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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Aron Silver @aronsilver@indieauthors.social
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Shared by Arend van Beelen

Proud to share that Catnap Books — a local, family-owned book store in Haarlem — is the first physical store to feature Child of the Moon in their collection ☺️🎉

catnapbooks.nl/products/child-

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Child of the Moon by Aron Silver

GOLD MEDAL winner in the HORROR category of the Global Book Awards."conflicted characters and shocking twists [...] leave the reader guessing until the intensity filled ending.""The horrors promised in the book’s description had no way of preparing me for what I was about to read."Scotland, 1924 - After a man gets arre

catnapbooks.nl · Catnap Books

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Javier owo @javierowo.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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From a cold, dark, and distant region.. Light still manages to shine from its people and Pokémon. One such light manages to smile brightly, refusing to be snuffed out. With the help of a formidable trainer, he lives the rest of his new life ... with hope crossed on his heart. 💕 Rumble 💕

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Kaitlyn~Ethylia @KaitlynEthylia@void.lgbt
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Shared by Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

does anybody have any advice on shark surgery? Ever since I got him, my blåhaj has been chronically under-stuffed. I don't want to get a new one, I would never replace him, but if I try to re-stuff him, the stuffing just ends up lumpy, like a bad taxidermy. There's also a hole in the seam on the tail that I'd need to sow shut, not sure how it got there but I've used it to try and restuff him which is how I noticed it being lumpy
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Aron Silver @aronsilver@indieauthors.social
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Proud to share that Catnap Books — a local, family-owned book store in Haarlem — is the first physical store to feature Child of the Moon in their collection ☺️🎉

catnapbooks.nl/products/child-

🌕

Child of the Moon by Aron Silver

GOLD MEDAL winner in the HORROR category of the Global Book Awards."conflicted characters and shocking twists [...] leave the reader guessing until the intensity filled ending.""The horrors promised in the book’s description had no way of preparing me for what I was about to read."Scotland, 1924 - After a man gets arre

catnapbooks.nl · Catnap Books

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European News 🇪🇺 @eunews@mastodon.social
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‘Europe will not be blackmailed:’ Denmark embraces allies’ support on Greenland

“It is now even clearer that this is an issue that reaches far beyond our own borders,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said.

politico.eu/article/europe-wil

‘Europe will not be blackmailed:’ Denmark embraces allies’ support on Greenland

“It is now even clearer that this is an issue that reaches far beyond our own borders,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said.

www.politico.eu · POLITICO

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar

Link: opensourcesecurity.io/2026/01-
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar

If you’re of a certain age, you probably remember the essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The TL;DR was that old open source was the cathedral of exclusive developers and groups. Then the Bazaar showed up (which was the Linux Kernel for example) and that freed us from the shackles of the cathedral. Except if we look at how things evolved, it wasn’t actually a bazaar. It was a bunch of roadside churches that are now megachurches. But there is still a bazaar, and it’s holding up our modern infrastructure.

opensourcesecurity.io · Open Source Security

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Root Moose @RootMoose@mstdn.ca
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Eshew the nonsense of systemd.

This is *all* the services enabled on a non-systemd desktop Linux system with KDE Plasma. Granted, this is perhaps a little light (fresh install). Maybe 3-4 services need to be installed.

Go run "systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled" on a systemd host to see the difference... 82 enabled services on my Debian box, 463 total. Sure, there's lots of trivial noise in the 463 but c'mon... this is madness.

Nonsense.

Console/terminal window output from the OpenRC rc-update command. Lists 31 services, maybe 2/3rds are constantly running.
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq@mastodon.social
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You could use Bridgy Fed to convince folks on ATProto why ActivityPub is better and point them to Bounce so they can migrate without losing their network.

Disengaging is counter-productive to success. You don't win hearts by ignoring them.

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くろりんご @kuroringo@mastodon-japan.net
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Shared by zunda

【Mastodon-japan.net サーバー閉鎖のお知らせ】

平素より Mastodon-japan.net をご利用いただき、誠にありがとうございます。

2022年より運営してまいりました当サーバーでございますが、2026年1月31日をもちまして閉鎖させていただくこととなりました。

ここ1年程は運営を継続できないかと模索してまいりましたが、サーバーメンテナンスとモデレーション業務にかかる時間的コストを管理者が確保することが困難となり、やむを得ず閉鎖の決断に至りました。

なお、他者あるいは他団体への運営移行につきましては、ユーザーデータに含まれる個人情報の保護の観点から実施いたしません。閉鎖日以降は、管理人の責任のもと、サーバー上の全データを完全に削除いたします。

つきましては、ご利用中の皆様には閉鎖日までに必要なデータのエクスポート処理等を各自で実施していただきますよう、お願い申し上げます。

これまで当サーバーをご愛顧いただき、誠にありがとうございました。

Mastodon-japan.net 管理人

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Ms. Que Banh @PhoenixSerenity@beige.party
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

@inthehandsPaul Cantrell
This is so important:

[“I think these facilities are unfortunately afraid to stand up to ICE,” Sharp said. “They’re doing something called anticipatory obedience, where they’re complying in advance out of fear of consequences or retribution later. They’re actually doing the administration’s work for them without being asked.”

Sharp said the hospitals’ best line of defense is to exercise their rights prior to ICE entering the building. Without a judicial warrant, ICE agents are legally not allowed to enter hospital premises without permission. Those protections diminish once they’re in the building, however.

“Once you let them in, you can’t get them out,” Sharp said.]

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keyofG aka Linda @keyofG@mstdn.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

‘The French president, Emmanuel Macron, will urge the EU to use its powerful anti-coercion instrument if the US goes ahead with the tariffs in the standoff over Greenland, Agence France-Presse reported on Sunday, citing his team.

The anti-coercion law, which has so far never been used, enables the EU to impose punitive economic measures on a country seeking to force a policy change.’ theguardian.com/world/2026/jan

Vive le France!

EU diplomats holding crisis talks over Trump Greenland tariff ‘blackmail’

Emmanuel Macron to urge EU to use its powerful anti-coercion instrument if US goes ahead with tariffs

www.theguardian.com · the Guardian

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Em :official_verified: @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
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AI assistants are the archnemesis
of data privacy.

Because AI models are inherent
data collectors.

They rely on large data collection for training, improvement, operation, and customization.

More often than not, this data is collected without clear and informed consent (from unknowing training subjects or from platform users). This data is then sent to and accessed by a private company with many incentives to share and monetize this data.

By using these platforms, we are encouraging them to collect even more nonconsensual data on everyone. This is an important social responsibility to consider. Choose carefully.

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Kaitlyn~Ethylia @KaitlynEthylia@void.lgbt
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does anybody have any advice on shark surgery? Ever since I got him, my blåhaj has been chronically under-stuffed. I don't want to get a new one, I would never replace him, but if I try to re-stuff him, the stuffing just ends up lumpy, like a bad taxidermy. There's also a hole in the seam on the tail that I'd need to sow shut, not sure how it got there but I've used it to try and restuff him which is how I noticed it being lumpy
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan@eupolicy.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

My message to Ursula von der Leyen in The Guardian this morning:
America’s bet on AI is now so gigantic that every MAGA voter’s pension is bound to the bubble’s precarious survival. If she grabs Trump where it hurts, Europe will win this fight.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

This is Europe's secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan

Growth in the US economy – and the president’s political survival – rest on AI. The EU must use its leverage and stand up to him, says the Irish Council for Civil Liberties’ Johnny Ryan

www.theguardian.com · the Guardian

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK

Link: bundesregierung.de/breg-de/akt
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom

www.bundesregierung.de · Die Bundesregierung informiert | Startseite

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Wary Jerry @jerry@infosec.exchange
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Shared by Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

This is the last nap for these goofballs on my window hammock. They move into their new apartment with their mom and dad tonight 😢

Once they’re out, I have to start the “de-gnocchification” of my house, which is mainly repairing or replacing and repainting the door trim that Gnocchi has shredded. (Gnocchi is the gray/brown/black one in the picture - he is a super sweet boy that has a scratching problem)

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Wary Jerry @jerry@infosec.exchange
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This is the last nap for these goofballs on my window hammock. They move into their new apartment with their mom and dad tonight 😢

Once they’re out, I have to start the “de-gnocchification” of my house, which is mainly repairing or replacing and repainting the door trim that Gnocchi has shredded. (Gnocchi is the gray/brown/black one in the picture - he is a super sweet boy that has a scratching problem)

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Yudderick & Co. @yudderick@toot.cat
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Shared by Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

This lazy boy got to lounge on the warm bed all morning while I was riding my bicycle 14 miles (22.5 km) to the next town over in 15°F weather (-9°C) in order to buy a bag of rocks (as well as some groceries). Fortunately the cold temperatures meant I had the trail mostly to myself :blobcatuwu: In the summer I would have been having to weave back and forth through pedestrians the whole time.

A photo of a large tabby cat lounging on a grey blanket on a bed, at an angle such that his fuzzy belly is fully exposed, and three of his paws are up in the air.
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Rachel Barker @rachelplusplus@tech.lgbt
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Spent the last couple of days making a bunch of improvements to my website. The sort of stuff that isn't big and flashy, but which makes everything feel a lot more polished.

And I learnt some interesting things along the way which I now want to blog about, so it's a double win!

Rachel Barker @rachelplusplus@tech.lgbt
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Shared by Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

A small discovery I made along the way:

a) There are still cases where modern browsers (and RSS readers) will request favicon.ico from your website: You can offer something nicer like a PNG in your HTML, but if the user loads something that isn't HTML (an image, an RSS feed, etc.), how would it know to look?

b) The .ico format is just a container, the image inside can be in various formats

c) Most programs that work with .ico files insist on converting the contents to an old-school uncompressed BMP image :(

After trying and failing for a while to get ImageMagick to do what I wanted, ffmpeg came to the rescue: the command

ffmpeg -i favicon.png -c:v copy favicon.ico

does pack the input PNG into a .ico container without conversion! Hooray!

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 @blogdiva@mastodon.social
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RE: mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org

Spain could have been a scientific superpower; but the Reconquista brought them intellectual & infrastructural ruin.

did you know that after the fall of Granada in 1492, the inbred monarchy and royalty of Spain spent the next 406 years getting rid of the people who built the physical & intellectual infrastructure that made them an imperial power? the last big expulsión was in 1898, right before the break of the Spanish-American war.

xenophobia makes people, and whole nations, dumb.

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