What is Hackers' Pub?

I recently came across an interesting video about a method for identifying AI-generated art. I thought it was worth sharing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxui8MoUJ5k

TLDW: Increasing the saturation and luminosity of an AI-generated image reveals artefacts, even in solid-coloured areas.

However, I'm not sure how reliable this method is, since a very similar effect can be observed in JPEGs with medium to high compression. I'd love to hear from anyone who can shed some light on this (pun not intended)!

#antiAI #AIisNotArt

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

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How to think about Gas Town: steveklabnik.com/writing/how-...

How to think about Gas Town

Actually kinda like the new styling on the Safari tab & tool bars. *ducks for cover*

Tusky now ships it's own Html parser. This unlocks a whole new level of bugs. 😎

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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:

https://fluconf.online/

今天是弟媳產後D23，在昨天外出用餐的美麗閒暇之後，我們又回到日常。今天我請求弟弟和弟媳幫我看一組超貴的德國品牌輪針組；主要是在附近的手作店舖沒看到架上有陳列，我就改打網購的主意，發現手作店的官網雖然有賣，但價格是€189和台灣售價沒差很多，網路上有其他商店賣到€148這樣的低價，請弟媳幫我確認應該不是詐騙網站（她的德文比我弟又好上不少，也在慕尼黑生活更久，更懂這裡的「民情」）後，我就請弟弟幫我下單。弟弟很阿莎力地刷了他的卡，說算是對我的感謝之情。

來這裡後，我常想這個問題：負責大部分家務的那個家人，要如何才能不覺得自己被當成幫傭？而當那麼多人說會將幫傭當成家人，又是怎樣才真正讓人感到「被當成家人」？在我來之前，弟弟就曾訴說負責每日餐食是多麼辛苦，我實際參與後，覺得廚房工作真的讓人感到一整天彷彿都在為了「吃」這件事在勞動，而一個飄飄然忘了想「下一餐是什麼」，就會讓生活節奏掉拍。（今天中午我就因為忘記準備，買了麥當勞來吃）在外食、外送如此昂貴的國度，家務的計價應該更高，因為負擔確實更重。

台灣的便宜人力讓家務更容易外包，這裡的昂貴人力卻迫使人們更花時間在生活。

#2026德國月嫂

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

RE: https://masto.free-dissociation.com/@kevinr/115901240505999398

are users hardware

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Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that break service status.

I've refactored the init scripts for Sidekiq, Puma, and Streaming to be fully production-grade:

- Clean privilege dropping (no su wrappers)
- Native signal handling for log rotation
- Correct PID tracking & status reporting.

I published the scripts and the reasoning behind them in my Codeberg gists:

https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md

I use those to run a Mastodon instance and they're working great so far!

❤️ 🦣

#FreeBSD #Mastodon #SelfHosting #mastoadmin #runbsd #OpenSource

Also new in v1.114 today: cashtags! Like hashtags, but for stocks. Tag your posts with $AAPL, $NVDA, whatever, then tap to see everyone else's equally unqualified analysis!

Welcome calm329 as #curl commit author 1431: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20322

Food delivery platform Grubhub has confirmed a recent data breach after hackers accessed its systems, with sources telling BleepingComputer the company is now facing extortion demands.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/grubhub-confirms-hackers-stole-data-in-recent-security-breach/

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Teaching AI art to my little one.

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블루스카이 새로운 작성 UI도 실험중인듯

今日はあったかいらしい

So are designers now at the mercy of marketing teams or what?

Zero creativity. All branding. Gross.

"an extraordinarily interesting video that touches on a load of great topics"

No, really! Someone just wrote this comment about my conversation with Marco.

This gives you an idea what it would be like to work with me. What do you think?

(Watching myself is nerve-wracking and sometimes even cringe, but I'm really quite happy with this one!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0NjFsb-at8

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love to see Bluesky support Twitch streamers like this 👍

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/post/3mcibezwvxk2g

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Bro you’re not prompt engineering you’re writing code fanfic

It seems that py/cryptography's thoughts about OpenSSL (https://cryptography.io/en/latest/statements/state-of-openssl/) are doing the rounds at the moment.

I've not touched OpenSSL directly in a long time. In fact, it appears that the 10-year anniversary of that (https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/10/17/boringssl.html) passed by a few months ago!

So I've no direct comments on the piece but, a long time ago, I was in the position where I was landing changes in both OpenSSL and NSS (Mozilla's TLS library). OpenSSL was somewhat famous for having bad code. And, indeed, if you looked at it back then the functions were full of single-letter variable names with pointer arithmetic everywhere and context-free, somewhat scary comments. It wasn't outside the norm for 1990s C code, but I understand why people recoiled.

In contrast, if you looked at NSS code, it looked good! Consistent formatting (before clang-format), good naming, good comments.

But NSS had a PKCS#11 abstraction layer and, even after years, I never could understand how the control flow worked there. I would have to single-step in gdb every time to figure out where an operation grounded out into actual code. I was reminded of that when reading py/cryptography's descriptions of OpenSSL 3.0.

I had a pet theory at the time that, because OpenSSL was repulsive on the surface, it inhibited people enough that they couldn't add much deeper complexity. But NSS, with its invitingly clean-looking code, was understandable and then people had enough capacity left over to add deeper complexity.

There might be something to it, although you shouldn't discount the fact that entities who are willing to fund cryptography libraries often have demands that are contrary to clean code. Things like FIPS compliance and compatibility with a zoo of different accelerators and bespoke needs.

So rather it might have been that old OpenSSL was old OpenSSL because it was mostly unfunded. That meant that it looked pretty ragged, but also there weren't so many demands in tension with good design.

NSS was funded by interests that really cared about PKCS#11 compatibility so that you could use a super-expensive, certified-everything HSM with it. When OpenSSL got shocked into switching to a higher-funding model, that brought lots of those same sorts of competing interests, and then the incentives pointed towards adding slow, impenetrable layers of abstraction all over.

@quixoticgeek @stefanoStefano Marinelli Also known as "shoot at the monkey's feet, make the monkey dance faster." We've all been there.

(It stops being funny when they miss the floor, maim the monkey, and the monkey they depend on for some critical function spends two months in hospital.)

#WindowsAppSDK 1.7.7 (1.7.260114001) has shipped!

This is a servicing release that includes critical bug fixes for the 1.7 release.

Release notes: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/apps/windows-app-sdk/release-notes/windows-app-sdk-1-7?pivots=stable#version-177-17260114001

Download package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK/1.7.260114001

#WASDKday

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- 캐시태그 • 해시태그처럼 쓰지만 주식과 관련된 이야기를 할때 사용할 수 있습니다. • 게시물에 $AAPL, $NVDA 등 원하는 태그를 달아 사용할 수 있습니다. (한정적 지원으로 모든 문자에서 적용가능하진 않음) •캐시태그를 탭하면 다른 사람들의 전문성 없는 분석을 확인할 수 있습니다. (2/2)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/post/3mcibiyf7fs2r

📢 블루스카이 v1.114 업데이트 - '라이브 중' 베타 기능을 모든 사용자에게 확대 제공 • 이 실험적 기능을 통해 아바타에 임시 '라이브' 배지를 추가할 수 있으며, 이를 통해 다른 사용자들이 현재 Twitch에서 생방송 중임을 알 수 있습니다 그리고 이 배지를 클릭하면 스트림 페이지로 바로 이동 가능합니다. • 베타 기간 동안 '지금 생방송 중'은 현재 Twitch 링크로만 제한됩니다. 베타 운영을 통해 얻은 경험을 바탕으로 다른 스트리밍 플랫폼 지원도 추가될 예정입니다. (1/2)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/post/3mcibezwvxk2g

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I need your help: For an investigation into dating app algorithms, I am looking to get in touch with developers and others who work/have worked for such providers and would be willing to talk to me. Anonymous responses are also welcome. Questions include: What mechanisms are used to keep users on the platform? What ideas/constructs of partnership/matching are embedded in the algorithm? Please share widely! Thank you❤️
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漁村の夕景 #misskey写真部

Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.

—fortune(6)

we're seeing unprecedented bullshit levels

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ohayo

Do you know any new open source projects that deserve recognition?

Projects that are:
- Solving real world problems and driving technical innovation
- Improving science, research or medicine
- Challenging long standing platforms or paradigms
- Just super nerdy and doing something novel!

If you do, please share them and perhaps we can help them get the attention they deserve. 🧡
#opensource #linux #Innovation

conversation I had today:
- is it a nonprofit?
- …not on purpose, no

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Question: when did security analysts start describing leveraged exploit paths as "primitives"? Did this start with the FORCEDENTRY JBIG2 exploit or does this terminology have a longer history, maybe in gadget-based exploitation?

https://projectzero.google/2026/01/pixel-0-click-part-1.html

Heute ist es so richtig schief gegangen mit der Bahn. Selbst für meine Verhältnisse. Ich hatte eine Verbindung mit gut Umsteigezeit und Puffer. Die oft auch funktioniert: Sprinter Berlin- Nürnberg, Intercity bis Aalen (und dann RE nach Oberkochen zu einem Termin). Ich hab drei Anschlüsse verpasst und musste am Ende vom vorletzten Bahnhof abgeholt werden, um nur zwei Stunden zu spät zu sein.
Ich frage mich, wie Leute unter diesen Bedingungen überhaupt irgendwo ankommen.
#EvaTraindestroyer #bahn

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Pixel dailies: Secret Wall
#pixelart #pixel_dailies #secretwall #ドット絵 #aseprite #Procreate @pixel_dailies