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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Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social
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Today's learning experience: it looks like a HTTP Accept: of */* (or a missing one) from something claiming to be a browser is a good sign of a bad crawler, apart from bingbot (thanks Microsoft, or maybe bingbot is bad too). I learned this from kitsunemimi.pw/notes/posts/how

How Twitter is (probably) crawling the Internet for AI

As a bored sysadmin you might SSH into one of your servers and run htop or tail -f access.log. Last Sunday was one of those tail -f access.log days. You take a cursory look at your web server logs slo

kitsunemimi.pw · Technical Blog

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hailey @hailey.at@bsky.brid.gy
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First community labeler taking actions on atproto using @roost.tools@bsky.brid.gyROOST’s Osprey. entire Ozone and Osprey stack running on a $50/m OVH machine, with up to seven days of full firehose backfill for investigating patterns and exploring the network.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oisofpd7lj26yvgiivf3lxsi/post/3ma5t3rame223

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Shared by Jim DeLaHunt

In 1998, Congress committed an act of mass cultural erasure, extending copyright by 20 years, including for existing works (including ones that were already in the public domain), and for 20 years, virtually *nothing* entered the US public domain.

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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/2025/12/17/boo

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Adam S. Smith @AdamStuartSmith@sauropods.win
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I'm thinking of uninstalling the excellent Plugin and defederating my sites from the . For technical reasons only. CPU goes through the roof when new posts are boosted for the first time, causing 508 errors.

Does anyone else suffer from this problem and have any suggestions to lighten the load?

Maybe I’m overreacting and should just live with the minute or two of daily downtime?

I have Litespeed cache installed.

Affected sites: @dinotoyblog @blog@animaltoyforum.comAnimal Toy Blog @blog@monstertoyblog.com

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BastilleBSD :freebsd: @BastilleBSD@fosstodon.org
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

We'd sure be grateful if you'd take a minute to respond to the 2025 BastilleBSD annual user survey.

Your feedback helps us better understand our community and shape the future of the project.

Thank you

forms.gle/fWF3A8APyN7wGfc46

BastilleBSD 2025 User Survey

Bastille wouldn't exist without our community of users. This survey helps us better understand who that community is and how the project is being used. The results of this survey will help prioritize platform compatibility and gather feedback for areas of improvement. Thank you for your continued support.

docs.google.com · Google Docs

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dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: @dch@bsd.network
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

[EDIT] fixed and out on all the mirrors! Thanks for your patience!

The /latest/ packages repo, for amd64 FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE, has invalid metadata.

TLDR if you see this error during `pkg update -r FreeBSD-ports`

pkg: sqlite error while executing grmbl in file update.c:171: NOT NULL constraint failed: packages.path

Then go for a walk/pizza/fresh air, and check again when you're back.

Baptiste & Antoine have fixed it in the main package builder, and it's trickling out to mirrors atm.

Technical details in github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/

I'll also update this toot once it's sorted!

# pkg update -r FreeBSD-ports Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue... Fetching data.pkg: 100% 10 MiB 2.2MB/s 00:05 Processing entries: 99% pkg: sqlite error while executing grmbl in file upd...

while updating repos, pkg: sqlite error while executing grmbl in file update.c:171: NOT NULL constraint failed: packages.path · Issue #2575 · freebsd/pkg

# pkg update -r FreeBSD-ports Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue... Fetching data.pkg: 100% 10 MiB 2.2MB/s 00:05 Processing entries: 99% pkg: sqlite error while executing grmbl in file upd...

github.com · GitHub

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CBC News @cbcnews@flipboard.com
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Citizen recall petition approved against Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cit

Posted into Calgary @calgary-cbcnewsCalgary

Citizen recall petition approved against Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery | CBC News

Alberta's justice minister is the latest member of Premier Danielle Smith's caucus to face a citizen recall petition.

www.cbc.ca · CBC

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ploum @ploum@mamot.fr
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For whatever reason, Github banned my IP for one hour and I need to see what my students have been doing.

They must contribute to the opensource project of their choice and 99% of them end up on Github

And, yes, I have a Github account even if I would like to get rid of it. But I can’t grade my students.

Monopolies are bad. You think that it happens to other? It will hurt you deeply, sooner or later. It will hit you when you least expect it.

ploum.net/2023-02-22-leaving-g

We need to talk about your Github addiction

Ploum - Lionel Dricot · We need to talk about your Github addiction par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

ploum.net

Link author: ploum@ploum@mamot.fr

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7.8.0 – Happy Holidays

ActivityPub for WordPress @activitypub.blog@activitypub.blog

As the year wraps up, ActivityPub 7.8.0 lands with stronger moderation tools, more flexible reactions, and a small surprise. Subscribe to shared blocklists with automatic updates and bulk-import domain blocks. Reactions now support a clean, avatar-free summary view. Plus, curious users can preview the new experimental Social Web Reader inside WordPress admin.

Read more →
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Finn Voorhees @finnvoorhees@mastodon.social
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the irony of Sentry (a crash reporting framework) sending us a message about a critical crash, which was caused by a bug in the latest version of Sentry. So sick of *paid* dependencies introducing massive bugs (Sentry, Superwall, RevenueCat), and then quietly fixing them in point releases without acknowledging the huge impact they have.

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Mark Sample @samplereality@post.lurk.org
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Shared by Jeff Atwood

Taper #15 is out. Each issue contains tiny computational poems centered around a theme—in this case, the numerology of 15, the idea of midpoints and intersections, and other associations with the number 15. The complete code of the poem must be under 2Kb, with no dependencies. Tiny, indeed!

One of my pieces in the issue is an interactive erasure of Shakespeare's Sonnet 15, in which only half the poem can ever be visible at once. Every word you click to reveal erases a word somewhere else. Likewise, every word you click to hide reveals another word. At any given time, exactly half of the original sonnet is visible.

taper.badquar.to/15/sonnet15.h

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
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In 1998, Congress committed an act of mass cultural erasure, extending copyright by 20 years, including for existing works (including ones that were already in the public domain), and for 20 years, virtually *nothing* entered the US public domain.

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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/2025/12/17/boo

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A collage of images representing creative works entering the public domain on Jan 1, 2026.
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