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.
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/
A lot of feedback I’ve gotten on my post about passkeys from yesterday is about fears around a passkey sync provider account becoming “locked” or otherwise invalid.
If your passkey sync fabric provider can remotely nuke your saved passkeys from instances of the app running on your devices or otherwise make the data inaccessible, that’s genuinely horrible and unacceptable. I would never recommend a person use that software and cloud support. It calls peer-driven end-to-end encrypted sync and common sense into question.
Personally, I’d never use a passkey manager that had that property. I certainly wouldn’t contribute my time and attention to building such a manager. I’m also not familiar with a single passkey manager with that property. It is a serious leap to assume that sync being turned off deletes datas on devices or otherwise makes it inaccessible.
If a sync provider can delete your data from your devices, you don’t own your data. They do. If you cannot export your data from apps from that service to another app, then you don’t own your data.
These values that I hold personally are why I’m proud to work with individuals in standards bodies to design and build out data export and import. My recent conference keynote about passkeys took a long moment to celebrate the industry-wide collaboration to ensure people always own their data, even if they switch apps or platforms.
Is mastodon on a serious network. Where is the slop and kardians? You for your answer.
In TypeScript JSX, I mount:
<img src="coui://wikimedia-banff.jpg" style={{width: "50vw", height: "50vh", zIndex: 9002}} />
I have some reason to believe the web browser I'm executing this in is "fucked". On rendering, I find this CSS results in the image exactly fitting the screen, 100% on both axes.
Should this be taken as evidence the web browser is fucked?
The PyCon US 2026 Call for Proposals is open for just a couple more days, and you (yes, you!) have something to talk about! You can find info and details about proposing Talks, Charlas, Tutorials, and Posters at https://us.pycon.org/2026/speaking/guidelines/.
Have you gotten your proposals in yet?
Work in progress.
As a linguist, this tickles me more than you'll ever know. :)
스라소니 검색했더니 포버트가 속한 캐나다 스라소니는 한국사람들이 아는 스라소니하고는 사실상 다른 종이래 근데 웃긴 건 얘네 주식이 토끼임ㅋㅋㅋ 하긴 근데 생각해보면 닉이 속한 여우도 주식 중 하나가 토끼지... 그래
You aren't obsolete and no one can make you obsolete.
🌐🤴 Who needs a FireFox when you have a WebBoy
If a 4000 year old statuary fragment can be this chill then so can you
Reminder: no machine, no technology, no asshole can ever make any sentient being "obsolete".
Not a single mention of Glitch during our final company all hands of 2025 was the last nail in the coffin of my corporate career. 💔
In 2026, I’m starting fresh after some much needed time to do absolutely nothing. More news soon. ✨
🚨 THE FINAL EIGHT 🚨
We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.
Don’t miss your chance to vote!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: https://twsu.forms.app/wpit2025-qf
That the #1 search term in Google world-wide 2025 was "gemini" is either depressing or embarrassing advertising…
https://trends.withgoogle.com/year-in-search/2025/
#Satire accounts to follow:
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
@McSweeneysFlipMcSweeney's Internet Tendency - McSweeney's Internet Tendency
@newsthump - Newsthump
@MissingThePtMissing The Point - Missing The Point
@indexThe American Bystander - American Bystander
@theonion.com🦜 Home - The Onion - The Onion (feed)@theshovel.com.au🦜 The Shovel - The Shovel (feed)
GERMAN LANGUAGE
@derpostillonDer Postillon 📯 - Der Postillon
@zdfmagazinZDF Magazin Royale 
- ZDF Magazin Royale
@janboehmJan Böhmermann 🤨 - Jan Böhmermann
FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement
Link: https://www.axios.com/2025/12/17/brendan-carr-fcc-independent-senate-testimony-website
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303260
A nice list of online places where you can find human-curated music.
Reminder: You can let Mozilla know what you think about AI and other stupid shit.
(Edited to fix link.)
Reminder: You can let Mozilla know what you think about AI and other stupid shit.
(Edited to fix link.)
おやすみ・・・ 
Scanned Textures is now on sale again for 50% off! Each pack has 200 textures each good for personal and commerical use. Use them in your games, comics, TTRPGs, videos, etc.
https://itch.io/s/172874/scanned-textures-winter-sale-2025
https://buymeacoffee.com/clasticartistic WS50SALE
#textures #assets #art #design #sale #discount #indie #fediart #mastoart
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Are you using #signals in #Django? Do you want to skip receivers when loading fixtures (especially for m2m relations)? Help me to fix this 9 years old ticket and review PR with the "raw" argument for m2m_changed signals #review #OpenSource
Nabu Casa was just the first commercial partner of the Open Home Foundation. Today, we got a second. Apollo will steward the ESPHome brand and will work with OHF on amazing ESPHome products!
https://newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/meet-our-new-partner-apollo-automation/
📙 Le nouveau numéro de Dimensions est sorti!
Dans cette édition, zoom sur les matières plastiques. Si elles ont permis d’énormes progrès, elles se heurtent aujourd’hui au défi de la pollution qu’elles engendrent.
Disponible gratuitement dans les caissettes à journaux du campus ou sur https://dimensions.epfl.ch
The recall-ers specifically cite the recent "nonwithstanding clause" attacks against Teachers' union members and transgender minors as their motivation. The UCP member targeted here refers to the attempts to hold a vote on whether he keeps his job, as "undermining democracy".
Anyway if you're in Calgary-Cross or Brooks-Medicine Hat, it would help if you and a few thousand of your friends could sign this:
https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/calgary-s2m5l3ffz/-/a-v2OAoE0vRlKBhJR40oN_LA%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0
The Rut was magic! https://bigeyedeer.wordpress.com/
Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
Link: https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2025-12-17-yep-passkeys-still-have-problems/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301585
PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AwetTesfaiesus/115733900556298959
Wenn ich mich an die digitale #Polarisierung auf #X erinnere, dann fühlt sich das nach Enge an. Die #Reichweitenlüge antisozialer & algorithmischer #Konzernmedien befeuert die #Zerblasung unserer #Demokratie.
Hier auf #Mastodon freue ich mich über viel mehr gelungene #Dialoge & wertschätzende Erwähnungen wie hier durch #MdB 
@AwetTesfaiesusAwet Tesfaiesus, MdB 🙏
Ich glaube wirklich, dass das #Fediversum & unser #Grundgesetz viel bessere #Politik ermöglichen als bisher. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/der-bundes-koalitionsvertrag-von-1961-als-abweg-vom-grundgesetz/
You can't win, Apple.
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
Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability
The Seven Deadly #UX Sins of the #Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix): https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html. cc: 
@mastodonmigration 
@laurenshof @fediversenews 
@cheeaunChee Aun 🤔 
@rolleRoni Laukkarinen 
@scottjenson 
@zeldman 
@imanijoyImani
#Django MailAuth just got a documentation refresh! 🎷 ✍️
https://django-mail-auth.rtfd.io/
In der Hoffnung jemanden damit zu nerdsnipen:
Was sind in Deutschland die Städte/Gemeinden mit einer Levensthein-Distanz von 1, die den geringsten geografischen Abstand haben?
Heilbronn und Heilsbronn, 116km
Mössingen und Wössingen, 75km
Wer bietet weniger?
it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive test suite written by somebody else, 5 different models, a megawatt-hour of energy, a swimming pool full of water, and a month of spare time of an extremely senior engineer
#rabisquarta de fantasmas e assombrações
Today I found a tool to design favicons in the terminal! 🤯
🎨 **rusticon** — A mouse-driven SVG favicon editor for the terminal.
💯 Create and edit 8×8 or 16×16 pixel icons with 256 colors & export them as SVG.
🦀 Written in Rust!
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ronilan/rusticon
Just found out that Netflix is taking down She-Ra: Princesses of Power in February and thereafter there won't be a legal way to watch the whole series.
Well, shit.
The series was a perfect example of the sort of representation that would have made a huge difference to me if I'd had it when I was growing up. It's comforting to me even now as a badly adjusted queer adult. It's not perfect, but it dealt with a lot of themes on top of specifically queer issues that don't get a lot of attention in mass media, and it doesn't deserve to be swept under the carpet, taken away from the people it might mean a similar amount to in the future.
I'm sure people will be able to get hold of it if they want to track it down, but removing this stuff from discoverability is what does the damage. The sooner the industry implodes and we can go back to the concept of actually buying media that we enjoy the better.
After a number of truly awful attempts, I have a post about "Non-Sendable First Design" that I think I can live with.
I like this approach and I think you might like it too. It's simple, flexible, and most importantly, it looks "normal".
Misty
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Arend van Beelen
Dan Piponi
Eugen Rochko
Will Vincent
Olivier Forget
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
Jenniferplusplus
Carlton Gibson
