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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In September, I distilled some of my decade-plus experience in investigating and reporting data breaches to help you read, understand, and critically analyze a data breach notification.

This blog cuts through the legal lingo and jargon so that you can know what actions to take to protect yourself.

this.weekinsecurity.com/how-to

One of the most important tools you can use on the internet to protect yourself from online security and privacy threats is… an ad-blocker.

In this deep-dive (and one of my favorites), I explain how ad blockers defend against surveillance and malware. I also have plenty of ad blocker suggestions for you to consider!

this.weekinsecurity.com/why-ad

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They were many. Not just rulers, but households, elders, children—lives lived inside systems of memory, labor, belief, and power that did not require a single name. So, to say “Africa is a country” is not a cartographic error. It is the residue of training—what remains after empire leaves but its grammar stays.

Africa moved as many worlds. It still does.

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Image: Map of the ethnic diversity of Africa, overlaid with country borders. Source: National Geographic.

A satellite-style map of Africa overlaid with modern national borders and filled with hundreds of irregular, multicolored regions. The dense patchwork of colors subdivides the continent far beyond state boundaries, suggesting ethnic, linguistic, or cultural groupings rather than countries. Surrounding oceans are dark blue, emphasizing the contrast between Africa’s political borders and its complex internal diversity. From National Geographic.
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It’s been a long time since I last saw the hare couple in my local park.
Yesterday I even thought to myself that they might have moved on. Would be totally understandable since there are way too many dogs there.

But today I saw them both again inside some thick bushes. I tried to be mindful and not disturb them but somehow they always look worried.

Close up of a hare behind a lot of branches, one light brown eye and a long ear is visible and it has a noticeable thick fur and some really long white whiskers.
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My lino block print portrait for prompt addition shows the amateur pioneering American scientist, inventor & women's rights advocate Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888) who did the earliest experiments to show the insulating effect of certain gases & correctly concluded that increasing carbon dioxide levels would affect atmospheric temperature and climate, which we now call the Greenhouse Effect. 🧵

My linocut shows a Victorian woman in dress with apron and sleeves working at a table. She’s viewed from over her shoulder so you can only see her cheek and not her whole face. She has an open book in which she is writing. There is an air pump to one side and two large glass cylinders, each with two thermometers inside. She is printed in a gradient of pale blue at the bottom to bronze at the top on cream coloured washi paper. The numbered and signed print is titled “Eunice Newton Foote.”
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Ab dem 1.1.2026 gibt es hier begleitend zum die Aktion .

Jeden Tag stellt eine Person ein Rezept, Bücher, Organisationen oder etwas anderes interessantes vor, das hoffentlich zum Einstieg ins |e Leben motiviert.

Alle Beiträge werden unter diesem angehefteten Post noch einmal verlinkt, damit keiner davon verloren geht.

So langsam füllt sich schon die Liste und ihr dürft gespannt sein 😁 ❤️

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I like having the shape of things memorized. I like being fluent in the codebases I work on. human memorization works via repeated exposure. it's fine to automate certain things (so long as the automation tool is deterministic) but do it with the awareness that you'll lose the opportunity to become good and knowledgable about something through your menial interactions with it

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This is a camera photo of a YouTube Short I published, playing back on my TV's YouTube app.

I do not look like this. I don't look this young and I'm not trying to. My face isn't remotely this smooth. My skin has blemishes, and freckles. My eyebrows are coarser.

YouTube's stupid AI upscaler has clearly made a pass, and I dislike it. I dislike it very much.

Man with gray beard wearing a headset and a black "Linux For Everyone" T-shirt, seated in a living room with framed landscape art behind him.
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Man pages are divided into section depending on topic. There are 9 different
sections numbered from 1 (General Commands) to 9 (Kernel Developer's Manual).
You can get an introduction to each topic by typing

man <number> intro

In other words, to get the intro to general commands, type

man 1 intro

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They were many. Not just rulers, but households, elders, children—lives lived inside systems of memory, labor, belief, and power that did not require a single name. So, to say “Africa is a country” is not a cartographic error. It is the residue of training—what remains after empire leaves but its grammar stays.

Africa moved as many worlds. It still does.

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Image: Map of the ethnic diversity of Africa, overlaid with country borders. Source: National Geographic.

A satellite-style map of Africa overlaid with modern national borders and filled with hundreds of irregular, multicolored regions. The dense patchwork of colors subdivides the continent far beyond state boundaries, suggesting ethnic, linguistic, or cultural groupings rather than countries. Surrounding oceans are dark blue, emphasizing the contrast between Africa’s political borders and its complex internal diversity. From National Geographic.
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