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.
If you're new to Signal, it might feel a little overwhelming to get the hang of, but you can get it set up and working pretty quickly. https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal
Me watching you watch other people have fun outside...
FLASH SALE FOR HILDA’S MEDS ⚡️
10% off on my entire store with the code HILDA10 🌟 until next week!
https://www.evanskyarts.com
One of our budgies, Hilda, has had breathing issues since last Summer, and we’ve been trying to find the right treatment since. We’re hoping that antifungal meds will help, but the bottle is over 100€, so every little order would help a lot! 💕
#SmallBusinessSaturday #ShopSmall #Art #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #SmallBusiness #Artist
after 2 weeks of classic wow i have succumbed and broke the seal of protection.
i did some small lua addon so i can add notes to ignored people to better remember why i ignored them.
this is work/life balance shambling in pieces /s
In the Mastodon app when you click on a profile, you get "posts" "posts & replies" and "media". What it really needs is a 4th one, which is posts without boosts. Boosts are critical to the fediverse working (one of the reasons I boost a lot). But if you're looking for something a user wrote, finding it among the boosts can be a pain.
The #Trump admin has once again immersed the #US in a crisis. The officers who are supposed to be protecting America’s borders have again been unleashed on an American city—this time, #Minneapolis. The authorities in #Minnesota want the #CBP & #ICE forces to leave; the US govt’s response has been to continue to allow them to operate without any limits.
#StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #AlexPretti #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #UseOfForce #Sturmabteilung
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/pete-hegseth-silence-golden/685748/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxbigXGkZ7ai0ZogbVAwI5J0
A new edition of ~ this week in security ~ is out, featuring:
• ICE challenges Fourth Amendment
• U.S. says DOGE may've misused Social Security data
• Russia blamed for failed Poland power outage
• Microsoft gave FBI Windows encryption keys
• Ireland mulling cops using spyware
• Under Armour breach involves 'sensitive' data
...and lots more news. Plus, the happy corner & 🐈 a reader-submitted cyber-cat. 🐈⬛
Read online: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/this-week-in-security-january-25-2026-edition/
Sign up: https://this.weekinsecurity.com
the great benchmark
Sometimes you have to break stuff to remake stuff, and that's the hard part, stepping into that gap between what has to change, and hoping it actually becomes something positive and useful.
Cheers to the Brave, that step into the unknown and the uncertain, not knowing if they'd find new faith or new family.
A phrase I just came across...
"Recognize that your compassion is a form of resistance."
It may not be sufficient, do more if you can, but it is necessary, and valuable.
ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors
Link: https://turbopuffer.com/blog/ann-v3
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46710747
A new edition of ~ this week in security ~ is out, featuring:
• ICE challenges Fourth Amendment
• U.S. says DOGE may've misused Social Security data
• Russia blamed for failed Poland power outage
• Microsoft gave FBI Windows encryption keys
• Ireland mulling cops using spyware
• Under Armour breach involves 'sensitive' data
...and lots more news. Plus, the happy corner & 🐈 a reader-submitted cyber-cat. 🐈⬛
Read online: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/this-week-in-security-january-25-2026-edition/
Sign up: https://this.weekinsecurity.com
#Fedilab 3.36.0-beta-2 is available.
Release notes at https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedilab/releases/tag/3.36.0-beta-2
This is a fashion trend. It’s not just functional; camo serves no purpose of disguising whatsoever on Minneapolis streets. Militaries are dressing the part — and ICE is playing dress-up.
Avery Trufelman’s excellent podcast Articles of Interest spent an entire season on this topic, under the name “Gear.” Here’s on relevant episode.
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@inthehandsPaul Cantrell as a veteran, I find the appropriation of military motifs by civil law enforcement extremely offensive, but also incredibly dangerous.
A particularly egregious example, that I wish people would address more often, is the use of the word "civilians" to describe people that are not whatever strain of police is using the term. "Civilians" refers to people within the general civil populace, as opposed to the military. The police (in all their various forms) are members of the civil society, and as such, civilians themselves.
Words have meaning, and those meanings matter. When we allow these subtle shifts in language, we normalize the militarization of police forces nationwide, but more than that, we reinforce the self-image of the police as separate from the rest of civil society. And history shows that when people view themselves as apart from civil society, they often see themselves unbeholden to the norms and ethics that govern civil society.
One can draw a pretty straight line from that to these guys cosplaying soldier, wearing full tactical gear, riding on MRAPs and HMMWVs, assault rifles on their shoulders like the movies, belt-fed automatic weapons mounted on turrets in the background for Kristi Noem's photo-ops. We, collectively, should have never let anyone get away with normalizing this from the second it started. Yet how many articles does one read in the press where no one ever bothers challenging a cop when they refer to the people that they've supposedly sworn to protect and serve as "civilians", as if they, themselves, are not?
The #Trump admin has once again immersed the #US in a crisis. The officers who are supposed to be protecting America’s borders have again been unleashed on an American city—this time, #Minneapolis. The authorities in #Minnesota want the #CBP & #ICE forces to leave; the US govt’s response has been to continue to allow them to operate without any limits.
#StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #AlexPretti #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #UseOfForce #Sturmabteilung
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/pete-hegseth-silence-golden/685748/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxbigXGkZ7ai0ZogbVAwI5J0
the great benchmark
Thank you too all of the cat, dog, squirrel, bird, tree, and mushroom pics put out on the Fedi.
It's nice to remember during dark times that the beauty of nature can uplift our hearts even if just a little.
By producing content on a platform you are encouraging others to stay on that platform.
Think about this responsibility seriously.
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
It really disappointing me how many people refuse to leave Twitter/X regardless of how bad it becomes. I guess it proves people are willing to put up with the worse enshittification and still won't leave.
If you read an article online and it has no mentioned author, do you automatically assume it was AI-generated?
My wife and I just finished our mandatory winter storm French toast breakfast. I still don’t understand why it is mandatory, but i will say it was delicious. I hope y’all are safe and warm.
I just found this amazing online resource
that I feel many people in the US might find incredibly helpful right now: https://commonslibrary.org/
https://tante.cc/2026/01/25/winning-the-wrong-game/
"That’s the job. If “AI” is actually more expensive than paying actual people actual wages that’s still a good investment for capital because it is about breaking up the structures, networks and organizations that help workers organize and fight for labor standards and fairer wages."
A good reminder that we shouldn't just attack AI on how bad it is at what it's supposed to do.
Winning the wrong game
With studies upon studies showing that actual measurable productivity gains through “AI” (which these days basically means chatbots) are really hard to come by and that “workslop” (meaning the extra work created for the rest of the organization by one person using “AI” lowering their work quality) eats up a lot of what might have […]
tante.cc · Smashing Frames
Link author: 
Smashing Frames@blog@tante.cc
‘What evidence do you have?’: Dana Bash presses Bovino on fatal shooting of Alex Pretti
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/25/us/video/bovino-what-evidence-bash-digvid?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into News 
@news-thenewsdeskNews
트럼프 2기 미국이 지금 하는 짓들은 지난 수십년간 미국이 세계 곳곳에서 일상적으로 저질러오던 만행들 그대로이긴 하지만, 트럼프 2기가 유독 끔찍한 것은 정말 일말의 위선조차도 죄다 벗어던지고 있기 때문
By producing content on a platform you are encouraging others to stay on that platform.
Think about this responsibility seriously.
#Berlin Mac folks! A friend is looking for a used M1 MacBook Air, any spec, German kezboard. Do you maybe have a spare used one you want to see go to a good home?
The weird obsession with "correct posture" causes way more harm than good. What quaks espouse as the "correct posture" is a generalisation, and most likely not at all the correct posture for you as an individual. On top of that, obsessing over your posture most likely causes you to tense up, and tensing up will make any posture damaging.
Seriously. Go to a fucking trained specialist before spending ungodly amounts of money on overpriced chairs that don't help you. It's a scam.
A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
Link: https://github.com/tldev/posturr
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754944
NSSS Spring - Save the date! We are working on the agenda for the conference and the workshops. April 8-10, Stockholm, Sweden
Neděle: Ruský státní propagandista Sergej Mardan otevřeně přiznal, že cílem ruské armády je vyvolat humanitární katastrofu na Ukrajině a udělat z milionů lidí uprchlíky. Scénář je stále stejný jako v případě migrace z Afriky: Rozbombardovat zemi, dát milióny lidí do pohybu, pomoct jim dostat se do Evropy, vyvolat odpor u populace v cílové zemi a podpořit politický výtlak protiimigračních neboli proruských stran. A bohužel to funguje. Ale děje se i tohle https://www.facebook.com/dnesnaukrajine.cz/posts/pfbid02RGSWEDNYvFKbPiZV9emiYtPJyHPf8uV359vHKLYa7fCYonCZYZn9g3DUo2YdEA1tl:
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“If you think about it some more, the Lockdown Mode should be the default mode for ... mobile devices. And not because of the security implications. Those are an added bonus. Because of the stupidity implications.”
“None of the "restricted" features are actually important or desired. Think about it. Calls from people you don't know? Check! Photo location blocking? Check! Web pages with pointless remote fonts? Double check! Sounds like an Internet reset, going back to 2010, when the computing world was nicer, saner, cleaner!”
I don’t agree with this entire article, but it’s a pretty thought-provoking take on iOS lockdown mode and how the author sees it as a usability improvement.
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/iphone-lockdown-mode.html
NSSS Spring - Save the date! We are working on the agenda for the conference and the workshops. April 8-10, Stockholm, Sweden
Ripley catching the last morning sun of 2025 from the kitchen table (egg carton in the background). #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustRipley #EggCarton
아직 인생이 끝나지 않아 망한건지 잘 모르겠습니다. 그래서 삶이 끝날 때까지 어찌저찌 계속 살아보려 합니다. 그러면 삶이 끝날때 제 인생이 망한건지 확인해서 말씀드릴 수 있을 것 같습니다.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w2ee5xxnx6y6qqukl5zt52gj/post/3md7tsbtquk2h
FastTracker 2 - MS-DOS [1994]
+++++ BREAKING NEWS ++++
MONDAY ONLY HAPPENS WHEN 
@volpeon@icy.wyvern.ripVolpeon POSTS SCREAMING FOX MEME!
Lawn enforcement ask him to stop, so people can sleep in. We couldn't reach him for a statement yet.
FNR - All the Fedi News you need!
@ekkihugsa
¬ne'er-do-well
"I want to feel you from the inside"
Keeping the cats entertained with a ribbon toy on this snowy Sunday.
35 years after our show at Generator, there is a new Floating Concrete Octopus cassette in the world, a GenKen recording released on Tribe Tapes as cassette only, no downloads, tribetapes . com but I don't see it yet on their website.
I don't have a cassette player so I'm holding the cassette to my ear and petting it. Kinesiological listening!
ふとした瞬間に湧いたアイデアを絶対に逃さないこと
忘れないうちに何かしら記録できるものに吐き出しておくこと
最近はこれを徹底するようにしてる
テストやだよー、寝れない
Donut has it all figured out. #CatsOfMastodon
+++++ BREAKING NEWS ++++
MONDAY ONLY HAPPENS WHEN @volpeon@icy.wyvern.ripVolpeon POSTS SCREAMING FOX MEME!
Lawn enforcement ask him to stop, so people can sleep in. We couldn't reach him for a statement yet.
FNR - All the Fedi News you need!
Stefan Bohacek
(sharkey edition) 
daniel:// stenberg://
wakest ⁂
