What is Hackers' Pub?

Don’t give in to despair. Amid bad news, fake news, billionaire takeover, conflict and creeping authoritarianism, remember: it’s not too late. Every fraction of a degree, every action, still matters.

I've published my utility for converting ilo assembly from pali format to sitelen ilo and an example export of the konilo source.

Fossil Repository: http://fossils.retroforth.org:8000/sitelen-ilo
Konilo in sitelen ilo: https://konilo.org/konilo.sitelen-ilo.html

"But the actual Minnesota fraud saga — the one in court filings, verdicts, and agency statements — doesn’t cooperate with the morality play. ...

The most stubborn fact for anyone trying to sell this as a tidy ethnic fable: the mastermind whom federal prosecutors put at the center of the Feeding Our Future case is a woman named Aimee Bock. Brock is not a Somali immigrant, nor a recent arrival. She is a white Minnesotan."

#Minnesota #Somalis #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #NickShirley
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"MAGA has discovered a new folk villain: the Somali immigrant in Minnesota, allegedly ferrying your tax dollars out of the country in a suitcase labeled 'Fraud.' It’s a convenient character — exotic enough to frighten cable news viewers, pliable enough to fit any storyline, and distant enough that the people being stereotyped don’t get to rewrite the script."

~ Julie Roginsky

#Minnesota #Somalis #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #immigrants #NickShirley
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https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/magas-somali-freakout-an-explainer

키캡은 부서진 지 오래였고 고무링 같은 게 있어서 누르면 인식은 됐는데 후 불었더니 날아가서 사라져버렸다...... 이제 왼쪽 입력이 안된다...........

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ방향키 결국 고장났다

이걸 위해서 프로게이머에게 그토록 어렵다는 자세교정 해냄 꾸준히 스트레칭 운동 관절과 근육 관리를 위해 해당분야 공부함 월즈에서 우승 못해 퇴물이라고 욕먹은 기간동안 심리상담 받으며 이겨냄(+독서) 자신이 팀을 위해 리더가 되어야함을 깨닫고 엠비티아이를 갈아치울 정도로 리더형으로 거듭남 프로게이머의 벽인 20대 중반을 ‘여전히 현역인 선수’ 정도가 아니라 세계1위 팀의 명실상부 1옵션으로서 넘어서서, 이제 본인이 가는 모든 길이 자동으로 ‘최초’의 기록이 됨.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mk3k3q4ahz2coieim7s44ceb/post/3mbgfaf3jhk2g

"The Trump team has been weaponizing disinformation and aiming it straight at immigrants for some time now....

The regime is doing it again with Somalis in Minnesota. ...

The Department of Homeland Security can only succeed in its ultimate program of mass ethnic cleansing if enough of the U.S. population goes along with it."

~ Jay Kuo

#Minnesota #Somalis #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #NickShirley
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/disinformation-and-immigrant-bashing

한국에 열쇠고리 유행하면서 한국 전통인 액막이 모양 열쇠고리 유행하는 거 넘 귀엽고 좋음

warum gibt es keine zwei bitter verfeindete deutsche unixfirmen namens mirnix und dirnix?

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466074

@GossiTheDogKevin Beaumont
"CatSalad" posting messages in cat and English promoting known cat propaganda.

IOCs

Email catsalad@*******.org
IP (proxy) [Tor Exits]

Joined November 10, 2022 at 13:12

Using Mastodon app "🐈🥗"

Example posts

정말정말 재밌는거 없을까

@Em0nM4stodonEm One of the YouTube metalworking people I follow read out a ChatGPT explanation of a machine that he was using in his most recent video and now I’m doubting everything he’s said on his channel. How much of the information in his videos is just confabulated?

심지어 이걸 X 본사에 신고해도 "이용 약관에 위반하지 않았다"면서 신고도 반려되었다고 하네요... X가 많이 망가져가고 있음... fixvx.com/OhayoMybroth...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l2hxm7jansx4uoalu4tklnyi/post/3mbgd3dvel222

Hi #fediverse! I'm working on Hackers' Pub, a small #ActivityPub-powered social platform for developers and tech folks.

We're currently drafting a content #moderation (#flag/#report) system and would really appreciate any feedback from those who have experience with federated moderation—we're still learning.

Some ideas we're exploring:

• Protecting reporter anonymity while giving reported users enough context to understand and improve
• Graduated responses (warning → content removal → suspension) rather than jumping to bans
• Using LLM to help match reports to code of conduct provisions
• Supporting ActivityPub Flag activity for cross-instance reports

Our guiding principle is that moderation should be about growth, not punishment. Expulsion is the last resort.

Here's the full draft if you're curious: https://github.com/hackers-pub/hackerspub/issues/192.

If you've dealt with moderation in federated contexts, what challenges did you run into? What worked well? We'd love to hear your thoughts.

Hi #fediverse! I'm working on Hackers' Pub, a small #ActivityPub-powered social platform for developers and tech folks.

We're currently drafting a content #moderation (#flag/#report) system and would really appreciate any feedback from those who have experience with federated moderation—we're still learning.

Some ideas we're exploring:

• Protecting reporter anonymity while giving reported users enough context to understand and improve
• Graduated responses (warning → content removal → suspension) rather than jumping to bans
• Using LLM to help match reports to code of conduct provisions
• Supporting ActivityPub Flag activity for cross-instance reports

Our guiding principle is that moderation should be about growth, not punishment. Expulsion is the last resort.

Here's the full draft if you're curious: https://github.com/hackers-pub/hackerspub/issues/192.

If you've dealt with moderation in federated contexts, what challenges did you run into? What worked well? We'd love to hear your thoughts.

Hi #fediverse! I'm working on Hackers' Pub, a small #ActivityPub-powered social platform for developers and tech folks.

We're currently drafting a content #moderation (#flag/#report) system and would really appreciate any feedback from those who have experience with federated moderation—we're still learning.

Some ideas we're exploring:

• Protecting reporter anonymity while giving reported users enough context to understand and improve
• Graduated responses (warning → content removal → suspension) rather than jumping to bans
• Using LLM to help match reports to code of conduct provisions
• Supporting ActivityPub Flag activity for cross-instance reports

Our guiding principle is that moderation should be about growth, not punishment. Expulsion is the last resort.

Here's the full draft if you're curious: https://github.com/hackers-pub/hackerspub/issues/192.

If you've dealt with moderation in federated contexts, what challenges did you run into? What worked well? We'd love to hear your thoughts.

"Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards or access everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary" https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/12/12/its-surreal-us-sanctions-lock-international-criminal-court-judge-out-of-daily-life/

So you can give grok an image and ask it to show that person in a bikini...

Azari argues that🚨Trump, like A Johnson & Nixon before him *predecessors made major advs for African-Ams, became pres in part bc of white backlash against the pro-Black accomplishments of his predecessor.

Combatting Trumpism,🚨requires recognizing the racial nature of his support. In the cases of Johnson, Nixon, &Trump, #democracy declined. Fighting MAGA will involve fighting anti-Black #Racism.

#Envy: a capital sin *other sins can spring -even #murder -Pope, 6C.
#USPol
https://newrepublic.com/article/204841/america-still-living-backlash-obama-presidency

#Perl: There is more than one way to do it.
#Python: There should be one obvious way to do it.
#Nix: There is no straightforward way to do it.
#Haskell: There is no way to do it.

#programming

I’m starting out the new new year with a positive discovery about the Canadian government. I’m sure this is no surprise to many, but today is the first time I noticed a federal program contact page that includes a video relay option. Deaf callers can download an app and then - when they need to contact the government regarding whatever - connect to an an operator who knows ASL to act as their interpreter/relay.

This makes me very happy.

Ich glaube niemand hier überbietet das @locLogistik bei ihrem grandiosen Shitpost-Grind.

Sie suchen übrigens noch Helfende 😏 /nn

2026 is the year of WAFRN

What started as a Tumblr alternative has grown into an active and vibrant community ✨

Even growing beyond that to welcome former Cohost users with the ability to import your Cohost export into wafrn

One more thing, wafrn supports native ATproto/BlueSky federation.

Ya, they did ActivityPub and ATproto at the same time, before it was cool.

https://wafrn.net

Consider supporting their pioneering project 👇

Donate here: https://patreon.com/wafrn

@BeurkeekNina Kiel
Just to note - this puts more people in danger than anyone may realize. Trans people are not the only people who change their names. Women do too often because of unsafe home situations. Teens/young adulds may do it to escape their birth places and keep away harmful people (many LGBTQAI+ youth do this regardless or gender).

This puts any vunerable person who has changed their name in danger of being discovered by those who want to harm them.

First they come for us, then you.

@BeurkeekNina Kiel

next they'll be making lists of not heterosexuals

and then a list of ...

and then to ensure that all the negative traits are weeded out, a return to something like the Nuremburg laws ...

wait a second - where has this gone wrong before?

and those Nazi book burning images - some were from literally burning books from the Institute for Sexuality in Berlin - destroying knowledge that existed in no other form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft

I though someone wrote a poem that started with:
"First they came for ..."

URGENT:

#Trans people in Germany need your help. Our government is seriously considering to create a list of people who changed their name/gender under the recent self-identification law. This is obviously a terrible idea, especially considering the increasing popularity of the far-right party. The petition linked below would at least force the government to discuss this issue and reconsider... if we managed to reach 30.000 signatures within the next eleven days.

I recently learned that apparently living in Germany is not required to sign, so I kindly ask you to help us (and ideally share this petition with your peers). To make the process easier for you, I took screenshots of the website and translated everything. If there's anything else you don't understand, feel free to reach out to me!

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_07/_14/Petition_183950.html

#TransRights #Petition

Releasing Fjall 3.0 https://lobste.rs/s/tdxrs5 #databases
https://fjall-rs.github.io/post/fjall-3/

ぴすぴす

@feliks of course. These tools are way too expensive to maintain and run, are currently being subsidized by VC and private capital + bank loans, and AI companies are still bleeding insane amounts of money with negative margins. Nobody is making money on it. (See Ed Zitron’s reporting for all of the explanations on this)

Data centers can be taken offline. Models can be turned off. Companies that provide the services can increase prices to the point that nobody wants to pay for them or they can go bankrupt and disappear. Wires can be unplugged. Legislation can be written.

We don’t put asbestos into new buildings getting constructed in most of the world. We don’t nuke anyone. NFTs have basically completely disappeared after all the same screeching about inevitability. No technology is inevitable, especially technology that is expensive and complex to create, maintain, and run.

import datetime

year = datetime.datetime.now().year

while True:
    new_year = datetime.datetime.now().year
    if new_year != year:
        print(f"Happy {new_year}!")
        year = new_year

#AI / #LLM propaganda is so insidiously effective even for laypeople.

I’ve had multiple conversations with family members who: don’t speak English, don’t own computers (only mobile phones), and barely spend time online.

I told them that I am no longer working with most tech company clients because I don’t like AI and don’t want to support it (“AI” here = gen AI, LLMs).

And yet these people all reacted the same way: concern, shock, and comments like “but this is inevitable”, “this is the future”, “you’ll have to accept it eventually”, “won’t refusing it ruin your career prospects?”

These are people who know nothing about technology. They usually wouldn’t even know what “AI” meant. And yet here they are, utterly convinced of AI company talking points.

doodling

#art #mastoart

doodling

#art #mastoart

The resolution you think you’ll actually stick to:
The one you won’t:

“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”

New Study Shows How Paris Peda...

Want to discover great posts beyond who you already follow? The For You feed, built by @spacecowboy17.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy, is a personalized algorithmic feed based on your likes. It's one of our favorites for finding cool conversations across the network. Try it here: bsky.app/profile/spac...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/feed/for-you

#FensterFreitag

Data, data and more data.

One of my volunteer projects is curating a list of ArcGIS server addresses. These addresses are focused on USA government servers from the federal level down to the local level. Over the last several months I have added *many* addresses to the list. As a result, the list now has 7,500+ ArcGIS server addresses.

The first dozen or so pages of the PDF file have useful background.

Open list (pdf file):
https://mappingsupport.com/p/surf_gis/list-federal-state-county-city-GIS-servers.pdf

#GIS #GISchat #ArcGIS #Data #Spatial #Geospatial #Maps #Mapping

It isn’t just that they’re selling your personal data, it’s that they’re losing it. Routinely.

I've published my utility for converting ilo assembly from pali format to sitelen ilo and an example export of the konilo source.

Fossil Repository: http://fossils.retroforth.org:8000/sitelen-ilo
Konilo in sitelen ilo: https://konilo.org/konilo.sitelen-ilo.html

A bit of New Year fun: behind the scenes outtakes from my Advent of Compiler Optimisation series.

Happy New Year everyone!

https://youtu.be/8gASKxx6mCc

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谁哥哥？

Honestly, the Loops community has been amazing.

Your patience and feedback during beta means everything - this is what building for people looks like.

V1 soon, and 2026 is going to be wild for federated video!

https://joinloops.org/join-the-beta