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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Malka Beth @BrahmaBelarusian@regenerate.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

@Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified: same, I really feel the approximate peak of modern technology in it's utility, ease of use, valued cost & lack of privacy invasions, was reached around 2000-2005 ACE. By then we had solid speech/talk to text software & hardware. Mobile phones, including smartphones were durable & had cameras or not depending on your preference. Similarly phones had GPS, & satellite or not. Screen readers were likewise fully developed.

Not everyone needs everything a piece of advanced technology & that's why I would love to see a renewed separation of different devices. Cheap mapping/direction GPS systems, separate from phones, separate from PDAs, separate from cameras.

Speed of doing every tech related task hasn't really changed for most people & if anything it's probably slower due to infrastructure decay.

*As I'm unfortunately continuing to consider which smartphone I should get over the next year & same for my spouse, it really hits me hard how it'd be better for us both if we could just get PDAs, his with a touchscreen & me with a physical keyboard that were 5g enabled. We don't make phone calls, nor answer them on the go & thusly don't need a mobile phone at all.

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Benrob0329 @benrob0329@dice.camp
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

@Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified: I'm worried about old tech *also* becoming infested with AI too unfortunately. It seems like a lot of software or products that I had trusted to be a little better have given in.

* BeagleBoard
* OnlyOffice
* DuckDuckGo
* Startpage
* Gitlab
* Mozilla
* Phillips (mostly their razors, which have AI marketing now despite that not making any sense)
* Even fucking Encyclopedia Britannica has a chatbot on their website...WHY

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Jan Penfrat @ilumium@eupolicy.social
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So cool: @Radboud_uniRadboud University University has announced to switch to for (all?) their employees. 🎉 They explicitly cite , cost efficiency and management support as reasons.

ru.nl/en/staff/news/radboud-un

Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees | Radboud University

Radboud University has decided to choose Fairphone as its standard company smartphone model for reasons of sustainability, cost efficiency and management support.

www.ru.nl

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GripNews @GripNews@mastodon.social
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🌖 新數據顯示 Threads 在每日行動用戶數上超越 X
➤ 長期趨勢勝過短期爭議，Threads 行動端優勢顯現
✤ techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/thre
根據市場情報公司 Similarweb 的最新數據，Meta 旗下的 Threads 在 iOS 與 Android 平臺上的每日活躍用戶數已達 1.415 億，超越了 X（前推特）的 1.25 億。雖然 Threads 在網頁端仍落後於 X，但其行動應用程式在過去數月持續增長，顯示出用戶習慣正在轉移。此趨勢被認為是長期發展的結果，而非單純受近期 X 的爭議事件（如 Grok AI 生成不當影像）影響。Threads 的成長得利於 Meta 旗下應用的交叉推廣、對創作者的專注以及新功能的快速推出，如興趣社羣、過濾器、私訊、長文貼文與消失貼文等。相對地，X 仍保有穩定的網頁端受眾，每日網頁瀏覽量約 1.5 億次，而 Threads 網頁端僅約 850 萬次。
+ 「X

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunch

Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies

techcrunch.com · TechCrunch

Link author: Sarah Perez 💙@Sarahp@mastodon.social

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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

OK, so. As if the Trump regime hadn’t already dumped enough of their shit on us here in Minneapolis…there’s now talk about them sending •active duty military• to invade (“protect”) our city.

Maybe this is bluster. Maybe this is testing the waters. We have no idea how real these plans are, or if or when this would actually happen. I don’t think the regime does either. Regardless, we take this threat seriously: they’re stupid enough they just might do it. This nightmare could get worse.

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Richard MacManus @ricmac@mastodon.social
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1/2 In the glory years of the blogosphere, much was made of bloggers needing to be opinionated and to write in a less formal voice than traditional media. If I look back to my 2003-05 posts, there’s a looseness to them — I think it was mostly endearing, but sometimes embarrassing (eg recalling my “Liv Tyler waved at me” post after the ‘Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ movie premiere in Wellington, Dec 2003). Anyway, from 2006 my writing style formalized, became more journalistic…

Richard MacManus @ricmac@mastodon.social
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Shared by Tom Casavant

2/2 But in the AI era, I am purposely going more ‘human’ again. Given the deluge of AI slop out there, the best way I can stand out as a journalist is to lean in even more on my humanity. To double down on subjectivity, draw on my human experiences and instincts, tap into my emotions and feelings, and convey my ‘soul’ in my writing (not to be too Dostoyevsky about it, but you get my drift). Over time, I hope the web - & Google - will reward this over all the AI slop that is getting published.

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Evan Prodromou @evan@cosocial.ca
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@virtuous_slothBruce Elrick it's a quirk in ActivityPub. When a user account is deleted, their server sends a user deletion notification to their contacts. But to confirm the authenticity, the receiving server has to fetch the sender's cryptographic key... which has also been deleted! It's possible to make some guesses here, but it's a pain and most receiving servers will just return an error. Unfortunately, the sending server will just keep sending the deletion notification.

swicg.github.io/activitypub-ht

ActivityPub and HTTP Signatures

swicg.github.io

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Evan Prodromou @evan@cosocial.ca
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Shared by Inside Fediverse

@virtuous_slothBruce Elrick it's a quirk in ActivityPub. When a user account is deleted, their server sends a user deletion notification to their contacts. But to confirm the authenticity, the receiving server has to fetch the sender's cryptographic key... which has also been deleted! It's possible to make some guesses here, but it's a pain and most receiving servers will just return an error. Unfortunately, the sending server will just keep sending the deletion notification.

swicg.github.io/activitypub-ht

ActivityPub and HTTP Signatures

swicg.github.io

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Earthworm @earthworm@kolektiva.social
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Bad news: Syria & Islamic State. "This is a threat against you wherever you are"

Honestly, I think the liberation of Islamic State/Daesh by Turkish-backed Syrian jihadists worry me more than the latest Twitter stunts about Greenland.

We *really* don't want to have the
Islamic state resurrected just because of Erdogan's geopolitic ambitions. Have we forgotten how the Kurdish and Syrian fighters liberated the world from this menace?

As @b9AcE wrote somewhere today: "This is a threat against you wherever you are."

todon.eu/@b9AcE/11592206000643

The (naturally imperfect) project of Rojava is an example for a positive society in the region and the world. Now is the moment to show them our support.

Accounts to follow for news about Rojava and the conflict in Syria:

@a_in_nesAnarchists in NES (very good english coverage)
@KCK_Kurdistan_KCK-Info (ENG)
@ksildKasilda (ES)
@newsblogkurdistanKurdistan News Blog (DE)
@wdrWomenDefendRojava Germany (DE)
@rofaustinRodrigo Faustino (PT)
@Libre_Flot (FR)

feel free to recommend other accounts below! :rojava3:

# SDF

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Richard MacManus @ricmac@mastodon.social
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1/2 In the glory years of the blogosphere, much was made of bloggers needing to be opinionated and to write in a less formal voice than traditional media. If I look back to my 2003-05 posts, there’s a looseness to them — I think it was mostly endearing, but sometimes embarrassing (eg recalling my “Liv Tyler waved at me” post after the ‘Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ movie premiere in Wellington, Dec 2003). Anyway, from 2006 my writing style formalized, became more journalistic…

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Per Axbom @axbom@axbom.me
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Shared by Sarah Rainsberger

“When we think of technology as a tool that can be used for good as well as evil, we also think that we are in control of why, when, and for what it is used. But this is only partly the case. We may decide to buy a car to drive ourselves to work. And thus we may think of the car as a tool to achieve our goal of getting to work as fast as possible. But we never made the decision that fast is better than slow. It’s an idea that comes with the car. So is the idea that it should be easy and convenient for us to get to work. And that fast, easy and convenient is more important than the exercise and fresh air we get from walking or cycling.

Like all other technologies, the car comes with a promise that we can achieve more by doing less. And like all other technologies, it makes us think that this is what life is and should be about. But to free ourselves from the chains of technology, we must not only ask the questions we are encouraged to ask when faced with a new technology – like ‘how does it work?’, ‘when can I use it?’, and ‘how much easier will it be to do X?’ We must also ask the questions that the essence of technology discourages us from asking – like ‘do I even need technology for this?’, ‘what does this technology prevent me from doing?’, and ‘what will my life be like if I trust this tool to make this process easier?’”

https://pialauritzen.substack.com/p/7-lies-about-ai-the-philosophers

7 Lies About AI. The Philosopher's Guide To Staying Sane You Will Never Get

In 2025, I worked with one of the world's coolest publishers on a book idea about AI. Their sales team turned it down. So here’s the outline for a book I’m not going to write.

pialauritzen.substack.com

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kazuhito @kazuhito@vivaldi.net
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Favorite Photo: Rocket roll by europeanspaceagency flic.kr/p/2rSAj7Z

Rocket roll

The Artemis II rocket has reached its launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States, ready for a historic journey. Over the weekend, engineers slowly and carefully rolled the nearly 100-metre-tall Space Launch System rocket from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39B. The 6.5-km journey took around 12 hours and was carried out using NASA’s crawler-transporter, which has been moving rockets to launch pads for over 50 years. Standing nearly 100 m tall, the Space Launch System will weigh approximately 2.6 million kg once fully fuelled and ready for liftoff. At its top sits the Orion spacecraft, bearing the ESA and NASA logos and designed to carry four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby mission. Artemis II will be the first crewed flight of the Artemis programme and the first time humans have ventured towards the Moon in over 50 years. Their journey depends on our European Service Module, built by industry from more than 10 countries across Europe. This powerhouse will take over once Orion separates from the rocket, supplying electricity from its four seven-metre long solar arrays, providing air and water for the crew, and performing key propulsion burns during the mission, including the critical trans-lunar injection that sends the spacecraft on its trajectory towards the Moon. European engineers will be at mission control around the clock, monitoring operations from ESA’s ESTEC site in the Netherlands and alongside NASA teams in the Mision Evaluation Room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The European Service Module’s main engine carries a unique legacy. Originally flown on six Space Shuttle missions between 2000 and 2002, the engine was refurbished and tested after two decades in storage and installed on the second European Service Module at Airbus in Bremen, Germany, giving this historic piece of hardware a new role in deep-space exploration. The next major milestone is the wet dress rehearsal, during which teams will practise fuelling the rocket and running through the launch countdown, bringing Artemis II one step closer to launch. Credits: ESA-S. Corvaja

www.flickr.com · Flickr

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