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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To everyone in the Fediverse,
I'm syuilo, the creator of Misskey.
Please consider supporting Misskey — a completely free and open-source software!

Misskey is not a business venture; it's developed by a small group of dedicated volunteers, and our funding is very limited.

I believe that for the health and diversity of the Fediverse, it's important to have not only a few dominant platforms but also smaller projects like Misskey.
(Imagine a world where the only web browser is Chrome — what would that be like?)

In order to continue the development of Misskey and to further improve its compatibility with the broader Fediverse, your support would be greatly appreciated.

You can support us via:

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Patreon
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GitHub Sponsors
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PayPal

👉 Misskey Repository

Thank you all for your support!

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Festive Fedizens, Merry Mastonauts, and Cynical Cinephiles! The votes are in, and you’ve chosen Sunday, 14 December at 7pm EST (Midnight UST) for our watch-along.

Link to event’s time conversion table: timeanddate.com/worldclock/fix

Please remember to use the tag while we're watching so we're not flooding the timeline with the 1001 quotable sick clapbacks featured in this movie.

It is available free on Kanopy for most US folx with their library card, otherwise… other sources 🏴‍☠️ are often an option if you don’t have a physical copy. :blobshi5:
kanopy.com/en/product/11737711

GIF from The Lion in Winter. Katharine Hepburn’s character says to two of her sons “Mother’s tired. Come stick pins tomorrow morning, I’ll be more responsive.”
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さてさて :saba:

dfbf908870 (upstream/main) Fix wrapstodon modal closing on any click (#37209)
c06eb371e6 Add Wrapstodon footer links (#37207)
d730f6b0c5 Add spec for client_credentials being used with /api/v1/apps/verify_credentials (#37195)
addeb28292 Change wrapstodon 2025 to allow unlisted posts in top statuses (#37206)
5e3387539e Add image to Wrapstodon OpenGraph banner (#37205)
4323963053 Fix Wrapstodon modal scrolling not working on iOS (#37203)
5651900b89 Wrapstodon design QA tweaks (#37201)
d1b996b7e3 Update dependency omniauth-rails_csrf_protection to v2.0.1 (#37199)
fed26a41fa Update dependency jsdom to v27.3.0 (#37165)
37d309bcaf Fix Wrapstodon font loading by disabling inlining of fonts in Vite (#37198)
d25f672c50 Update dependency active_model_serializers to v0.10.16 (#37167)
15c9088761 Update dependency vite to v7.2.7 (#37156)
da1505a495 Update dependency @vitejs/plugin-react to v5.1.2 (#37155)
d1f690f50c Update dependency stoplight to v5.7.0 (#37151)

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Pro lifesaver tips:

Pair your smartphone with a keyboard and mouse if you haven't already.

I just broke again my iPhone's screen, hopefully, it was paired with it.

BUT iOS does not work well with pointing devices (of course!) but at least i'm able to unlock it.

And of course, on Android you can perfectly control your phone with keyboard and mouse or at least, you have adb.

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📚 📚 📚 I'm super excited to finally be able to tell you about my new Patreon and how you can get an AMAZING list of 100 books my podcast guests recommended over the last year.

I ask guests for their 3 favorite books of all time, and this list is a treasure. As I was editing it, I just wanted to move to an island and read for the rest of my life.

It's organized by genre too, which makes it easy to find gift ideas: a great sci-fi book for your mom, sports memoir for your dad, etc. (cont.)

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📚 📚 📚 I'm super excited to finally be able to tell you about my new Patreon and how you can get an AMAZING list of 100 books my podcast guests recommended over the last year.

I ask guests for their 3 favorite books of all time, and this list is a treasure. As I was editing it, I just wanted to move to an island and read for the rest of my life.

It's organized by genre too, which makes it easy to find gift ideas: a great sci-fi book for your mom, sports memoir for your dad, etc. (cont.)

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Our new Age Verification Resource Hub is live at EFF.org/Age — and next week (12/15–12/17), we’re hosting an AMA on r/privacy to talk about it. Come ask us anything about what these sweeping laws really mean for your rights and safety.

Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub

Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “age estimation” methods—before granting them access to certain online content or services.  Governments in the U.S. and around the world are increasingly adopting these restrictive measures in the name of protecting children online. But in practice, these systems create dangerous new forms of surveillance, censorship, and exclusion.  Technologically, the age verification process can take many forms: collection and analysis of government ID, biometric scans, algorithmic or AI-based behavioral or user monitoring, digital ID, the list goes on. But no matter the method, every system demands users hand over sensitive and immutable personal information that links their offline identity to their online activity. Once that valuable data is collected, it can easily be leaked, hacked, or misused. (Indeed, we’ve already seen several breaches of age verification providers.) EFF has long warned against age-gating the internet. Age verification technology itself is often inaccurate and privacy-invasive. These restrictive mandates strike at the foundation of the free and open internet. They are tools of censorship, used to block people from viewing or sharing information that the government deems “harmful” or “offensive.” And they create surveillance systems that critically undermine online privacy, chill access to vital online communities and resources, and burden the expressive rights of adults and young people alike. EFF.org/Age: A Resource to Empower Users Age-gating mandates are reshaping the internet in ways that are invasive, dangerous, and deeply unnecessary. But users are not powerless! We can challenge these laws, protect our digital rights, and build a safer digital world for all internet users, no matter their ages. This resource hub is here to help—so explore, share, and join us in the fight for a better internet.

www.eff.org · Electronic Frontier Foundation

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My fellow Millennials and older will remember how the early Internet worked.

Since colour CRT monitors didn’t exist until 2003, the Internet was often in black and white. In addition, it was only on for about five hours per day. I personally would wear my best clothes when using the Internet because it was such a rare treat to do so.

The thing is that if someone else in your neighbourhood wanted to use some Internet, it was considered polite to let them use it after you had done.

Since there were only about ten or eleven websites online until 2006 you could get most of your Web browsing done in about an hour anyway.

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