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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Em :official_verified: @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
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Interview with @pluralisticCory Doctorow at The Daily Show! :awesome:

With special mention for Mastodon! This was excellent! I highly recommend watching it!👇✨

youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE

Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show

Journalist, internet activist, and author Cory Doctorow talks to Ronny Chieng about the concept behind his latest book, “Enshittification,” which breaks down...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

Rachel E. S. Lösche @resl@mas.to
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

@Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified: @pluralisticCory Doctorow Yesss. Preach! The host did a great job keeping up, cracking some jokes, and still sticking to the point -- and holy shit did Cory kick that interview's ass! 😂 I have never felt prouder of someone or more satisfied with an interview like this.

This is one of thee greatest civil rights activists of our time. Probably also my favorite writer and comedian at the same time, somehow. Bring it home, Doctorow! 👏👏👏

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William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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"There’s only one reason to continue to follow the activities of the current Supreme Court. And it’s to watch the carefully constructed conservative majority wind itself into knots to explain how their authoritarian-enabling rulings don’t apply to Democratic presidents or the possibly imminent Democratic Congress."

~ Charles Pierce


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esquire.com/news-politics/poli

The Supreme Court Is About to Hand Trump a Terrifying Authoritarian Power

Chief Justice John Roberts and the conservative majority are undoing the very fabric of American democracy, and they don’t seem to care.

www.esquire.com · Esquire

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Ruben Bolling 🪲 @rubenbolling@mastodon.social
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I wrote on Boing Boing about the physics professor who became Uruguay's energy secretary, and within five years had the country on 98% renewable energy.

NOT ONLY CAN IT BE DONE, IT WAS AN ECONOMIC BOON THE THE COUNTRY.

boingboing.net/2025/12/09/this

This physics professor transformed his country to 98% renewable energy in five years

Ramón Méndez Galain was a Urguayan theoretical physics professor studying the Big Bang when the president of Uruguay shocked him with a phone call in 2008 asking him to be the country's energy secretary.

boingboing.net · Boing Boing

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IEEE Spectrum @ieeespectrum@mastodon.social
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Human traffickers often post photos of their victims in hotel rooms. This app is asking people to take photos of their hotel rooms, so analysts can determine where the photos were taken. spectrum.ieee.org/traffickcam-

How Can Your Hotel Photos Help Combat Human Trafficking?

Abby Stylianou's app uses hotel room photos to aid in locating trafficking victims, showcasing the power of technology in social justice efforts.

spectrum.ieee.org · IEEE Spectrum

Link author: IEEE Spectrum@ieeespectrum@mastodon.social

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David Beazley @dabeaz@mastodon.social
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You got to be careful what you say to the kids. Last year I made a casual remark about not being too into the kid's music because rapping autotune to a unvarying metronome click just didn't seem all that interesting to me.

Flash forward to the other day and the kid (now a HS senior) comes over to say "I've been listening to this new band that I like a lot."

"Oh. What band is this?"

"Fleetwood Mac."

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna@mathstodon.xyz
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Wat ontzettend verdiend: Clara Meijer-Wichmann Mensenrechtenpenning gaat dit jaar naar Stichting Nederland Wordt Beter!

ligarechtenvandemens.nl/actuee

Actueel – Liga voor de Rechten van de Mens

www.ligarechtenvandemens.nl

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Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: @janl@narrativ.es
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Reading between the lines, NLnet is telling you that it’ll be considerably easier to skip GenAI tools when working on their grants.

I came to a similar conclusion when *just* looking at the copyright and accountability issues for our consulting work: absolutely not.

Also all my open source projects have a corresponding policy.

You will already fail at “make sure you don’t accidentally produce copyrighted or incompatibly licensed code”. You can’t. Game over.

mastodon.social/@zeank/1156900

PositivDenken 🤯 (@zeank@mastodon.social)

NLnet on the use of GenAI for their funded programs. 🙌👏 https://nlnet.nl/foundation/policies/generativeAI/ #nlnet

mastodon.social · Mastodon

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