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.
Well it seems I will be presenting 
@badgefedThe BadgeFed Project at #fosdem on the #socialwebfosdem track!
This was a long-shot and honestly it will make my logistics very difficult, the week before I will be travelling with my family to Mexico. So probably, will take the kiddo to the junior track!
20 mins of presentation but honestly I am looking forward to the networking. See you at #fosdem26 from the #PNW!
And make sure to attend and say hi if you are there, I will be giving you badges!
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/decentralised-badges-activitypub-badgefed/
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Gotta love people who've clearly never touched Botox in their entire life, and raise their eyebrows a lot.
The vision of #ActivityPub AFAIK is that social media servers would be as ubiquitous as websites and email servers and just as independent. That's not the goal of #bluesky relays or any other social media model I'm aware of.
Am I wrong to think that matters in regards to free speech and #DemocracyOfReach? Is it somehow unworkable? Or are there other goals that people think matter more? What am I missing? #SocialWeb
Todays #RetroTech
VideoVinyl - 2018
Low Band Video from 45rpm Vinyl
Plug your normal Turntable into the Bespoke PreAmp & away you go
B&W, Mono Audio
This proves just how smart John Logie Baird was. He did Phonovision on 78s in 1927
Handful of titles released but website no longer running
Itโs more reliable that CED ever was ;-)
Read more 
@obsoletemediaukMuseum of Obsolete Media
P-computers can solve spin-glass problems faster than quantum systems
Link: https://news.ucsb.edu/2025/022239/new-ucsb-research-shows-p-computers-can-solve-spin-glass-problems-faster-quantum
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182975
Told a co-worker I'm colour-blind because she kept writing in yellow pen and I hated it. Manager overheard, asked if I struggle with our software, I had to keep the lie going. Now they've spent thousands upgrading it for colour-blind accessibility. Oops.
Need to see the calendar for this month? Simply type "cal". To see the
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-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>
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The vision of #ActivityPub AFAIK is that social media servers would be as ubiquitous as websites and email servers and just as independent. That's not the goal of #bluesky relays or any other social media model I'm aware of.
Am I wrong to think that matters in regards to free speech and #DemocracyOfReach? Is it somehow unworkable? Or are there other goals that people think matter more? What am I missing? #SocialWeb
Sliding into Monday night, with that CRT glow.........
we should give replyguys a "your replies wrapped up" page where it highlights how deeply insensitive they are.
You've commented "Not all men..." to women venting about misogyny 500 times this year. ๐
You've commented "There are two sides to every story" on 15 DV threads โจ
You've told 20 women, "I'm not just after you for the looks, I like your personality too" ๐
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It's the last week to submit a #Python #security talk to #PyConUS, submit by Friday December 19th!
https://pycon.blogspot.com/2025/11/trailblazing-python-security-pycon-us-2026.html
The vision of #ActivityPub AFAIK is that social media servers would be as ubiquitous as websites and email servers and just as independent. That's not the goal of #bluesky relays or any other social media model I'm aware of.
Am I wrong to think that matters in regards to free speech and #DemocracyOfReach? Is it somehow unworkable? Or are there other goals that people think matter more? What am I missing? #SocialWeb
Financial stability poll:
I feel more or less completely confident I will have food on my plate and a roof over my head ________ from now.
Pick the largest that applies to you.
OpenStreetMap contributors can have a car running gotosocial, as a treat
you cannot call it that
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ensluttification (something I'm trying to foster)
ensluttification (something I'm trying to foster)
BONUS: The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser. I haven't read this one yet, but I am fascinated by this 1990 art theft, the largest in American history. The FBI has yet to catch the culprits. https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8572a131-53c7-4135-8318-2e34561ed370
You can see the whole list here: https://bookshop.org/lists/theft-and-heist-nonfiction
Make sure to check out the content warnings on The Story Graph before picking any of these up.
Pufferfish Venom Can Kill, Or It Can Relieve Pain
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/15/pufferfish-venom-can-kill-or-it-can-relieve-pain/
If you want to add more security to your Mastodon account, you can set up a system called "two factor authentication" (also known as 2FA). This prevents anyone else logging into your account even if they find out your email and password.
2FA works using a special app on your phone which gives you a short code number to type in when you log in.
I've done a non-technical guide all about 2FA and how to use it, including answers to many questions:
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PBS: Merriam-Websterโs word of the year for 2025 is AI โslopโ
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/merriam-websters-word-of-the-year-for-2025-is-ais-slop
"Let us be the repository of your passkeys" and "We may terminate your account at any time and permanently refuse to communicate with you" ... seems like a bad combination?
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I've got four 360 GB PCIe x4 OCZ RevoDrive SSDs that I've had for more than a decade. I debated selling them initially, but the prices plummeted almost overnight and I sat on them too long.
Now I'm wondering what to do with them. External PCIe enclosures are not cheap, and x4 interfaces seem nonexistent. I only have a laptop.
On top of that, that's 1440 GB raw storage which is kind of weak given the hardware requirements to build it.
What to do?
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Well it seems I will be presenting @badgefedThe BadgeFed Project at #fosdem on the #socialwebfosdem track!
This was a long-shot and honestly it will make my logistics very difficult, the week before I will be travelling with my family to Mexico. So probably, will take the kiddo to the junior track!
20 mins of presentation but honestly I am looking forward to the networking. See you at #fosdem26 from the #PNW!
And make sure to attend and say hi if you are there, I will be giving you badges!
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/decentralised-badges-activitypub-badgefed/
what fucking cunt is in charge of the trains at manchester
[$] Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature
Version 8.16.0 of the calibre ebook-management software, released on December 4, includes a "Discuss with AI" feature that can be used to query various AI/LLM services or local mod [...]
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Well it seems I will be presenting @badgefedThe BadgeFed Project at #fosdem on the #socialwebfosdem track!
This was a long-shot and honestly it will make my logistics very difficult, the week before I will be travelling with my family to Mexico. So probably, will take the kiddo to the junior track!
20 mins of presentation but honestly I am looking forward to the networking. See you at #fosdem26 from the #PNW!
And make sure to attend and say hi if you are there, I will be giving you badges!
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/decentralised-badges-activitypub-badgefed/
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I wish I had #fediverse (#mastodon #pleroma #akkoma #friendica #hubzilla #iceshrimp #snac #lemmy #mbin #kbin #piefed ) #client , I mean like #ELK #lmst #pl-fe #phanpy #tooty #sengi #pinafore #halcyon . That would allow me to sort my subscription feed & browse sorted feed, to see ONLY relevant posts (on topic updates follow-up's?).
Well, the mastodon feature of "LISTS" tries something similiar by allowing to make a sorted list of people\subscription, sorted by your custom category/topic. But it doesn't include #tags. Each #tag must be browsed separately, individually, manually, and there is no feature of list of tags in mastodon.
Lemmy, mbin, kbin, piefed and other #reddit #forum like #activitypub implementations allow you to have topics-threads, but each thread does not replicate very well across multiple servers/instances. Can't be easely crossposted ( by pinging multiple category-bots). And doesn't replicate & easily-searchable as classic mastodon #tags.
Other things I don't like:
- twitter like reposts. they make you feel you subscribed not to the original "reposter" friend, but to "reposted content" that you never subscribed for. the #f2f p2p architecture of #scuttlebot (#scuttlebutt) kinda eliminates that, they don't have nor show reposts. you see there only original posts, original content, of friends you follow. Kinda helps to slow down the mind from informational overflow. You can opt out to see posts of friend's friends, if you want more. Tags are also supported there.
- threads consist only of information aggretator url sharing in reddit like clones. Without having OP OC like in bbs|AgoraRoad , they just silo you to clickbait to other web sites.
!fediverse@piefed.social 
@fediverse
It's gotten really hard for me to write tech criticism anymore because I feel like people have gotten so weird about it
Like, yes we can talk about manipulation and incentives and the anti-social nature of our social media &c. &c.
But in the past year I've noticed far more people talking about it like they have no agency. Your brain is literally being rotted by tiktok. You're addicted to twitter and bsky like it's heroin (no, really, had someone argue to my face the point that it's the same as heroin). You are being mind-controlled and becoming illiterate and to suggest you have any volition is naivete at best.
And it's this nihilism, the bad kind where you decide there's no point in doing anything rather than the good kind where you feel free, that is making it hard for me to engage.
I'm seeing more anti-science sentiment, more pessimism, more voluntary relinquishment of agency and meaning, and it's honestly scaring me.
It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs
Link: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Gxy2qrCkn1Y327Y6D3
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46274478
New blog post! What have we been working on with CC signals in 2025?
Get involved:
๐ Read the blog post: https://creativecommons.org/2025/12/15/cc-signals-what-weve-been-working-on/
๐โโ๏ธ Express interest in participating in the Mozilla Data Collective pilot project: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflnSi5d1t99WbDyKoXrTqB0ItNeLs-Hy8S4dXddCKGZ2ESXg/viewform
๐ Support CC signals with a gift: https://www.classy.org/give/313412/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=website&c_src2=temp-banner
We're very excited to announce that we're sponsoring Protocols for Publishers - 
@teamProtocols for Publishers - in London.
As well as helping support the event, 
@saskia will be joined by Siddhartha from The Bristol Cable to talk about building a social app for a local community, with their local news publisher.
Find out more here: https://protocolsforpublishers.com/london-2026/
#ProtocolsForPublishers #ActivityPub #SocialWeb #Fediverse #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Event #London
After my talk at 
@gnome Asia Summit, Iโve published the source code of Jollpi, a Python-based text editor Iโm rewriting with a modern stack.
Built with Python 3, 
@GTK 4 and GtkSourceView 5, using a modern async architecture and standard Python packaging (pyproject.toml, pip).
It installs cleanly and integrates like a regular Linux desktop app.
Feel free to try it and share feedback.
Source code: https://gitlab.com/zulfian1732/jollpi-text-editor
Sustaining inclusive programs takes commitment, especially in challenging funding seasons.
As we welcome the December 2025 
@outreachyOutreachy Internships cohort, weโre grateful for the organizations whose support helps keep this work strong and moving forward:
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@wikimediafoundation, #Bloomberg
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@tarides #Cisco
โก๏ธ Includer: #CUNY, 
@debian, 
@getsentrySentry
โก๏ธ Welcomer: 
@creativecommons , 
@mozilla, @gitlab, @gnome and #RedHat
Your partnership enables paid, remote internships and meaningful participation in open source for people facing systemic barriers.
Thank you for standing with us and investing in a more inclusive ecosystem
Oh look, hereโs some ampersands.
Wrote down what I learned so far and open questions in this new doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16QNavHjds1OdkKsfqLYx6EF0ohA-Qh_dZc8OK9TFrQk/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.z1r9lwho309s
โฆin case you are interested in seeing where I am and what are my next steps, and maybe have new ideas. Thanks in advance! The doc is free to comment, or you can always ping me here.
EDIT: Please do not tag/bother Tim Berners-Lee. Angle brackets happened many years before he started working on HTML.
Evan Prodromou
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Stefano Marinelli
@reiver โผ (Charles) 
phildini
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Eugen Rochko
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