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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Dear OSS community on Mastodon,

Every day I scroll through my feed and I see proud announcements like:

“First Alpha Relase of HyperTurboWidget available"

or

“Version 2.7.1 now with improved glorb handlers!”

or

“Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is out”

… and I sit there wondering if I should be excited, terrified, or calling a licensed electrician.

Don’t get me wrong, I love open source. I just have no idea what three quarters of these projects actually do. Are we talking about a web server? A file system? A middleware thingy that keeps the flux from overflowing into the space–time continuum?

So, dear OSS developers of the world: When you announce a new release, please give us (your adoring but slightly confused audience) just a tiny bit of context.

  • Tell us what your software does.
  • Tell us why this release is cool.
  • Tell us what it requires to work.

Example:

We are proud to announce Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is now avalaible. While it creates a nice wormhole to 1955, it requires an underlying gigawatt stack 1.21 to work reliably.

Because nobody wants to cheer enthusiastically for “v2.7.1” while secretly Googling “what is a glorb and why does it need handling”.

Yours truly,

Someone who wants to celebrate your achievements

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Přátelé Fediverse,

na mamutovo.cz nově zavádíme schvalování registrací.
Důvodem je zvýšená aktivita botů, které se v posledních dnech snaží hromadně zakládat účty.

Pro běžné uživatele se nic nemění – noví členové jsou vítáni, jen jejich registraci ručně potvrdíme.
Opatření je dočasné a zrušíme ho, jakmile se situace uklidní.

Díky za pochopení. ❤️

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Přátelé Fediverse,

na mamutovo.cz nově zavádíme schvalování registrací.
Důvodem je zvýšená aktivita botů, které se v posledních dnech snaží hromadně zakládat účty.

Pro běžné uživatele se nic nemění – noví členové jsou vítáni, jen jejich registraci ručně potvrdíme.
Opatření je dočasné a zrušíme ho, jakmile se situace uklidní.

Díky za pochopení. ❤️

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@mattiemMatt Massicotte I'm trying to port swift hugging face over to Linux. I've made already some progress, but I'm hitting a roadblock with swift concurrency. I guess the code may be compiling fine without strict concurrency, but I'm getting a lot of (understandable) errors.

The class is a test helper implementing a MockURLProcotol. The code I can't get to compile is here: github.com/thinkpractice/swift

Would you be able to have a look at it?

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🥁 About a month ago I asked how is everyone managing their sound effect archive...
🎺 And today I'm sharing SLAMY with the world!

It's a super-simple sound library manager with a built-in mixer for quick edits. It's a great help to me, and maybe to you too?

yurisizov.itch.io/slamy

Available for all desktop platforms (macOS builds are coming up shortly!), made with Godot, and fully FOSS itself:

codeberg.org/YuriSizov/slamy

PS. If yellow is not your color, I'm truly sorry!

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🎬 Creators! The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Day Remix Contest is open!

🎥 Celebrate Public Domain Day in January 2026 by creating a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain media from 1930. 🎼🎶🎭📚

📆 Entry Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/20

Poster for the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest, featuring the "Lockette," a cartoon character with an open lock, seated in a director's chair, legs crossed, and holding a megaphone. Projected on a screen to her right is a frame from the 1930 film "King of Jazz". Illustrated by Freya Morgan.
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It's the final day to score Black Friday savings @drivethrurpg
Save on some of our newest releases, including the Stewpot and the Hunter's Journal/Slayer's Survival Kit for Monster of the Week.
And don't miss the great deals on our @roll20appRoll20 packages! We put a lot of work into making them functional, beautiful, and a full reference so you don't need to constantly flip tabs.
drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/

An ad for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale on DriveThruRPG and Roll20, featuring the covers for Monster of the Week, Girl By Moonlight, and Deathmatch Island. Caption: "Up to 30% off on select titles for a limited time."
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遺族向けのパスワードは紙に書いて修正テープやマスキングテープで隠す。なるほどなあ。

第34回:万が一に備えて家族に残すパスワード、どう隠すのがベスト? さまざまな紙や修正テープで比較した【天国へのプロトコル】 - INTERNET Watch
https://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/column/tengoku/2067468.html

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最近很常 討論產前產後適合吃的料理,本以為烹飪這種資料庫應該悠久且豐富的題材,AI會回答得很好,但它還是幾次提出讓我覺得「你知道你在說什麼嗎」的菜單,例如:雞腿肉切成如火鍋肉片那樣的薄片、菠菜雞湯。

連在烹飪領域都有這麼誇張的錯誤,我對AI真是愈來愈沒信心。

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🎬 Creators! The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Day Remix Contest is open!

🎥 Celebrate Public Domain Day in January 2026 by creating a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain media from 1930. 🎼🎶🎭📚

📆 Entry Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/20

Poster for the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest, featuring the "Lockette," a cartoon character with an open lock, seated in a director's chair, legs crossed, and holding a megaphone. Projected on a screen to her right is a frame from the 1930 film "King of Jazz". Illustrated by Freya Morgan.
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