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.
RE: https://chaos.social/@derPUPE/115894826052801889
This is 
@jtonline level tea hacking.
If history really repeated itself then life would be a lot more predictable than it is.
website: want to try our new AI feature?
me: the International Bureau of Weights and Measures has convened a subcommittee to define a new SI prefix suitable for describing the infinitesimal fraction of a femtoshit that I give about your new "AI" feature
@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!
@fediversereportConnected Places Finally, we've been planning to work in a "staging process", where ideas and changes come from the developer and user communities, through the Community Group, and then optionally go to the Working Group if they need the structure of an official W3C standard.
@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 We also proactively reached out to distributed social network projects and commercial social network implementers. I'd been organizing the Federated Social Web Summit events for a few years, and we'd talked to dozens of different projects, so we had a lot of contacts there.
@fediversereportConnected Places Finally, we've been planning to work in a "staging process", where ideas and changes come from the developer and user communities, through the Community Group, and then optionally go to the Working Group if they need the structure of an official W3C standard.
@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.
@fediversereportConnected Places We also proactively reached out to distributed social network projects and commercial social network implementers. I'd been organizing the Federated Social Web Summit events for a few years, and we'd talked to dozens of different projects, so we had a lot of contacts there.
@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.
#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!
#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/
After 3 months, we finally got the water system fixed and added a reverse osmosis, which means I can omce again enjoy tea without it tasting like iron and other minerals!
GmailさんLogwatchからのメールにAiサマリを付けないで💢
Look at this silly goober. He was purring up a storm while being pet like this!
おはよ はあ、土曜日か…
As hosts of RustConf 2026, we’re looking forward to reading proposals that share practical experience using Rust — what people are building, learning, and discovering in the real world.
We invite the community to submit talks that reflect how Rust is being used today. https://bit.ly/4sO0YBc #rustconf #rustconf26
When they say AI is optional, but your option is to turn it off because they decided AI is default.
NEW, by me: A hacking campaign targeted high-profile Gmail and WhatsApp users across the Middle East this week, sent as a phishing lure over WhatsApp.
I obtained a copy of the phishing page and analyzed it with the help of experts. The attack aimed to steal passwords, hijack WhatsApp accounts, and grab victims' location data.
But a bug in the code also *exposed* victims' data, allowing us to see dozens of people who had fallen victim.
How a hacking campaign targeted high-profile Gmail and WhatsApp users across the Middle East | TechCrunch
The phishing campaign targeted users on WhatsApp, including an Iranian-British activist, and stole the credentials of a Lebanese cabinet minister and at least one journalist.
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
Link author: 
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
US ICE agents have been using tear gas on protestors in Minneapolis. There's been plenty of tear gas misinformation flying around on social media; here's a summary of the chemistry and the best way to get rid of it (TLDR: water): https://www.compoundchem.com/2020/06/09/tear-gas
When they say AI is optional, but your option is to turn it off because they decided AI is default.
Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT
Link: https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649577
Cutting LLM token Usage by ~80% using REPL driven document analysis https://lobste.rs/s/xankns #lisp #programming #vibecoding
https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-01-16-lattice-mcp.html
Hello from the other side!
(More information in the coming days)
New: Here is an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. More than 600 companies have been working with Trump’s ICE, including businesses in nearly every state.
Free to read:
US ICE agents have been using tear gas on protestors in Minneapolis. There's been plenty of tear gas misinformation flying around on social media; here's a summary of the chemistry and the best way to get rid of it (TLDR: water): https://www.compoundchem.com/2020/06/09/tear-gas
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Transparency is a pageant. This is a fascinating paper (via 
@yvonnezlamYvonne Lam, thank you.)
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 .
As hosts of RustConf 2026, we’re looking forward to reading proposals that share practical experience using Rust — what people are building, learning, and discovering in the real world.
We invite the community to submit talks that reflect how Rust is being used today. https://bit.ly/4sO0YBc #rustconf #rustconf26
立民と公明、そこまで数合わせという印象ないんだけど、立民が共産などの左派勢力と組もうとしていた時期があるのだから、数合わせだと批判されても仕方ない面はある。ただ、数合わせという意味では高市自民と維新の連立のほうがよっぽど酷い数合わせだとはおもう。
RE: https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/115906304850499236
Registrations on #holos are now open. Keep in mind this is a beta, your feedback helps us build this project.
It has two components: the App (hosts its own ActivityPub server) and the Relay (provides stable identity).
For advanced users: the relay supports CNAME records, allowing you to use your own domain. This makes you independent from the relay, which becomes just infrastructure.
We're trying to gauge interest in developer events around local-first. If you're curious about adding local-first collaboration to your apps, which event format would you you prefer?
The Reflection team is currently planning priorities for the next months, and we're interested in what developers would need to get started using the p2panda stack to add collaboration to their apps. For this, it'd be helpful to know how important GObject bindings are to you:
i'm really thankful to be working for the kind of studio where one of my duties as a team lead is to remind my team not to crunch under any circumstances
... 어르신들이 많이 당하는것 같긴함 ㅋㅋㅋ 사기꾼에게 털리는 과정과 비슷한데 너무 말을 잘하고 신뢰를 쌓았으니 홀라당 넘어가는것;; 근데 모든 AI의 시작 즉 기업이 대규모로 투자했던것이 의료와 국방인것을 생각해보면 아마 이쪽은 빠르게 해결될것 같긴합니다 모두 이분야는 돈이 된다는것을 잘 알고 있고 실제로 느낄정도로 효과가 확실하고 그래서 어떻게든 해결해보려고 함.
ぼくはXPだったころのWindowsがすき///
Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force or #IETF . Every day billions of people use the open standards and technologies developed in the IETF. And nearly 8000 volunteer IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups evolving those open standards and making the Internet work better!
What I'm listening to today: "First Encounter", Dissonant Witchcraft
A video showing off the "Antilope", a cryptic sound-making artifact by Manifold Research Centre (trade name for a designer formerly of Instruo, who before that… made wine? In transalpine Italy?).
Still Arctic landscapes, a stark sound collage in the shape of an industrial downtempo piece, clicky FM drums and metallic swells, standing on the freeway median as insectoid Things rush by. A loss of balance
What I'm listening to today: "SNWthr", Isobutane
Isobutane is known as "that guy who uses the Yamaha RS7000" and the Yamaha RS7000, honestly, is probably primarily known as "that weird old synth Isobutane uses". Here a series of cryptic machine noises sculpted into a techno piece, the way you imagine a computer from the 1940s would sound while operating, except the computer is sincerely attempting to make you dance. Scrunchy
Tell DuckDuckGo where you stand on AI.
Buenas tardes, necesito ayuda informática urgente. Actualicé Windows 11 (y no me deja desinstalar la última actualización) y ya no tengo forma de conectar dispositivos por bluetooth y no me va mi wifi principal, conecta pero no carga absolutamente nada.
He reiniciado router, el dispositivo deco, intenté desinstalar la actualización, hice movidas de limpiar la caché desde Símbolo de sistema... ¿sabéis que puedo hacer además de prenderle fuego a todo e instalar Linux Mint?
EDIT: Con la última actualización de Windows decidió usar las mismas configuraciones de DNS en todas las redes por eso unas van y otras no. Evidentemente que lo ha hecho porque patatas.
Ah, lo del bluetooth se solucionó sólo, porque en windows las cosas van por santería y magia vudú.
EDIT2: Con el edit anterior quise explicar que ya está, pero no se entiende bien, pero que vaya, ya está solucionado y espero poder disfrutar de mi ordenador este finde.
おふとんはぐね
あの自販機のアイス食べたい
Thinking about Gatsby.js today
Been thinking a lot about 
@algernonI'm in my database, and I don't like it's recent post on FLOSS and LLM training. The frustration with AI companies is spot on, but I wonder if there's a different strategic path. Instead of withdrawal, what if this is our GPL moment for AI—a chance to evolve copyleft to cover training? Tried to work through the idea here: Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/115906304850499236
Registrations on #holos are now open. Keep in mind this is a beta, your feedback helps us build this project.
It has two components: the App (hosts its own ActivityPub server) and the Relay (provides stable identity).
For advanced users: the relay supports CNAME records, allowing you to use your own domain. This makes you independent from the relay, which becomes just infrastructure.
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I'm preparing the FreeBSD booth for the Fosdem, and plan to bring a RPI4 + a screen with some FreeBSD stuff installed in.
I have not that much idea of what's could be interesting to show or just makes sense so *ideas are welcome*.
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