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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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.

blog.xlab.qianxin.com/p/13ae0f

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The FOSS on Mobile devroom schedule is out!

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track

It's going to be a great day of talks on AOSP, Mobile Linux and more; covering the full stack from SoCs to app ecosystems.

14 full length talks, 7 lightning talks, 23 speakers.

A mobile phone showing lots of logos on the screen: postmarketOS, MNT, AndroidOS, ubports, mobian, CalyxOS, NemoMobile, Sailfish OS, AOSP, PureOS and Droidian.

The logos are just a selection; they don't represent the actual projects with talks in the devroom.
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Thanks to Namespace (namespace.so ) for being Ghostty's first corporate sponsor. They are providing and paying for all of the CI infrastructure for Ghostty (previously ~$1,000/month), unlocking the equivalent ~16 hours of paid contributor time per month. Thank you! ghostty.org/docs/sponsor#corpo

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:rv_blobcat_xmas:​クリスマスイラスト販売中​:meow_santa_full:
ローソン/ファミマ/ミニストップでプリントできます
去年の絵とシリーズっぽい感じにしたので去年の絵も再販してます
L/2判・A4どちらもご用意ございますのでお好みに合わせてお楽しみください

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It's very surreal in this era of disposable websites that change every 6 months to go hunting for sites you visited regularly 10, 20, even 30 years ago and find them still online, and almost entirely unchanged in all that time. Just kinda preserved in amber by some blessed webmaster keeping their server online for decades after decade.

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Updated my Skia wrapper to the latest version. Last time I touched it was in May 2025 and already have to deal with a few API changes, first time to experience an upgrade with Skia, and yep, it's some work. 😴

Very glad I wrote unit tests with golden images back then: everything passes! 😎

Next up: trying Dawn (WebGPU) with the new Skia Graphite backend. I've been reluctant using WebGPU, but it looks like Skia's future, so...

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We’ve published Part 1 of our 2025 End-of-Year Report, highlighting the Foundation’s advocacy efforts, global engagement, and community programs over the past year.

This year’s advocacy and outreach work helped expand FreeBSD’s visibility in meaningful ways. Foundation content surpassed one million impressions across our platforms, reflecting increased engagement and sustained interest in FreeBSD from both new and long-time audiences.

Read Part 1 here:
freebsdfoundation.org/blog/202

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We’ve published Part 1 of our 2025 End-of-Year Report, highlighting the Foundation’s advocacy efforts, global engagement, and community programs over the past year.

This year’s advocacy and outreach work helped expand FreeBSD’s visibility in meaningful ways. Foundation content surpassed one million impressions across our platforms, reflecting increased engagement and sustained interest in FreeBSD from both new and long-time audiences.

Read Part 1 here:
freebsdfoundation.org/blog/202

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Fancy a digital chastity belt?

The UK government wants Apple and Google to stop you from taking or sending pics of your bits.

Intrusive scanning tech on your phone would block nudes unless you verify your age with biometrics or official ID.

It's creepy mission creep.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

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ソフトウェアエンジニアのおっさんが長距離走る (失敗編)
https://sizu.me/zundan/posts/7v9ts0iz43rv

ふりかえるとやっぱりちょっと悔しいなw

@AmaiSaeta_天井冴太👍 さん主催の「専門外の趣味を語る Advent Calendar」の17日目の記事を公開したよ!!
https://adventar.org/calendars/11830

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