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.
So, the Fediverse is going to be chock full of updates from Brussels for FOSDEM and EU Open Source Week this week.
I know that can lead to some FOMO if you wish you could be there too. There will be live streaming and lots of updates on the related hashtags.
We have a lot of other events throughout the year, around the world. Fediforum does a great job tracking Fediverse-related events:
Thanks for sponsoring Astro, 
@cloudcannon!
#Forkiverse update: we are now at 9,195 registered users 💪
それではそろそろ
I'm making a piece of software entirely for myself for the first time ever and I'm madder than ever about all the years my technical problem-solving was erased and unseen tbh
shoutout to everyone getting involved! hard to believe how fast this new npm browser is improving. we're 60 members in the community now, with half of us already contributors to the repo. a fine group of folks to build with and learn from. DMs open if you'd like to check the app and join the action
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jbeaa5kdaladzwq3r7f5xgwe/post/3mdbvdoy4522o
I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.
Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.
So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.
This week's #WebOrigami comic: Full-text search
More about Origami's pagefind extension: https://github.com/WebOrigami/extensions/tree/main/pagefind
HTML comic: https://weborigami.org/comics/full-text-search.html
it really is true that puppygirls overtaking catgirls on the internet is the biggest win in the battle against the kiki boba duality yet.
soon all binaries will be eliminated and we will be free
@cwebber@social.coopChristine Lemmer-Webber kittygirls and puppygirls living together and they're lesbians
Neat new Apple AirTag! Maybe it'll help them find Apple's corporate soul.
"hi Ariadne, fellow founder here" and other lines that make me disinterested
Sharing my wife's writing here, about this moment in Minnesota (1/4):
We are not ok. Alex Pretti should be alive tonight. Renee Good should be alive tonight. Our neighbors should be alive. Families should be together.
There is no normal life here. Not in South Minneapolis. Not when the federal government is moving through our neighborhoods to create fear, chaos, and ruined lives. This isn’t “enforcement.” This is terror getting normalized, block by block.
People are afraid to leave their homes. School is canceled again and again. We are watching families switch to virtual learning because it isn’t safe for their kids to be there in person. And when there is school, we are watching kids kept inside at recess because it isn’t safe to be outside, because ICE is here. We are watching kids abducted and used for bait. We are watching how scared they are. We are watching immigrant-owned businesses close early or not open at all. We are watching small businesses that barely survived 2020, COVID, and the Uprising get hit again, and we are watching that familiar look settle in, the one that says: we might not make it through this. This is what it looks like when you chip away at family life until the whole thing starts to crack. The assault is coming from every corner.
And it’s not random. It’s politically incited violence with real consequences, landing on real people in real neighborhoods. We already know what this looks like when it escalates. Last June someone came after our elected officials and their families, dressed like law enforcement, and Melissa and Mark Hortman were killed, and Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette barely survived. In August, two kids were killed at Annunciation during a school mass, shot through the church windows. Then in early December DHS launched its ICE “surge” here. On January 6 they announced they were sending up to 2,000 federal personnel into Minneapolis like our city is a proving ground, then added another 1,000-plus of their secret police, with a looming threat of military troops.
(cont...)
"Federal Government to introduce grocery rebate: Sources" -- CBC headline.
How about "Federal government to break up grocery oligopoly"? That would be good.
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Want to help introduce #FreeSoftware to people in your community? Host a #LibreLocal: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Meetup-guide
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Android help?
Settings > Apps > default app > browser app > Firefox
I've gone through absurd lengths in my day to avoid dealing with databases and I'm not going to stop now.
化粧水と乳液ぶち込んで寝ます
Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867874/stripe-visa-mastercard-amex-csam-grok
SQLiteData is incredibly test-friendly. We show how to configure a test suite, how to seed the database for testing, how to assert against the database, how to employ expectNoDifference for better debugging, and how to control the uuid() function used by SQLite.
https://www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep352-tour-of-sqlitedata-testing
St Cuthbert's Cave, a spectacular south-facing location on the Kyloe Hills in Northumberland, between Belford and Lowick, is a place steeped in legend.
In the late 9th century, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, records that as the Danes ravaged Lindisfarne, Eardulf, the bishop of Lindisfarne, along with abbot Eadred and the rest of the early Christian community were forced to flee the island, taking the body of their beloved Cuthbert to seek a place of safety and sanctuary.
This natural sandstone cave has long been associated with a legend as being a place, a few miles in from the coast, where they rested and took shelter.
However, another legend suggest it was a place where Cuthbert himself lived as an anchorite hermit, before moving to the Farne Islands – maybe it was both!
The cave, formed of overhanging rock and sufficiently large to provide shelter for a small group, are in the care of the National Trust.
#england #northumberland #nationaltrust #countryside #photography
Hey Fediverse,
I've created a Fediverse Starter Pack for metal musicians and bands on metalhead.club:
If you're a metal fan: Don't miss to follow them! 🤘
(the pack will be updated as more and more bands agree to participate 😄 )
現在threads就是個活生生的高譚市/夜城/九龍城寨
到處都是父權男/公審魔人/孌童癖etc
多看一眼路人就會被嗆
恭喜祖克伯做了一個比FB還爛的SNS
Hey Fediverse,
I've created a Fediverse Starter Pack for metal musicians and bands on metalhead.club:
If you're a metal fan: Don't miss to follow them! 🤘
(the pack will be updated as more and more bands agree to participate 😄 )
i let my code written by an infinite amount of monkeys on typewriters. Sure they get it wrong sometimes, but humans make mistakes too, right?
invest in my infinite amount of monkeys on typewriters pls. we gonna replace everyone with an infinite amount of monkeys on typewriters. please make your company 100% dependent on my typewriter monkeys, what's the worst that could happen 🙂
Soon I hope to be able to run Guix proper on my MNT Pocket Reform... I'm still running Guix on top of Debian due to my limited time to sort through things
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber Saaaaame. I'll let you know if I get anywhere on that - I think before I can daily drive it I need to find a good way to use bits of a community config for the hardware-specific stuff rather than trying to bundle it all into my own config. Gotta share the load somehow!
USPol, on protesting and compliance
All of these statements are equivalent messaging:
"If she had just moved her car when told to the first time she would still be alive"
"If he hadn't had a gun on him he'd still be alive"
"If you comply with the authorities then you will not die"
"COMPLY OR DIE"
If you, or people you know, have lived through and resisted a repressive regime, you probably recognise what has been happening in Minnesota, and know the above to be true.
To set things right in America COMPLIANCE IS NOT AN OPTION. The messaging above is the part of the fascist playbook to suppress dissent.
It is also a LIE. If you aren't part of the in-group you may still die even if you comply.
The US is beyond the point where passive protests are sufficient. Citizens MUST continue to obstruct federal authorities and must ramp up the resistance (violence of course being the last resort and strictly used in defence).
You WILL be blamed for escalation, but they are already escalating, and blaming.
Beautiful perspective from this map of the world re-oriented using the “Spilhaus” projection, which depicts Earth as a single, connected ocean.
From Woods Hole's “Why the Ocean” campaign: https://www.whoi.edu/campaign/why-the-ocean/
USPol, on protesting and compliance
All of these statements are equivalent messaging:
"If she had just moved her car when told to the first time she would still be alive"
"If he hadn't had a gun on him he'd still be alive"
"If you comply with the authorities then you will not die"
"COMPLY OR DIE"
If you, or people you know, have lived through and resisted a repressive regime, you probably recognise what has been happening in Minnesota, and know the above to be true.
To set things right in America COMPLIANCE IS NOT AN OPTION. The messaging above is the part of the fascist playbook to suppress dissent.
It is also a LIE. If you aren't part of the in-group you may still die even if you comply.
The US is beyond the point where passive protests are sufficient. Citizens MUST continue to obstruct federal authorities and must ramp up the resistance (violence of course being the last resort and strictly used in defence).
You WILL be blamed for escalation, but they are already escalating, and blaming.
RE: https://sonomu.club/@lislegaard/115962338730082081
further proof that 
@mntmnminute and company are making the only good (gay) computers
fwiw, I know that "sucks" as an insult probably has a different origin that isn't sexual.
but think of what nouns (dick/cock/balls/ass) most commonly appear after sucks TODAY, so my point stands
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber
i remember there was someone who complained about mnt making the pocket reform in purple because it was "a gay color", whereby i saw at least two different people casually say in a longer sentense / paragraph that they bought it in the gay color, and by the context it was clear that they had flipped it around into something positive.
it was implied that it ment something like "how freakin' awesome that you can buy the worlds's coolest computer in this amazing color."
Just look at this 1988 Crest packaging. An elegant toothpaste for a more civilized age.
Sign at Hesher's in Oakland Jack London Square.
Every council member but Carroll Fife voted for the Flock contract, and I'm pretty sure Hesher's is in her district. But yeah, if this is what leaks into the popular consciousness, I'll take it.
https://oaklandside.org/2025/12/17/oakland-flock-safety-council-approves-surveillance-cameras/
Sign at Hesher's in Oakland Jack London Square.
Qwen3-Max-Thinking
Link: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-max-thinking
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766741
Omg. Just tried a new to me thing. Turned on bird videos for cats to watch, and my Lucky is transfixed! Can’t take her eyes off the screen, trying to see where the birds fly off too! And meowing if we leave her alone with the birds, she wants to watch together, as a family. Video in the comments. #cat #CatsOfMastodon #birdtv #caturday
ATHEISTS. WORSHIP AT THE FEET OF YOUR SAVIOUR. CHARLES DARWIN. THE MAN WHO DETHRONED AND KILLED GOD.
Did you know that you can use `bastille verify` to check the integrity of your Bastille releases and templates?
> bastille verify 15.0-RELEASE
> bastille verify template/path
This is a great way to ensure that your deployments are
consistent and secure.
Just look at this 1988 Crest packaging. An elegant toothpaste for a more civilized age.
🇮🇷 Update: Brief returns of internet access are driving spikes in Snowflake usage. Please help us run more proxies if you can. ❄️ snowflake.torproject.org
The easiest ways to run Snowflake is by using Tor Browser, Orbot, or installing the browser add on in your current browser. Extra capacity helps people in Iran stay connected when the network comes back online.
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kanpai! 🍻office outfit for @yura-vt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy (2025)
Health Canada is cutting almost 20% of its workforce.
Officially this is: "modernizing and streamlining its programs and operations, focusing resources on its core mandate and high-impact activities. The work of the department will be guided by science and evidence to uphold its core mandate of protecting the health and safety of Canadians....
“The Department is also consolidating administrative functions, adopting digital and automation tools, and modernizing service delivery to enhance agility and client service.”
Language like this has been repeated by every administration for decades. It will do nothing to reassure anyone. Let alone better serve the country.
Text via CTV.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/30-federal-departments-have-issued-job-cut-notices-here-is-the-latest/
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