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.
People in power keep trying to make technology more oppressive and indifferent to your rights. But EFF supporters fight back, every single time. Stand with our community today! https://eff.org/yec
Israeli occupation forces distributed warning leaflets in Tubas, in the northern occupied West Bank, this morning, threatening Palestinian residents that posting, sharing, or publishing online content critical of Israel would be treated as a terrorist offense, potentially resulting in arrest or imprisonment.
The leaflets stated:
"We are monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment, as has happened in this house. We have warned you."
We will be at at this year's Chaos Communication Congress #39C3 in Hamburg. We will host a Post-Platform Digital Publishing workshop over three days, on 27.12. at 20:30-21:30, on 28.12. at 20:00-21:30, and on 30.12. at 11:30-13:00. If you are in Hamburg and visiting 39C3, come by and say hello!
Our ongoing project, the Post-Platform Digital Publishing Toolkit, is our quest into self-hosted, more autonomous, and more fun ways of publishing online. At the workshop, we will engage with digital publishing methods that operate independently of big tech platforms and products, using free and open-source software. We will create our own RSS feeds (.xml files) from existing personal websites and blogs, and discuss how to publish with copyleft, both online (in the era of YouTube, Spotify, and "AI" crawlers) and offline, in the context of piracy practices within print publishing today.
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?
Israeli occupation forces distributed warning leaflets in Tubas, in the northern occupied West Bank, this morning, threatening Palestinian residents that posting, sharing, or publishing online content critical of Israel would be treated as a terrorist offense, potentially resulting in arrest or imprisonment.
The leaflets stated:
"We are monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment, as has happened in this house. We have warned you."
My name is Dr. Bernadette “bird” Bowen and I was fired for telling the truth about Charlie Kirk in September. If someone could hire me before I potentially become homeless in a month or two, that would be great LOL
Prediction for 2026: There will still be more than enough people and organizations that will not jump on the fascism bandwagon and more than enough people who urgently need allies against it. There will be even more silence. Because of fear, because of despair. And it will be even more important to keep breaking that silence, to show and to understand that we are not alone. When times are getting darker, we need to bring brighter torches.
The Pet of the Week is Dusty Lucille! "She dreams of a life with sun-drenched rugs and quiet comforts." If you can't adopt at the moment, please consider fostering. FAAS is now over capacity, and the residents could use a warm and cozy place to decompress over the holidays. https://alamedapost.com/features/alameda-life/dusty-lucille-sweet-smart-sunny/