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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Carlton Gibson @carlton@chaos.social
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Folks did see what happened in Britain right?

bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.ap

Joe Public 🇨🇦 (@joepublic.bsky.social)

The Americans are attempting to pull 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇭🇺 Hungary, and 🇵🇱 Poland out of the 🇪🇺 European Union #farright #politicalinterference #uspoli #Austria #Italy #Hungary #Poland #EU youtu.be/Jb-qJZ2yYSo https://youtu.be/Jb-qJZ2yYSo

bsky.app · Bluesky Social

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FediFollows 🎅 @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services
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accounts to follow:

➡️ @thecontinent - Pan-African online newspaper run by non-profit based in South Africa
➡️ @TUKOcoke - Kenyan online news site
➡️ @ZekuZelalemZecharias Zelalem - Award-winning investigative reporter covering Ethiopia and Horn of Africa
➡️ @beverly_ochieng - Security & media analyst focused on Africa
➡️ @teachersupdates - Education news in Kenya
➡️ @indexZitamar News - Business news in Mozambique

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Connected Places @fediversereport@mastodon.social
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Fediverse Report 146 - this week's news

- @peertube releases PeerTube v8, focusing on making the software more accessible to organisations and institutions
- @bonfire reaches their crowdfunding goal, and a short explainer of what the software actually is, and why it confuses people
- PieFed continues to improve, with an upcoming question-answer mode and better handling of links

connectedplaces.online/reports

Fediverse Report – #146

PeerTube releases their new annual software version update, and more on Bonfire.

connectedplaces.online · connectedplaces.online

Link author: Laurens Hof@laurenshof@connectedplaces.online

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Saneef H. Ansari @saneef@front-end.social
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Shared by Sara Joy :happy_pepper:

Actively looking for my next gig.

Hello, I’m a designer who also codes for the web (HTML/CSS/sprinkle of JS).

You can read about my past works on, saneef.com/work/.

If any of you folks or your friends need help with:
– product design
– design systems
– front-end development
– data visualisation
– and of course, keeping accessibility in mind with all of the above

Hit me up.

Appreciate a boost.

Selected work – Saneef’s website

Selected works I have done

saneef.com

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Frankie ✅ @Some_Emo_Chick@mastodon.social
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

Ukrainian children being sent to North Korea sparks outrage

uk.news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-ch

Ukrainian children being sent to North Korea sparks outrage

A human rights campaigner calls the alleged transfer of two Ukrainian children to a North Korean camp a "war crime," accusing Moscow of exploiting minors for propaganda and alliance-building.

uk.news.yahoo.com · Yahoo News

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Sir thalon :klingon: @thalon@embassy.social
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Ich habe gestern einen Gastbeitrag von Kristina Schröder auf WELT online gelesen. Darin geht es um den Sozialstaat – und um persönliche Assistenz für behinderte Menschen. Und ehrlich gesagt: Er hat mich tief getroffen.

Denn wenn über Assistenz als „nicht mehr tragbare Kosten“ gesprochen wird, dann geht es nicht abstrakt um Haushaltszahlen. Dann geht es um mein Leben.

Assistenz ist für mich kein Luxus. Kein Extra. Kein Wunschkonzert.
Assistenz ist das, was mich morgens aufstehen lässt. Was mir erlaubt zu arbeiten, Verantwortung zu übernehmen, mich einzubringen, selbstbestimmt zu leben.
Ohne Assistenz wäre mein Leben kleiner. Abhängiger. Fremdbestimmt. Vielleicht sogar institutionell verwahrt statt frei.

Ich brauche Assistenz 24 Stunden am Tag, weil Behinderung keinen Feierabend kennt. Weil Notfälle keine Bürozeiten haben. Weil Würde nicht um 22 Uhr endet.

Wenn Politik und Medien darüber diskutieren, ob Menschen wie ich „zu teuer“ sind, dann erzeugt das Angst. Die Angst, dass meine Freiheit an einem Verwaltungsakt hängt. Dass mein Leben jedes Jahr neu infrage gestellt wird. Dass ich mich rechtfertigen muss, warum ich so leben darf wie andere ganz selbstverständlich.

Dabei zeigt die Geschichte etwas anderes:
Stephen Hawking, Helen Keller, viele andere – ihre Leistungen waren nur möglich, weil Assistenz und Unterstützung ihnen Zugang zur Welt gegeben haben. Nicht trotz Assistenz. Sondern wegen ihr.

Ja, Assistenz kostet Geld.
Aber die eigentliche Frage ist: **Was kostet es uns als Gesellschaft, wenn wir anfangen, Menschenwürde zu kürzen?**

Ich bin keine Kostenstelle.
Ich bin ein Mensch.
Und mein Leben ist kein Sparposten.

Quelle: Kristina Schröder, „Sozialstaat: Was wir uns künftig nicht mehr leisten können“, WELT, 11.12.2025.

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Laurens Hof @laurenshof@connectedplaces.online
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Fediverse Report – #146

The main news in the world of social networking was regarding the DSA’s decision to level a 120M EUR fine at X. Mastodon wrote a blog post in response, saying how the event indicated that the world needs social sovereignty. Meanwhile, I wrote an analysis of how the European Union actually thinks about digital communications, how their words don’t align with their actions. But also, how a potential move of the EC to put their social media on a sovereign fediverse server also represents a loss of power: from a position of regulating the entire network to a position of one-among-equal participants.

https://connectedplaces.online/the-digital-services-act-and-theories-of-power/

The News

PeerTube released version 8 with “a redesigned video player, an improved experience for importing videos and the ability to share channel management with other accounts” as the headline features.

Multiple users can now edit a single channel, handling uploads, deletions, and channel settings without granting full administrative access. This feature ties in with PeerTube’s focus on institutions and organisations who are running their own video server, and that have multiple staff members to manage the video content of a single account.

The update also includes a redesigned video player called Lucide, with simplified controls and finer iconography, with the previous theme still being available. Video import functionality now allows manual retry of failed imports, with automatic retry built into channel synchronisation workflows.

Framasoft framed the release as part of a year focused on institutional adoption, supported by NLnet funding. This strategic positioning fits for PeerTube: competing directly with platforms like YouTube is extremely difficult, and requires support for creators to make money. Creators are also strongly incentivised to focus reach as much as possible. PeerTube’s integration with the fediverse promises technical support that could in a hypothetical future support further reach, but in practice this cannot remotely compete with YouTube. For institutions these demands have less of a priority, while at the same time, data control and showing videos without advertisements are much more important. This fits well with what PeerTube has to offer, and their feature prioritisation reflects this.

Regarding the mobile app for PeerTube, Framasoft says that they are working “to finalize the features promised during the crowdfunding campaign , including background video playback, live streaming, and TV apps. If all goes well, background video playback should be available in early 2026 !”

For 2026 they will be working on improving the experience for newcomers, making it easier to find their first PeerTube platform. This project is still in the planning phase, but there is a lot of potential here, as it is currently also still quite daunting for people who are familiar with decentralised platforms and the fediverse to find your way around the PeerTube network.

Framasoft is also hosting their annual fundraiser for the organisation, which builds a variety of open software projects beyond just PeerTube, and they are aiming to raise 250k EUR to finance the non-profit organisation for 2026.

Bonfire has crossed their goal for their crowdfunding campaign, raising 30k for maintainance and support for the software. The next goal for Bonfire is for adding Group support, and in a blog post they explain why this matters. Bonfire frames groups as a way to build communities, and the software in itself is big on building online communities, so this fits well together. They position groups as different from forums, explaining: “Groups in Bonfire are inspired by the best of forums (community-run with clear topics and findable archives) while being portable and interconnected across the fediverse from the start.”

One thing worth addressing is that Bonfire struggles to explain what their platform is exactly. They lean heavily into the ‘we’re a different kind of software’, but this does lead to people to not fully understand what it is however. I pointed this out a few weeks ago, where I wrote that “without a clear accessible demonstration of how Bonfire can operate in practice, it is a hard pitch to ask backers to fund an abstract framework based on its potential applications.”

I saw another comment on PieFed raise the same point of confusing again, so I think it’s worth addressing, where the user squirrel said: “I see Bonfire mentioned a lot on the fediverse report and elsewhere, but I still don’t understand what it is. I went to their website and it’s a wall of text that sounds like marketing. I don’t see a demo or a flagship instance.”

So to keep things simple: Bonfire is a software similar to Mastodon, Misskey or Akkoma, that allows for microblogging just like you would on the Mastodon server mastodon.social or the Misskey server misskey.io. Each of these microblogging platforms already have different features from each other, and the distinguishing feature for Bonfire Social is that it has a concept called circles (similar to the old Google+), allowing you to define a preset group of accounts (a circle) that your message gets send to.

The second different thing about Bonfire is that the software design is highly modular, which allows servers admins to install extensions that make each Bonfire server more unique. The best example of this is an extension that allows for integration with various Academic institutes such as DOI, allowing people to better integrate and comment on academic papers.

The Bonfire team focuses heavily in their communications on this modular extensibility part, which is why the marketing can sound quite confusing to people who are not intimately familiar with Bonfire already. But for regular fediverse people it is as simple as: Bonfire is another fediverse server software in the list of Mastodon, Misskey, Akkoma, GoToSocial, Friendica and more. Each software does mostly comparable things (microblogging) but gives their own interpretation to it and adds additional features.

PieFed is working on two major features for their upcoming 1.4 release, a Stack Overflow-like answering system, and turning remote fediverse links into local links. The answering system gives the post author the ability to select a reply as the answer to the post. This feature will only be available to communities who have turned it on, as this question-answer approach will not fit with every community. As for federation, if this answer is viewed on Lemmy, it will simply be displayed as a normal post and comments, without the additional question and answer highlighting features.

Turning remote fediverse links into local links remains one of the fediverse’s pain points. As PieFed creator Rimu describes: “One of the long-standing issues we have in/on the fediverse is that when I have a link in my post that goes to another post on my instance, people on other instances will click that link and be taken to MY instance, where they can’t comment, don’t have an account, aren’t logged in, etc and they will try to log in using their login credentials for their home instance then wonder why it doesn’t work.” In the upcoming PieFed version, “links like that will automatically be converted to link to the local copy of the post, where ‘local’ is whatever is local for the reader.”

Nodes on a Web: The Fediverse in/for Public Institutions is a new fediverse unconference that will be held in 19/20 March 2026, Amsterdam: “Our goal is to unite individuals involved in these initiatives and the wider Fediverse developer community. We want to share insights and ideas on how the Fediverse can thrive for public institutions in the long term.” The conference is organised by the SABOA Foundation (FediVariety) with support from the Dutch Government (CIO-Rijk) and the City of Amsterdam.

The Links

connectedplaces.online/reports

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hackaday @hackaday@hackaday.social
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 349: Clocks, AI, and a New 3D Printer Guy

hackaday.com/2025/12/12/hackad

Hackaday Podcast Episode 349: Clocks, AI, And A New 3D Printer Guy

Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams met up to cover the best of Hackaday this week, and they want you to listen in. There were a hodgepodge of hacks this week, ranging from home automa…

hackaday.com · Hackaday

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Dave Pearson @davep@fosstodon.org
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I'm building an online collection, in the hope of preserving all those handy help files we used to work with back in the days. Can you help?

blog.davep.org/2025/12/12/nort

A Norton Guide collection

As I've mentioned a few times on this blog, I've long had a bit of a thing for writing tools for reading the content of Norton Guide files. I first used Norton Guides back in the early 1990s thanks to the release of Clipper 5, and later on in that decade I wrote my first couple of tools to turn guides into HTML (and also write a Windows-based reader, then rewrote it, wrote one for OS/2, wrote one for GNU/Linux, and so on). One tool (ng2html) got used by a few sites on the 'net to publish all sorts of guides, but it's not something I ever got into doing myself. Amusingly, from time to time, because I had a credit on those sites as the author of the conversion tool, I'd get random emails from people hoping I could help them with the topic of whatever guide they'd been reading. Sometimes I could help, often not. From what I've recently been told two of the biggest sites for this sort of thing (they might even have been the same site, or one a copy of the other, I didn't really dive into them too much and wasn't sure who was behind them anyway) have long since gone offline. This means that, as far as I can tell, a huge collection of knowledge from the DOS days is a lot harder to get to, if it hasn't disappeared altogether. This makes me kind of sad. So I had an idea: having recently polished up my replacement for ng2html, why not use that to build my own site that publishes the guides I have? So I set about it. There's one wrinkle to this though. While the other sites seemed to just publish every NG file they got their hands on, I'd prefer to try and do it like this: publish every guide I have in my collection that I have a licence or permission to publish; or as near as possible1 Given all of this, norton-guides.davep.dev has been born. The repository that drives it is on GitHub, and I have a wiki page that lists all the guides I have that I could possibly publish, showing what I know about the copyright/licence of each one and what the publishing state is. So with this, I'm putting out a call for help: if you remember the days of Norton Guide help files, if you have Norton Guide help files I don't have, and especially if you are the copyright-holder of any of these files and you can extend me the permission to open them up, or if you know the right people and can get me in touch with them, DROP ME A LINE! I'd also love to have others join me in this... quest. So if you want to contribute to the repository and help build it up I'd also love to hear from you. I will possibly be a little permissive when it comes to things that I believe contain public domain information to start with. ↩

blog.davep.org · blog.davep.org

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어둠사자 @gnh1201@catswords.social
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그동안 주변에서 도와줘서 올해 12월에 10년치 빚도 다 갚고, 밤마다 고생하던 프로젝트도 이제 어느정도 당초 바랐던 목표에 안착되었다.

나의 모든 경제적, 사회적 지표가 계속 음수로만 표기되다가, 0부터 시작하는 삶이 이런거구나 느끼고 있다.

그토록 바라던 일반인(?)이 되었지만 뭔가 시원섭섭한 기분을 숨기기가 쉽지 않다.

그렇지 않아도 요즘 눈에 독기가 빠졌다고 일은 제대로 할 수 있겠냐 농담하듯이 던지시는 분들이 많다.

탈옥(?)한지 한달도 안되어서 아직은 마음 추스리는 중이라고 말씀드리고 싶다.

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jellyfish 🌈 @jellyfish@sueden.social
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immer schön bei denjenigen sparen wo es nicht viel zu holen gibt, aber keine lobby aufmuckt




ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/ham

Kampnagel: Förderungen vom Bund werden gestrichen

Damit endet das Programm "PIK" für inklusive Kunstpraxis und die Förderung für das "Bündnis internationaler Produktionshäuser".

www.ndr.de · ndr.de

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