What is Hackers' Pub?

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice.

ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate

https://www.404media.co/ices-facial-recognition-app-misidentified-a-woman-twice/

Haas: Who contributed to PostgreSQL development in 2025?

https://lwn.net/Articles/1055033/ #LWN

"One way to read the occupation of Minnesota is as a flex — a demonstration of the government’s power and authority. That, perhaps, is how [Stephen] Miller and Kristi Noem see the situation. I smell, on the other hand, a stench of desperation, an attempt to do with force what they can’t accomplish through ordinary politics."

~ Jamelle Bouie

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #Minneapolis #ICE #MaskedThugs #resistance
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/opinion/ice-minneapolis-occupation.html

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The birds in the garden trend towards spherical

#Photography #Birds

It is depressing to see how many interesting articles I come across when researching for our newsletter that are published on X. That's like writing on the toilet wall of the local racist dive bar…

Alongside a truckload of exciting updates, we're super thrilled to be featured in the latest update from @Bonfire 🔥

Check out the blog for a teaser on something new we'll be working with Bonfire to provide soon 👀

https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-1-0-1-building-momentum/

#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #Bonfire #DigitalCommunity

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아 오늘 바람 엄청 강해서 춥네

お写真蔵出ししてみた！

These days, my friends with ADHD and I have started calling our condition AD4K, or even AD8K, because our symptoms feel so severe. 😂

ICYMI — In negative degrees weather they took a LEGAL naturalized citizen out in his underwear, after trashing his house. They released him an hour later. The cruelty is the point. (From @thejfreakinc.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy )

18 years ago, we started ProPublica to do hard-hitting, rigorous journalism that exposes wrongdoing and injustice.

If you have a tip related to the Trump administration, we want to hear it.

Here's how to contact our reporters securely: https://www.propublica.org/tips

Are you interested in malleable software or in visualization? Nadia Boukhelifa and I are recruiting for two funded PhD studentships applied to digital twins for sustainable farming. See https://mia-ps.inrae.fr/node/900 for details. Interviews close soon!

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."
~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
from Stride Toward Freedom (1958)

Sketch page for Shiky 🐈 #art #furry

James Fallows offers a primer on Trump and Greenland:

1) This crisis is all coming from someone’s gut. Not from anyone’s brain.

2) The US has nothing to gain by ‘owning’ Greenland. Zero.

3) No one wants us there. Zero.

4) Greenland is smaller than you think. But the distances and remoteness are larger.

5) The whole idea of taking over Greenland would appall the founders of our country.

#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
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https://fallows.substack.com/p/your-primer-on-greenland

West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination

Link: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/copper_chief_cops_it_after/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679657

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편의점 죠스떡볶이 왜 점점 매워지는거 같냐

Someone has parked a cybertruck outside my house.

SUGGESTIONS PLEASE.

This article by Zack Polanski shows he is far more sensible than any of the other parties.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2026/01/trumps-threat-to-greenland-must-be-a-wake-up-call-for-britain

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Study Interface Design in Potsdam!

Next Monday (Jan. 26.) we have our undergraduate Open Day - both online and onsite! You can visit the Design Department and get feedback on your portfolio. If you are interested in studying Interface Design - drop by! We start at 2 pm. The event will be in German - but we are happy to take questions in English.

https://www.fh-potsdam.de/aktuelles-medien/termine/infotag-design-studiengaenge-mappenberatung

A necessary reminder that Dr. Martin Luther King may have had dreams, but was also fighting a nightmare. One with a very familiar label.

source: https://andrehenry.medium.com/dr-king-tried-to-warn-us-about-american-fascism-will-we-listen-before-its-too-late-ded9fe36d4ce

#MartinLutherKing #MLK

Comment 🐧

#linux #linuxgaming #gaming

[$] Task-level io_uring restrictions

The io_uring subsystem is more than an asynchronous I/O interface for Linux; it is, for all practical purposes, an independent system-call API. It has enabled high-performance app [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054225/ #LWN

This is one of the dumbest comics we've made.

Hot take: We shouldn't block AI companies from training on our F/OSS code. We should require them to free the models they train. That's not naïve idealism—it's the same strategy that built GNU/Linux. Why training copyleft might be our GPL moment:

Histomat of F/OSS: We should r...

I asked CoPilot to review a PR out of curiosity (I know, I know, sorry), and my god, it is BAD. How do they even charge money for this?

100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.

Float16Array is Newly Available! 🆕

It represents an array of 16-bit floating point numbers in the platform byte order. If control over byte order is needed, use DataView instead. It is initialized to 0 unless initialization data is provided.

Docs 👇
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Float16Array

ICYMI — In negative degrees weather they took a LEGAL naturalized citizen out in his underwear, after trashing his house. They released him an hour later. The cruelty is the point. (From @thejfreakinc.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy )

시위가 전국으로 확산하자 트럼프 미 대통령은 전날 내란법 발동을 경고한 데 이어, 직권으로 군 투입 가능성을 거듭 시사하고 나섰습니다. 2026.01.19. 오후 1:46. www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0134_202...

[자막뉴스] 백악관 꺼내선 안될 무기까지..."남북전쟁...

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"If you want to be terrified for America’s future, look at what Trump’s Homeland security thugs are doing in Minnesota.

But if you want to be inspired for America’s future, look at how ordinary Minnesotans refuse to be terrorized.

Minnesota, right now, is where Americans are bravely, resolutely, and boisterously living out King’s words in 'Letter From Birmingham Jail.'"

~ Marty Kelley

#MLK #MartinLutherKing #Trump #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/its-martin-luther-king-day-which

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Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff burden

Link: https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/americas-own-goal-who-pays-the-tariffs-19398/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680212

often when you see messaging like "we all need to do our part" it's a kind of cynical justification for cutting some essential, centralized, mostly-efficient public service in favor of an ad-hoc, individualist approach that externalizes the issue and disclaims responsibility for neglect and poor outcomes. if you protest such a change, or suggest that perhaps some problems are better dealt with collectively by pooling resources, then it must be you who are lacking the collective spirit!

Dear FOSS Community 👋,

I’m researching Open Source funds and support programs that directly pay FOSS maintainers or contributors (not just offering mentorship), similar to the Fellowship program by @sovtechfundSovereign Tech Agency

I’m especially looking for programs that:
- are aimed at FOSS maintainers or contributors (not only students),
- focus on paid support and
- offer funding for at least 3 months.

If you know of any funds, organizations, or initiatives like this, please comment (or boost). Thanks :)

just had a very enlightening conversation with someone who has a debit card, has the cash to make a purchase and yet will do it with a credit card anyways are these people actual cattle

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/115922491878315173

This is a fascinating change of thinking.
Ronacher was a very explict all-in AI guy and now comes to many of the points critics have been making for years (without acknowledging any of course). He still cushions all criticism but it's revealing that he himself uses phrases like "psychosis"

History doesn't repeat but it sure is a musical with a lot of recurring motifs

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/115922491878315173

This is a fascinating change of thinking.
Ronacher was a very explict all-in AI guy and now comes to many of the points critics have been making for years (without acknowledging any of course). He still cushions all criticism but it's revealing that he himself uses phrases like "psychosis"

Sketch page for Shiky 🐈 #art #furry

Hi everyone! We’re excited to share some updates:

Bonfire 1.0.1 is out! 🎉
This release is all about making your social web experience livelier, more connected, and truly yours. It brings features like following hashtags, scheduled posts, dashboard widgets, and more. This is the very first delivery from the maintenance work funded by your incredible support. Thank you for helping us reach this milestone and keep Bonfire thriving!

For details about the release see our latest blog post: Bonfire 1.0.1: Building Momentum

What’s next for crowdfunding?

If you're an existing backer, the pledge manager is now open. Please keep an eye out for updates there so we can start preparing rewards for you.

The campaign is open again for the next month. With core maintenance funded, every new pledge (or increased pledge from existing backers) now goes directly toward our first stretch goal: federated groups. Support or share our extended campaign to help fund community-owned, cross-instance spaces for real collaboration and self-governance.

Bonus good news: Thanks to a new grant, end-to-end encrypted messaging in Bonfire is now funded and in development!

Thank you once again for being part of the Bonfire movement! Your feedback, support, and community spirit make all of this possible. If you have questions or want to get involved, reach out or come say hello at FOSDEM if you’re in Brussels at the end of January!

With gratitude,
The Bonfire Team

"Overnight we learned that Donald Trump sent an ominous letter to Norway suggesting war could be on the table over Greenland as he is upset that Norway did not award him the Nobel Prize."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-threatens-possible-conflict