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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Take a deep breath.

One day after launch of our campaign for Hootsuite to drop their contract to provide ICE "social listening" tools– this letter.

Their CEO writes she is glad people are "showing up" and "being vulnerable", but they'll keep the ICE contract. Their ToS prohibits individual surveillance, and that's enough.

hootsuite.com/letter-from-irina

Is that enough to anyone else?

A reminder, Hootsuite is a B corp- legally required to consider the impact of their work on the public.

Does selling "social listening" tools to 2026 ICE, and angling for a multi-million dollar contract, strike you as B corp behaviour?

If it doesn't, speak your mind here:
openmedia.org/NoTech4Ice

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Minnesota Dems are trying to elect as governor, the County Attorney that refused to charge Derek Chauvin for his entire career of brutality against Black Minnesotans, and refused to charge almost every cop in the police department that is on the most racist 1% of police departments in North America?

Then if Black Minnesotans don't turn out to vote for her in record numbers, a bunch of white people are going to jump on BlueSky and Twitter and Mastodon and Facebook to curse out Black people, and express their homicidal fantasies about how Black men and Somali immigrants now deserve whatever is about to happen to them.

Chart showing Minnesota has "More Racial Disparities in deadly force than 100% of Depts"

That is not a good accomplishment.

Only 19% of Minnesota is Black, but 75% of people killed by police are Black.
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: A snapshot taken a second before a powerful M-class solar flare was unleashed from the Sun on 30 September 2024 – as seen in unprecedented detail by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission. The image is an excerpt from a video created from Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) images taken every two seconds, leading up to the solar flare. Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team

Learn more: esa.int/Science_Exploration/Sp

A close-up image of the Sun's surface, with mottled dark black and bright yellow patches. Some yellow arches and streaks of light give an impression of the Sun being very active.
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Funfact: DB Eventtickets - die meist günstiger sind als normale Tickets - sind immer über den Link eventanreise-bahn.de/de/events/<id> abrufbar. Diese IDs sind aber natürlich nicht zufällig sondern :trommelwirbel: aufsteigend!

Aber Keine Sorge, zur Sicherheit rechnet die DB immer +3 bei der ID, nicht dass jemand einfach die IDs errät. Aber bitte nicht einfach einen beliebigen Eventticket Link nehmen (z.B. eventanreise-bahn.de/de/events) und dann die Zahl um 3 erhöhen.

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People who like growing things tend to be the least "zero sum" people I've ever met. I meet activists who act like sharing their time will inevitably lead to their death, but gardeners are always sharing.

We give each other seed, baby plants, cuttings, vegetables, greens, eggs - sometimes even before we know each other. If I say to someone "I wish I could grow tomatoes better" they'll jump in and offer last generation's regionally adapted seed without hesitation.

Because perhaps there's something to the experience of planting a bean and watching it turn into hundreds of beans, all from one bean. Or a single squash seed and seeing it produce dozens of squash and thousands of seeds. Or watching an enormous tree grow from a tiny seed and then a little sprout, and bring owls back where there weren't any before. And realizing that sharing only spreads the abundance, and never takes it away. If my tomatoes grow better, and hers fail, she knows I'll probably offer her that even better performing seed right back, and some extra tomatoes.

One of our friends on the border said he realized capitalism is bullshit the first time he grew tepary beans and watched a single bean turn into pounds of food and plenty of seed to save for next time. Why would anyone control your access to food when it's just that simple?

And the homesteading folks seem to like to make it seem really difficult, but they'll plant 10 acres to grain instead of oak trees and lament having to rent a harvester combine instead of having food literally fall out of the trees (and have a forest of other food and habitat for game, to boot), which is a failure of planning rather than the reality of what growing food is actually like.

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It's FOSDEM this weekend!

The Social Web track, and many of the others, are a great opportunity to learn more about projects on the Social Web.

As always, we're really excited to hear more about what our friends and supporters are up to.

If you're not there in Brussels, you can follow along online with us. Check out the schedule below 👇

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/

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The question isn’t “are people using AI for that”, but rather “can people use…”

If they can they definitely are.

People are using it for literally everything.

I don’t think we’re in a bubble when literally every aspect of human life is being influenced by LLMs.

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PeerTube statt YouTube: Wie wir über 1.000 Videos umgezogen haben

Bonn.digital @bonn.digital@bonn.digital

Videos lädt man bei YouTube hoch. Das ist bequem, kostet scheinbar nichts und funktioniert. Aber gerade wer eine Community aufbaut, Inhalte monetarisiert oder Videos auf der eigenen Website einbettet, zahlt dafür einen Preis: Abhängigkeit von Plattformregeln, Tracking, Fremdwerbung und im Zweifel der komplette Verlust des Kanals. In einem aktuellen Projekt haben wir gezeigt, wie es anders geht: Tech-Blogger Sascha Pallenberg hat seinen YouTube-Account mit rund 1.000 Videos auf eine eigene […]

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According to journalist Jen Psaki of The Briefing with Jen ,
Trump’s administration has
seized the physical ballots from the 2020 election,
all tabulator tapes,
and all ballot images from the original ballot count,
breaking the line of custody
and contaminating the files.

Crucially, they also seized all voter rolls from Fulton County.

“This is a seismic event,”
Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) told Psaki.

“This should have people across the country absolutely shook.

This is a huge deal.

This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office....

This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections.

He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020.”

Ossoff warned that Americans must be prepared
as Trump tries to take away Americans’ right to choose their elected officials in 2026.

On January 6, 2026, Trump explained to Republican lawmakers:

“You gotta win the midterms.

Because if we don’t win the midterms, it’s just gonna be
—I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me. I’ll get impeached.”

heathercoxrichardson.substack.

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After 6 months of coding and refining, I’m thrilled to launch Crowfi! 🚀

I wanted to build a Mastodon client for iOS that feels fast, looks clean, and respects the way we use the Fediverse.

🍎 Get it on the App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/crowfi/i

Please Boost to help me reach the community! 🔄

I’d love to hear your feedback as I keep building. ✨

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