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.
17 years ago Mike Scott of the Waterboys released a demo of a song called "A Wild Holy Band" on the Believer 2009 music issue cd, and every so often I've gone looking to see if he ever released a studio version and I assumed he never did but it turns out I missed it because he released it in 2015. under a completely different title. Neat song! Probably not worth waiting 17 years for but I was stoked to find it after all that time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KDFVRVHTLU
Frowned upon in video games, loot boxes are back in real life–and one’s in the Pentagon.
https://www.404media.co/theres-a-lootbox-with-rare-pokemon-cards-sitting-in-the-pentagon-food-court/
Starting now ⏰ EFFecting Change: The Human Cost of Online Age Verification. Join the live discussion and ask a question! https://eff.org/livestream-age
Fediverse: Beyond text in the stream - SFSCON
https://www.sfscon.it/talks/fediverse-beyond-text-in-the-stream/
The Fediverse is a large, decentralised social network that continues to grow. Since its beginnings in 2008, text-based platforms such as StatusNet, Friendica and Mastodon have dominated. In this session, we’re going to take a look at what’s out there in the network that’s beyond just text. Starting with well-known video and image-sharing services such as Peertube and Pixelfed, we will explore other projects and the opportunities they offer creative podcasters, streamers and 3d artists.
If you are not familiar with the Fediverse, please watch my presentation from last year, “about:Fediverse“, which will introduce you to this social network alternative.
every time I get thinking about the Voynich I get temporarily banned from the Yale University document viewer because they think my frantic obsessive clicking is a scraper bot this is not a joke
Starting now ⏰ EFFecting Change: The Human Cost of Online Age Verification. Join the live discussion and ask a question! https://eff.org/livestream-age
バランスボール椅子が低くなってきたので気圧を再調整しています。しゅこしゅこしゅこしゅこ
Starting now ⏰ EFFecting Change: The Human Cost of Online Age Verification. Join the live discussion and ask a question! https://eff.org/livestream-age
GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy are costly, and weight can come back after you stop taking them. That’s where a new medical device that rewires the gut comes in. After one minimally invasive procedure, the goal is to lock in the weight loss from the drugs without costs, injections, or side effects. https://spectrum.ieee.org/weight-loss-devices?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
Thank you #wikipedia for being my favorite website. Thanks to all the editors, nit pickers, authors, all the developers, ops, community managers and really everyone who helped making wikipedia :)
Happy birthday 
@wikipedia
25 years of Wikipedia -- a decades-long story of language communities growing together
https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2026-01-15
@anarchic_teapotAnarchic Teapot ⚧️ I also bet the cat is cute too! 
오늘 그래도 단순반복작업이라 그냥 하면 됐다. Werkstudent 꼭 전공 살려서 할 필요 없단 것도 알았다.
ActivityPub standardization is back! The #W3C just announced a new Working Group to evolve #ActivityPub and #ActivityStream and related standards! This is extremely good news. It's not like all the world's federated social media protocol problems were already solved! https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-socialweb/2026Jan/0000.html
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/115900243141960993
Für alle die sich Fragen ob wir es hier nicht etwas mit dem Datenschutz übertreiben.
Die #ICE in den USA nutzt eine App von #Palantir um Leute zum deportieren zu lokalisieren.
Die Daten dafür kommen u.a. aus dem Gesundheitsministerium.
Polizeiliche Überwachung mit #Palantir wurde für BW eingeführt und soll in Deutschland für weitere Bundesländer eingeführt werden.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115900837504643093
is it me or do most fediverse shitposters come from the beige.party? beige bless.
으어 내 허리
Machen eure gedachten Zahlen Farben im Kopf?
Één voor allen, alleen voor één.
Welp, there's no way around it now. I ran out of things to procrastinate drawing the feet
Early 80s. A small lawn, a red Vespa, and the illusion of absolute freedom.
Judging by the color of the Vespa, it was probably powered by FreeBSD, even if it did not exist yet.
ケチャップ オムライス
Notice for Players Regarding Server Time Adjustment
A very early reminder to many players, mostly in Europe DCs - remember that on March 30, the server time will be adjusted by an extra hour ahead to align with the in-game day-night cycle. This may interfere with many features such as public transit, career quests, and some items with a clock feature may display incorrect time.
とつぜんですが弊ぼっちのデータベースのメンテナンスを走らせます。最長10分くらい503を返すことになります。お騒がせします。
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115900837504643093
If this doesn't convince people to leave Bluesky (and to a lesser degree, Twitter/X), nothing will.
There's still time to submit to #FluConf2026 which is on at the end of this month. It's a safe, virus-free online conference for sharing ideas about Free and Open Source Software and Culture.
Participating in 
@fluconf is free, and anyone can submit something: a video, an article or blog post, a livestream, a song, a poem or whatever fits the conference themes.
No AI/LLM slop. Just humans sharing ideas.
Read more here:
Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
Link: https://www.approachwithalacrity.com/claude-ne/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618042
met some unexpected mushroom friends on my morning walk
ActivityPub standardization is back! The #W3C just announced a new Working Group to evolve #ActivityPub and #ActivityStream and related standards! This is extremely good news. It's not like all the world's federated social media protocol problems were already solved! lists.w3.org/Archive...
#photojanuary2026 #photojanvier2026
Jour 15 : thème libre - mon chat français Liberty 
Oakland's pathbreaking Privacy Advisory Commission still has several vacancies. If you are an Oakland resident who cares about #privacy rights, now would be a good time to step up. Hit us up at contact@oaklandprivacy.org for background and info on how to apply.
Shitposters, Assemble!
hahahahahhahaha i found a GIF of the only video game i ever made, "TeddyQuest", a Pico-8 game.
Thank you #wikipedia for being my favorite website. Thanks to all the editors, nit pickers, authors, all the developers, ops, community managers and really everyone who helped making wikipedia :)
$99 BeaglePlay Board Achieves "100% Open-Source" Upstream PowerVR Graphics
Going back many years Imagination PowerVR graphics were widely despised by open-source enthusiasts and Linux desktop users for their lack of an open-source GPU driver. But over the past few years the Imagination PowerVR driver focused on their Rogue graphics IP has matured nicely within the Linux kernel and the PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa taking shape too. Paired with Zink for OpenGL over Vulka…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/BeaglePlay-PowerVR-Success
🚨 a CVE for `devalue` has been published we use devalue in @nuxt.com@bsky.brid.gy to send payloads to the client - so you'll get automated warnings. 👉 BUT nuxt users are not vulnerable to this particular issue still, it's an important reminder to refresh your lockfile to update your transitive dependencies.
"FASCISM! An Army Orientation Fact Sheet, 1945
Fascism is a way to run a country—it’s the way Italy was run, and the way Germany and Japan are run. Fascism is the precise opposite of democracy. The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.
Fascism is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.
Why? The democratic way of life interferes with their methods and desires for: (1) conducting business; (2) living with their fellow-men; (3) having the final say in matters concerning others, as well as themselves.
The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence — democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told.
They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law. They make their own rules and change them when they choose. If you don’t like it, it’s 'T.S.' [tough shit].
They maintain themselves in power by use of force combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of 'blood' and 'race,' by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and 'realistic”to be pitiless and violent.
How It Starts
Fascism came to power in Germany, Italy, and Japan at a time of social and economic unrest. A small group of men, supported in secret by powerful financial and military interests, convinced enough insecure people that fascism would give them the things they wanted.
They did so partly by clever propaganda and deception. They promised the people that fascism would bring them great power and prosperity. The details differed from country to country but the general pattern was the same.
(. . .)
To big business men and the industrialists they secretly promised greater security and profits through the elimination of small business competitors and trade unions and the crushing of socialists and communists. To the whole nation they promised glory and wealth by conquest. They asserted it was their right, as a 'superior people,' to rule the world.
As soon as these methods had won them enough of a following to form their Storm Troops, the fascists began using force to stifle and wipe out any opposition. Those who saw through the false front of fascism and opposed them were beaten, tortured, and killed.
The fascists knew that all believers in democracy were their enemies. They knew that the fundamental principle of democracy — faith in the common sense of the common people — was the direct opposite of the fascist principle of rule by the elite few. So they fought democracy in all its phases.
How It Works
It was easy enough for the fascists to promise all things to all people before they were in power. Once they were actually in power, they could not, of course, keep their contradictory promises. They had intended in advance to break some, and they did break those they had made to the middle classes, the workers, and the farmers.
As soon as the fascists were in control of the government, the torturings and the killings were no longer the unlawful acts of a political party and its hoodlum gangs. They became official government policy.
Among the first victims of this official policy were those farmers, workers, and small business men who had believed the promises that had been made to them and who complained that they had been .sucked in.'
Some simply vanished. Often they came home to their families by return mail in little jars of ashes.
The concentration camps and graves filled with the opponents of fascism. Out went equality before the law, free elections and free political parties, independent trade unions and independent schools, freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and, in time, freedom of religion."
https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2026/01/fascism-army-orientation-1945/
*endless screaming*
Many health information websites leak page visit data to third parties such as #google. These websites include Canadian and provincial health portals. According to the Blacklight Privacy Inspector, only #Ontario, #BritishColumbia, and the #Canada health portal were free of 3rd-party tracking when we collected the data.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04485
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The podcast episode that told me to join the forkiverse also told me to add a picture, but I'm anxious about taking more than my fair share of pixels. So I'll just let everyone know I'm in my home office, avoiding work, and watching my dog take an afternoon nap.
every time I get thinking about the Voynich I get temporarily banned from the Yale University document viewer because they think my frantic obsessive clicking is a scraper bot this is not a joke
The new #FreeBSDJournal is out! Includes my Letters column, where someone calls out my bullshit. Or tries to.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/freebsd-15-0/
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