What is Hackers' Pub?

Famous for product names like “Teams (for work or school)” and “Windows XP Professional Edition”, Microsoft has just renamed its Office work productivity software.

the new name is, and I am not kidding:

“the Microsoft 365 Copilot app” https://www.office.com

I just learned that Stewart Cheifet passed away only a few days ago on December 28th, 2025. For those unfamiliar with him, he was the creator and host of The Computer Chronicles in the 80s and 90s and over 400 episodes.

It’s fascinating to go back and watch old episodes. This isn’t just a time capsule of retro-computing, they actually aired informative, highly technical, computer-oriented television on PBS like this episode from 1985 on UNIX.

#UNIX #RetroComputing #PBS

https://archive.org/details/UNIX1985

Here’s an excellent interview @leolaporte.me@bsky.brid.gy did with Stewart Cheifet a dozen years ago that covers many of the main beats of his story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdtH...

Triangulation 114: Stewart Che...

Stewart Cheifet died last weekend at age 87. Those of a certain age and nerdiness will remember Cheifet as the host of Computer Chronicles, a public television show about personal computing that aired in the 80s and 90s. https://computerchronicles.blog/post/stewart-cheifet-1938-2025/

The daily Gnocchi! She's getting more comfortable every day.

#CatsOfMastodon #FosterCat

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 :)

#linuxmobile #linuxphone

Freud was wrong about most stuff but he was also a girlboss

Introducing the Wishful Thinking Framework:

https://www.cisotradecraft.com/bitns

Remember when we all had loads of different social web services to post different content to? Was reminded of this when looking at an old version of my personal website. I used to post artsy-fartsy stuff to Soup.io, book content to Goodreads, do goofy Foursquare checkins, and yes I’ll admit I indulged in “frictionless sharing” from Spotify for a while. Anyway, thinking I might up my Artsy-Fartsy content here on my Mastodon account. Or maybe use another fedi app like Wafrn, which is Tumblr-like.

In 1999, Netscape Communications Corporation had 2,500 employees.

By 2008, the company was defunct.

It's a tiny petty thing but I finally looked up how to get Git to check out any branch (including 'main') as of some commit, instead of the current latest commit. git checkout -B <branch> <commit/tag/etc>

Unlike a detached HEAD checkout, this still lets you do 'git pull' or equivalents to later bring yourself up to the head of the branch (and you can diff between it and the upstream head and etc etc). It's especially handy for projects that tag releases on their main branch.

@scottScott Kellum
Yeah, equating ICE with the Virgin Mary is sure…a decision

@inthehandsPaul Cantrell the biblical misappropriation is just wild with this one.

そろそろ寝ちゃいます！新作お絵描きはまだできず…​​​​
らふならくがきあっぷしても許して…くれるかな…！​​​​
うとうと…​​​​​​​​

Started blogging in ’95. Nearly all site’s my content from the past 30 years is still up. Sadly, the same can’t be said for most third-party content I linked to. Happily, the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer solves much of this.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/internet-archive-wayback-machine-link-fixer/

hey, listen! 🦋

#art

Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.

I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.

Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!

えこさんケモになる

I do not want Venezuela
I do not want Greenland.
I do not want Cuba.
I do not want Canada.
I do not want Mexico.

I just want healthcare.

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ @accidentalciso The worst SOC 2 report you've seen so far this year ☝️⁠🤓

ぽ仕事vs眠気

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ the snow on most of his body just shakes off effortlessly, he’s not even damp. on the backs of his legs, I pinched off what I could, but some of it I just have to let melt.

Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

Link: https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-org-domain-after-surprise-suspension/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497164

램값 전망 어떻게되지

Okay hear me out: fingerprint reader on the mouse instead of on the keyboard

몸살처럼 아프네 조금
호몰로지 대수 공부해야겠다

WAIT WHAT

first day back working done! excited to get back into emoji nonsense, this time redoing the picker.

but first: search! it's veryyyy tempting to go over the top with Levenshtein distances and such, but i will resist the overkill approach

i *am* very excited to try and add renaming custom emojis and emoji categories tho...

#mastodev

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAhahaha*gasp*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Update: Hilton corporate apparently overrode the local hotel’s decision and is inviting ICE back in (article downthread). Be sure to find ways to demonstrate to Hilton how you feel about this.

WAIT WHAT

Thanks to everyone who attended my talk at #39C3 - it was great fun 🙂
Here’s a slightly modified video of the demo at the end of the talk.

#whitedate is still down. #whitedeal and #whitechild show a front page but aren’t functional - let’s see how long it stays that way.

Many thanks to DDoSecrets and the antifa for their work and support.

Not all details will follow right now -we gotta keep a bit of the magic alive.
A more detailed report will appear in due time.

Unpopular opinion .....

I'm hoping 2026 is the year that cooks and chefs refrain from using the term "pan fried".

Fried is all that is needed. Or deep fried. Even shallow fried. But show me how you fry without a pan.

I suspect I'm doomed to disappointment.

every lunar cycle i release a lacanian superpredator from the drafts just to keep masto on its toes

やってこ

82fb2596c7 (upstream/main) Fix posts with edited out media attachments being returned in `/api/v1/accounts/:id/statuses?only_media=true` (#37363)
2d711d63d0 Update dependency simple_form to v5.4.1 (#37387)
b622f4c698 Fix custom emojis not being rendered in profile fields (#37365)
ad9cc10014 Update dependency vite_rails to v3.0.20 (#37380)
b5bc301cbd (upstream/feat/search-emoji) Fix serialization of context pages (#37376)
f711e222dc Fix quotes with CWs but no text not having fallback link (#37361)
1fe737e0bd Add translation string for Webauthn key nickname (#37371)
e8a49bd6ae Fix outdated link target for “locked” warning (#37366)
bdf490e949 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37378)
ab7293238f Update dependency public_suffix to v7.0.2 (#37385)
cd980645d6 Update dependency public_suffix to v7.0.1 (#37383)

>60% throughput increase parsing large multipart request bodies anyone? Go @farhanalirazaFarhan 🥳 #Django

https://github.com/django/new-features/issues/105#issuecomment-3711637060

Bwahhahahahahaha

#microsoft

no wonder we domesticated these guys

#sociocracy #betterworld #governance #new_year

www.sociocracyforall.org/academy

So it's girl scout cookie season, and my kid's got a big goal. I'm not about to post her link on here BUT I know a lot of people like those cookies and might not have a hookup, so if that's you, feel free to DM me and I'll send it your way (you can have them delivered, so your proximity is irrelevant)

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ "oh shit, there's a massive leak under the boiler" gets my boyfriend EVERY time I buy leaks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2ii1rw/coworker_came_running_into_my_office_and_said/

It's a brand new year and loads of y'all are looking for work, so here's a thread of tech jobs I've seen in my online wandering that have tech for good (or at least minimally evil) vibes:

#FediHired

@FediThingFediThing 🏳️‍🌈 @glyph LLMs are trained on human-created material in much the same way a person learns by reading books and then acting on what they've learned. They don't directly reproduce that material.

As I mentioned I strongly believe that broad sharing of knowledge is a net benefit to humanity. Questions of credit and attribution are a separate issue and to discuss them meaningfully, you first have to be clear about what you consider reasonable attribution in the first place.

You can take for instance the tankgame and then tell me which part should be attributed and is not, and what you would be attributing it to.

On the "against the will": I want you to use the code I wrote, it's definitely not against my will that LLMs are trained on the code I wrote over the years.

@FediThingFediThing 🏳️‍🌈 @glyph LLMs are trained on human-created material in much the same way a person learns by reading books and then acting on what they've learned. They don't directly reproduce that material.

As I mentioned I strongly believe that broad sharing of knowledge is a net benefit to humanity. Questions of credit and attribution are a separate issue and to discuss them meaningfully, you first have to be clear about what you consider reasonable attribution in the first place.

You can take for instance the tankgame and then tell me which part should be attributed and is not, and what you would be attributing it to.

On the "against the will": I want you to use the code I wrote, it's definitely not against my will that LLMs are trained on the code I wrote over the years.

I am in the early stages of my transition to becoming a pure ball of energy and light

3 billion devices run Java

You can become one of them https://dangerousthings.com/product/flexsecure/

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health...what have the Romans ever done for us?"

By the same token, when you look closely, what has congestion pricing done for #NYC anyway?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/05/upshot/congestion-pricing-one-year.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CFA.t_Bn.qoLgactqxcNq&smid=url-share

every lunar cycle i release a lacanian superpredator from the drafts just to keep masto on its toes

Periodic reminder that RSA had Kristi Noem keynote last year, and as the 'will you be at RSA?' emails start to roll in, the answer is of course, 'hell to the fucking no'.