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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冬至快樂

Happy solstice!

I recently discovered that Chinese people do all sorts of stuff for the solstice like eating dumplings and soup balls.

My objections to Christmas run strong and deep so in order to make sure the kids don't feel deprived, we have taken to celebrating that instead. The kids still have a thing to talk about when they go back to school and it is cultural and family gathering that isn't centered around praying to the consumerist gods.

If the post person has the ability to ruin the holiday by not delivering something on time, than I dare say it wasn't worth celebrating.

May this long night be passed with people you love and to hell with the rest of it.

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TIL: even if you've used ssh as a glorified telnet, as I have for ages, you should (re-?) read the ssh man page. There's a lot in there that I've found useful today, in particular the escape-characters section. (And did you know that you can request an ssh session be re-keyed _in flight_, presumably without a disconnect/reconnect?)

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◯年日記に憧れるけど、紙製品を増やしたくなくてウダウダしていたら
iPhoneのジャーナルで「◯月◯日」で検索すれば過去の記事をワッと見られることに気がついた。
これ一年以上前のものも見られるのかな。もっと気軽にジャーナルに記録をつけていこう。

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For those wondering why I'm making such a fuss about , here's an excerpt from Terry Pratchett's . Susan, a mortal who is Death's granddaughter, has just saved the Hogfather (a Santa/Father Christmas type figure) from a messy death at the hands of those who would prefer a more clockwork universe.

I WILL GIVE YOU A LIFT BACK, said Death, after a while.

"Thank you. Now... tell me..."

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM?

"Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?"

NO.

"Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact."

THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN.

...

"Really? Then what would have happened, pray?"

A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD.

They walked in silence for a moment.

"Ah," said Susan dully. "Trickery with words. I would have thought you'd have been more literal-minded than that. "

I AM NOTHING IF NOT LITERAL-MINDED. TRICKERY WITH WORDS IS WHERE *HUMANS* LIVE.

"All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... *fantasies* to make life bearable. "

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little --"

YES. AS PRACTICE YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

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Happy to all who celebrate.

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Matt Ford fantasizes about a deTrumpification process he hopes will be undertaken by the next administration:

"When Trump tore down the East Wing, his henchmen concealed the rubble from public view, as if they knew on some fundamental level that it was wrong. The next president should make the ballroom’s fate a cause for public celebration. Families should be there to watch it happen."


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newrepublic.com/article/204699

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Just had someone leave feedback on my F/OSS project saying “maybe that's fine if a product is focused on your Chinese community.”

I'm Korean. Every single piece of documentation is in English. There's nothing in Chinese anywhere in the project.

This kind of microaggression is exhausting. As a non-white maintainer, you deal with these assumptions constantly—people who feel entitled to your labor while casually othering you based on your name.

It chips away at your motivation. It makes you wonder why you bother.

https://github.com/dahlia/optique/issues/59#issuecomment-3678606022

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🎬 "THE WAYBACK MACHINE" by Diego Diaz & Can Sark earned an Honorable Mention in the Internet Archive’s 2025 Public Domain Day Film Contest.

The film is a witty take on the @internetarchive & the dread of near-infinite copyright. What kind of bold, creative film can YOU make for the 2026 contest? Show us!

📆 Deadline: Jan 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/20

@internetarchive

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