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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Bodil @bodil@treehouse.systems
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Shared by Kat Marchán 🐈

I'll be disabling my Eurovision mute filters for next year, so I can see who's not boycotting and block accordingly.

news.sky.com/story/israel-allo

Israel allowed to take part in Eurovision 2026 - as several countries withdraw

Members of the EBU were asked to vote on whether they were happy with new rules, without going ahead with a vote on participation.

news.sky.com · Sky News

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Bodil @bodil@treehouse.systems
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I'll be disabling my Eurovision mute filters for next year, so I can see who's not boycotting and block accordingly.

news.sky.com/story/israel-allo

Israel allowed to take part in Eurovision 2026 - as several countries withdraw

Members of the EBU were asked to vote on whether they were happy with new rules, without going ahead with a vote on participation.

news.sky.com · Sky News

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molosovsky 🐿✊💗 @molosovsky@literatur.social
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Shared by leyrer

Vorschlag in Therapie: Lebenslauf, Ausbildungs- und Tätigkeits-Profil usw. anonymisiert in eine KI-Schleuder eingeben, und den Promp um Frage ergänzen, was ideale, gut bezahlte Jobs es da so gibt und wo.

Hat angeblich schon vielen Leuz dolle Ideen vermittelt und Wege aufgezeigt.

Ich glaub, nicht mal mit nem Messer an der Kehle könnte ich dazu gebracht werden, das zu machen.

So krass ist meine Abneigung und Verachtung für den ganzen KI-Wahnsinn.

Ich bin im Grunde ein sehr religiöser Mensch.

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Minutes from 4 December 2025 WG Meeting

julian @julian@activitypub.space

<p>Apologies in advance if I misrepresented anybody or missed any crucial bits of information.</p> <hr /> <h2>Attendees</h2> <ul> <li>Julian (@julian@activitypub.space)</li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/macted/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ted Thibodeau Jr</a> (he/him) (<a href="http://openlinksw.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">OpenLinkSw.com</a>) // GitHub:<a href="https://github.com/TallTed" rel="nofollow ugc">@TallTed</a> // Mastodon:<a href="https://mastodon.social/@TallTed" rel="nofollow ugc">@TallTed</a></li> <li>Jesse Karmani (<a href="https://mastodon.social/@jesseplusplus">@<bdi>jesseplusplus@mastodon.social</bdi></a>)</li> </ul> <h2>Agenda</h2> <ol> <li>Mastodon context issues (backfill not possible at the moment)</li> <li>Context (topic/thread) deletion and moving between audiences (communities/categories) <ul> <li>Draft FEP for the above</li> </ul> </li> <li>Deleting entire tree vs. one post.</li></ol>

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Mercedes Allen @mercedesallen@mastodon.social
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

"There’s an organization called STARRS that combs through Instagram and LinkedIn looking for minority service members who show any pride in their identity… If you’re LGBTQ, a person of color, or even an ally who took your kids to Pride, they will tag and harass you — and they have a direct line into the Pentagon…"

National security expert says second Lavender Scare is here as gov't purges LGBTQ+ workers - LGBTQ Nation
lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/nation

National security expert says second Lavender Scare is here as gov't purges LGBTQ+ workers - LGBTQ Nation

Is Laura Loomer the new Joseph McCarthy?

www.lgbtqnation.com · LGBTQ Nation

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Creative Commons @creativecommons@mastodon.social
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CC will be speaking at the Museum Association's Open Minds conference about copyright and open heritage in museums! Through a mix of panel discussions, case studies, and audience participation, the event will explore the latest approaches to and trends in collections copyright, the impact of technological developments and AI on copyright, and more.

Register for the online event at: museumsassociation.org/events/

Image: "Inside The British Museum" by Henry Burrows licensed by CC BY-SA 2.0.

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Show HN: OnlyRecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

Link: onlyrecipeapp.com/?url=https:/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

OnlyRecipe - Save, Organize & Print Your Favorite Recipes

Save and organize your favorite recipes from any website. Extract recipes, sync across devices, and print beautiful recipe cards.

onlyrecipeapp.com · OnlyRecipe

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molosovsky 🐿✊💗 @molosovsky@literatur.social
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Vorschlag in Therapie: Lebenslauf, Ausbildungs- und Tätigkeits-Profil usw. anonymisiert in eine KI-Schleuder eingeben, und den Promp um Frage ergänzen, was ideale, gut bezahlte Jobs es da so gibt und wo.

Hat angeblich schon vielen Leuz dolle Ideen vermittelt und Wege aufgezeigt.

Ich glaub, nicht mal mit nem Messer an der Kehle könnte ich dazu gebracht werden, das zu machen.

So krass ist meine Abneigung und Verachtung für den ganzen KI-Wahnsinn.

Ich bin im Grunde ein sehr religiöser Mensch.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
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Interesting thinking about how Microsoft's push towards things like backlight control not being handled with vendor specific drivers and for hotkeys to be sent over standard HID interfaces has meant that laptops are far more likely to broadly work out of the box with Linux than pretty much any prior point in history

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk@bsky.brid.gy
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Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts. In my Notepad 📒 newsletter this week I cover Microsoft's D&I changes and reveal that LinkedIn has been testing an AI personal assistant for Microsoft execs. Live for subscribers now 👇 www.theverge.com/tech/838079/...

Microsoft is quietly walking b...

Vector illustration of the Microsoft logo.

Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

Microsoft has dropped its diversity and inclusion report

www.theverge.com · The Verge

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Mercedes Allen @mercedesallen@mastodon.social
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"There’s an organization called STARRS that combs through Instagram and LinkedIn looking for minority service members who show any pride in their identity… If you’re LGBTQ, a person of color, or even an ally who took your kids to Pride, they will tag and harass you — and they have a direct line into the Pentagon…"

National security expert says second Lavender Scare is here as gov't purges LGBTQ+ workers - LGBTQ Nation
lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/nation

National security expert says second Lavender Scare is here as gov't purges LGBTQ+ workers - LGBTQ Nation

Is Laura Loomer the new Joseph McCarthy?

www.lgbtqnation.com · LGBTQ Nation

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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Anyway I remain baffled by how many people responded "yeah, of course?" to this while my response was "why would you do that!!" and I'm thinking that the people responding yes must have been exposed to dairy cows whereas I had only ever encountered cows in a ranching context mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115645

Pepijn (@Pepijn@mastodon.online)

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something. While talking to a colleague it came up that they have never sat on a cow. Like, not even once in their childhood. Another colleague listening in admitted they also have never sat on a cow. My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a cow. 🐃 🐄 🐮 Have you sat on a cow? Please boost for scientific accuracy. [ ] Yes [ ] No

mastodon.online · Mastodon

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Karl Fogel @kfogel@kfogel.org
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So, I need to order a Debian-compatible laptop to arrive in Italy very soon (like next week or early the week after that). Two 2TB SSD drives (we're setting up RAID 1 mirroring), 64 GB RAM, a good GPU (it will be used for some graphics-intensive applications), and solidly built (it will soon be in Egypt and used in desert conditions).

If it has Debian GNU/Linux pre-installed, that would be amazing! But if not, we can install the OS -- we just need to know that the laptop is 100% Debian-compatible and that we're not going to run into any installation issues.

Anyone have recommendations for where to order from?

(I know about System76 and have had great experiences with them before, so they're already on the list. Their shipping page indicates that maybe they can meet the "must arrive in Italy very soon" requirement, but I'm trying to gather options right now.)

system76

system76.com

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RustConf @rustconf@hachyderm.io
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Exciting RustConf 2026 updates!
📣 CFP opens this month
🌍 Visa letters available now
🏛 Returning to Montréal with an accessible new venue
Check out the full update: rustfoundation.org/media/rustc

RustConf 2026: Early Details and What’s Coming Next - The Rust Foundation

RustConf 2026 is coming, and as lead organizer of the event, I'm excited to share a few exciting updates about what the Rust Foundation has been cooking up! As many of you know, RustConf is the Rust ecosystem’s flagship annual gathering—organized by the Rust Foundation and built to bring our…

rustfoundation.org · The Rust Foundation

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Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕ @fringemagnet@sunny.garden
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Heavy thunderstorm day, so rewatching 'Bedazzled' for the first time since forever, probably decades. And a few dated early 2000's product-of-its-time elements aside, it's still a fun casual watch, with an actually solid message by the end.

Elizabeth Hurley as the Devil remains iconic in every scene, and Brendan Fraser's sensitive, awkward nerd vibe continues to occupy a soft spot in my heart.

Side shot of the PC monitor showing an instance from the film Bedazzled with Elziabeth Hurley's Devil character charmingly staring towards a sad and confused Brendan Fraser. My two cats are visible lounging on their cushions on the side of the desk. My tuxedo cat Tiffie has nearly fallen asleep while my calico cat Carrie is curiously staring at the screen.
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Sovereign Tech Agency @sovtechfund@mastodon.social
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Shared by Hugo van Kemenade

Yesterday’s event demonstrated that investing in the individuals who perform essential maintenance work is a practical lever for increasing the resilience of the digital systems we all depend on.

Relive the highlights and download the Fellowship evaluation report ➡️ sovereign.tech/publications/ev

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Sovereign Tech Fellowship 2025 Evaluation Report | Sovereign Tech…

www.sovereign.tech · Sovereign Tech Agency

Link author: Sovereign Tech Agency@sovtechfund@mastodon.social

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Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano@hachyderm.io
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I just learned this week about the Global PyLadies Conference—happening virtually this Fri & Sat Dec 5th and 6th.

And Dawn Wages @BajoranEngineerdawn is one of the keynoters!

And Dingding Lu + Gauri Kasar (who I know from the Postgres team on Azure) are teaching a 1.5 hour workshop titled "Build Agentic AI with Semantic Kernel and Graph RAG on PostgreSQL" (on Sat Dec 6th at 10am PST)

I suppose it's not a surprise to see at a conference!

If you're just learning about this PyLadies conference, check out the schedule! And here is the link to Dingding and Gauri's workshop re Postgres: pretalx.com/pyladiescon-2025/t

PyLadiesCon 2025 poster with bio pics of Gauri Kasar and Dingding Lu from MIcrosoft, along with the title of their 1.5 hour workshop: "Build Agentic AI with Semantic Kernel and GraphRAG on PostgreSQL"
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