What is Hackers' Pub?

Just finished reading this upsetting story at the BBC today about scam groups that are using terminally ill children to raise money then stiffing the parents of the funds. The story says the scam was tied to an org called Chance Letikva (chanceletikva.org) but stops short of figuring out who's responsible.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgz318y8elo

I spent about 10 seconds looking at the passive DNS for this domain, and found some interesting leads. Passive DNS shows it references the email address davidm@yeahdim.co.il. That email address is tied to multiple website registrations for a person in Israel by the name of David Margaliot, and also Shoshana Margaliot.

A search on this name in Domaintools finds the name David Margaliot tied to at least 25 domains, including ezri.org.il, which is a very odd site that features a huge image of a young child who is apparently in the hospital holding a gift wrapped box with a teddy bear. The site asks for donations but has a strange mission statement: Ezri Association promotes life-saving innovation through a surveillance drone project for emergency response teams, the establishment of an international medical knowledge database, along with other technological initiatives".

I'll probably continue the rest of this in a follow-up story.

Firefox, Thunderbird, and the entire Mozilla Corporation has gleefully announced a hearty "FUCK YOU" to its user base. The same user base who has, repeatedly, said that they DO NOT want A.I. At All. This cavalier announcement only serves as a reminder that anything is corruptible if you throw enough money at it.

You get a lot of benefits when you support #FreeSoftware with a #FSF associate membership: https://www.fsf.org/associate/benefits

https://streetartutopia.com/2025/12/16/christmas-magic-by-david-zinn/

Oh look, it's my stop :3

pushed ts rewrite

>> 총 맞아도 깨어나지 못하는 베개 << 아무래도 총 맞으면 깨어나지 못하는 편이죠... 진짜 아무말이다

That email from the .christmas TLD is probably naughty. In 2025, 99.8% of messages from that domain analyzed by @cloudflare Email Security were classified as malicious or spam. The .lol TLD wasn't much better -- it's no laughing matter.

Find out more at https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025#most-abused-tlds

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/115730052589989499

It is super expensive but it really seems to be time to think about how to create and fund an entity that can fork Firefox while Mozilla does some weird AI pie in the sky shit.

Oh look, it's my stop :3

Just finished reading this upsetting story at the BBC today about scam groups that are using terminally ill children to raise money then stiffing the parents of the funds. The story says the scam was tied to an org called Chance Letikva (chanceletikva.org) but stops short of figuring out who's responsible.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgz318y8elo

I spent about 10 seconds looking at the passive DNS for this domain, and found some interesting leads. Passive DNS shows it references the email address davidm@yeahdim.co.il. That email address is tied to multiple website registrations for a person in Israel by the name of David Margaliot, and also Shoshana Margaliot.

A search on this name in Domaintools finds the name David Margaliot tied to at least 25 domains, including ezri.org.il, which is a very odd site that features a huge image of a young child who is apparently in the hospital holding a gift wrapped box with a teddy bear. The site asks for donations but has a strange mission statement: Ezri Association promotes life-saving innovation through a surveillance drone project for emergency response teams, the establishment of an international medical knowledge database, along with other technological initiatives".

I'll probably continue the rest of this in a follow-up story.

New post! ✨ Prompt caching ✨ My first big project post for @ngrok.com@bsky.brid.gy. 5 weeks, 12217 lines of code, 195 commits. I poured a lot into this one, and learned a lot in the process. I really hope you enjoy it ❤️

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:omevikt7gngl5f6qwhh7s7qz/post/3ma4lltt4zk2e

As someone who's been mass-mass-publishing to JSR since its early days, this has been really frustrating. I even set up a local JSR server to debug it, only to find that the problem simply doesn't exist locally. At this point I'm out of ideas—hoping the JSR team can take a look at the production environment.

https://hollo.social/@fedify/019b2806-9b0b-7982-bad6-eb17c669af4d

We've been struggling with a JSR publishing issue for nearly two months now—@fedify/cli and @fedify/testing packages hang indefinitely during the server-side processing stage, blocking our releases. Strangely, the problem doesn't reproduce on a local JSR server at all.

We've opened a GitHub issue to track this: https://github.com/jsr-io/jsr/issues/1238.

Fedify has been a Deno-first, JSR-first project from the start, and we really want to keep it that way. If you've experienced similar issues or have any insights, we'd appreciate your input on the issue.

As someone who's been mass-mass-publishing to JSR since its early days, this has been really frustrating. I even set up a local JSR server to debug it, only to find that the problem simply doesn't exist locally. At this point I'm out of ideas—hoping the JSR team can take a look at the production environment.

https://hollo.social/@fedify/019b2806-9b0b-7982-bad6-eb17c669af4d

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/115730052589989499

"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off."

Since this is the flat out opposite of Firefox now—you have to go into unsupported debug settings and click eight boxes based on folklore—and there's no acknowledgement that this comment is a complete 180 on Firefox's current policy of enabling AI in secret then trying to trick you into using it… this statement is not a reassurance to me. It feels dishonest and like a continuation of Firefox's dishonesty about AI, "PPA" etc.

I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?

Link: https://world.hey.com/joaoqalves/i-m-a-tech-lead-and-nobody-listens-to-me-what-should-i-do-e16e454d
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286559

The biggest heat pumps

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17p44w87rno
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286030

@kwayk42 @catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

Virtual Pet Responds To WiFi

https://hackaday.com/2025/12/16/virtual-pet-responds-to-wifi/

We've been struggling with a JSR publishing issue for nearly two months now—@fedify/cli and @fedify/testing packages hang indefinitely during the server-side processing stage, blocking our releases. Strangely, the problem doesn't reproduce on a local JSR server at all.

We've opened a GitHub issue to track this: https://github.com/jsr-io/jsr/issues/1238.

Fedify has been a Deno-first, JSR-first project from the start, and we really want to keep it that way. If you've experienced similar issues or have any insights, we'd appreciate your input on the issue.

We've been struggling with a JSR publishing issue for nearly two months now—@fedify/cli and @fedify/testing packages hang indefinitely during the server-side processing stage, blocking our releases. Strangely, the problem doesn't reproduce on a local JSR server at all.

We've opened a GitHub issue to track this: https://github.com/jsr-io/jsr/issues/1238.

Fedify has been a Deno-first, JSR-first project from the start, and we really want to keep it that way. If you've experienced similar issues or have any insights, we'd appreciate your input on the issue.

뭐 했다고 벌써 이 시간인지 🥲
편안한 밤 되세요

What a rollercoaster already this week. 😱😭

I need to plan a long but chill bike ride this week. Does anyone have any favorite Berlin routes (loops or anything that can take a train back with a cheap bike ticket)?

This is not the future

Link: https://blog.mathieui.net/this-is-not-the-future.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288371

@Codeberg

I am happy to pay for it, but —

Is there a way I can have more than 100 repos on Codeberg?

cat: PLEASE feed me, I'm starving 😫😫

me: Cat, there's food in your bowl—

cat: I'm begging you, I'm gonna waste away if you don't feed me 😵😵

me: Cat, it's a clean bowl with fresh food right there—

cat: I can feel the Reaper getting closer 💀💀

me: sits in front of bowl

cat: finally redirects her single brain cell from complaining to observing the food in front of her

cat: eats and then walks away without another word

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야식땡김

"She was a US citizen. #ICE told her,🚨“No one is going to help you.🚨You're all criminals.”

Thrown to the pavement, arrested,💔bruised & hospitalized. She was just driving to work -in case you thought your choices could keep you safe.

Figueroa was simply doing what you probably do every weekday: driving to work..."
-M Little

Latinos describe being detained & assaulted by officers who want to know: “Where were you born?”

#RacialProfiling #Assault #Detention #DHS #USPol
https://archive.is/F1zp8#selection-197.0-197.98

In her book, When Driving Is Not An Option, Anna Zivarts covers some of the reasons transit is so bad for the people who need it most.

"There are people who are going around with a checklist of the
ADA requirements, but you don't have people with different disabilities in the room when you're designing these things," disability advocate Erica Jones explains. "Part of that problem is the economic system we have requires full-time availability from people to have a job at all. And so, you find that if you can't work forty hours or you can't work thirty hours, you might as well be able to work zero hours. And so, a lot of the disabled people who should be in the room when you're designing these things are people who only have the energy for ten or fifteen hours a week of work, and so those people have zero chance of getting into the room.

I'll be giving two talks at #fosdem2026 !

On Saturday on the main stage I will be giving a talk about developing a Microsoft Bob application, and what we can learn from it today.

On Sunday I'll be talking about the history of MCI mail, the MEP2 protocol, and showing how it all worked at the time using my own reverse engineered server with contemporary email clients.

Come see me yap about #retrocomputing #history and rover the dog.

1000 out of 1200 kids in this school in #Oulu, #Finland, arrive by #bicycle, even in winter. 100-150 walk, rest by ski, kicksleds and car. This day it was -17°C, some days it can be colder than -30°C.

Note that this is only one of the four bicycle parking areas of this school 🤗

#Wintercycling #MeanwhileInOulu

cat: PLEASE feed me, I'm starving 😫😫

me: Cat, there's food in your bowl—

cat: I'm begging you, I'm gonna waste away if you don't feed me 😵😵

me: Cat, it's a clean bowl with fresh food right there—

cat: I can feel the Reaper getting closer 💀💀

me: sits in front of bowl

cat: finally redirects her single brain cell from complaining to observing the food in front of her

cat: eats and then walks away without another word

The Future of [JetBrains] Fleet via @bhootJayesh Bhoot https://lobste.rs/s/bgibyk #editors
https://blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2025/12/the-future-of-fleet/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/115730052589989499

It is super expensive but it really seems to be time to think about how to create and fund an entity that can fork Firefox while Mozilla does some weird AI pie in the sky shit.

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俺達は常に自由であり、暴力や違法行為をしないという「自己選択をしてあげている」のだということは大昔の哲学者っぽい人もだいたいそういうこと言ってるからね。

常に「殺さずにいてやっている」くらいの気持ちで生きている。

むずかしいパズル

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​​にて、いしづきさんにうちの子に合う衣装を描いていただきました！
民族衣装っぽくもあり、うちの子要素の蛍石や柑橘類もあり、​​​​​​

쇼츠를 결산해야겠다는 생각은 왜 해서는 사서 고생일까

@schwaJonathan Wight @mkjMatěj Kašpar Jirásek @chbeerChristian Beer Yeah, I write most of the Views that I use myself (and rewrite some too, heyoo)

Daily Akari 😊
Wed Dec 17, 2025
✅Solved in 7:23✅
dailyakari.com/

"She was a US citizen. #ICE told her,🚨“No one is going to help you.🚨You're all criminals.”

Thrown to the pavement, arrested,💔bruised & hospitalized. She was just driving to work -in case you thought your choices could keep you safe.

Figueroa was simply doing what you probably do every weekday: driving to work..."
-M Little

Latinos describe being detained & assaulted by officers who want to know: “Where were you born?”

#RacialProfiling #Assault #Detention #DHS #USPol
https://archive.is/F1zp8#selection-197.0-197.98

俺達は常に自由であり、暴力や違法行為をしないという「自己選択をしてあげている」のだということは大昔の哲学者っぽい人もだいたいそういうこと言ってるからね。

常に「殺さずにいてやっている」くらいの気持ちで生きている。

결산 이미지 만드는 중인데

제가 단단히 미친건지

이번엔 유튜버, 숏폼유튜버/릴스, 영화/드라마/예능/웹예능/인스타매거진/최고의 단일영상(유튜브)

같은 항목들도 결산아카이빙 해놓고 있어요...

음악은 정규/ep 도합 150장 가까이 되어버린...

Rust GCC backend: Why and how https://lobste.rs/s/lvp0jr #rust
https://blog.guillaume-gomez.fr/articles/2025-12-15+Rust+GCC+backend%3A+Why+and+how