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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standards are great!

my toilet had a leaky gasket and I was ordering the part to be delivered, and my local hardware store had it in two standard sizes, 2" and 3".

I was uninterested in taking apart my toilet again to measure it, and I needed to make up a minimum order amount anyway, so I just bought both sizes!

anyway my toilet is a 3rd size unknown to man or god, because fuck you and fuck your standards

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I hereby coin the term "Ptolemaic Code" to refer to software that appears functional but is based on a fundamentally incorrect model of the problem domain. As more code is generated by AI, the prevalence of such code is likely to increase.
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Bill C-15 (regarding Canada Post) removes parliamentary oversight on library postal rates. It might result in interlibrary loans becoming unfeasible. ILL is frequently used by researchers & has significant impacts on anyone living in a remote area without regular library access, people physically unable to go to libraries, people in minority language communities, and people receiving braille, audio, and large‑print materials. More info + actionable letter to save this: save-interlibrary-loans.lovabl

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I know why the DNS recursors do it, but it's extremely funny to see

16470+ [1au] A? PrOfIlE.AcCOUNtS.fIrEFoX.COM. (57)

in tcpdump's when debugging stuff, the queries are shoved through a spongebob transform function

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RE: wien.rocks/@noheger/1158776983

Hah, this tiny resize target on MacOS & Windows makes my blood-pressure go in unpleasant directions.

I love how my Xorg+fluxbox (or cwm on OpenBSD) based systems let me hold down the Logo/Mod4/Windows key and right-click-drag from *anywhere within the window* (or left-click-drag to move the window rather than resize). Itty-bitty target vs huge-whole-window-sized target? Yeah, I know which one I prefer.

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Ik realiseerde me net tijdens het wandelen dat ik, als ik volledig word afgekeurd, nooit meer door HR opzij zal worden genomen omdat ik als De Communicatieve (ze bedoelen de vrouw, maar dat mag je niet zeggen) de collega die mij het leven zuur maakt kan tolereren en het heel goed voor Het Team zou zijn als ik hem/haar kan Helpen (ze bedoelen opvoeden) om te leren dat andere mensen ook gevoelens hebben (mijn gevoelens tellen niet ntl).

En nu ben ik ineens heel vrolijk.

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Introduction to Linux (LFS101): Develop a good working knowledge of Linux using both the graphical interface and command line across the major Linux distribution families with this free training course. It is a free course.

training.linuxfoundation.org/t

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沒想到中國的App Store第一名下載的付費App(人民幣8元)叫做"死了嗎" ,確認獨居者是否還活著的App,如果連續兩天沒有"check in“,App就會自動報案甚至於自動聯絡喪葬業者來處理遺體。

bnext.com.tw/article/89759/ali

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Has anyone put out a guide for effectively *attending* an online conference?

I have seen a lot of guides for giving an online conference, and a lot of complaints about attending an online conference, and it strikes me that a guide for attending might be useful. I'd ideally like to see things like: How to make the most of it, how to "trick" yourself into getting into a different headspace (travel usually accomplishes this for me), tips for networking, etc.

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Mocht je je afvragen: hoe kan het nou dat 100.000 mensen ernstig ziek zijn geworden, zonder zicht op behandeling, met nauwelijks actie van de overheid en nauwelijks nieuws erover? Terwijl 100.000 toch echt wel Officieel Veel Mensen zijn? Nou, dat speelt al een tijdje en @DehuisgenootWytze alias De Huisgenoot heeft er een luistertip over.


@longcovid
nescia.nl/anna/2026/01/10/de-k

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