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.
oh look another Fortinet flaw
Ah, the indifference with which I get to let $DAYJOB know that the temporary snapshot of the pre-transformation data I'd kept up for a couple days in case they wanted to revert it, because the company (or Microsoft) forces updates and system restarts, that information disappeared with their reboot. Had they mentioned it yesterday, I could have pretty readily restored the data.
If you force reboots that destroy in-process work—yes, the issue I've mentioned countless times—it can cause lost work/data. Mmhmm, it bit you again. 😑
Finally posted my write-up on getting OpenBSD booting on my Chromebook:
"Liberating the ASUS CX1100CN Chromebook with OpenBSD"
It's great that the Protocols for Publishers 
@teamProtocols for Publishers has an account with their own domain here on the Fediverse. Bravo!
There's an upcoming PfP event in London. Great speakers like 
@saskia , 
@JeremiahJeremiah Lee , and 
@fediversereportConnected Places .
It's great that the Protocols for Publishers @teamProtocols for Publishers has an account with their own domain here on the Fediverse. Bravo!
There's an upcoming PfP event in London. Great speakers like @saskia , @JeremiahJeremiah Lee , and @fediversereportConnected Places .
加拿大總理卡尼 Mark Carney 週五會見中國國家主席習近平後宣佈，加中同意互降懲罰性關稅，加拿大撤回100%中國電動車關稅，中國把芥花籽關稅大幅降低
美國總統川普被問及加中達成貿易協議時，他說「It's OK」，還說「這是他（卡尼）應該做的事」
Team Chiron's autonomous drones and quadrupeds are designed for battlefield triage, identifying casualties and assessing triage priorities in crucial moments. https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-triage-challenge-robots?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
"Your prompts remain private while using our AI" isn't the pro-privacy statement most AI companies seem to believe it to be.
What about the data of the subjects you used to train your AI model? Did you ask consent from all of them? What's that? Your product isn't possible if you ask for consent first?
Well, it's definitely not private then.
Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
New post: Capitalism loves a good filler. So why should the web be any different?
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/slop-is-everywhere-for-those-with-eyes-to-see/
Appreciating Nick Pope's review comments on django/django again this morning.
Folk wanting to level up their Python chops would learn something from reading/studying these reviews.
@fediversereportConnected Places I think that's a really healthy structure. I think it's likely that the Working Group will be focused on upkeep and maintenance of the core docs (ActivityPub and Activity Streams), and the Community Group will work on broader applications of the protocol through extensions.
@fediversereportConnected Places I hope people in the ActivityPub community put the invited expert policy to the test. There's a good explanation of the IE role here:
https://www.w3.org/invited-experts/
I would be really surprised if qualified ActivityPub specialists are turned down for IE roles!
Fun aside, but I guess that's the end of taking the Nobel Price for Peace seriously.
寝落ちしてた…………
In honor of Meta's latest announcement, a thread on 175 years of 3D failure.
Let's first go all the way back to 1851 with the Brewster Stereoscope. No less a person than Queen Victoria was impressed, kicking off a fad that quickly sold over 250,000 units. Turns out it was not the future of photography.
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engl. an AI strategy that puts humans first
dt. eine KI-Strategie, die Menschen aufs Dach steigt
engl. an AI strategy that puts humans first
dt. eine KI-Strategie, die Menschen zuerst verputzt
Last chance to be part of our 2025 survey – we’d love to hear your thoughts and questions about New_ Public, what you’d like to see us focus on in 2026, and your experience accessing information in your local community.
Take a few minutes to share your thoughts at our survey here:
https://newpublic.typeform.com/survey2025?utm_source=mastodon
#ActivityPub is getting its first formal update path since 2018. I wrote about why this matters, how this leads to some strange and funny power dynamics, and about who actually participate
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/
4号車前から3番目 今日は空いてる
よし行くか。
Cloudflare acquires Astro
Link: https://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646645
中途覚醒ンゴ
There's a lot of chatter here in Minneapolis about a far-right group staging a hate rally / “march” / attack on Saturday — and a lot of confusion about what the targeted community is asking in response.
If you want to rush in and play hero, STOP.
If you heard “don't go downtown, don't do anything,” also STOP.
The targeted community has a specific and nuanced request for us all. The information here is the best summary I've heard. Please take a moment to read.
#Minneapolis #MSP https://hachyderm.io/@alter_kaker/115906410015463575
Battle Born LFP Battery Melts With New Problem
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/16/battle-born-lfp-battery-melts-with-new-problem/
@lexfeathersLex Feathers 🌸 
@funnymonkey Can you guess my vote? 😏
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
@lexfeathersLex Feathers 🌸
LOL. This was me voting.
smalloc: a simple memory allocator https://lobste.rs/s/ubcsl9 #rust
https://github.com/zooko/smalloc
熟練クソネミオフトゥン職人の朝はねむい
From Nuuk, Greenland:
(Via 
@UROCKlive1Khashoggi’s Ghost)
Do you believe that Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that scraped more than 20 billions images from social media platforms and the internet, without consent from the subjects, to sell their product to law enforcement and government agencies, is a privacy-respectful product because it does respect the privacy of its users?
it was inspired by @whitep4nth3r.com@bsky.brid.gy (aren't we all?) though the implementation is probably very different
bsky.app/profile/whi...
⭑ salma (@whitep4nth3r.com)
here's the PR implementing it if you want to grab any code
github.com/danielroe/r...
feat: add bluesky comments sec...
just added bluesky comments to my blog posts ✨ it auto-discovers when I've shared an article on bluesky and pulls in the replies as comments ... so you can reply on bluesky and it will show up on the blog (for example: roe.dev/blog/the-go...)
@fediversereportConnected Places So, I think this is a really interesting article, and I agree that participation and representation matter here.
I hope that more ActivityPub implementers step up to become W3C members. There are several funded nonprofits and commercial organizations that could probably afford it. I'd recommend that people who use ActivityPub software let the software creators know that they should participate in the WG process!
@fediversereportConnected Places
I think all of the editors and authors of ActivityPub and Activity Streams in the previous iteration of the working group were "invited experts", except one (
@jasnellJames M Snell ). One of the chairs (me) was as an invited expert.
The chairs (
@tantek.comTantek Çelik , 
@lehorsArnaud J Le Hors and I) had a "knock to get invited" policy: anyone who expressed interest in participating in the working group was invited to join. I can't remember a situation where we turned someone down.
Just a random butt from the archives…
‘The more of the public that comments, the better,’ says one local, as regulators begin considering a long-discussed proposal to bury nuclear waste https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-nuclear-waste-assessment-begins/
ゆれ
I swear github's UX is "designed" by throwing someone down a flight of stairs and then asking them how things should work while they're heavily concussed.
Signed, spent the last hour trying to figure out how to enable auto-merge on green CI, which somehow requires navigating to three different screens hidden in completely non-obvious places, and then realize that dropdowns show you no available actions to mark required because you _have_ to search for a string that appears in the jobs's name before the asinine UI will admit that they exist and let you select them.
뱀을 키우는 줄로만 알았는데, 사실 제가 키우는 것은 오레오 롤이었습니다.
ねむいよーーーーーー
I feel that LLM training will be ruled fair use. I disagree with that ruling, I think it’s harebrained, but it’s what the Capitalist class wants and we all know how that goes.
What I’m thinking about today is how to take something productive out of this mess.
#ActivityPub is getting its first formal update path since 2018. I wrote about why this matters, how this leads to some strange and funny power dynamics, and about who actually participate
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/
@fediversereportConnected Places So, I think this is a really interesting article, and I agree that participation and representation matter here.
I hope that more ActivityPub implementers step up to become W3C members. There are several funded nonprofits and commercial organizations that could probably afford it. I'd recommend that people who use ActivityPub software let the software creators know that they should participate in the WG process!
こんばんは
OH ("how do i content warn this" "void, horrifying abuse. mindbreaking even"). so yeah CW: hey here's a fun story i just remembered
の太陽が起床
あさだよー！
Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing https://lobste.rs/s/b9elrl #databases
https://www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_duckdb/
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