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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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org
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The UK Online Safety Act returns to Parliament.

It's enabled iffy age-assurance providers, wrongly censored content and shuttered small sites while doing nothing to tackle the dominance of major platforms.

Tell your MP to attend the debate on 15 December ⬇️

action.openrightsgroup.org/tel

Tell your MP to attend the debate on the Online Safety Act

action.openrightsgroup.org · Open Rights Group

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Jonobie @jonobie@social.coop
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This is an interesting article about how “far-UVC” lamps can just be bought now for about $500, within the range of some groups who want less virus-ey air for their gatherings: jefftk.com/p/you-can-just-buy-

Written by a cautious contra dancer.

You Can Just Buy Far-UVC

Far-UVC is something people have talked about for years in a "that would be great, if you could buy it" sort of way. Coming soon, once someone actually makes a good product. But the future is now, and it costs $500. Many diseases spread through the air, which is inconvenient for us as creatures that breathe air. You can go outside, where the air is too dilute to spread things well, but it's cold

www.jefftk.com

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Randahl Fink @randahl@mastodon.social
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The weather in Denmark is really strange. Decades ago we would have snowstorms at this time of year with temperatures down to –20 ℃, but today it was +9 ℃ and next week it will be +10 ℃.

I took this photo on a hike through the forest of Gødding today, where it felt like a typical mild September day.

I wonder if we have seen the last white Christmas in Denmark.

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PrivacyDigest @PrivacyDigest@mas.to
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Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.

Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States & around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. Though these mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful and regimes that put everyone—adults and young people alike—at risk.

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-

Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.

Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. That's why today, we're launching EFF.org/Age, a one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what these laws actually do, what’s at stake, why EFF opposes all forms of age verification, how to protect yourself, and how to join the fight for a free, open, private, and yes—safe—internet.

www.eff.org · Electronic Frontier Foundation

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치즈군★ @cheesekun@twingyeo.kr
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macOS에 내장된 DVD 플레이어, 4:3 비율의 DVD 타이틀을 재생하면 비디오가 가운데 정렬이 되는게 아니라 '왼쪽으로 정렬' 되는 버그가 있어서 조만간 버그 리포트를 할 예정이다...

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Randahl Fink @randahl@mastodon.social
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The weather in Denmark is really strange. Decades ago we would have snowstorms at this time of year with temperatures down to –20 ℃, but today it was +9 ℃ and next week it will be +10 ℃.

I took this photo on a hike through the forest of Gødding today, where it felt like a typical mild September day.

I wonder if we have seen the last white Christmas in Denmark.

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Kiff @kiff@panelinha.club
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Olar, meu nome é Keith (ou Kiff).

Sou designer por formação, atuando em gráfico e no péssimo mercado publicitário, mas me envolvo constantemente com manualidades. Agora estou na fase do crochê, mas flerto com cerâmica fria e bordado, além de manter em paralelo desenho e pintura.

Por aqui reclamo bastante de trabalho e da vida, falo muita besteira e compartilho curadoria de coisas bonitas que costumo encontrar.

Sou adepta de safadezas, palavrões e emojis :chick_thumbs_up:

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Scalzi @scalzi@mastodon.social
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Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13

“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything

I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…

whatever.scalzi.com · Whatever

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BrianKrebs @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
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I'm going to keep calling out companies that offer to pay me to repost stuff on my site. Especially the AI-backed ones, which seem unusually aggressive in this PR tactic. Who knows, maybe they'll stop sending them to me at least (not holding my breath).

Hi Brian, I'm reaching out with Adaptive Security, OpenAl's first cyber investment. We protect companies from deepfake threats with next-generation security awareness training. We have a major announcement coming next Tuesday. | came across your profile and thought you'd be a great fit for a sponsored post supporting the news. We're happy to start at $1000 for a single post. Our marketing team can provide you a content draft, so all you'll have to do is copy and paste :) Let me know if you're up for it - we are finalizing our sponsored community soon. Cheers,
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Mastodon @Mastodon@mastodon.social
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Federation isn’t just a feature, it’s how we reject oppression by design.

In the EU, Big Centralised Tech is facing fines for selling verification and hiding ads. At Mastodon, we’re building something different: a space where no one buys influence and there simply aren't any ads.

Checks and balances are our foundation, and kindness is our compass. 🌈

A better web is possible - and it's powered by the people. Donate

joinmastodon.org/sponsors#dona

Four colourful cartoon mastodons stand together on grass, each with a speech bubble. The illustration shows diverse voices speaking up and building something together.
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Anil Dash @anildash@me.dm
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lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @effElectronic Frontier Foundation! youtu.be/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

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor@mastodon.social
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Trump regime wants to force ALL visitors to the U.S. to install government-controlled spyware on their phones, and submit detailed personal data -- even DNA, apparently -- to the authorities.

(If they're trying to wreck tourism, including the World Cup, this is the way.)

papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/10

CBP wants all visitors to install and use its smartphone app – Papers, Please!

papersplease.org

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[랜선효도] 제주감귤🍊 @jejuorange.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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"팔수록 마이너스였다"…입점업주들이 말하는 쿠팡의 민낯 www.nocutnews.co.kr/news/6442636 정산 지연·자동환불에 "매출은 찍혀도 현금은 비어 있다"는 입점 판매자들 아이템위너·CPC 광고·높은 수수료까지 "가격만 낮추다 역마진" 구조 지적 입점은 클릭 한 번, 탈퇴는 서류 더미…"쿠팡에선 팔수록 부담이 커진다" "입점할 때는 쿠팡이 네이버 스토어 정보를 알아서 가져와 한 번에 등록해 줄 정도로 쉬웠는데, 막상 그만두려면 복잡한 양식과 절차를 거쳐야"

"팔수록 마이너스였다"…입점업주들이 말하는 쿠팡의 민낯

"팔수록 마이너스였다"…입점업주들이 말하는 쿠팡의 민낯

최근 쿠팡의 대규모 유출 사태로 불신이 커지는 가운데 입점 판매자들은 "쿠팡은 팔수록 손해보는 구조"라고 입을 모았다.

www.nocutnews.co.kr · 노컷뉴스

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CBC News @cbcnews@flipboard.com
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Health minister says she worries about U.S. public health decisions harming Canadians
cbc.ca/news/politics/marjorie-

Posted into Politics @politics-cbcnewsPolitics

Health minister says she worries about U.S. public health decisions harming Canadians | CBC News

Health Minister Marjorie Michel says she worries about how recent actions by U.S. public health agencies, like removing a universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for American infants, could harm Canadians.

www.cbc.ca · CBC

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c3hamm e.V. @c3hamm@chaos.social
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Commit 13: Gestern gab's die Implementierung, heute das Protokoll. Genauer gesagt, die Erweiterung:

@forgefed

Das ganze hat ein Funding und bringt und deutlich näher zusammen. Während wir also beim sind. Könnten wir uns doch mal überlegen ob, wie, wo, wann, warum wir uns da einbringen, hier das Spec-Repo:

y.lab.nrw/jek25-13

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Commit 13. Heute gehts um das Protokoll ForgeFed ...
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Femme Malheureuse @femme_mal@mstdn.social
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Last night someone asked "If Hollywood is so fucking 'woke', why do we NEVER see this plot" with regard to abortion.

Hollywood operates under the same white Christian patriarchal norms shaping most other US industries; they're financed by the same venture capital and investment banks.

You only have to note how the percentage of women directors and the percentage of spoken lines by women have remained stubbornly south of 50% to understand why abortion hasn't been normalized in US cinema.
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c3hamm e.V. @c3hamm@chaos.social
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Commit 13: Gestern gab's die Implementierung, heute das Protokoll. Genauer gesagt, die Erweiterung:

@forgefed

Das ganze hat ein Funding und bringt und deutlich näher zusammen. Während wir also beim sind. Könnten wir uns doch mal überlegen ob, wie, wo, wann, warum wir uns da einbringen, hier das Spec-Repo:

y.lab.nrw/jek25-13

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@nlnet

Commit 13. Heute gehts um das Protokoll ForgeFed ...
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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Indexing 100M vectors in 20 minutes on PostgreSQL with 12GB RAM

Link: blog.vectorchord.ai/how-we-mad
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

How We Made 100M Vector Indexing in 20 Minutes Possible on PostgreSQL

1. Introduction In the past few months, we’ve heard consistent feedback from users and partners: while our goal of providing a scalable, high-performance alternative to pgvector is well-received, index build time and memory usage remain major concern...

blog.vectorchord.ai · VectorChord blog

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