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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Happy New Year! We’re pleased to support Code & Compliance 2026 as a Promotional Partner.

The event brings together developers, maintainers, industry representatives, and policymakers on 29 January in Brussels to discuss the Cyber Resilience Act and explore practical approaches to open-source governance, compliance, and security.

Learn more and register: eclipse-foundation.events/even

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I don’t know if you’re a masochist^Wfan of a 19,000-word Ed Zitron rant, but if you are, this is a good read.

Ed’s framing of the present-day stock hype cycle as “enshittification of shareholders” is pretty apt. Analysts are incentivized to *sell stock*, not provide a reporting of things as they are. As a result, they become complicit in risk-laundering, causing stock prices to go ever higher, and putting shareholders (that’s you and me) at higher risk than we realize.

Although this seems to be a market-wide problem, nowhere is it worse than in the AI industry. The article claims that the valuations of AI companies are based on future promises of revenue in a way that is *way* beyond the norm; the odds that all of these promises come to pass is basically zero, and the odds that many, MANY dominos fall when only a few of those promises fail to deliver is quite high; and the time of reckoning for those promises is nigh: probably starting in 2026.

wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifi

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Happy New Year! We’re pleased to support Code & Compliance 2026 as a Promotional Partner.

The event brings together developers, maintainers, industry representatives, and policymakers on 29 January in Brussels to discuss the Cyber Resilience Act and explore practical approaches to open-source governance, compliance, and security.

Learn more and register: eclipse-foundation.events/even

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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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@ricciRob Ricci @ErickaSimone @stefanStefan Bohacek

These are just classic Bluesky features. It seems to me that Mastodon's solution of restricting the visibility of posts makes more sense than just restricting the reply function, because people can quote and comment on the post. The Bluesky quote function has already been copied by Mastodon, and I don't think Mastodon should become a second Bluesky, especially since everyone thinks Bluesky is so bad.

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Healthcare and related research need open spaces to collaborate now more than ever before.

That's why I'm glad to see @nodebb building a community that caters to this need. A federated forum is the perfect template for this kind of discussion.

postcall.pub

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The regime’s foreign policy “profit priority” is now crystal clear to anyone paying attention. The first question with any plan or action by the WH must now always be, “How do they plan to grift off of it?”

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An important detail in this article: DHS is lying about assaults against agents.

That supposed “1,150% increase in assaults” against DHS agents they keep trotting out? By their own admission, that includes “videotaping them [agents] where they’re at.”

DHS thinks •recording video• of ICE counts as •violence•.

•That• is the supposed increase in violence they’re crying all these crocodile tears about. Un-frigging-be-lievable. social.freedom.press/@freedomo

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"There’s a reason DHS and its counterparts keep getting humiliated in court when they pretend to be victims," FPF's Adam Rose told Straight Arrow News.

"They’re losing in front of juries, judges are calling them not credible."

san.com/cc/filming-ice-agents-

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Dear python, if I want to use a virtual environment I will. If not. then assume I want something installed system wide.

Hint. I never want to use a python virtual environment. If I need some sort of virtual system I'll create a whole fucking vm, and install it system wide on the vm. Stop refusing to do shit cos it's not inside a virtual environment.

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If you're running a public Fediverse server, it's really important you plan how you will shut it down gracefully, even if you have no intention of ever shutting down.

Graceful shutdowns mean your members can move accounts elsewhere, and don't lose their follows and followers. The absolute worst thing a server can do is suddenly disappear without warning.

Here's more info about how to plan a graceful Mastodon server closure:

➡️ fedi.tips/closing-your-mastodo

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*(long tired sigh)*

Help? :boost_ok:

$0/200

We got paycheck advances. We got help from friends. Found credit reserves. Worked as many hours as our jobs would let us. And still we're a couple hundred short of where we need to be for bills.

I'd appreciate any help folks can spare. Boosting into wider view is always appreciated as well. You're all lovely and someday we'll be able to send help the other way again.

@mutualaidmutualaid group

randomgeekery.org/tip/

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me: i want to join this meeting
zoom: ok click this link
me: ok
zoom: i will open a browser tab
me: ok
zoom: i will spawn a native window
me: ok
zoom: i will spawn sixteen more windows
me:
zoom: some will close automatically idk
me:
zoom: do you want some ai

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