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.

Security Update: Hollo 0.6.19 Released

We have released Hollo 0.6.19 to address a security vulnerability in Fedify's HTML parsing code.

This vulnerability (CVE-2025-68475) is a ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) issue that could allow an attacker to cause service unavailability by sending specially crafted HTML responses during federation operations. The malicious payload is small (approximately 170 bytes) but can block the Node.js event loop for extended periods.

We strongly recommend all Hollo operators upgrade to version 0.6.19 immediately.

Field Details
CVE CVE-2025-68475
Severity High (CVSS 7.5)
Action Upgrade to Hollo 0.6.19

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Security Update: Hollo 0.6.19 Released

We have released Hollo 0.6.19 to address a security vulnerability in Fedify's HTML parsing code.

This vulnerability (CVE-2025-68475) is a ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) issue that could allow an attacker to cause service unavailability by sending specially crafted HTML responses during federation operations. The malicious payload is small (approximately 170 bytes) but can block the Node.js event loop for extended periods.

We strongly recommend all Hollo operators upgrade to version 0.6.19 immediately.

Field Details
CVE CVE-2025-68475
Severity High (CVSS 7.5)
Action Upgrade to Hollo 0.6.19

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Driving myself crazy trying to remember the name of a social media reader project. Things I (think I) remember about it:

1. Conceptually, it was basically an RSS reader but had the ability to aggregate social media sites that didn't use RSS.

2. It ran as a browser plugin, not a standalone app or website.

3. It had a very "a trans catgirl wrote this" name and aesthetic, that did not make it obvious what the project actually was. Think like "pink robot kitten explosion" except, like. Not that, obviously.

4. I've seen the engine (?) of it repackaged as a plugin/extension for other feed reader apps.

And yes I am aware the above sounds like a fever dream but I
swear to gods this was (is?) real and did (does?) exist and, fedi, if there's one place on the internet that may be able to remember this for me wholesale, I believe it to be you. Halp?

Edit: Found it! Knew you'd come through, fedi!

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speaking of shoulds, I've been occasionally tempted by the prospect of buying a Playdate. i'm sure some of you have been paying attention to it more than I am - is it a good gimmicky small game handheld?

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I read a post on the other blue hellsite about a migration from AWS to Hetzner. They now spend 48k instead of 420k. Nice.

But wait a minute. They say 200 concurrent users!

I don't know what that company does with those 200 users, but 4k a month at Hetzner? Even if we assume you could get away with 2k if you remove the redundancy, that's 30 really beefy bare metal machines. What work load do you have that you need to have a beefy bare metal machine for 7 users?
That's 3 cores per user!

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토요일
어쩐지 요일 주제가 나오는 때마다 이 두사람으로 글을 쓰게 되는 것 같아요
비록 두번째지만...
*Dx3rd 「Storming Fairy」 PC2 시나리오 로이스 언급이 있습니다.
https://posty.pe/680dhx
@daily_1hour@uri.life매일_전력_1시간

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This is how I feel about Firefox too. There's no alternative. No, really, Librewolf is Firefox, who exactly do you think you're sticking it to? And Vivaldi is a proprietary browser built on Google's engine, you're sticking it to nobody but yourself. Oh, you're switching to Servo? Not this decade you're not.

Mozilla CEOs have always been incompetent, but there's no other alternative outside of the direct control of people who are many orders of magnitude worse. We support Firefox or we lose the web.

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/Doomed_Daniel/statuses/115747326352300042
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I don't think I'll stop using Firefox anytime soon.
Yes, their management are fucking idiots and it's annoying that I'll have to disable new AI features whenever they release them..

But the alternative is to use something Chromium-based, which would make Google's domination of web technology absolute - and Google is 100x more evil than Mozilla ever could be.

I hope this fucking bubble pops before Mozilla fucks up Firefox so badly that it becomes completely unusable

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