What is Hackers' Pub?

January 28th is #DataPrivacyDay!

Sleepy Pabu loves his cat hut

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

Joey Puppycat Ramone holds my hand #cats #blakcats #voids #voidsofmastodon #catsofMastodon Mastodon

Blue jay looking smart even though there’s a sprinkling of ice on its tail.
#nature #birds #photography #winter

보너스 내놔라 스위치 사게

If you’ve felt safer sending a message because you sent it on Signal, please support our work. As a nonprofit, Signal exists because of your donations.

In the app: Settings > Donate
On the web: https://signal.org/donate/

With all the tiktok drama I have been telling people Mastodon is still here and kicking!! I love this app and I really think the decentralized model is the best for social media.

Still, people don’t want to join! What do you think Mastodon’s biggest barriers are to courting new users? What could be done to improve the product and grow the user base in a positive way?

솔직히 보너스 줘야한다 안 주면 미워할거야

WillSearch – GuardianDB. A peer-to-peer database for the Decentralized Web https://lobste.rs/s/bsgccc #databases #networking
https://www.willsearch.com.br/

I am from a country formerly colonised by the British, one famous for tea. I have found that the best way to annoy British people is to casually drop a teabag in a mug of cold water and stick it in the microwave. I don't even like tea. I do it just for the trolling entertainment.

PSA: @signalappSignal remains the most secure, privacy-preserving general purpose IM app safely and easily usable by non-techies.

👉 Don't let some randos on social media convince you otherwise.

If your very specific information security requirements meant you'd need to be using some other tool, you would have already known that, and would not be taking advice from social media posts. 👀

Vegetables are healthier than red meat.
Vaccines work and are safe.
Signal is secure.

#InfoSec #Signal

Despite some persistent rumors, installing OpenBSD is both quick and easy on most not too exotic hardware. But once the thing is installed, what is daily life with the most secure free operating system like?

See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #dailydriver #sysadmin

This is what knowing physics well means.👌

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115974050817264132

This is why I drew a line in the sand.

The industry wants to turn the browser into a concierge between you and the web, interpreting and filtering your reality. They call it delegation - I call it a loss of agency.

A browser should be a tool you wield, not something that makes decisions for you.

@arstechnica maybe worth mentioning us as an alternative ;)

Today, Data Privacy Day is celebrated in many countries. It's a great opportunity to take action and get back control over your personal data!

If you're looking to get off Google Maps, exporting your bookmarks/favorites from Google Maps can make a good start. Thanks to @rudo and his converter, you can easily convert your saved locations from there into a file format that you can import to CoMaps!

https://rudokemper.com/google-maps-places-to-comaps/

#DataPrivacyDay

Sam and Dean are growing up, and they’re still best friends.

That's why Big Tech companies and authoritarian governments are constantly trying to take your privacy away. 👮 (2/5)

#DataPrivacyDay #Democracy #HumanRights #DataProtectionDay #PrivacyGuides #DataPrivacyWeek #PrivacyTips #Privacy

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今から寝たら起きるのめっちゃ遅なりそうで
むしろ起きてた方がいいやつか？とか考えてる​​

if ai image generation existed in the early 90s, every shareware disk would have had it on the cover

OH: "I mean the urns don't have labels on them. What happens if we mix them up? We might resurrect the wrong person!"

"a bootstrap chain for NixOS which builds the whole system from a small hand-auditable binary seed" via @embedding_shapes https://lobste.rs/s/avdx9j #nix #security
https://mastodon.social/@nzbr@chaos.social/115973847937505106

Show HN: I built a small browser engine from scratch in C++

Link: https://github.com/beginner-jhj/mini_browser
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795540

We read the JSON Schema spec so you don't have to https://lobste.rs/s/dhhiyl #ai #compilers
https://blog.dottxt.ai/dotjson-has-good-schema-support.html

The perfect movie review doesn’t….

자야지...(4트째)

I don’t want using my computer to be like a game of Russian roulette

I've been terribly sick for a few days so we've got some catching up to. Let's first take a look at how Windows is doing.

People often say Linux is "too much work." And I agree. They're completely justified to complain. There's the documentation page diving, the forums, the reddit threads. And, mo

https://www.osnews.com/story/144290/i-dont-want-using-my-computer-to-be-like-a-game-of-russian-roulette/

#Linux

This is a test to see if access to the ICE List is blocked on this platform: https://wiki.icelist.is/

and yeah, like, is open source sustainable? i dunno. there's problems. but we do still get both a commons and companies trying to sell us that commons back to us, not one or the other exclusively.

If you're like me and like to get product updates via RSS, you can get an ATOM feed for a GitHub project's releases by appending '.atom' to the URL.

So, PowerToys releases: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases

Becomes: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases.atom

What this means is that Duck Duck Go, alongside basically every search engine that is not google, has completely delisted Neocities.

Which feels like something a lot of y'all should know!

https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block

Update: DuckDuckGo at least has fixed this issue, likely thanks to some folks making a good kind of ruckus! Still, I hope this has informed people how much of a pain Bing can be with this kind of thing in general.

#Neocities #DuckDuckGo

The Boss still got it, bless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w

codeberg is down, post ponies

아 근데…… 이거 별건으로도 가능했는데…. 별거 아니네

really and truly and straight up unruly

Ey Lenovo! For years I was annoyed that the left-most key is "Fn" and Ctrl is to the right of it. In the beginning I used the BIOS config option to swap the keys, but eventually I trained myself to use the keys as is.

Today I got a new Thinkpad and guess what: They have now swapped the keys and Ctrl is now the left-most key and all my muscle memory goes broken once again.

So now I either need to remap again (edit: it is still possible) or relearn.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH

this is basically the case of open source, just slightly reframed. building a commons and people getting to use the commons doesn't inherently mean enclosure is the only thing. you also get a commons.

My favorite part of my new job, being paid to learn something new! 😍

Hootsuite.com promised to cut ties with ICE in 2020. Now they’re seeking billion-dollar contracts to help ICE monitor social media. 🚩 As a B Corp, they should protect rights—not build surveillance tools. Tell them to drop the deal: #NoTechForICE https://openmedia.org/NoTech4Ice-mtd @OpenMediaOrgOpenMedia

Ey Lenovo! For years I was annoyed that the left-most key is "Fn" and Ctrl is to the right of it. In the beginning I used the BIOS config option to swap the keys, but eventually I trained myself to use the keys as is.

Today I got a new Thinkpad and guess what: They have now swapped the keys and Ctrl is now the left-most key and all my muscle memory goes broken once again.

So now I either need to remap again (edit: it is still possible) or relearn.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115973555484553518

🤔 This is *not* a good look.

Is Bing actively trying to stifle the #indieWeb & the #smallWeb ? Who knows!

Regardless - what you can do:
- pick a different search engine if you are using Bing. #DuckDuckGo, #Qwant, #Startpage come to mind as great first picks.
- start up your own little #indieWeb #smallWeb site! Share what you like. It doesn't have to be complicated. A small blog, a digital garden.
- seek out #webrings, share content from small/indie sites that you enjoy!

#search #Bing #NeoCities

Despite some persistent rumors, installing OpenBSD is both quick and easy on most not too exotic hardware. But once the thing is installed, what is daily life with the most secure free operating system like?

See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #dailydriver #sysadmin

Why you should probably tell your audience what your blog posts are about as early as possible https://lobste.rs/s/inbdqy #culture
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_129_finding_audience/

LM Studio 0.4.0

Link: https://lmstudio.ai/blog/0.4.0
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799477