how to avoid it in the future

Yet again, another global IT outage happen (deja vu strikes again in our industry). This time at cloudflare(Prince 2025). Again, taking down large swats of the internet with it(Booth 2025). And yes, like my previous analysis of the GCP and CrowdStrike’s outages, this post critiques Cloudflare’s root cause analysis (RCA), which — despite providing a great overview of what happened — misses the real lesson. Here’s the key section of their RCA:

ebellani.github.io

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Creideiki @creideiki@akkoma.pikaböl.se
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Shared by mcc

@thibaultmolThibaultmol 🌈 @mcc From 1 January 2027. Legal text: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32023R1804#art_5

[...] operators of recharging points shall accept electronic payments at those points through terminals and devices used for payment services, including at least one of the following:

(a) payment card readers;
(b) devices with a contactless functionality that is at least able to read payment cards;
(c) [...]

From 1 January 2027, operators of recharging points shall ensure that all publicly accessible recharging points operated by them, [...], comply with the requirements set out in points (a) or (b).

L_2023234EN.01000101.xml

eur-lex.europa.eu

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Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

If anybody is interested, using Fediverse Observer I just pulled this - Mastodon servers, filtered by Active Users.

While, yes, mastodon.social does have over half the users - I do think the situation isn't as bad as people make out, Mastodon itself would continue to function without the main server (far less so without the foundation behind it).

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

I'm sorry I'm not trying to turn Thanksgiving 2025 into Thanksgiving: The Gender Controversy, but this "oh, you have to be in the far upper right tail of the math ability distribution to go into engineering" is laughable on its face as soon as you look at real assessment data at scale

Men at lower-scoring tiers of engineering/math/science majors enjoy THE SAME EARNINGS BENEFITS as men at the upper tiers and women do not!

Again: flashing neon light pointing to "social effects"

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Patrick Breyer @echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social
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🇩🇪Irreführende Schlagzeilen: Die ist nicht tot, sie wird privatisiert! 🚨

EU-Länder heute für:
🔍 Anlasslose Massenüberwachung
🆔 Ausweispflicht für alle (Ende der Anonymität)
🚫 Digitalen Hausarrest für Teens

Der Kampf geht weiter!

patrick-breyer.de/faktencheck-

Eine Europakarte auf schwarzem Hintergrund mit dem Titel „Stop #ChatControl“. Die Länder sind farblich markiert: Rot für Befürworter (die Mehrheit, inkl. Deutschland und Frankreich), Grün für Gegner oder Enthaltungen (Niederlande, Polen, Tschechien, Italien). Detaillierte Beschreibung: Die Grafik zeigt eine Landkarte von Europa vor schwarzem Hintergrund. Oben steht in weißer Schrift „STOP #CHATCONTROL!“ und darunter die Frage „IS YOUR GOVERNMENT OPPOSING IT YET?“ (Ist deine Regierung schon dagegen?). Eine Legende auf der linken Seite erklärt die Farbkodierung der Länder: Grün (Opposing / Neutral): Länder, die das Vorhaben ablehnen oder sich neutral verhalten. Auf der Karte sind dies: Niederlande (NL), Polen (PL), Tschechien (CZ) und Italien (IT). Rot (In Favour): Länder, die das Vorhaben unterstützen. Dies betrifft die große Mehrheit der abgebildeten Staaten, darunter Deutschland (DE).
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Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
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If anybody is interested, using Fediverse Observer I just pulled this - Mastodon servers, filtered by Active Users.

While, yes, mastodon.social does have over half the users - I do think the situation isn't as bad as people make out, Mastodon itself would continue to function without the main server (far less so without the foundation behind it).

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Scrivolical @scrivolical@nexus.torment.ca
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Ontario Pickering Nuclear Generating Station refurbishment gets provincial approval. Extends life by 38 years.

If you’re within 10 km of Pickering or Darlington nuclear generating stations, you should have Potassium Iodide (KI) tablets. Anyone within 50 km is encouraged to have KI tablets, including areas of GTA.

For info and eligibility (based on distance): preparetobesafe.ca

KI Pills – Prepare To Be Safe – KI Pills – Prepare To Be Safe

www.preparetobesafe.ca

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PositivDenken 🤯 @zeank@mastodon.social
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Deutsche „bushcraft“ YouTuber, die nach Skandinavien fahren, sich im Wald einen Platz suchen und dann dort erst einmal „fein“ für ein paar Tage ihr Lager aufschlagen, indem sie ein halbes Dutzend Bäume fällen, weil sie ihre „bushcraft skills“ verbessern wollen. Man braucht sich echt nicht wundern, warum wir hier mittlerweile so verhasst sind, dass sie lieber gleich das Jedermannsrecht ganz abschaffen.

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Jared “Indie Social Web” White @jaredwhite@indieweb.social
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

This is how you do it people. I feel like I could have written this article, as it is extremely detailed as to all of the valid reasons why they would want to ban such content from being associated with Nature.

Every journalistic & creative outlet you follow should be publishing something like this…and if not, demand it.

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video

Saying ‘no’ to this kind of visual content is a question of research integrity, consent, privacy and intellectual-property protection.

www.nature.com

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mhoye @mhoye@mastodon.social
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RE: wandering.shop/@aesthr/1156150

Imagine letting your whole worldview, how you learn about anything, get filtered through a silent corporate-brand-sanitization machine.

Banning books seems adorably quaint by comparison. Your brain would end up as polished and smooth as the inside of a urinal.

mastodon.social/@aesthr@wander

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Eugen Rochko @Gargron@mastodon.social
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RE: mastodon.social/@Gargron/11560

The sticker sheets are back in stock today! And the first 321 orders have been dispatched, with the rest coming soon. Only about 400 plushies left between the two colors. The winter mug is the closest to being sold out at only 18 units left. Thank you!

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William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

"As doubts about AI creep in, I’m hearing growing chatter to the effect that the Fed can and should save the industry. But the lesson from the last big tech bubble is that it can’t. In fact, I have doubts about whether the Fed can head off a broader recession if the tech boom collapses — but that’s a topic for a future post."

~ Paul Krugman


/1

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/war

Warning: The Fed Can’t Rescue AI

Lessons from the dotcom crash

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Dandy Griffin @nemesisprime@iosdev.space
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Random memory: Loren Brichter once nonchalantly told me “oh, it can just be put together with the parts” about a UITabBar-based UI he built in Tweetie 2 after I had the chance to ask (it seemed so novel to me at the time ha!)

That changed my world. It helped me look at constructing UIs in a completely different way that made anything possible. Hell, that was one of two foundational things someone has said to me that’s made me a great programmer today. And I doubt he even remembers! 😂

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