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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For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display.

For the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.

policyalternatives.ca/news-res

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Yearly update on my verifiable brute force strength gist.

- Bitcoin mining is still just shy of exhausting 95 bits annually.
- Distributed.net's RC5-72 project is still just shy of exhausting 65 bits annually.

We're still 10+ billion years out for completely exhausting every possible key in a 128-bit key space with the current Bitcoin mining power.

gist.github.com/atoponce/a7715

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WTAF. MS Office is being rebranded to MS Copilot. There is very little "co" to it. It is Microsoft forcing down shite on its users.

Oh and naturally, the pricing get insane bumps too.

Curious how long the "enterprise" users will put up with this dumpsterfire.

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Help with locating zines by topic, global politics (US/VE)

Does anyone know of any zines on reasons not to join the military/countering US imperialistic attitudes and behaviors? Accessible to high schoolers strongly preferred but will take literally anything. Please boost & add relevant tags if you know them! I don't do a lot of zine stuff!


#DuckDuckFedi
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The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: anildash.com/2026/01/05/a-tech

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I was hoping when large media covered Mobile Fortify, the ICE facial app we revealed in June, it would add substantial information. Instead this front page WSJ piece rehashes our reporting, presents it as new attributed to officials, and forgets to capitalize M in 404 Media.

I have covered this app for months, showing where it gets data from, how it is being used on American streets, and DHS's plan to roll out a stripped down version to local police. You wouldn't get that impression from reading this piece, it would appear new to you.

You can read our original coverage here (this is about half of it):

404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new

404media.co/you-cant-refuse-to

404media.co/inside-ices-superc

404media.co/cbp-quietly-launch

One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by 
@404media.co
, a team of just four journalists.
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uspol, trans stuff

Erin Reed has a nice piece about reasons for hope in terms of trans rights going into 2026 despite things also being bad erininthemorning.com/p/the-cas

And as for me... it's hard to tell how I feel. I def think things are less scary than they were post the Kirk shooting. And maybe anti-trans stuff is a losing strategy and the conservative coalition is crumbling?

But also, the FDA is sending threatening letters to manufacturers and distributors of *binders* of all things....

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