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.
My controversial opinion opinion of the day (according to 
@keithamus at least)
There is no universe in which beans on toast can be better than avocado toast, or french toast.
같이 살기엔 울집이 너무 작고
남편 형 울 동네 살았음 좋겠다.
Tusky now ships it's own Html parser. This unlocks a whole new level of bugs. 😎
샨티 오늘은 나랑 남편 둘다 일 가야 해서 남편 형이랑 있었는데 아주 잘 있었다. 누구라도 돌봐줄 사람이 있으면 되는거였어.
Ich bin ja dafür, dass wir ekelhaft ab sofort immer auf "d" enden lassen.
Einerseits um zu jederzeit klarzustellen, was von rechtsextremistischen Parteien zu halten ist.
Andererseits um die #LLM zu verwirren, wenn sie unsere Texte als Trainingsdaten scrapen.
Also: #AIslop ist ekelhafd. Die #AfD ist ekelhafd.
Spread the word.
Many of you might have already seen the ultra cute "sea sheep" (Costasiella kuroshimae), but yesterday I learned 2 mind-blowing facts about the family of sea slugs they belong to:
1. They incorporate chloroplasts (the organelles in plant cells that do the actual photosynthesis) of plants they eat, into their own bodies to do photosynthesis directly for them (that is the green colour you see), in order to survive if food is scarce.
Imagine being able to live from light!
1/2
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115900837504643093
is it me or do most fediverse shitposters come from the beige.party? beige bless.
What I'm listening to today: "jbro 73 // VCV Rack 2 // 180 bpm chopped choir jungle"
This person used VCV Rack to create a machine that eternally generates drum & bass. The human operator then introduces structure by turning different elements up and down in the mixer (the drums and bass, although random, are *uniformly* random, so without intervention one stretch is much like any other). Honestly gets old after about 7 minutes but those first 7 minutes are pretty sick.
What I'm listening to today: "Scorn"
Portishead is one of my favorite bands ever and probably my fav track of theirs is "Scorn", which I'd describe as "Glory Box" turned inside out. (That description probably won't make sense unless you've listened to Glory Box a lot.)
The track is pretty hard to find; it's on a 10-track Dummy remix/outtake compilation called "Glory Times" and, inexplicably, in the background of one scene in the 1996 Wiccasploitation film "The Craft".
what kind of a demented mind makes a bluetooth game controller and maps the ABXY face buttons to joystick buttons 1/2/4/5?
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.
(Edit/Nachtrag:)
Bericht dazu bei Netzpolitik: https://netzpolitik.org/2026/us-einwanderungsbehoerde-mit-palantir-und-paragon-auf-migrantenjagd/
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 :)
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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
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Evan Prodromou
Darius Kazemi
Dr. Anna Latour
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Tom Casavant
