What is Hackers' Pub?

👇🤓
"Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop"

😉👉 https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-want-to-feel-like-you-actually-own-your-pc-make-2026-the-year-of-linux-on-your-desktop/

#foss #opensource #linux

OH: Ent-shittification

2026: the year of de-enshitification

Unless if you’re really in the know about nascent platforms, you probably didn’t know what Mastodon was until Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X. In the initial aftermath of the acquisition, as users fretted over what direction Twitter would take, millions of users hopped over to Mastodon, a fellow microblogging site. As time […] https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/01/what-is-mastodon/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Mastodon has almost doubled its userbase since Elon Musk took control of Twitter last month. Here's what you need to know about the platform.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/01/what-is-mastodon/?utm_campaign=social&utm_source=threads&utm_medium=organic

I have a feeling that this might be of interest to some of you. Official Seattle Sound Transit collars featuring the rolling stock of the Link light rail and Sounder heavy rail systems.

https://soundtransitshop.com/search?q=collar&options%5Bprefix%5D=last

Building a Steam Loco These Days is Nothing But Hacks

https://hackaday.com/2026/01/01/building-a-steam-loco-these-days-is-nothing-but-hacks/

@quincyQuincy ⁂ The Newland™

6時だ起きねば。

Das 9-Euro-Ticket kostet jetzt 63 Euro.

#ÖPNV

外が静か過ぎる
これは雪降ってるな

Aaaaand... she's back. Just in time for 2026. 😊🥰💖

But give me some time to build up my stamina for 24x7 boosting. A girl's still gotta heal. 😈

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:

🇦🇺 0
🇨🇦 0
🇩🇰 0
🇫🇮 0
🇫🇷 0
🇩🇪 0
🇮🇸 0
🇮🇪 0
🇮🇹 0
🇯🇵 0
🇳🇱 0
🇳🇴 0
🇵🇹 0
🇪🇸 0
🇸🇪 0
🇬🇧 0
🇺🇸 530,000

There’s a lesson there.

A new year, a fresh start. Thank you for helping make last year the biggest fundraising year for the DSF ever. Final numbers were $339,149 raised. https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/

I miss MINIX. The plucky little OS hasn't been updated in about a decade, but it was such fun to explore.

meinedamenundherren Herzlich Willkommen IM INTERCITY derdeutschenbahn Nach Kö-höln!!!11

NVIDIA Graphics On Haiku OS Make Progress With NVIDIA Open Kernel Modules + NVK/Zink

As a wonderful New Year surprise, there's good momentum on NVIDIA graphics support for the BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Haiku-0.0.1

going back to TypeScript after years of almost-only-Rust is pretty brutal. https://arktype.io/ is pretty great but... everything being a string or a 53-bit number is anxiety-inducing

@hanno @buherator Fwiw, we don't do CVSS for Firefox CVEs and someone is doing nonsense-CVSS numbers for us. (People downstream look at the nonsense-CVSS and make decisions based on them, which saddens me. But I don't think we should play the cvss game)

Hello, I'm @danielDaniel Errs and here's my #introduction from my new #selfhosted Mastodon instance.

I write and get easily distracted.

I know, we ought to perform, so I write poems inconsistently.

We are taught to fixate on meanings, to err is to fail, going astray and also to keep moving. Precision, as life keeps reminding us, is not finite: trees keep weaving dirt and water hounds every crack.

The innocence around #socialmedia is gone, but not so the need to share & connect.

P.S. Se habla español.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@democratsabroad/115821697475849178

So appreciate your outreach on the Fediverse, @democratsabroad

New Year's Day was a good one. Let's keep it going!

📝 If you use generative AI to write or re-write your text, it's not your content anymore, it's someone else's content.

🖼️ If you use generative AI to generate an image, it's not your art anymore, it's someone else's art.

📧 If you use AI to summarize an email and only read the summary, you are reading someone else's email now, and not the original sender's email.

AI isn't magical. It comes from somewhere, and it was built on other's content. That's what it's feeding back to you.

#NoAI

I wish you all a colorful, inspiring, and joyful 2026 with this excerpt from an oil painting by Manu Lopetegi

#photography #color #abstract #ManuLopetegi

Skip 2026?

I need help. My son needs help - this directly affects him. Things at his school are dire.

The UK govt once again picking on a small group, thinking we don't have the backing to fight back.

Please could you consider signing &/or reposting for us?

Thank you 🙏

#SaveTheIB #Education #UK

https://www.change.org/p/reverse-international-baccalaureate-diploma-funding-cut

Et si aujourd'hui c'est à vous que souhaitiez ce qu'il y a de plus beau?

Prenez quelques instants pour vous promettre ce dont vous avez besoin. Ce qui vous fait rêver. Ce qui anime vos passions.
C'est VOTRE année.

#vivelavie

It was fun watching the Zohran Mamdani inauguration at City Hall today. Filled me up with hope. But I wish they had cut to Teterboro Airport occasionally to show the lines of billionaires loading up their private jets to leave New York City forever.

Et si aujourd'hui c'est à vous que souhaitiez ce qu'il y a de plus beau?

Prenez quelques instants pour vous promettre ce dont vous avez besoin. Ce qui vous fait rêver. Ce qui anime vos passions.
C'est VOTRE année.

#vivelavie

Dans offpunk, j'ai récemment découvert le mode offline et cela accélère l'ouverture des articles qui devient quasi instantanée.

Il reste un détail que j'aimerais améliorer c'est l'affichage des images. Les images sont pixelisées lorsqu'elles s'affichent, je suis obligé d'ouvrir l'article dans le navigateur web.

@ploum, je me demandais comment on pouvait tirer parti du terminal kitty qui est en mesure d'afficher des images dans leur qualité d'origine.

うおおおお​​

TIL: ArcaOS: a modern 32-bit OS/2 successor that works on current hardware, includes a lot of software compatibility layers like Odin to run Win32 applications, kLIBC to run Linux applications and OpenJDK to run Java applications.
And it's closed source and proprietary.
And it costs $139 for personal use.
More here: https://www.arcanoae.com
I genuinely wonder if there's a market and a consumer for this OS. Who might use it? Is OS/2 Warp is still in production? In some critical infrastructure maybe? Banks? Governments?
It's certainly not a hobbyist and enthusiast OS.
You can even trade up your existing OS/2 support subscription to ArcaOS support subscription.
It's such a blast from the past!
#ArcaOS #OS2 #OS2Warp #OS2Warp4

#StopTheSlop

So, if you don't want Calibre to have an LLM, I believe your point of no return is version 8.11. Luckily, since Debian Stable is reasonable, the repository still has 8.5.

The thing I would recommend is if you use Calibre regularly and do not want any "ai" garbage, mark your version now in APT and hope that the @grimthorpeLisa St.John 's Clbre fork project continues to advance (I have hope) so that it will make a newer version of Calibre without LLM's easy to install.

For the time being, my Debian (and Debian based distro) friends, you can mark the current version to be safe.

Just run:

sudo apt-mark hold calibre

And to check that it worked, run:

apt-mark showhold

#Clbre #Calibre #Debian #Debian13 #APT #ebooks #Kindle #noai #ai #chatgpt #openai #Google #Gemini #stoptheslop #slop #GNULinux #GNU #Linux

Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/31/europe/finland-estonia-undersea-cable-ship-detained-intl
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46456797

단 하루만에 X에서 사진이나 그림이 멋대로 AI수정된 사건을 몇 개나 봤는데
누군가가 무단수정 -> 원 저작자가 이래도 되는거냐면서 글을 씀 -> 같이 화내는 사람, 덩달아서 무단수정하는 사람, 인터넷에 올렸다면 공공재라고 잘난척하는 사람 온갖 사람 덕지덕지 붙어서 일론머스크 입장에서는 완전 트래픽 개꿀 호재인 기능이란 걸 깨달았어요.
이것 때문에 사람들이 화를 낼수록 그게 다 X에 수익으로 돌아가는 거네....

New Year's Eve selfie-ception, featuring @InclusiveLittleUnicorn

😘🤳💜💚

(And yes I absolutely enjoyed writing the alt-text on all of these, @alice🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) ☺️)

I have two Arm-based desktop computers on my desk. One is 81,000x the speed of the other, based on my mandelbrot benchmark.

That is not a typo.

deepest #39C3 sticker

I’ve published a retrospective on Django On The Med 🏖️

It’s a follow-up written a few months later, reflecting on what worked, what didn’t, and the value that emerged beyond GitHub activity, when the focus was on people and being together.

https://www.paulox.net/2025/12/30/django-on-the-med-a-contributor-sprint-retrospective/

#Django #OpenSource #Community #Sprints #DjangoOnTheMed

CC @carltonCarlton Gibson

I’ve just published a personal retrospective on Python Pescara and our 2025.

It’s a look back at meetups, Django Girls, conferences, and how a local community grew and connected to the wider Python ecosystem.

Full article 👇
https://www.paulox.net/2025/12/31/looking-back-at-python-pescara-2025/

#Python #Community #OpenSource #Django #PythonPescara

CC @pescaraPython Pescara 🐬

What if in 2025 I decided not to write a classic “Year in Review”? 😅

Instead of one big recap, I spent time writing and sharing small, focused reviews of the things that actually shaped my year: DjangoCon Europe, DjangoCon US, EuroPython, PyCon Italia, Django Girls workshops, and my work as founder & organizer of Python Pescara.

All the details are there, piece by piece 👉 https://www.paulox.net

#YearInReview

実写白黒二値アニメけっこうすごい #なにいってんだこいつ

Ado - Usseewa / THE FIRST TAKE
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ujyJRxAKpVE

Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) in PHP https://lobste.rs/s/mqwa5i #ai #php
https://centamori.com/index.php?slug=hierarchical-navigable-small-world-hnsw-php&lang=en

Last night I set up my telescope so we could all watch the planets while waiting for the new year to arrive.

After the fireworks had subsided, I attached my camera and captured my first astrophoto of the year featuring Jupiter and its moon Europa.

Happy New Year everyone!

#astrophotography #jupiter #space

쿠팡이 쳐맞고 있는동안 다른 택배사들도 휴일 배송 뻔뻔하게 하고 있던데 이참에 사람 좀 쉬는 분위기 만들어야 하지 않을까..

Trying to figure out a good syntax for kanshi to match any number of additional outputs. For instance :

profile {
output eDP-1 scale 2
output HDMI-A-1 transform 90
<accept any number of additional outputs>
}

It's come up a few times recently in Sway and cage issue trackers.

Some thoughts here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/emersion/kanshi/-/issues/11#note_3254305