What is Hackers' Pub?

Join DevRel Lead and YouTube Host Alex, Community Manager Natasha, and Technical Content Manager Kevin at 1pm EST December 10th on Discord for a conversation about how we are shaping and growing the Tailscale community.

Join here: https://discord.gg/tailscale?event=1445489922650673262

Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame

Link: https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149019

The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All

Link: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/ram-shortage-comes-us-all
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46151578

Thing I'm trying to figure out:

- I want to use .htaccess to block a subdirectory from being accessed. (Because of a reason, the .htaccess cannot go *in* the subdirectory.)

- Lots of SO replies suggest using <Directory "dirname"> with a deny from all.

- But this doesn't work. "<Directory not allowed here".

- Lots of SO posts also agree <Directory> and <Location> are not allowed in .htaccess.

- If it's not allowed it's not allowed. But why do so many people seem to *believe* it's allowed?

I have never wanted to order mealworms by mail more in my whole life.

You can do it!

[リアルタイム更新] Infrastructure Innovations with Peter DeSantis and Dave Brown Keynote まとめ #AWSreInvent #KEY004
https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/reinvent-2025-keynote-with-peter-desantis-and-dave-brown-key004/

#dev_classmethod

Raising a GM EV1 from the Dead

https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/raising-a-gm-ev1-from-the-dead/

@fsfeFree Software Foundation Europe Be brave. Be the change you want to see ☝️

@fsfeFree Software Foundation Europe Congrats! I think it was a very good decision.

Dye is out, we are still working on the Liquid Glass user interface update for macOS #Tahoe.

⚠️ The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X ⚠️

The platform never aligned with our values and no longer serves as a space for communication. What initially intended to be a place for dialogue and information exchange has turned into a centralised arena of hostility, misinformation, and profit-driven control, far removed from the ideals of freedom we stand for.

Find out more: https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251204-01.en.html

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

of COURSE you should reinvent the wheel

that's the only way you could patent it

なんだこれ()

ayy sidetrail lexicons are hot on ufos.microcosm.blue today

Irgendwie fehlt mir ein simples umgangssprachliches Verb für *etwas mit KI generieren". Mir ist vor allem wichtig, dass dabei sprachlich die Verantwortung für das Ergebnis beim Menschen verortet ist.

Ich schlage vor: etwas aus der KI ziehen

Positiv verwendbar (wichtig, damit die Bereitschaft zur Transparenz steigt): "Guck mal, was ich aus der KI gezogen habe!"

Ablehnend verwendbar: "Hast du den Quatsch aus einer KI gezogen?"

Erklärend verwendbar: "Wenn du das nächste Mal etwas aus einer KI ziehst, musst du es prüfen, ehe du es glaubst/verbreitest/whatever."

Protože jsem upgradoval #Friendica na dev verzi, dostal jsem upgradovanej #OEmbed, kterej bych rád otestoval. Rozhodl jsem se zkusit to přes #Tidal

Můžete někdo vyzkoušet, jak se tváří u vás a okomentovat to, ať to můžu zkouknout i ze strany Mastodonu? 😀

Díky
Freestylers - Painkiller

もうパソンココ買えないかもしれへんな……

Adding Iongraph support to ZJIT https://lobste.rs/s/zn0i6c #compilers #plt #visualization
https://railsatscale.com/2025-11-19-adding-iongraph-support/

Tunnl.gg

Link: https://tunnl.gg
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145902

NYC DSA is holding a rally tomorrow for 30 employees fired illegally by Rockstar Games, the video game studio behind the Grand Theft Auto series, for organizing with their coworkers.

5pm at 622 Broadway. Show up if you can!

More info: https://actionnetwork.org/events/nyc-rockstar-workers-solidarity-rally/ (You don't have to RSVP!)

#labor #organizing #workers #WorkersRights #unions #gamedev #RockstarGames #NYC #DSA #NYCDSA

白いクリスマスツリーって儚い感じがして好き。

I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.

I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188

…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.

lmao: "can you give me some context? [...] I googled rack and all I got was a bunch of shelves”

❝It was *impossible* for me or anyone else present to get him to understand that *we don't want slaves, simulated or otherwise*.

I've thought about that a lot in the days since.❞

4/

❝He was completely unable to understand why. He kept arguing that since the LLM isn't an actual conscious person (which is correct), it ought to be treated like a slave, and that the arc of technology is to give everyone access to their own virtual slaves.❞

3/

❝I said that I *absolutely in no way* want a slave, or a technology that simulates one. I want to do creative work using good tools. I *don't want* the experience of a slaver; in fact, I would go very far to never have that experience, because it is a demeaning and antihuman experience.❞

2/

Fascinating story from a software dev Fedi friend, shared with permission to keep it anonymous:

❝A couple of days ago, I had an experience at work that made me understand one of the reasons why the chasm of opinion about LLMs is so deep and wide.

My department mostly does fiddly lowlevel work, [close to hardware]. A few of us don't use LLMs at all, a few use them sparingly, and one member is absolutely all-in. So during one of our morning meetings he suddenly started going off on a deeply disturbing diatribe about how we need to treat the LLMs “like slaves”.❞

1/

Alpine Linux 3.23.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1049299/ #LWN

surgery tomorrow. the main thing I'm looking forward to? being able to use keyboards more

Everyone laughs and laughs at cats getting into boxes, but if you put a chair-height cube in a room with a human they will sit on it.

So, who is manipulated by the box now?

(The following has been a mandatory dispatch from the offices of #PicaTheCat as a part of her new propaganda initiative.)

#Exercitium: Sin consecutivos repetidos. https://jaalonso.github.io/exercitium/posts/2014/12/09-sin_consecutivos_repetidos/ #Haskell #ProgramaciónFuncional

@futurebirdmyrmepropagandist we like to mix it up around here

[$] The beginning of the 6.19 merge window

As of this writing, 4,124 non-merge commits have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 6.19 kernel development cycle. That is a relatively small fraction of what can be [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1048869/ #LWN

DC Public Library going hard 🔥 🔥

nach dem letzten japantrip habe ich mich endlich getraut selber vegane ramen zu machen und jetzt besteht mein körper zu 80% aus nudelsuppe 🥰

https://www.ted.com/talks/deb_chachra_the_invisible_networks_shaping_your_everyday_life

@xChaosChao-c' , for you, physical infrastructure , transformation.

YES I finally have an excuse to use https://lib.rs/crates/corosensei

I feel like in theory handling DPI/scaling is pretty straight forward. A scale between UI coordinates and pixel coordinates. Great.

But in practice you never know what APIs work in what coordinates and what different scale values actually mean because they try to abstract things, and you end up with lovely stuff like this. (Also I'm currently on Linux.)

I love seeing people using Astro for fun, and this Othello game was def fun! Took a little break to play against myself.

https://othello.djmetzle.io/ built with @astro and @vuejs

Source: https://github.com/djmetzle/astro-othello

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@abhayakaraTed Lemon Private mentions on Mastodon are as private as email. That's pretty good, but it can be better.

After more than 11 years, today is my last day at Apple.

It’s been a privilege to be able to say I’ve worked my dream job, helping create SwiftUI and getting to support an incredible team of engineers and friends.

I’m excited for what’s next for me (stay tuned!), but today I’m focused on how deeply grateful I am to everyone at Apple that I’ve worked with and learned from over the years. It’s a truly amazing place full of astoundingly talented but also genuinely wonderful people.

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.

#Bedazzled #Movies #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #cat #Floof #BrendanFraser