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.

We need legislation on sideloading ASAP. Yesterday, I learned the hard way that I’m not allowed to use my own personal, paid developer certificate to sign IPAs I want to install on my own personal device. Wow. 😬

An email from Apple, notifying me of the account termination.
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트럼프 정부에 韓정부 제지 요청한 쿠팡측, 한미통상분쟁 노리나 www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2026... 쿠팡 투자자들이 이재명 대통령과 민주당에 대해 '친중 성향'까지 거론 쿠팡 투자자들은 USTR에 한국산 제품에 대한 관세 부과, 미국 내에서 한국의 서비스 제공 제한, 재발 방지 대책 마련 등을 청원했다.

트럼프 정부에 韓정부 제지 요청한 쿠팡측, 한미통상분쟁...

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The joys of modern email: "Has Microsoft decided to put all of our email on hold or are they having a global M365 inbound SMTP email incident?"

(For about the last hour and a half, if it's an incident someone is having a bad day.)

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Hey Washington, there's a profoundly bad law making its way through the state level.

This law, will require ALL 3d printers to send copies of the files you print directly to the government to be check against a database of "banned shapes".

Literally turning your 3d printer into spyware. And if you don't voluntarily turn your printer into a spy, you will be a class C Felon.

This law affects ALL CNC machines, not just 3dps.

youtube.com/watch?v=kS-9ISzMhB

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of all the coding I do, I never want to [redacted self violence] more than when I'm doing CSS.

does anyone know of any good guides/courses for debugging it/having better mental models for working with it?

I need to read every layout all the way through, and I have wizard zines pocket guide.

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For the last decade, the has been funding , , , , and many other Open Source projects you know and love through its programme.

But now that programme is ending and they are thinking about its successor.

They want to hear from you on what it should look like: Share your feedback to make sure the Commission keep funding amazing Open Source projects!
[JM]

ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r

The NGI logo
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Ghostty is getting an updated AI policy. AI assisted PRs are now only allowed for accepted issues. Drive-by AI-written PRs will be closed without question. Bad AI drivers will be banned from all future contributions. If you're going to use AI, you better be good. github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty

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Reading about the Collingridge dilemma (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collingr). Essentially, by the time we have enough understanding of a technology, it may be so "locked in" to society that it is very difficult to change anything about it, largely due to vested interests and incentives. Before a technology goes to market we may have some knowledge, but not enough proof to slow or stop the tech.

A lot of startups manipulate this space - think Uber and Airbnb - and we are seeing the attempts at it with AI.

So much of my focus in tech industry is on this exact thing: how do we anticipate negative consequences and course correct before they are embedded and contribute to social harm?

Many problems that new tech products introduce are easily predictable: cops using surveillance software to stalk their exes or someone exonerated, AI teaching kids how to make meth, etc.

Companies should anticipate these issues and do something about them - and be held accountable when they fail.

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of all the coding I do, I never want to [redacted self violence] more than when I'm doing CSS.

does anyone know of any good guides/courses for debugging it/having better mental models for working with it?

I need to read every layout all the way through, and I have wizard zines pocket guide.

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When she was very young, my daughter looked me straight in the eye, right out of the blue, and said to me with the utter earnestness only a 3-year-old can summon:

“Be brave! Be safe! Be purple!”

I’ve been hanging on to that advice a lot lately.

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What I'm listening to today: "Singularity 157", Echovocation

Long but satisfying Space Music saga. Watch carefully at the bottom and you'll see that what sounds like the lead synth is actually a kalimba (simplified Zimbabwean finger harp). You're basically listening to a long kalimba performance fed into a long chain of modular equipment that filters the sounds into aftershocks and echoes far larger than its input. Interplanetary craft approaching space dock.

youtube.com/watch?v=aa7glPhcITQ

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Idea: "The unbillionaires list", to promote contributors to the common.

A collaborative website that lists people who created something useful to millions but purposedly choose to put in in the common and didn’t earn money directly from it (or not as much as expected)

Besides those listed in ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-eu

I would add Henri Dunant (Red Cross, he died in great poverty), Didier Pittet (who invented the hydroalcoolic gel we now use everyday).

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Es ist schon erstaunlich, wie manche Begriffe gegensätzlich verwendet werden.

In meiner Schulung vor ca. 10 Jahren stand für das Problem, wenn man anfängt, die Lösung zu planen, bevor man das Problem verstanden hat. Mein aktuellen Arbeitgeber verwendet den Begriff für die Konzeption der Lösung im Rahmen eines Angebots. Das hört sich auch nach 2 ½ Jahren immer noch falsch an.

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Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell people you're doing horrible depraved crimes. Would you just block them?

What happens when other people don't block them? When other people believe the lies and share them?

What if this turns into real life abuse and violence against you and your family?

This is what vulnerable groups face from bigots. Bigoted accounts need to be shut down, servers which refuse to remove bigots should be defederated.

"Just block them" doesn't work.

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