What is Hackers' Pub?

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Big news from the Video Game History Foundation - they’ve come into a huge collection of previously-inaccessible Sega Channel data. Largely unseen since it originally broadcast in 1994-1997. https://gamehistory.org/segachannel/

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Giant Neopixel Is Just Like The Regular Kind, Only Bigger

https://hackaday.com/2025/12/15/giant-neopixel-is-just-like-the-regular-kind-only-bigger/

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If you barely use an account and
don't want to have to give your official ID to use it (which really you should refuse),

Then I recommend you log in as soon as possible to delete it fully from the internal deletion feature

• Many accounts are easy to delete now from within the account.

• Once you are locked out of your account for refusing to provide an official ID, you might never be able to delete your account and data again.

• If you are already in this situation, and your region is covered by a decent privacy law, you might still be able to have your data deleted with the help of your local Data Protection Authority. Reach out to them.

• Be mindful about your other accounts that may depend on this account for logins or other.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification #RightToDelete

Linus has some things he'd like to discuss. #CatsOfMastodon

Just curious. If someone you don't trust implicitly to respect your preferences sends you a link to content (primarily a video) with no preview, do you click on the link?

The "walkaway" p2p lectures have finished after five sessions and I enjoyed it soooooooooo much! 😭😍

It's been super fun to go through all of this together with everyone, people have been SO ON IT, I especially loved the discussions. Thank you everyone for coming and listening to me babbling for literally hours.

This lecture series was 95% improvised and I'm very happy how that experiment turned out. It's rough, not all super thorough and some examples could have been better picked - trying to create something out of "chaos" in a safe space without expectations, instead of a "blank paper" for the "perfect lecture" was so much more fun and productive for me. If I'd approach it the other way around, it would have taken 2 years .. now I can "refine" the outcomes step by step, carving out a shape.

I have ca. 12 hours of recorded video (mostly audio track and mad whiteboard scribbles), 20k words of notes and 100k words of STT transcription (probably half of it "uhm" and "yeah").

Need to think now what to do next with it .. It will surely involve getting more people on board to check against it, come up with proper diagrams, structure and examples. Maybe a (free) book, video series, ..? Who has an idea?

Here are the notes btw, though, not super accessible for folks who weren't present: https://pads.offline.place/p/reading-list-and-notes-p2p-lectures

TBC

Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates

Link: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/upcoming-changes-to-let-s-encrypt-certificates/243873
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279241

had a design meeting for the app i'm building for a #larp next year and it's very funny to talk about ways to make it broken and bad.

also they asked me if i would be open to playing a beleaguered techie NPC that the CEO NPC would dump random tasks and people on. immediately volunteered to be that trans femme that made everything but the cis white man took all the credit and money for ✨

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Bungie is launching Marathon in March, priced at $40. It’s gonna be interesting to see how improved this extraction shooter is over the alpha version, especially as it’s now going up against the success of Arc Raiders www.theverge.com/news/844780/...

Bungie’s delayed shooter Marat...

If you barely use an account and
don't want to have to give your official ID to use it (which really you should refuse),

Then I recommend you log in as soon as possible to delete it fully from the internal deletion feature

• Many accounts are easy to delete now from within the account.

• Once you are locked out of your account for refusing to provide an official ID, you might never be able to delete your account and data again.

• If you are already in this situation, and your region is covered by a decent privacy law, you might still be able to have your data deleted with the help of your local Data Protection Authority. Reach out to them.

• Be mindful about your other accounts that may depend on this account for logins or other.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification #RightToDelete

@reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) Markdown or its subset is supported by almost every platform except Mastodon.
But PeerTube is the only software I know that puts markdown in content instead of HTML.

I'm customizing my terminal and other stuff in my development environment and I'd love to try out new fonts so I'm looking for suggestions:

What are your favorite fonts for terminal/vim?

今日もしゅいろちゃんの冷蔵庫から​​してきた​​

This is how winter looks in Gaza, as yet another storm with relentless rain has hit the strip, worsening the already devastated conditions for displaced Palestinian families.

They are living in fragile tents, where thousands struggle to survive amid shortages of shelter supplies and denial of access to heating fuel or other winter necessities.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Palestinian

Opened the window to check a noise.
Saw nothing but the void - a wall of fog.
Closed it.

I now have zero answers and new fears.

#MondayEvening #Fog

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A bald eagle perches on a branch covered in snow during a winter storm in Nyack, New York, U.S. REUTERS/Mike Segar

#photography
#birds
#eagles
#winter

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This is how winter looks in Gaza, as yet another storm with relentless rain has hit the strip, worsening the already devastated conditions for displaced Palestinian families.

They are living in fragile tents, where thousands struggle to survive amid shortages of shelter supplies and denial of access to heating fuel or other winter necessities.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Palestinian

A person dressed as Santa Claus greets a child during a Christmas parade in #Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma

#photography
#WestBank
#Christmas

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115720161014479157

Important thread. A dose of reality AND a glimmer of hope.

Thank you for this, @inthehandsPaul Cantrell.

US TikTok investors in limbo as deal set to be delayed again

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp34442z25ko
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46250259

Firefox 146 brings WebDriver BiDi updates! 🤖

• setExtraHeaders for auto request header injection
• Node context locating for iframes
• Locale + timezone override improvements
• Better network data collection
• Reliable request IDs

Release notes 👇
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/146

My treadmill and my garmin are completely uncalibrated and the only measurements I have for indoor running are time / HR

I have a video I made of an outdoor 5k at a leisurely pace I put on TV while I ran on the treadmill, and the three displayed the following distances at about 25min:

Video: 3.2km
Treadmill: 2.6km
Garmin: 2.1km

I hate this with all my heart. All I want are metrics that make sense.

#running #garmin #runnersofmastodon #treadmillaccuracy

A man works inside his coffee cart on a foggy day in Mosul, #Iraq.

REUTERS/Khalid Al-Mousily

#photography
#coffee

TLA+ modeling tips https://lobste.rs/s/2q5g02 #distributed #formalmethods
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/12/tla-modeling-tips.html

Are there any alternatives to #LinkedIn now that they’re pushing harder and harder for ID verification of their users?

Honestly with the utter shit content on the platform, I’d probably just abandon my account there.
#enshittification #privacy

For users of django-polymorphic - I have just published a roadmap summarizing my intentions for moving forward.

Thank you for your patience!

https://github.com/jazzband/django-polymorphic/discussions/733

#django

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Follow up to degoogle fact 7:
100% of the world's top 500 supercomputers run on the Linux kernel. No Windows. No macOS. Just Linux.

Treat your PC like a supercomputer. Try Linux today!
#linux #degoogle #demicrosoft #bigtech #privacy

I think it's kinda cute how CEOs think the industry based on stealing all intellectual property everywhere doesn't steal the IP that the CEOs feed to it.

Innocent, you know? Almost child-like. "Make sure you use the Pro model, not the free one, to protect our property rights to our code". Aww, sweetie.

US Tech Force

Link: https://techforce.gov/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46277353

At the Fediverse track at SFSCon last month, Marcus Rohrmoser spoke about:

Seppo Onboarding and Install

Recording and other talks: https://fediforum.org/2025-11-sfscon/

Hello everyone!

If anyone has any content that is installing/configuring Fediverse services and you only have it on Youtube, please consider also hosting it on the Fediverse!

I'm working on getting someone on boarded to #Owncast , hi @JenJenJenJen , and I was looking for a tutorial on Owncast. @gabekGabe Kangas was kind enough to allow me to use his video he made for Linode.

https://tubefree.org/w/1HrCSUoTqEmA8TzZnBxiga

I'm more than happy to host anyone's content on TubeFree.org either under my account or under your own!

Let's all support each other every way we can!

Bronica SQAi / Zenzanon 80mm / Ilford HP5+

#analogphotography #filmphoto #filmphotography #120film #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #blackandwhite #analoguephotography #ishootfilm #analog #mediumformat #bronica #ilford #ilfordhp5

What do you wish for Mastodon to come true in 2026?

El Free Software Supporter está disponible en español. Para ver la versión en español haz click aqui: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2025/diciembre #FSF

President Trump says a lawsuit being filed "this afternoon or tomorrow morning” against BBC for over how his Jan. 6 speech was edited by the Panorama TV program.