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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Long post on the durability of US racism

George Floyd died in 2020, so the US said, "OMG! Racism is bad! We can change!"

In 2021, the US *talked about* some modest reforms.

In 2022 and 2023, white grievance against those reforms had reached fever pitch.

2024 saw record police funding, record cops killing Black people, and DEI rollback.🤷🏿‍♂️

That whole arc took less than 4 years, and the United States is now more racist than it was in 2019.🤦🏿‍♂️

US racism is incredibly durable and self-healing. The rules of engagement of US society, including who is allowed to criticize what systems, make it so that any meager gains can be clawed back.

In the moments after George Floyd, many people thought that the US had changed for the better, and changed for good.

But a lot of us older Black folk said to ourselves, "👴🏿OK! Now what durable improvements can we put in place before everyone goes back to business as usual?"

We've seen this before.

My point is: Do not mistake temporary revulsion prompted by white people seeing what happened to Renee Good, for widespread opposition to the idea of ethnically cleansing the United States.

That would be a mistake.

You have a limited window to put any durable changes in place.

And prepare yourself emotionally for that pendulum to swing back.

Because if you are not prepared, it will smash you, and break your spirit.

Ironically: a lot of Black people were less emotionally devastated by the anti-civil rights swingback, because we knew it was coming.🤷🏿‍♂️

It's a long game.

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Today I thought, what if I take the nix flake I use to manage my dotfiles and machine setup, and just make an ISO out of it, and then flash it onto a USB stick. I can now basically plug in my "full setup" in any computer I happen to find anywhere.

My SSH, AGE and GPG keys are on my Yubikey. I literally bring up a pinentry dialogue as soon as desktop-session starts (Hyprland), which uses my Yubikey to decrypt secrets, and connect to my Tailnet using an Auth Key.

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ゆいちむと映画 (@YUI3MOV) on X
何度でも言うけどアマプラで見れる『バベットの晩餐会』ガチでとんでもない多幸感に包まれるから見て…

村の牧師で人格者であった父の教えを守って清く貧しい人生を過ごした老姉妹と、フランス革命の波に祖国を追われた一流料理人の物語。

めちゃめちゃあったけぇのよ🥹 x.com/i/status/201199345020032
いいかも

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Der gesamte Berg Müll, den ihr derzeit in der gesamten westlichen Welt beobachten könnt.
Haben Antifa- Aktivisti vor vielen Jahren fast im Detail vorhergesagt.
Und das ist das einzige was ich der bürgerlichen Mitte für den Rest meiner Tage auf diesem Planeten ob ihre Arroganz und Fahrlässigkeit niemals verzeihen werde.
Sie hat uns hängen gelassen. Sie hat uns belächelt. Sie hat uns ausgelacht. Sie hat uns als Gewalttäter abgestempelt. "Ihr seht auch überall Nazis".

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Jorge Moreira da Silva, Executive Director of the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS), said on Thursday that each person in Gaza is surrounded by 30 tonnes of rubble. He noted that “Gaza contains more than 60 million tonnes of debris, the capacity of nearly 3,000 container ships.”

He warned, “It is likely to take over 7 years to clear this rubble,” calling the destruction “overwhelming.” Da Silva added the “humanitarian crisis is deepening” and that “the people in Gaza are exhausted, traumatized, and overwhelmed,” with winter rains “doubling people’s misery and desperation.”

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I have some friends where most of our interactions is just sharing random memes back and forth, and maybe some people might think that's weird, but getting a meme from them is a little highlight of my day making me smile, and I hope they feel the same way

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Age verification is spreading like cancer.

First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting VPNs and app stores behind 🇬🇧🇦🇺

What’s sold as “online safety” means via IDs checks or face scans.

Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.

We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!

👉 More: tuta.com/blog/age-verification


First they came for Adult sites
And I did not speak out
Because I was not interested in Adult sites
Then they came for Social Media
And I did not speak out
Because I was not interested in Social Media
Then they came for the VPNs
And I did not speak out
Because I was not interested in VPNs
Then they came for chat apps
And I did not speak out
Because I was not  interested in chat apps
Then they locked the whole web behind ID verification
And there was no one left
To speak up against this
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