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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All of this becomes MORE URGENT with Trump 2.0 and the new wave of abuses and violations we are witnessing.

This is why Gov. Walz and others are speaking about the importance of documentation...to facilitate future criminal prosecutions or at least some kind of truth-telling and public accounting.

usatoday.com/story/news/nation

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Even people with the most to lose continue to support and rely heavily on:

-- Google
-- Slack
-- Meta
-- Microsoft
-- Apple
-- Too many others to list

These orgs cozy up to authoritarianism. They terminate your account for any reason or no reaso at all. They shove AI down your throat.

And yet, my workplace, union, and so many of the orgs I value and need keep using them and have no plans to ween themselves off. Yes, I realize current dynamics make all of this inevitable.

So I'm left feeling hopeless and helpless, which is a terrible place to be.

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Seriously, my freelancing has shown me the inner workings of a •lot• of different companies, I’ve heard a lot of corporatespeak in my day, and…this letter from a bunch of Minnesota CEOs —

❝we are calling for an immediate deescalation of tensions❞
❝state, local and federal officials to work together❞
❝find real solutions❞

— is some of the most hollow, tone-deaf, embarrassing, Bristol Type 7 dribble I’ve ever heard from corporate leadership.

mnchamber.com/blog/open-letter

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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: signal.org/donate/

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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 nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_ins

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OK I've a question for users that have converted their 15.0-RELEASE system to pkgbase. Has it gone successfully and was following the FreeBSD handbook enough to convert without issue ? Or should I just stick with freebsd-update until I'm forced to upgrade to pkgbase ?

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/#_upgrading_a_host_using_freebsd_base

PS I'm blaming @caleb@goodfeeds.net for peaking my interest and they are being held totally responsible if I break something. 🤪
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RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1

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 ;)

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A cluster-wide snapshot overview and cleanup for all guests in a cluster!

Makes it easy to spot old snapshots at a glance and clean them up before they cause trouble.

My PR was just merged, bringing my idea into the project.

Really happy to contribute and see this feature become part of such a great tool. Nico, Marcus and Laura are doing great there!

Not aware of project PegaProx? Here you can find more:

Blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/pegaprox-real-datacenter-manager-proxmox-clusters/
Release 0.6.2: https://github.com/PegaProx/project-pegaprox/releases/tag/v0.6.2
ProxSnap: https://gyptazy.com/proxsnap/


ProxSnap alike integration in PegaProx
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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!

rudokemper.com/google-maps-pla

a share pic reading "celebrate data privacy day", with a photo of a wooden map with little flag pins in it
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should have a subject field for all status posts so that a decent reader can list subject lines only. This view would be akin to a mail or news reader layout with a subject pane and a viewer pane. The splayed-out, real-estate gobbling, all-or-nothing, vertical feed view is highly annoying and counter-productive. This default layout forces users to see every word and image in the feed, providing a sensory experience of total information overload. This mobile-first, low-IQ presentation is migraine fuel.


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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

osnews.com/story/144290/i-dont

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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!

blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/0

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.

DuckDuckGo account on Bluesky: We just deployed an update for this issue. Neocities results should now be appearing again when searching for "neocities" or for sites with neocities.org in the URL. (Let us know if you see otherwise) Sites hosted on Neocities that don't include neocities.org in the URL shouldn't have been affected.
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