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.
And posting addresses is beyond the pale of course
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/115730529166857536
i had "writing a turnkey deployment script for Forgejo Actions runners" on my TODO list for a while & it seems it's time to accelerate that 👀 https://codeberg.org/whitequark/nixos-forgejo-actions-runner
Here’s the thing, an AI assistant that sounds “more human” and “more conversational” is actually WORSE. Like just stahp!!
たま～に昔みたいにアナログで
背景とか描きたいなって気分にはなる
Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/apple_dma_complaint/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290320
GitHub Actions charging per build minute for *self-hosted-runners*? Shit's about to hit the fan lol
Question: A few weeks I saw pass by on the Mastodon TL a concise, technically inclined blog post explaining anti-cheat software in Windows gaming and why you don't find it working on Linux. The author's Mastopost about it used some specific wording like "This describes the world as it is, not as we want it to be". I am trying to find this to link it to a friend. Does anyone know what this post might have been?
EDIT: Via 
@pearl#1 trackball mouse enjoyer it was this https://tulach.cc/the-issue-of-anti-cheat-on-linux/
🚀 The RustConf 2026 CFP is open!
Have a story, tool, experiment, or insight to share? Submit a proposal by Feb 16 and help shape the Rust community’s biggest annual gathering.
📍 Montréal + online | Sept 8–11
https://sessionize.com/rustconf-2026/
RE: https://mstdn.social/@vonExplaino/115727253379148743
Smooth Sloperator
Final exams are over. I’m free.
First work I’ll do in winter break is setting triple boot on my desktop. Currently I have Windows installed and will install FreeBSD and Fedora.
Windows: video games
FreeBSD: kernel development
Linux: Vivado and verilator
I prefer Linux on bare metal to WSL 2 because WSL is a nightmare. WSL 2 definitely has a problem with managing redundant disk usage. Docker Desktop on Windows is sometimes too slow and buggy. Running programs on WSL (especially I/O heavy workloads) always have performance issues.
Why Fedora over Ubuntu, Arch, RHEL, OpenSUSE, etc? I’m using Linux for both FPGA (Vivado) and Linux kernel programming, and other distros have issues with one of those two.
Ubuntu: Issues with `make install` kernels (according to Torvalds from a recent video in Linus Tech Tips).
Arch: Lack of support for Vivado. Also I’m against rolling release because I won’t use Linux very often.
OpenSUSE: KDE without customization is worse then Gnome, and I don’t have time to tune my desktop environment to make good look.
Fedora is a good all-rounder for both RTL-related stuff and kernel engineering.
photo of an eink device and handwritten text
#decemberAdventure day 16
I started writing a very compact little monitor rom for my ilo vm. This isn't quite done yet, but is about halfway finished.
Just for fun, and as a non-directly computer thing, I also sketched off a set of handwritten single stroke glyphs for the ilo instruction set, and started writing out some words using them.
Full logs at http://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/
I'm curious about this:
If there were more tools/resources/services available for small community servers, would you be more inclined to bring your friends/community onto the fediverse?
The classic social media problem of "everyone wants to socialize-very few want to run infrastructure"- that can lead us to the same centralization problem we see in mainstream platforms.
If there was for example a well documented open source self-hostable activitypub implementation specifically made for small communities , I think that would be great for the fediverse.
I'm working on a project I'm really excited to share soon, but I wanted to get some thoughts :D
Feel free to reply with your thoughts!
#buildthefediverse #buildmastodon #fediverse #mastodon #activitypub
If there was for example a well documented open source self-hostable activitypub implementation specifically made for small communities , I think that would be great for the fediverse.
I'm a no fun pessimistic person. So I feel an obligation to comment.
A small community focus and federation with Mastodon, and similar software, are goals that are conflicting. The conflict arises from how Mastodon et al address posts. As I put it
The problem with these groups and the current Fediverse is that one cannot address the group publicly without addressing one's followers.
This is not an unsolvable hurdle. I mostly mean to say a small community focus is not something achievable through a single independent implementation. One needs to change large parts of the Fediverse for it.
Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and Cosmic Epoch 1 released
https://r1os.com/sites/news/pop-os-24-04-lts-released.php
#r1os #popos #cosmicdesktop #ubuntu #linux #linuxdesktop #system76
Forget how to spell a word or a variation of a word? Use
look portion_of_word_you_know
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>
Blogged: Creating a .NET CLR profiler using C# and NativeAOT with Silhouette
https://andrewlock.net/creating-a-dotnet-profiler-using-csharp-with-silhouette/
In this post I look at how to create a simple .NET profiler. But instead of using C++, the profiler uses C# and NativeAOT with @kevingosse.netKevin Gosse 's Silhouette library
I'm curious about this:
If there were more tools/resources/services available for small community servers, would you be more inclined to bring your friends/community onto the fediverse?
The classic social media problem of "everyone wants to socialize-very few want to run infrastructure"- that can lead us to the same centralization problem we see in mainstream platforms.
If there was for example a well documented open source self-hostable activitypub implementation specifically made for small communities , I think that would be great for the fediverse.
I'm working on a project I'm really excited to share soon, but I wanted to get some thoughts :D
Feel free to reply with your thoughts!
#buildthefediverse #buildmastodon #fediverse #mastodon #activitypub
The RustConf 2026 CFP is open! 🚀
The Rust Foundation is proud to support the flagship annual conference that celebrates the research, tools, production insights, and creative experiments emerging across the Rust ecosystem. Starting today, you can submit a talk proposal!
📅 Submit a proposal by Feb 16
📍 Montréal + online (Sept 8-11)
Learn more: https://rustfoundation.org/media/the-rustconf-2026-call-for-proposals-is-open/
#rustlang #rustconf
Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj69d89l8l5o
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280775
Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Curious Keyboards
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/16/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-curious-keyboards/
artistic nude photography
Strong contenders for my favorite personal photo work of 2025
Statue of Black teen who fought segregation replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. Capitol
https://wapo.st/3MwSBJE
Redoing my website, internet hivemind: what do we think about including a blogroll style section linking to friends' websites?
Mozilla announcing their vision for the future followed immediately by a link to Twitter pretty much sums up the state of things
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
I just encountered the statistic that every year 3 tons of concrete are placed per person on earth and now I'm wondering how much of socialism you could reproduce by instituting a rule that you're not allowed to use concrete unless you can find some person to allocate that much concrete out of their 3 tons/year personal budget. Want to build a 2700-ton skyscraper? Better find 900 people to affirmatively agree they want that skyscraper built
Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
Link: https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291156
Show HN: Interactive Common Lisp: An Enhanced REPL
Link: https://github.com/atgreen/icl
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259671
Video. Rome opens new Metro C stations near Colosseum ruins
https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/12/16/rome-opens-two-new-metro-c-stations-showcasing-ancient-ruins-near-colosseum?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Videos Without Commentary 
@videos-without-commentary-euronewsVideos Without Commentary
GeForce 4
Maximum PC - April 2002
https://books.google.com/books?id=DwIAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=twopage&q&f=false
incredible, github is going to start charging for self-hosted actions runners (in private repositories)
We are introducing a $0.002 per-minute Actions cloud platform charge for all Actions workflows across GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners.
https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/
Been working on an important series of follow-up stories about the evolution of the Aisuru botnet, an Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet that's been blamed for successive record-smashing DDoS attacks in recent months. Meanwhile, the people who have controlled Aisuru for some time recently insisted up and down that they were not responsible for the massive Aisuru attacks of late.
Hats off to Xlab for this incredible report, which explains (to a degree) how Aisuru gave rise to a distinct botnet called Kimwolf, which has an estimated 2-3 million infected hosts and is growing rapidly. I don't have to tell anyone that if 800k bots from Aisuru can down the largest sites on the internet, Kimwolf can take down entire countries.
https://blog.xlab.qianxin.com/p/13ae0f3c-a75d-4764-b8f2-37e14f976935/
“Because this involves the physical world, the scale up will take a bit of time, but I think in the ’27-’28 time frame, I think that Waymo will be meaningful in our financials”
~Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r56tewdetlqjcxcmktcp4m2w/post/3ma4lzx2mis26
We took Odin on the tram to the Christmas market. He doesn’t photograph well at night (this was the best photo), but rest assured he got so, so many cuddles from random tourists tipsy on glühwein #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #amsterdam
Forget how to spell a word or a variation of a word? Use
look portion_of_word_you_know
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>
GitHub sending out emails today about a price change taking effect Jan 1st 2026 is a bit cheeky when lots of DevOps teams are likely to be thin on the ground
https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/
Now while it does suggest that change is likely a reduction in bills, the change to charge for **self hosted** run time is going to sting (that goes live March 1st 2026)
I think 
@Codeberg and 
@forgejo are likely to see another uptick in users.
Track Surveillance (Flock Cameras) Tech in Local Government Meetings
Link: https://alpr.watch/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290916
そもそもGitHubからOBSの古いバージョンって落とせなかったっけ、ソースがあるから勘違いしてた？
どちらにしろGitとコンパイルできる環境さえあれば古いバージョンもいくらでも生成できるけど
"a finite ring that has at least two elements and no zero divisors is a field" is a result i remember being so hyped about when i first heard it. like what do you mean it's THAT easy to get a field...
나에게 사진은 메모를 적어두고 던져둔 것들을 들춰서 다시 쓴다는 점에서, 글쓰기와 비슷하다. 메모부터 확 다가오지 않으면 결국 그저그런 결과로 끝나고, 적을 때는 덤덤했던 반짝이를 나중에 발견하기도 한다. 크게 봐줘서 90%의 메모는 그냥 자원 낭비로 끝나고. 🤣
GitHub Actions charging per build minute for *self-hosted-runners*? Shit's about to hit the fan lol
Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
Link: https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291156
Mwahahaha, too many folks run self-hosted Actions runners, so GitHub is starting to charge for them starting March 1st 2026 (while reducing pricing for hosted runners by an ominously specific 39% starting January 1st).
The seasonal decorations are up!
Stefano Marinelli
🫧 socialcoding..
Eugen Rochko
