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.

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We are about to get a "post-American internet," because we are entering a post-American *era* and a post-American *world*. Some of that is Trump's doing, and some of that is down to his predecessors.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-s

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Uncle Sam staring into a funhouse mirror that has made him painfully thin. The reflection is wearing a Trump wig and has orange skin. He stands atop a map of the world that stretches to infinity. In the background is a shantytown with the TRUMP logomark rising in the sky over it.
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配信者さん「OBSは信用できないバージョンがあるから更新しない方がいい」

わい「セキュリティ的な面や細かな動作最適化を取りこぼすのはもったいないから原則最新版で良い。何かあったら1バージョン戻せるように旧インストーラを残してきなさい」

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Another interesting adventure from the life of a : "Where do all these requests come from?"

These spikes come and go on a fairly steady rhythm (each ~60 minutes). I found this to be interesting, so I investigated which URLs are being requested the most during these spikes.

Turns out: It's the emojis. I don't mind as they're being returned early by Varnish, but why so much? 2.5 million times per 24 hours seems like _a lot_.

Two red lines mark the Mastodon 4.5 upgrade.

A graph showing the requests from NGINX, with a time scale of 24 hours.A graph showing the requests from NGINX, with a time scale of 7 days.Aggregated logs from NGINX, parsing the URL, and showing the top ten most requested URLs.
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I keep saying that understanding an individual’s relationship with abuse and abusers is the key to understanding their relationship with Trump.

Add this from @IveyJanetteIvey Janette McClelland to the file of evidence for that claim: mastodon.social/@IveyJanette/1

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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: protocolsforpublishers.com/lon

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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: protocolsforpublishers.com/lon

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Is anyone aware of a 10th Edition Research Unix qemu image?

(Edit: I don't care about qemu here, and have no idea if there's any overlap between what qemu supports and what v10 ran on; I just want a virtual image I can run on my mac.)

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I bring up a little talk of Germany with my dad and now I am getting recounts of stories of when he flew the Fulda Gap to drop supplies at the border. He says when landing that was the first time he heard someone performing 99 Luftballons ... he says the lyrics felt too real in that context.

Fun bonus fact is that Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen of Nena is a very very distant relative of mine from the Fahrenkrog name on my dad's side.

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I believe that Computer Science has a place in "The Liberal Arts Education"-- that is I think an understanding of how computers are made, programming and algorithms should be a part of what a "well educated" person knows regardless of their particular area of focus.

This is not the case at present and one can be considered "well educated" a know nothing about computers.

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Recently I had occasion to pose a question "which is more likely, flipping 10 heads in a row with a normal coin or getting four sixes in a row with a normal six sided die/dice". I asked a couple of people to work it out in their heads and was interested that there are a few different approaches. How would you decide which is more likely? What calculations would you do? What do you already know without needing to calculate that you can use to help?

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