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.
Less than a month left until the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM)!
With over 900 events already announced, here's my little companion web app that works on desktop and can be installed on mobile to help you with the planning: https://fosdem.sojourner.rocks/2026
New features this year (more improvement suggestions welcome):
- Speaker biographies (click on the person's name or visit the speakers page).
- Bookmark export.
Using AI in court? Yikes. 😬
"In one notable case, a Toronto lawyer is facing a criminal contempt of court proceeding after including cases invented by ChatGPT in her submissions earlier this year, then denying it when questioned by the presiding judge. In a letter to the court months later, the lawyer said she misrepresented what happened out of "fear of the potential consequences & sheer embarrassment."" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/increasing-ai-use-canadian-courtrooms-carries-risk-9.7031131
RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115786041089084588
Mi año 2025 en Mastodon gracias a @phanpy
Parece que me animé a final de año y dejé esto bastante abandonado antes del verano.
console.log()だけだと本番で困る、でも本格的なロギングは設定が面倒——という方向けに、ちょうどいい落としどころを探る記事を書きました。
2026年版：JavaScript/TypeScriptのロ...
噢噢這年代竟然還有全新的全國特攝！！ 
不過看介紹劇照感覺很90年代風XD
ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility
The ReactOS free software project is turning 30 this year and its "open-source Windows" OS ambitions remain. They are starting out this year with another "major step" towards Windows NT 6.0 compatibility...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Starts-2026
私こう見えて悪い子なんです
The Most Searched For Winter Dessert In The South
https://www.southernliving.com/most-searched-for-winter-dessert-11876805?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into GLORIOUS Desserts 
@glorious-desserts-JanetteSpeyerGLORIOUS Desserts
This one got ~1 mio views on X. No AI was harmed writing this post. https://steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inference-speed
Happy New Year y'all!!
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Happy New Year!
🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉
아 시간을 보니 잠들면 일어나기 뒤지게 힘들겠군… 그걸 알면 진작에 자던지… ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Our little Pax is pensive this morning, cooking up some shenanigans no doubt.😊
Pax and all of us here want to thank you for being the special Fediverse friends that you are! We appreciate each of you so much! You've touched our lives and made us better, just by being you!💖
Have an especially Happy New Year! Wishing you and your loved ones peace, security, good health and friendship in 2026 and always!
#Pax #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #Cat #Catstodon #MastoCats #FediCats #Pets #Animals #Cute #Tabby #Kitty #Katzen #Katze #Chat #Gatos #AdoptDontShop #NewYear
Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them
Link: https://sherwood.news/tech/rather-than-fully-cracking-down-on-scam-ads-meta-worked-to-make-them-harder/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453582
Imagine one were to— due to the many frustrating limitations of GNOME's Wayland server, Mutter— build an independent server based on wlroots or smithay which is tweaked to support whatever special capabilities GNOME needs, as a drop-in replacement for Mutter not subject to the GNOME project's organizational rigidity.
Now, the important question is
Do you name this Shout, which is the opposite of Mutter
Or do you name it Gargamel, because it kills gnomes
Imagine one were to— due to the many frustrating limitations of GNOME's Wayland server, Mutter— build an independent server based on wlroots or smithay which is tweaked to support whatever special capabilities GNOME needs, as a drop-in replacement for Mutter not subject to the GNOME project's organizational rigidity.
Now, the important question is
Do you name this Shout, which is the opposite of Mutter
Or do you name it Gargamel, because it kills gnomes
How to Watch Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/nyregion/how-to-watch-zohran-mamdanis-inauguration.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into New York 
@new-york-newyorktimesNew York
Lou is having a serious discussion. Bud is contrite.
One of the ways I know Bud was the younger brother.
#LouTheCreamfilledCat #BudBudTheSpud #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfTheFediverse #Catstodon #CatLovers #CatAppreciators #Humane #Rescue
Sprockles asks: do you need a hug?
Wake up, get dressed, fire up the sump pump, say the words “sump pump” out loud a few times… 2026 has begun.
A minor Christmas miracle: I crocheted this chenille cat bed for Harmony (in an attempt to somewhat contain the torbie fur from spreading all over the new comforter) and she is actually using it! #caturday #CatsOfMastodon
I knew it was too good to be true! Cat bed malfunction, containment breached. #CatsOfMastodon
【出事了 ... ㊙️】當世界各地歡慶新年之際，Sony PlayStation 的工程師可能正從惡夢中驚醒，因為 2025 年最後數個小時，PlayStation 5 主機宣告被完全破解，其安全架構中被嚴密保護的 BootROM 程式碼及金鑰成功導出，這意味著未來 PS5 盜版、自製軟體和模擬器將接踵而來。
據安全專家《The Cybersec Guru》最新報告，2025 年 12 月 31 日晚間，地下遊戲機破解圈流出了 PS5 主機的 BootROM 程式碼及金鑰。這段程式碼是主機按下電源按鈕時最先執行的啟動程式，用作驗證系統啟動過程是否合法，這意味著 PS5 的保安全面失守。
PS5 主機採用 AMD 客製化的 APU 晶片，其安全性一向表現不俗。直到昨天為止，PS5 僅曾被突破系統核心（Level 4）和 WebKit 瀏覽器（User Layer），這些都是「軟體」層面的漏洞，其後已由 Sony 透過韌體更新修復。
My year in Mastodon, courtesy of an experimental feature in 
@phanpy.
This year's predictions from tech experts and decision-makers are notably pro-human. #Technology https://werd.io/the-next-big-thing-in-2026-will-be/
Since Wrapstodon isn't a feature easily enabled and available for every instance, I am super happy about @phanpy's neat 'Year in Posts' overview. So cool to look at! 🤓
There's also an option to show only posts with media, and you can click on every month individually to look at the posts more specifically. Excellent! 🌟
Today in 1983, 43 years ago: The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.
雪降ってる!?
…and a happy new year.
#catsofmastodon
What if we started #fediMarried? Bad idea? probably.
I still think there ought to be some kind of introverts matchmaking service. And obviously it couldn't be a paid service as that gets the incentive structure wrong.
I found my husband of 18 years online before "match.com" was totally broken. IDK what I'd do today.
I know 6 people who kind of want to get married but none of them match. Gotta cast a wider net. They are introverts so this will not happen. How many have you got?
@futurebirdmyrmepropagandist So I had an idea for this for ages that I would occasionally post and always get a couple boosts and favorites so I finally started making it a thing: 
@FediMatch
一歩も外に出てないけど積みゲー消化しておえかきしてコミケの戦利品読んで充実したお正月だ 自分、いくらでも休めます
My 7-year-old is on the spectrum and is a HUUGE fan of trains, specifically the New York City subway system.
Lately, he's feeling different from the other kids at school, none of whom love trains.
If that sounds like a kid you know, maybe they can become pen pals with my little guy.
DMs open if you're interested.
起點
當你離開家後，往往常被人問說你從哪裡來。
大多人就是「噢！我來自彰化」、「雲林」或「我嘉義人」這樣的回答，接著話題再延伸下去，對方可能驚呼「你們的肉圓是不是很厲害」、「那個西螺醬油很有名耶」或是「火雞肉飯吃哪家好」。
於是話題不斷飄散，你對於你從哪裡來的概念慢慢模糊，開始游移到隔壁的縣市，或是對方接過你的話，話題慢慢變成你身邊的事，他身邊的事，最近公司哪家甜點好吃，樓下的房客總在陽台抽煙要怎麼檢舉，至於你從哪裡來這件事，已不再重要，就像冬天時吐出的霧氣般，沒看清楚就已無影無蹤。
然而總有一個夜晚，你一個人時，周遭靜靜的，在呼吸時覺得胸口刺刺的，那時候你睡不著，可能是白天喝了太多咖啡，或是假日時下午睡了太多，那時候還沒講完的「你從那裡來」，就悄悄的浮上心頭。
那時你有很多時間回想「你從哪裡來？」
可能是小巷裡的一間透天厝，或是大廈的3樓11號房，你最原始的回憶開始構築，如同賽跑時的起點一樣，你想起你的房間，在那裡度過的學生時光，家裡附近的水餃攤，從車站回家時走過的路，看過的風景。小時候家人帶著你走過的地方，旅行時終歸要回去的地方。
Weight loss update: Month 10 (New Year's Edition)
March 1st, '25: 125.15kg (275.96lbs)
Jan 1st, '26: 86.60kg (190.95lbs)
Total Weight Loss: 38.55kg (85.01lbs)
Percentage of body mass lost: 30.8%
Period of time: 306 days (43.71 weeks)
Average loss per week: 882g/week (1.94lbs)
Yep. By Feb 1, I'll hit upper end of 80-85 target for sure (famous last words). Can use Feb to level off and close out the weightloss year.
*On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. This is the transcript of that speech*:
https://archive.org/details/doctorow-39c3
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
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…and a happy new year.
#catsofmastodon
RE: https://exquisite.social/@exquisite/115820589511062693
Haha you nerds 
So vibrant, a great photo!
Little housekeeping done!
We are now at OpenBSD 7.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #192: Sun Dec 28 22:15:38 MWT 2025
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Chee Aun 🤔
Stefano Marinelli
