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 the light of me looking for an alternative to plasma6 some more tweaking of lxqt. It's slowly getting there... Panel on the left, some pinned apps, icon only taskmanager, systray, using Qogir icons and XFWM4 for windowmanaging and with elementary theme for xfwm4, gtk and gtk-qt5/6, (forgot how cool it looked). The wallpaper is by @orbiteOrbite / OrbiteLambda and is called "oiseau d'hiver".

The left panel with the pinned program launches and the bottom with the virtual desktop switcher are set to intellihide to get out of the way if windows get maximized

Will see if I can get DockbarX lxqt plugin to work on FreeBSD for a real dockapp handling. It doesn't seem to be in pkgs.

Now, I just have to remember what I did on this spare machine to transfer it on to my other machines...🤷‍♀️

LXQT Desktop on FreeBSD. 

There's a panel on the left side showing pinned and running applications. On the desktop there is the lxqt-about program showing some stats about the lxqt, qt version etc.

wallpaper showing a fractalised Bird in a snowy wood and is called "Oiseau d'hiver" by @orbiteLXQT Desktop on FreeBSD. 

There's a panel on the left side showing pinned and running applications. On the desktop the pcmanFM filemanager and the audacious mediaplayer are left tiled. A image preview is tiled on the right side

wallpaper showing a fractalised Bird in a snowy wood and is called "Oiseau d'hiver" by @orbite
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What might a Terraform library look like in Unison, given the programming model that Unison Cloud supports?

🎙️Tune in to our interview with library author and Unison teammate, Stew, to see what he's tinkering on!
youtu.be/mb0CGS2_rLU?si=9FOnYW

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Ever wanted a PicoGUS or PicoMEM but for PCMCIA? yyzkevin's PicoPCMCIA adds modern WiFi networking, Sound Blaster, GUS, CD-ROM, and storage to any computer with a PCMCIA slot. He's getting closer to launch and is now taking deposits for the first run of cards. yyzkevin.com/picopcmcia/

Both the Sound Blaster and CD-ROM emulation on the PicoGUS originally came from this ambitious project so it's awesome seeing it get close to done!

A PCMCIA card with a label saying "YYZ Credit Card Adapter for Everything" in the style of the PCMCIA cards that IBM made back in the 90s. A small wifi antenna, SD card slot, and dongle connector are on the card's edge.
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I've been out of the loop for a couple of years on Linux phones. I'm poking around on blogs and Mastodon posts, but I figured I'd just ask:

Whats currently (as of January 2026) the most functional, stable, boring phone + OS combination?

Edit: I have been so thrilled with the conversations! Thank you all for sharing projects, experiences, knowledge, and links! I'm also following a lot of new folks :) This post is at 400+ boosts, so no need to continue boosting :)

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I can't honestly say I have any sympathy for people who feel betrayed by , considering that GitHub has always been a platform.

If you are a coder, why on Earth would you ever host your FOSS code on a non-FOSS system??

It's a recipe for betrayal. Andreesen Horowitz invested $100M USD in GitHub all the way back in 2012, and *now* you're upset??

ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteachin

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Ever wanted a PicoGUS or PicoMEM but for PCMCIA? yyzkevin's PicoPCMCIA adds modern WiFi networking, Sound Blaster, GUS, CD-ROM, and storage to any computer with a PCMCIA slot. He's getting closer to launch and is now taking deposits for the first run of cards. yyzkevin.com/picopcmcia/

Both the Sound Blaster and CD-ROM emulation on the PicoGUS originally came from this ambitious project so it's awesome seeing it get close to done!

A PCMCIA card with a label saying "YYZ Credit Card Adapter for Everything" in the style of the PCMCIA cards that IBM made back in the 90s. A small wifi antenna, SD card slot, and dongle connector are on the card's edge.
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Anyone using Cloudflare as a domain name registrar?

I went to try them. It seems impossible to transfer in a domain without hosting your DNS with Cloudflare.

I have my own name servers. I don't need theirs.

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one of my favorite youtube channels is the one that does us political commentary via eurobeat remixes (and also makes normal eurobeat remixes sometimes)

cw us politics if you click the link, youtu.be/yXSg_PPd-g0

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I can say, however, that I've reunited with an "old friend" who is still in great shape. Before I get dozens of replies about it being insecure: in theory, it is, but it's not accessible from the outside. It's isolated within its own network and is only able to connect and fetch backups for 'extreme disaster recovery' (only at specific times, restricted by specific firewall rules). It served its purpose today, and tomorrow, it might be even more useful.

18:33:01 up 3188 days, 4:47, 1 user, load average: 5.09, 4.73, 4.74

Debian, Btrfs, and zero internal dust.
It's kept in a sterile, extremely protected room.

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