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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Tom Casavant @tom@tomkahe.com
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Google is trashing the Tenor API frustratingly, which means GiphyMaubot will need to be updated (despite being called Giphy, it also supports tenor and tenor was the more reliable one)

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

github.com/TomCasavant/GiphyMa

Looks like potentially I can use klipy.com/developers as a drop-in replacement

The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

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Paco Hope #resist @paco@infosec.exchange
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Shared by Jenniferplusplus

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1

Oh well. They got to Moxie also. 🙁

It’s a travesty of a headline because “it just works” is not the topic of the article. How this LLM “works” any better than any other LLM is not discussed. Like Signal, it’s e2e encrypted. It’s private. But the privacy violations aren’t the reason LLMs do or don’t “work.” The privacy violations are by-the-by. Taking them away doesn’t mean the LLM’s results or performance will change.

This LLM will still be confidently—and now very privately and privacy-preservingly—wrong.

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Larvitz @Larvitz@bsd.cafe
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New blog post: GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD

Running a mail server means constant brute-force attempts. My solution: geographic filtering. SMTP stays open for global mail delivery, but client ports (IMAP, Submission, webmail) are restricted to Central European IP ranges only.

Result: ~90% reduction in attack logs, cleaner signal-to-noise ratio, smaller attack surface.

Using MaxMind GeoLite2 + PF tables with ~273k CIDR blocks.

blog.hofstede.it/geoip-aware-f

GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD | Larvitz Blog

Using MaxMind’s GeoLite2 database with FreeBSD’s PF firewall to restrict client-facing services to specific countries, reducing brute-force attempts and log noise while keeping essential services globally accessible.

blog.hofstede.it

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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) @alice@lgbtqia.space
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Shared by Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

One hour left!

lgbtqia.space/@alice/115849647

🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) (@alice@lgbtqia.space)

Alright, I think I have some sense of what y'all are into, so it's (sexy) poll time! What are the most important features of a fuckable monster to you? (select all that apply) If we're lucky, one of my lovely artist followers might draw something with the top features 💖 #Poll #NSFW #Monster #Sex [ ] Pretty much a furry / scaly [ ] Big enough to step on me [ ] Has sexy tentacles [ ] Could swallow me whole [ ] Feeds on me (soul, blood, etc) [ ] Big stabby things (claws, teeth, etc) [ ] Two or more wings [ ] Lots of arms / legs [ ] Gets me wet / slimy [ ] Hunts me [ ] Mechanical / technological [ ] Excited to penetrate me [ ] I'm excited to penetrate it [ ] Unknowable / Eldritch [ ] Mind control powers [ ] Hive mind

lgbtqia.space · LGBTQIA.Space

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Δρομογράφος @dromografos@social.dromografos.report
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Status of four detained by in still unknown, officials say

https://www.inforum.com/news/minnesota/status-of-four-native-americans-detained-by-ice-in-minneapolis-still-unknown-officials-say

The whereabouts of four members of the Oglala Tribe are still unknown five days after they were reportedly detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis, according to tribal and state leaders.

Minneapolis_Protest_4.JPG

Status of four Native Americans detained by ICE in Minneapolis still unknown, officials say

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, the Minnesota Native American Caucus, condemn federal agents’ actions against Native American citizens

www.inforum.com · InForum

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🕯️🎵바보イオン(바보이온)🦋💜🕯️ @precielous.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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Shared by 잇창명 EatChangmyeong💕🦋

이탈리아어에서는 ultimo(마지막), penultimo(2번째), terzultimo(3번째), quartultimo(4번째), quintultimo(5번째), sestultimo(6번째) 이렇게 나름 깔끔하던데 영어는 그게 안 되어서 저렇게 접두사 범벅이라니, 영어가 영어한 듯 합니다 출처는 bos-sozial.musin.de/Service/Intr...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ppk763j7o2wkinvzuqx4orrb/post/3mcczdqdvmc2m

I numerali

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Artemis @artemis@dice.camp
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My little brother (lives close to where Renee Good was shot & killed in Minneapolis) has been 3D printing ICE whistles & handing them out to neighbors & giving some to local businesses & churches to hand out. I'm really proud that his response is action, not fear.

The George Floyd protests play a part in this. The local places he knows will gladly hand out whistles are people he knows from 2020. All that commotion was NOT for nothing. A lot of people learned about organizing for the 1st time.

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🕯️🎵바보イオン(바보이온)🦋💜🕯️ @precielous.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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이탈리아어에서는 ultimo(마지막), penultimo(2번째), terzultimo(3번째), quartultimo(4번째), quintultimo(5번째), sestultimo(6번째) 이렇게 나름 깔끔하던데 영어는 그게 안 되어서 저렇게 접두사 범벅이라니, 영어가 영어한 듯 합니다 출처는 bos-sozial.musin.de/Service/Intr...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ppk763j7o2wkinvzuqx4orrb/post/3mcczdqdvmc2m

I numerali

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한겨레 @hanibsky.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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윤석열 전 대통령의 내란우두머리 사건 선고 공판이 2월19일 이뤄질 예정입니다. 이날 조은석 특별검사팀은 윤 전 대통령에게 사형을 구형했습니다.

[속보] 윤석열 내란우두머리 사건 선고 2일19일 나온...

[속보] 윤석열 내란우두머리 사건 선고 2일19일 나온다…특검은 사형 구형

윤석열 전 대통령의 내란우두머리 사건 선고 공판이 2월19일 이뤄질 예정이다. 서울중앙지법 형사합의25부(재판장 지귀연)의 심리로 13일부터 이틀에 걸쳐 열린 결심 공판에서 재판부는 윤 전 대통령 등 8명의 내란 사건 피고인에 대한 선고를 2월19일 오후 3시에 열 예

www.hani.co.kr · 한겨레

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한겨레 @hanibsky.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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윤석열 전 대통령의 내란우두머리 사건 선고 공판이 2월19일 이뤄질 예정입니다. 이날 조은석 특별검사팀은 윤 전 대통령에게 사형을 구형했습니다. www.hani.co.kr/arti/society...

[속보] 윤석열 내란우두머리 사건 선고 2일19일 나온...

[속보] 윤석열 내란우두머리 사건 선고 2일19일 나온다…특검은 사형 구형

윤석열 전 대통령의 내란우두머리 사건 선고 공판이 2월19일 이뤄질 예정이다. 서울중앙지법 형사합의25부(재판장 지귀연)의 심리로 13일부터 이틀에 걸쳐 열린 결심 공판에서 재판부는 윤 전 대통령 등 8명의 내란 사건 피고인에 대한 선고를 2월19일 오후 3시에 열 예

www.hani.co.kr · 한겨레

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 @rysiek@mstdn.social
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Shared by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

RE: theforkiverse.com/@pj/11588853

I am quite excited about what is doing and to see how it goes.

It seems to be going very well.

This is exactly what fedi was built for and what can make fedi stronger: an independent instance created and run for a specific community, pulling people in.

If you're as confused as I initially was: The Forkiverse is a fedi instance set up by hosts of two podcasts (Search Engine and Hard Fork), the name references the latter:
searchengine.show/the-fedivers

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Finn Voorhees @finnvoorhees@mastodon.social
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Shared by Matt Massicotte

🗑️ I've been working on a read later app over the last few years and it's getting closer to launch.

It archives every page you save so you never lose anything, and renders the original site beautifully. There's also a clean reader mode when you just want the content. Nested tags, auto-tagging, and shortcuts support for the automation nerds.

Sign up to be notified when it launches, I'll also be adding some people to the beta.

shelf-links.app/

Shelf: Save links, read later

A beautiful place for all your links. Save anything, find it later.

shelf-links.app

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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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I did some volunteering at a local school to help gather supplies for families who are staying home from school because of the invasion.

In the school office, a parent was checking in with one of the school staff whose family member was recently abducted. He was able to call once. He thinks he’s in Texas, but he’s not sure. She hasn’t heard from him for over a day. Then she turned back to coordinating volunteers, running the school office.

I did my work getting the supplies assembled and distributed. Then on the way out, I passed I room full of 1st / 2nd / 3rd graders, with the mellow happy buzz of kids at work, kids of every race and ancestry, just having a normal one, and

I just

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Evan Prodromou @evan@cosocial.ca
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I worked at Microsoft in the 1990s. One of our customers was Pacific Bell, the local telephone company. Dilbert author Scott Adams still worked at PacBell at the time, although he was rarely there. His mostly unused cubicle was in the same area that my contacts there worked, and it was a big ritual to bring newcomers to see his desk.

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Ephemeral Enigmas @EphemeralEnigmas@dosgame.club
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New blog post time!

This week's game is Spark World, a Bomberman-like where the characters are sentient vehicles and the bombs are batteries. Its aggressive take on the formula and breakneck pace make it an appealing multiplayer option, but its choices make driving solo kind of a huge pain:

ephemeralenigmascom.wordpress.

Spark World

I wanted to like Spark World a lot more than I did. Obviously, I’m a big Bomberman fan and I love seeing people find their own ways to mix up the formula (especially since Konami can’t be relied on…

ephemeralenigmascom.wordpress.com · Ephemeral Enigmas

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kepano @kepano@mastodon.social
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As hyped as Claude Code + Obsidian is, I have no desire to upload my personal unencrypted vault data to Anthropic or anyone else.

I hope that the ideas of private inference and confidential computing that Moxie described take off. It's how all LLMs should work.

Confidential computing This is the domain of confidential computing. Confidential computing uses hardware-enforced isolation to run code in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). The host machine provides CPU, memory, and power, but cannot access the TEE’s memory or execution state. LLMs are fundamentally stateless—input in, output out—which makes them ideal for this environment. For Confer, we run inference inside a confidential VM. Your prompts are encrypted from your device directly into the TEE using Noise Pipes, processed there, and responses are encrypted back. The host never sees plaintext. But this raises an obvious concern: even if we have encrypted pipes in and out of an encrypted environment, it really matters what is running inside that environment. The client needs assurance that the code running is actually doing what it claims.
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수학마녀 @Mathwitch@buttersc.one
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종교에 대한 의견

사실 기독교의 성경주의에 대해서...
성경을 제 입맛대로 해석하지않고 거기 있는 행위들 진짜 따르는 사람에 대해서는 별로 악감정없다.
“완전한 사람이 되려거든, 네 재산을 모두 팔아 가난한 사람에게 나누어주거라” 라던지

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Tamay @tamay_idk@mastodon.social
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Does anyone happen to own an ATM that they’re willing to sell? Preferably NCR or Wincor/Diebold Nixdorf. I‘m based in Hamburg and the ATM is mainly intended for . Will also take only parts or broken or ancient ATMs as well. Very long shot but worth a try :)

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CBC News @cbcnews@flipboard.com
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Shared by Jim DeLaHunt

Palestinian students accepted into Canadian universities remain ‘trapped’ in Gaza by visa delays
cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewa

Palestinian student accepted to University of Regina program still stuck in Gaza | CBC News

Biometrics  — fingerprints and photographs required for Canadian visas — can only be collected outside Gaza, typically in Egypt or the West Bank.

www.cbc.ca · CBC

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Wikidata @wikidata@wikis.world
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Shared by Evan Prodromou

⏰ Reminder! Fact-checking with Wikidata workshop

📆 20 January 2026 | 🕟 16:30–18:00 (UTC+1)

Philippe Saadé (Wikimedia Germany) and @DataTalks.Club host a hands-on workshop using the Wikidata Model Context Protocol (MCP) for fact-checking beyond generative AI.

✔ Wikidata intro
✔ Fact-checking with MCP, Large Language Models (LLM) & semantic search
✔ Build a small fact-checking pipeline

👉 Register now: luma.com/7fs5v7os

Philippe Saadé (Wikimedia Germany) and @DataTalks.Club Fact-checking workshop with Wikidata Model Context Potocol, register on the link to join
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