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.
1992 Warp Records "Artificial Intelligence" sampler is free on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaysR-sashY feat. Polygon Window (aka Aphex Twin), Autechre, foundational IDM
My first new feature for the year: pointing stick options!
https://github.com/elementary/settings-mouse-touchpad/pull/263
What a weird situation this has been. https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/01/07/freeland-resigning-as-toronto-mp-on-friday/
ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE:
https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/
FreeBSD is started up by the program 'init'. The first thing init does when
starting multiuser mode (ie, starting the computer up for normal use) is to
run the shell script /etc/rc. By reading /etc/rc and the /etc/rc.d/ scripts,
you can learn a lot about how the system is put together, which again will
make you more confident about what happens when you do something with it.
RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115857113266974416
Having been down this road, I am now 100% Team Discourse as a Discord exit for communities who don't require fully real-time communication. And for those who do, Discourse still has options. And as far as moderation, there's very little in the same league.
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RE: https://aoir.social/@aram/115860593690344021
I wish this was mandatory.
#ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in #AI continues
There’s a well-worn pattern in the development of AI #chatbots. Researchers discover a #vulnerability and #exploit it to do something bad. The platform introduces a guardrail that stops the attack from working. Then, researchers devise a simple tweak that once again imperils #chatbot users.
#privacy
By "confidently claiming that one blurry clip shows evidence of domestic terrorism, the Trump administration is asking the public to disbelieve their own eyes... Who needs AI manipulations when your preferred angle will do the job well enough?" — @miasato.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
www.theverge.com/tech/858710/...
MAGA wants you to believe ther...
ぷえぷえ
とはいえ何かの数字にできるようなものじゃないので測定せよって言われるだけなんだけどね #ダークモード
たくさんらくがきしたね
중국 사람들한테 이재명의 외교가 꽤 충격이었던 모양. 프로파간다에도 잘 써먹고 있음.
Windows special device names are cursed: https://chrisdenton.github.io/omnipath/Special%20Dos%20Device%20Names.html This is the subject of two recent Werkzeug CVEs. #windows #python #flask
某ヘ社無料プランなくなってしょんぼりよね。営業力しか持ってない人には無料プランがユーザーだけじゃなく某ヘ社にももたらしてた価値が見えないんだよね。 #ダークモード
Basically all of .NET is tainted, as mandated by Microsoft:
- Runtime: <https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3A%40copilot+is%3Amerged>
- Sdk: <https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3A%40copilot+is%3Amerged>
Some of you were asking how I use pi, so here is me demoing how I built a little tank computer game over Christmas with pi and Opus without looking at the code. https://youtu.be/ANQ1IYsFM2s
전두환처럼 ‘사형’ 나오나···특검, 윤석열 내란 결심공판 앞두고 구형량 고심
www.khan.co.kr/article/2026...
"윤 전 대통령에게 사형을 구형하면 사회 혼란만 더 부추길 수 있다는 우려"
그러니까 자꾸 고심한다, 전두환보단 못할 것이다 어쩌고 하는게 다 떠보기에 가깝다고 생각.
심지어 선고도 아니고 구형인데, 구형에서 벌써 무기징역 소리 나오고 있다는 거.
전두환처럼 ‘사형’ 나오나···특검, 윤석열 내란 결심...
Windows special device names are cursed: https://chrisdenton.github.io/omnipath/Special%20Dos%20Device%20Names.html This is the subject of two recent Werkzeug CVEs. #windows #python #flask
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It's taken me a couple of months to get everything just so and it's involved a lot of code spelunking, but my new website is finally live.
I'm using Ignite from 
@twostrawsPaul Hudson, which is more powerful than I expected. There is so much capability in it that is unfortunately under-documented. But I find it fun to use!
Okay, well, not everything is done. I haven't yet figured out how to get colors correct in dark mode, so that's disabled for now. There is also some planned future content, which I now have a space for.
Brown hyenas and their furry ponchos. 👌
FreeBSD is started up by the program 'init'. The first thing init does when
starting multiuser mode (ie, starting the computer up for normal use) is to
run the shell script /etc/rc. By reading /etc/rc and the /etc/rc.d/ scripts,
you can learn a lot about how the system is put together, which again will
make you more confident about what happens when you do something with it.
https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-11-16-accepted-stands/# #FOSDEM : I will be back at #FOSDEM2026 , ask me about #XcpNg
or to my new colleagues from 
@vates , we will hang around the #Xen community
寝るぞな
金曜もがんばりましょー
The monthly SWICG GeoSocial Task Force meeting is about to start if you have thoughts on location data use cases and the social web.
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/ed630a3d-7581-4053-9978-75949ad42f2a/20260108T130000/
Gonna visit my friend in prison tomorrow. She’s been there in over a month now. Mind you, she didn’t commit any crime, anything at all. To take someone’s freedom and lock them up is supposed to be the harshest punishment we have. But here it’s people that haven’t done anything wrong. It’s just that Sweden decided to be better off without them. So they have to sit and wait and hope their lawyers maybe work miracles and avert deportation.
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저는
차에 물을 안 넣구요
차를 그냥 씹어먹어요
(15년째 주식임)
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:msjb5rmnahqvjgacib6gcmwq/post/3m5nf5ilq4c2t
After I chat with some people, I realized I have issues in understanding their concept of nostalgia.
It's some kind of magical thinking.
Something is cool, fun or worth the time/expense because it's old. Time passing imbues qualities into things.
A clone, a reproduction, something functionally identical, does not possess these qualities.
I would understand a "it doesn't have the same repairability or understandability" in regards to an FPGA implementation. I'd understand "it's just a more capable machine wasting cycles pretending to be something it's not" of an emulator.
1/..
As I suspected it probably would be, my bug bounty submission of using an AI email summarizer was closed as being 'infeasible' and an 'acceptable risk' with AI.
But still - I think it's an interesting finding, so I have written it up thus: https://mike-sheward.medium.com/recruiting-google-geminis-email-summarizer-as-a-phishing-aid-417055295ba7
TL;DR = I discovered how you can use Google Workspace's Google Gemini Email Summarizer to make a phishing attack seem more convincing, because it summarizes hidden content.
@zkatkat PLEASE do this
Feast your eyes on one dazzling bird: the Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus)! Males of the species have an eye-popping array of plumage that includes a golden-yellow crest, a bright red belly, and patches of green and blue throughout their bodies. Although it's capable of short trips through the air, this bird isn’t a strong flier and tends to stay grounded.
via amnhnyc
Sto scrivendo la bozza di un messaggio ai condomini per un condominio di Pisa, per fare una nursery nei suoi orti condominiali abbandonati. 🌱
La cosa divertente è che lo sto facendo su una macchina da scrivere Olivetti Studio 44 e, nel messaggio, appare la dicitura "handle di Telegram". E niente mi piace questa specie di errore di timeline.
Meow meow
Its only a Mafia if its an Italian family, otherwise its just sparkling organised crime
アンブリエル
#アークナイツ
코자요코자요
The more I research passkeys the more I realize I want to be adopting TOTP everywhere. Every time I hit a wall with passkeys I'm like "okay, so what the passkey board *should* have done was—" and then I realize TOTP has the properties I wanted passkeys to have had. Maybe I should have just been using TOTP this whole time instead of waiting for passkeys. Maybe that was the good thing.
'Gedreht'
ダラダラしてたら毛根なので本当に寝ます
On a related note, a reminder of the timeline of 2020:
Things didn’t turn chaotic and violent immediately after the police murdered George Floyd.
Things didn’t turn chaotic and violent when the video became public.
Things didn’t turn chaotic and violent when the protests started.
Things turned chaotic and violent when they brought charges against Chauvin, and the police flipped out and went on a rage-fueled bender of mass tear-gassing the peaceful protests.
I keep remembering the vigil for Elijah McClain, where a bunch of people were just sitting quietly with candles and playing violins, and the police showed up like OH NO YOU DON'T.
ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods
Link: https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543420
Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout
Link: https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing/ir
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542683
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青少納言🎨🐏 
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