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.
I will be at FOSDEM 2026 — for the Social Web track.
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/social-web/
In Brussels on Saturday January 31st & Sunday February 1st.
See you there?
#FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #SocialWeb #SocialWebFOSDEM #SocialWebFOSDEM2026
Ah christ. My husband's suggested I paint a fucking pipe organ.
And I thought my brother was mean with the tuba suggestion (if you have noticed that's not actually what tubas look like no you didn't. I lost track of the swirls and made it up)
also lol at 'pipe organ'
. ‸ . ˃ᴗ˂ ᵔᵕᵔ ˙ᵕ˙ ˆ꒳ˆ
⳻⳺ ₍ ..̮ ₎ દᵕ̈૩ ˘ᵕ˘ °ᗜ°
˘ᵜ˘ ⍨ •᎑• ᐖ ^ᵕ^
'ㅅ' ᴖ.ᴖ ’༝’ •ᵕ• *-*
•~• ⁰▿⁰ ᵔદᵔ •౿• ͡•ᴗ͡•
‾◡◝ ⌃‿⌃ ❛▿❛ °‿°
Today's legos!
For people interested in #ActivityPub #C2S (client to server), the #GoActivityPub services have gained the ability to dynamically register OAuth2 clients based on RFC7591.
The easiest to test is the ONI project that can be directly run without much setup: https://git.sr.ht/~mariusor/oni
이런거 하나 사고 싶긴 한데 그냥 앞에도 비닐로 막아줬으면 좋겠음
Three weeks vacation starts today. Looking forward to this all year. I need to turn off my brain now...
If each distro was assigned an animal that best fits its vibe, what would they be?
I feel like kali lincox motto of "we quite so can hear gud" really fits house cats. 
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Leafcutter ants (according to Wikipedia) are tiny but carry far more than their weight. They’re symbiotic with fungus, which they farm and protect from pests.
They prefer disturbed habitats, which is where a change in environmental conditions causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem.
@postmarketOS is a colony of leafcutter ants.
We’re excited to see 
@deno_landDeno 2.6 ship deno audit plus an experimental --socket flag! 🎉
Catch malicious packages and supply chain attacks before they land:
Run deno audit --socket to get Socket Firewall checks for npm dependencies right in the CLI.
https://socket.dev/blog/deno-2-6-socket-supply-chain-defense-in-your-cli
My girlfriend abandoned me in bed despite my cries and whimpers and pleas for cuddling. She didn’t even pull a switcheroo, swapping a Blahåj for a Becca in my arms, and instead coldly laughed at my suffering and left the room. I am blaming Tim and Craig for turning her into a heartless, soulless capitalist.
Let's play with #nixos
"Goodhart’s Law is really a statement about the process of trying to make policy based on proxy measures of “internal states of complex systems” which are not themselves directly observable. "
Got to this piece from a link from Ben Recht and it finally nailed something that's always bothered me about the constant reference to Goodhart's law across software.
https://backofmind.substack.com/p/goodhart-as-epistemologist
Alright, I finished my first proper blog post about selective applicative functors!
I lay out the theoretical basis for them and how I claim they should model control flow with exclusive determined choice (which is something the existing formulation failed to capture)
https://blog.veritates.love/selective_applicatives_theoretical_basis.html
the key insight necessary to make it work for N-ary branching is to consider arrows (composable profunctors) instead of functors in isolation, because casing on an Either is about the domain not the codomain
the resulting structure is related to near-semirings, but in a different way than Alternative is (as that encodes nondeterministic choice)
오 이런 제품도 있구나 다이소에서 팔면 잘 팔릴 것 같은데
はーねるか
Kudos to #Tuta for not having "genAI" and Tutanuta users for not wanting "genAI" 🙌
Link to 
@TutanotaTuta 's survey: https://tuta.com/blog/tuta-survey-2025
Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp844kjj37vo
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46276740
The UK Online Safety Act is a mess. MPs are debating the petition for its repeal now.
ORG calls for a rights-based approach:
Limit its scope to minimise threats to freedom of expression/small sites, and regulate age verification providers to protect privacy.
Read our briefing ⬇️
#onlinesafetyact #osa #onlinesafety #freedomofexpression #privacy #censorship #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
I'll be presenting 
@fosdem 2026! My talk Fedify: Building ActivityPub servers without the pain was accepted for the Social Web Devroom. See you in Brussels on January 31–February 1!
Screenshot, for posterity.
Half my German colleagues are dropping like flies from an apparently heavily mutated Influenza A variant. Most did not get vaccinated (neither against flu nor Covid), and most had Covid in the last couple of months. I fear this season is going to hit hard. And everyone is going to be surprised of why people are getting so sick and take ages to recover…
By the way - masks also help prevent the spread of flu. Just saying…
#flu #CovidIsNotOver #maskup
Honorary Reindeer Ft. @kitaine.art@bsky.brid.gy!!
today I discovered that a whole stack of my personal files, including multiple books I had written and performances recorded, were no longer on my hard drive, because Windows had deleted them "to free up space" and only kept the copies on their onedrive server. That's not a backup. That's deleting my work without asking me. I'm switching to Linux.
총격범 제압한 영웅은 시리아 출신 무슬림
n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl...
개종한 무슬림 출신 기독교인이라고 우기던 계정들이 많았는데 역시 아니네요.
총격범 제압한 영웅은 시리아 출신 무슬림
Tired, Just Looking At This
One-handing the DSLR while holding Nature's monopod, a tree. Looking at Mount Mcguire from Elk Mountain. #MountainMonday
Chilliwack, British Columbia 
🧭49°6'52" N 121°48'28" W
#photography #landscape #nature #originalcontent #hikingtrail #BritishColumbia #Canada #imagesofcanada
Closing W3m Tabs The Right Way
https://lesssalt.srht.site/w3m/w3m_delete_tab/
One might argue if this really is the right way, though.
also forever, I thought that would run only if a Sunday were the 1st or the 15th, but of course I thought that only b/c I didn't read the docs carefully enough: it *is* documented in crontab(5)
"The day‐of‐month can be given as $, in which case it matches the last day of the current month."
아니 순식간에 폼팩터 똑같은 제품 2개나 더 찾음... 하... 이래서 충동구매는 안 돼...ㅠㅠ
Valorie Moser, the former bookkeeper and co-conspirator for GirlsDoPorn, was sentenced to two years in prison.
https://www.404media.co/valorie-moser-girls-do-porn-sentence/
uspol, health
My reaction: JFC
A landmark study by epidemiologist Sam Goldman compared Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where trichloroethylene (TCE) had contaminated the water supply for approximately 35 years, against those at Camp Pendleton in California, which has clean water. Marines exposed to TCE at Lejeune were 70% more likely to develop Parkinson's.
The latest research suggests only 10 to 15 percent of Parkinson's cases can be fully explained by genetics. Parkinson's rates in the US have doubled in the past 30 years -- a pattern inconsistent with an inherited genetic disease. The EPA moved to ban TCE in December 2024. The Trump administration moved to undo the ban in January.
How to Make Love
only 50¢ from King Novelty Co (1951)
Google搜尋在搜尋欄位左邊多了一個 + 號，可以上傳圖片與檔案
I just found 16GB of DDR4 on my table.
Can I retire now?
A weaving driven off a pair of integer sequences from OEIS
Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp844kjj37vo
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46276740
$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
Link: https://planetscale.com/blog/50-dollar-planetscale-metal-is-ga-for-postgres
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46276378
早朝の鹿親子写真。
光に照らされて浮かび上がってる。
A7RIII+SEL70200GMII+SEL20TC
#misskey写真部 #io写真撮ろうぜ
@blogdivayour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 
@mayintorontoMay Likes Toronto new book in english! Chinese Pastry School from Yeo Min (the singaporean person who apprenticed with the chinese pastry sifu)
@blogdivayour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 @mayintorontoMay Likes Toronto seems out of print / hard to get. i will email her
this one also made me laugh with the Yeast Indies pun https://www.kitchenartsandletters.com/products/nerdbaker-2-tales-from-the-yeast-indies
uspol, health
My reaction: JFC
A landmark study by epidemiologist Sam Goldman compared Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where trichloroethylene (TCE) had contaminated the water supply for approximately 35 years, against those at Camp Pendleton in California, which has clean water. Marines exposed to TCE at Lejeune were 70% more likely to develop Parkinson's.
The latest research suggests only 10 to 15 percent of Parkinson's cases can be fully explained by genetics. Parkinson's rates in the US have doubled in the past 30 years -- a pattern inconsistent with an inherited genetic disease. The EPA moved to ban TCE in December 2024. The Trump administration moved to undo the ban in January.
More than half of TLS 1.3 traffic is using post-quantum (PQ) encryption, protecting it from "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks. Major growth seen in mid-September when Apple OS updates enabled default PQ support. Learn more in our 2025 Year in Review: https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025
#改人改地
唔講都唔知佢仲喺度🤭
News spreads like wildfire via private messages from neighbor to neighbor, and there’s •so• much that’s no making the news:
Person abducted on this block. Convoy of ICE vehicles spotted on this street. Observer shoved by ICE. Person abducted on that block. Observer threatened with a weapon by ICE.
ALL DAY EVERY DAY
And also, again and again — people need to know this! — I get these messages too:
ICE started to gather, but dispersed when too many observers showed up.
ICE vehicle headed back to base after being tailed in circles for an hour.
ICE started abducting someone, but let them go as the gathered crowd got larger and larger.
These people •really• do not want to be observed. Typical bullies: they cosplay tough guys, they waggle their gear around, but they •behave• like they’re afraid.
RE: https://en.osm.town/@OSMLondon/115707564215038674
Looking for some christmassy mappy good cheer? Join us in Paddington tomorrow night (Tues) for an #OpenStreetMap pub #meetup!
🫧 socialcoding..
jnkrtech
Em 
Fullmetal Alejandro
✧✦Catherine✦✧
MJ+
pkg update
Stefan Bohacek