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.

Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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When I first watched Dexter I thought it was unrealistic that he had so much plastic wrap and then I came to America. To a business Costco, specifically

I was just telling someone how it’s taking me years to finish my 1000 sq ft roll of aluminum foil from Costco

A photo of 4500 sq ft of food wrap at business Costco
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Zak :1password: @zak@infosec.exchange
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RE: mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza

I saw a story similar to this one a few years ago, but about someone who was locked out of their Google account due to a nearly identical flag. It's what inspired me to start ditching major platforms in the first place and start focusing on services that use end-to-end encryption and allow for full proper data exports and backups.

This sucks.

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kazuhito @kazuhito@vivaldi.net
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馬場駅前のバラックっていうか寿司屋は私が学生時代からあった気がするぞ

結果発表｜全宅ツイ note.com/kusobukken/n/n5be39d9

#クソ物件オブザイヤー2025 結果発表｜全宅ツイ

いよいよ #クソ物件オブザイヤー2025 結果発表です！ 年末年始。年の瀬。クソ物件オブザイヤー。こういう言葉を聞くたびにね、いつもこう思ってきました。もうすぐ新年だな、と。 2025年を振り返るたくさんのクソ物件投稿をありがとう！！ 超一流不動産文化人たちの自薦他薦による、本年度の受賞作品をいよいよ発表するよっ。 まずは部門賞から… ■部門賞 ★最多RP賞【高田馬場バラック解体】 しろあんび 【高田馬場バラック解体】 令和にまだあった！実は不法占拠だったバラック解体。ビフォーアフター #クソ物件オブザイヤー2025 pic.twitter.com/hxnipzeR70 —

note.com · note（ノート）

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JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social
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Conservative: "Companies say 'Happy Holidays' because they hate Jesus."

Economics 101: "Companies say 'Happy Holidays' because they want to sell cheap plastic garbage to 100% of the population instead of 65%."

The 'War on Christmas' is just the Free Market you claim to worship working exactly as intended.

You are fighting the Invisible Hand. And losing.

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Orange Menace @OrangeMenace@mastodon.ie
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@malwaretechMarcus Hutchins :verified: I have no delays at all in my Amazon deliveries, because it’s been years since I last bought anything from them.

FedEx, on the other hand, promised me that a package was on its way to my house 3 days in a row. It finally arrived this morning, and the driver said “it’s just come off the trailer”, so the last 3 days they were just lying to me.

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Liturgies for Resisting Empire by Kat Armas, 2025

"A thought-provoking look at the intertwining of religion and social control."—Publishers Weekly

● Explains what "empire" is in our modern day
● Gives practical spiritual guidance for resisting empire's daily influence
● Explores how early Christians navigated imperial pressures
● Unpacks how empire influences how we see ourselves and others







Everyone wants to belong. What does true belonging look like when the society you live in is not something you want to "belong" to? In Liturgies for Resisting Empire, Cuban American theologian and writer Kat Armas provides a roadmap for Christians seeking a countercultural way of living that prioritizes community and humanity over dominance and power. Armas combines spiritual practices and biblical theology to help us create authentic belonging to God, ourselves, each other, and creation.
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Sarah Dal @sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social
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The problem is that the alternatives are completely inaccessible to most people, I struggle to get my head round what's trapped to self-host my own email server. How would you even begin to help someone who's only ever used phone apps? For the vast majority, there is no alternative to big cloud

@MigueldeicazaMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 (@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social)

Jesus fucking christ. https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

mastodon.social · Mastodon

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers @CrimethInc@todon.eu
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When autocracy takes hold in a country, everything goes on as before—police go on policing, landlords go on collecting rent, people go on showing up to work. The transition takes place so smoothly because all the elements necessary to fascism were present under democracy.

crimethinc.com/democracy

People imagine fascism as the opposite of democratic governance. In fact, it employs the same police, courts, property rights, patriotic mythology, and habits of obedience as state democracy. Wherever there is a powerful state with a monopoly on violence, fascism is only an election away.

This is why resistance to authoritarianism must take place at all times, not simply when an army is invading under swastika flags. We must never conflate the smooth functioning of the state with freedom itself. Assuming that the "rule of law" is identical with self-determination gives aspiring despots a free hand.

A comic showing the German assembly, with a caption reading "But the greatest gain goes to the National Socialists, who have stunned observers by taking ninety-five seats in a landslide victory, raising their stake in the Reichstag from twelve to 107."
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Dave Winer @davew@threads.net
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Just started watching "Mr. Scorsese Reviews" on Apple TV and it's like getting inside the head that came up with all those movies, with scenes from the movies in there too. What a gift. https://www.metacritic.com/tv/mr-scorsese/

Mr. Scorsese Reviews

Rebecca Miller's five-part documentary about Martin Scorsese features interviews with Scorsese himself, his children and wife as well as Cate Blanchett, Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jodie Foster, Mick Jagger, Margot Robbie, Robbie Robertson, Thelma Schoonmaker, Paul Schrader, Steven Spielberg, and Sharon Stone.

www.metacritic.com

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Israel hails joining US-led AI initiative, Pax Silica

Netanyahu’s office says joining the Trump administration’s AI initiative is “a badge of honor for the State of Israel and the Israeli high-tech industry”.

Dubbed Pax Silica, the initiative aims to bolster “cooperation on AI and supply chain security” between the US and its allies, the State Department said in a factsheet this week.
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kazuhito @kazuhito@vivaldi.net
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10 Years of Let's Encrypt Certificates letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/10-

10 Years of Let's Encrypt Certificates

On September 14, 2015, our first publicly-trusted certificate went live. We were proud that we had issued a certificate that a significant majority of clients could accept, and had done it using automated software. Of course, in retrospect this was just the first of billions of certificates. Today, Let’s Encrypt is the largest certificate authority in the world in terms of certificates issued, the ACME protocol we helped create and standardize is integrated throughout the server ecosystem, and we’ve become a household name among system administrators. We’re closing in on protecting one billion web sites.

letsencrypt.org

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Ronan @ronanmcd@mastodon.green
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

"We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones."

This might be one of the stupidest headlines I've ever seen

Ideas are not a commodity you stockpile. They are not an existing resource. They don't run out. Being human means you make new ones ad infinitum.

And AI is a regurgitation machine, not a creative thinking machine.

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Cosmic Symphony Unveiled: Herbig-Haro 49/50 Captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope - This stunning image showcases the reddish-orange outflow of Herbig-Haro 49/50, a jet from a forming star, colliding with surrounding gas and dust. A distant spiral galaxy aligns perfectly in the background, offering a breathtaking view of star formation in action. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

jameswebbdiscovery.com/discove


This stunning image showcases the reddish-orange outflow of Herbig-Haro 49/50, a jet from a forming star, colliding with surrounding gas and dust. A distant spiral galaxy aligns perfectly in the background, offering a breathtaking view of star formation in action.
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Rebellion in the Middle Ages Fight Against the Crown by Matthew Lewis;, 2022

Matthew Lewis seeks to examine the causes behind the insurrections and how they influenced the development of England from the Norman Conquest until the Tudor period. Each rebellion’s importance and impact is assessed both individually and as part of a larger movement to examine how rebellions helped to build England.







Shakespeare’s Henry IV lamented ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown’. It was true of that king’s reign and of many others before and after. From Hereward the Wake’s guerilla war, resisting the Norman invasion of William the Conqueror, through the Anarchy, the murder of Thomas Becket, the rebellions of Henry II’s sons, the deposition of Edward II, the Peasants’ Revolt and the rise of the over-mighty noble subject that led to the Wars of the Roses, kings throughout the medieval period came under threat from rebellions and resistance that sprang from the nobility, the Church and even the general population. Serious rebellions arrived on a regular cycle throughout the period, fracturing and transforming England into a nation to be reckoned with.
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