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.

AnnaAnthro @AnnaAnthro@mastodon.social
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Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in neighbourhoods of amid crackdown

“Armed agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant & demanded papers.

Federal agents also entered East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN.

They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers.

Everyone present was a US citizen.”

mprnews.org/story/2025/12/10/f

Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown

Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's crackdown on the community. City Council member Jamal Osman is a Somali American who witnessed the confrontation.

www.mprnews.org · MPR News

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David Roberts @volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy
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What have either of these people done that would warrant attention? They are not experts in anything. They don't know anything in particular, have no particular skills, have not accomplished anything of particular note. They're just young women willing to say what old rich white men want to hear.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hf7ezrajxadu7v3tzcyij424/post/3m7xiqecucs2a

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons

Link: alinpanaitiu.com/blog/developi
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons and cups

You know what they say in the world of products: fast, cheap, good; pick two. That's exactly my experience when trying to find the most suitable wood finish for my hand carved wooden spoons and cups. I got tired of trying to find something food-safe, without chemical smells and that doesn't take ages to cure. So I made my own.

alinpanaitiu.com

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N.P. Thompson @npt_writes@sunny.garden
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I pulled all my e-books off Kindle yesterday because of this. It effectively ends my writing career because, despite everyone complaining that Amazon is evil... nobody buys books from the many other stores my books are available on.

I am sad. I am angry. I am *exhausted*.

I am ONE indie author. I am nobody. My protest is utterly meaningless in the face of this ever-expanding AI takeover. Unless all indies do this, and all tradpub authors pressure their publishers to fight Amazon, my pulling my books is not going to do a damned thing to make Amazon stop doing this. All it will do is end whatever tiny little chance I might still have had at having a real writing career.

But I am so sick of AI being shoved into every aspect of my life and not even having the right to opt out of it. This is the ONLY protest I CAN make. So that's what I'm doing. And at least I know they won't be able to use my books this way.

writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k

Kindle's New Gen AI-Powered "Ask This Book" Feature Raises Rights Concerns - Writer Beware

In a recent press release, Amazon noted that some new features were coming to Kindle. We’re adding new AI-powered reading features that preserve the magic of reading on Kindle. Story So Far lets you catch up on the book you’re reading—but only up to where you’ve read without any spoilers. For our endlessly curious readers,Read More

writerbeware.blog · Writer Beware

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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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This is a striking statement from somebody in his position. We all know it’s true; the news here is that this person in this context is willing to say it so bluntly.
mastodon.social/@eunews/115718

European News 🇪🇺 (@eunews@mastodon.social)

Merz compares Putin to Hitler: ‘He won’t stop’ “Just as the Sudetenland was not enough in 1938, Putin will not stop,” Merz told a party conference in Germany. https://www.politico.eu/article/merz-compares-putin-to-hitler/

mastodon.social · Mastodon

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Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr @RickiTarr@beige.party
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

The cool thing about cats is you don't have to get them a Christmas present, because empty boxes, balls of crinkly paper, shiny bows, and unattended plates of food are the greatest gifts of all. Oh and let's not forget the full tree filled with sparkly toys, you clearly put up for their enrichment.

Wait...did cats invent Christmas?

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Dr Paris (he/him) @parisba@cloudisland.nz
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Shared by v4rd4453n

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?

hey.paris/posts/appleid/

20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple

Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I have no recourse. Can you help? Email paris AT paris.id.au (and read on for the details). ❤️ Update 14 December 2025: Someone from Executive Relations at Apple says they’re looking into it.

hey.paris

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Anon Opin @anon_opin@mastodon.social
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The real disgrace in UK's welfare bill is that so much of it is spent on people in work. We are subsidising jobs that do not pay enough to live on. If we genuinely made sure work paid a decent living, then we would not have such a high bill.

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Anon Opin @anon_opin@mastodon.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

The real disgrace in UK's welfare bill is that so much of it is spent on people in work. We are subsidising jobs that do not pay enough to live on. If we genuinely made sure work paid a decent living, then we would not have such a high bill.

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indieblog.page @indieblog@indieweb.social
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Shared by Stefan Bohacek

How to make a website in 5 minutes (2025-11-17) by @stefanStefan Bohacek

stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-to-

🎲 a8eac36118f3d92118f61e5ed35f0154-611755

A tinted screenshot of a very simple website titled 'Welcome to Stefan's website!' Beneath the title is a description: 'Here's where you can find me online!' Further below is a list of links: - My Mastodon - My SoundCloud - My award-winning online bots

How to make a website in 5 minutes | Stefan Bohacek

(Or so.)

stefanbohacek.com

Link author: Stefan Bohacek@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

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Elisabeth M @independentpen@mas.to
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

@glitzersachen @rjblaskiewiczBob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 @susankayequinnSusan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) she got the name of the act a bit wrong. It's not the equal protections act which says all groups must be treated equally by the law. It's the equal credit opportunity act. Here's a link fwiw; I haven't looked into it: newsweek.com/trump-executive-o

Executive order, trump

Trump executive order raises alarm over women's financial independence

A new executive order from the White House targets the Equal Credit Opportunity Act which was written to prevent sex-based credit discrimination.

www.newsweek.com · Newsweek

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Stop crawling my HTML you dickheads – use the API

Link: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/stop-
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

The JSON logo.

Stop crawling my HTML you dickheads - use the API!

One of the (many) depressing things about the "AI" future in which we're living, is that it exposes just how many people are willing to outsource their critical thinking. Brute force is preferred to thinking about how to efficiently tackle a problem. For some reason, my websites are regularly targetted by "scrapers" who want to gobble up all the HTML for their inscrutable purposes. The thing is, …

shkspr.mobi · Terence Eden’s Blog

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Justine Smithies @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk
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OK So I'm interested to find out what all those cool folk running at home as servers are using hardware wise. Don't worry there is nothing to be ashamed of here as I'm really excited and interested to hear from folk recycling equipment. What CPU, RAM do you have? Also do you have a separate boot and data disks ? How big are they and are they raid or not? How many services are you running on that hardware? :openbsd:
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TheDude @tstruthers@ioc.exchange
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Our daughter is currently studying on the Netherlands, she is getting an education degree from an international teaching school but she finds the town and school a bit too small, and wants to go back to the US. We'd like her to stay in the EU, but funding school information on the internet is painful. Anyone have any idea on English speaking universities in the EU with strong science and education degrees? @quixoticgeek , @jonJon Worth @bert_hubertbert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

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Aaron @hosford42@techhub.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

Are there any software projects that people would be willing to pay a small weekly or monthly contribution to support me while I develop it? I need a way to feed my family, and I don't like asking for handouts.

Please respond with ideas of things you'd like to see exist, that you'd maybe be willing to contribute an ongoing nonzero amount towards, and boost for reach. If you don't have idea of your own, that's fine. Boosting will still help!







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Aaron @hosford42@techhub.social
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@LonelinessCorps

I'll add here something I just mentioned in the non-public thread leading up to this:

Safety and security are going to be paramount for something like this. So if folks have suggestions on possible ways to ensure that, please share! The last thing I'd want to do is create something that isn't safe to use.

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Valerie Roney @vlrny@disabled.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

Hey
Is there interest in monthly support crowdfunding @hosford42Aaron to work on building a matchmaking platform for folks to find local connections of the fediverse community?

An interface to find basically.

This is a brand new idea as per:
disabled.social/@vlrny/1157125

Ya'll can spitball scope and logistics below (pls untag me in replies, I'll just lurk)

🔄 Appreciated!

@LonelinessCorps

Valerie Roney (@vlrny@disabled.social)

@hosford42@techhub.social Oooo and maybe a reach or maybe not the time. I wonder about some sort of database matchmaker thing to help spoonies find local connections. For roommates, friendship, peer support Hrm anybody really, could be used as a digital platform to help build meatspace connections from the fedi-sphere. It's hard for any adults to make new friends - especially hard for men, autistics, disabled... All the social outliers who find a home on fedi. Help us find meatspace fedi friends.

disabled.social · disabled.social

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Tyla: The Failed Slut @FinalGirl@blackqueer.life
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~ Lesbian life on Reddit ~

I’ll see whats happening in /r/latebloominglesbians

*Reads

“I’ve been single my whole life and just turned 18…”

“I broke up last year and feel like I’m running out of time! How do you find someone as a 22 year old?”

“Just learned I’m a leabian at 20 and now feel like I’m destined to be alone.”

*throws phone across the room.

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver@mastodon.social
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@ezeno789ekZepp_Pf

Mastodon could become that. But, it would need to add some new features.

Mastodon has "editable posts". Which is great.

But Mastodon doesn't give you a "choice of home-feed algorithm" yet. Currently, Mastodon only support reverse-chron as its home-feed algorithm. (I.e., what some inaccurately call "no algorithm".)

And, Mastodon doesn't yet given users the "ability to moderate replies" to their posts.

Evan Prodromou @evan@cosocial.ca
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Shared by Glyph

@reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @ezeno789ekZepp_Pf we do have the ability to moderate replies built into ActivityPub, though.

Every object has a `replies` collection that is owned and managed by the creator of the object. If you don't want someone's reply to appear in the list of replies, you can remove it.

Mastodon does not surface this feature. It also doesn't show the `replies` collection remotely. That's too bad; it would cover most of what people want from replies management.

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Joelle @joelle@social.joelle.us
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Shared by Glyph

folks, let's say I want to configure a CI build (perhaps a Github action) that uses the *MINIMUM* version of Python and dependencies specified in a pyproject.toml file for the test. I.E. to ensure that features not present in those versions aren't used in new code added to a library.

Is there already an easy way to do this?

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