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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Rare plant thought extinct rediscovered by citizen scientist in remote Australia phys.org/news/2026-01-rare-tho

of a presumed plant species, Ptilotus senarius (Amaranthaceae), through connectsci.au/bt/article/74/1/

"Ptilotus senarius is a small, slender shrub with pleasing purple-pink flowers that look a bit like an exploding firework with feathers. It's found only in a band of rough country near the Gulf of Carpentaria, and hadn't been collected since 1967."

close-up photo of a small magenta flower with white hairs being held between a person's fingers
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오스트리아의 암소가 스스로 빗을 입에 물고 목적에 따라 몸 군데군데를 긁는 모습이 공개됐습니다. 소의 ‘도구 사용 능력’이 과학적으로 보고된 첫 사례로, 지금껏 도구를 사용한다고 알려진 영장류, 까마귀, 앵무새, 돌고래, 코끼리, 문어에 이어 소도 ‘똑똑한 동물’에 이름을 올린 것입니다.

소도 침팬지처럼 ‘도구’ 쓴다…빗자루 입에 물고 몸 곳...

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What configuration do accounts use? Yesterday, I shared a small sample size from a German NGOs. Tonight, I conducted a local analysis by obtaining all the Mastodon accounts known by and analysing them. This analysis covers a total of 6,039 accounts. From organisations to people. The only filter is that they have been active in the last year.
79% have discoverability on an active account (4,765/6,039).
- 34% are indexable (2,026/6,039).
- 35% have at least one verified link (2,139/6,039).
- 32% have at least one attached tweet.

These numbers are similar to those of the other lists. In my humble opinion, @MastodonEngineering has a configuration 'problem' for accounts interested in maximising their reach. Perhaps it is a UX problem because users are accustomed to this being the default, or maybe it's because more configuration features have been added and are all off by default. The "easiest" solution would probably be a toggle in the Mastodon settings labelled "I want to maximise my reach", which would activate features and provide prompts indicating that accounts with a description, verified fields or attached toots are more likely to be followed.

In the meantime, I have added this to the German-only Mastodon List tool, and I have built a German web tool for checking your account: mastodon-account-checker.playg.
(If Anyone is really interested in This tool being multilingual, I'm always happy to take PRs.

Limitations: I used multiple Mastodon servers to get the result faster. This could affect the number. I'm also fairly sure that the verified link is not 100% accurate, as I sometimes get false negatives with my script.

I was inspired by this #2024 post by @stefanStefan Bohacek : stefanbohacek.com/blog/verific.

If anyone is interested in the 29 MB JSON file containing all the data, please contact me.

Statistik dieser Liste
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100%
Anzeigename
6036/6039
97%
Profilbeschreibung
5878/6039
79%
Auffindbar
4765/6039
34%
Indexierbar
2026/6039
35%
Verifizierte Links
2139/6039
32%
Angeheftete Beiträge
1932/6039
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"NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books

...executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training. In an expanded class-action lawsuit that cites internal NVIDIA documents, several book authors claim that the trillion-dollar company directly reached out to Anna's Archive, seeking high-speed access to the shadow library data."

torrentfreak.com/nvidia-contac

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A more elaborate answer to the question: Why we say no to investors?

👉 To stay loyal to our purpose + principles, not a board of directors

Our simple purpose is to give you easy + privacy-first analytics to help measure your website performance and that ends there.

If there were investors, we would have two groups to satisfy: customers and shareholders. Those goals often diverge. But without investors, every decision can stay loyal to our purpose. That translates to:

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