What is Hackers' Pub?

RE: https://mas.to/@isaactly_s/115985318611576863

Cats! :3

가이

Not greedy at all.
It's so cold out, I say, take as many as you can, dear one!

I adore these crows.
In exchange for peanuts they once brought me an unknown animal rib and dropped it on my doorstop.

#corvids #crows
#peanuts #birds
#corvidsofmastodon

A study by Anthropic(!):

"We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand, or the equivalent of nearly two letter grades. Using AI sped up the task slightly, but this didn’t reach the threshold of statistical significance."

https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills?e45d281a_page=1&utm_cta=website-be-trending-cloud-marketing-dummies-ebk&mkt_tok=aw.ds

I heard we’re posting pictures of our exquisite #CatsOfMastodon

Je suis pas un Keuff, mais je suis très beau ​​

Finally, it's #JellyBellyFriday #cats #catsofmastodon

UPnPでの通信は続けられるって信じてるんだ…

We have what the preferred human calls "an American" in my house. I'm not yet sure if she's a replacement for the tall one or not: she's sleeping in the tall one's room, but she's not tall. She seems nice, but I shall remain on alert, just in case of irregularities. #CatsOfMastondon #Cats

Belkin’s Wemo smart devices will go offline on Saturday https://www.theverge.com/tech/870890/belkin-wemo-cloud-services-shut-down

Working from home for the first time with our new kitten. Not quite sure how it is possible to do any work?

#catsofmastodon

岩切健一郎 / 発達障害専門FP（FP1級/CFP®︎） (@hokennobro) on X
選挙のたびに思うけど、外国の方に向けられてるヘイト、次は恐らく精神障害や発達障害に向けられる。
適当な数字を出して「犯罪者の何%は精神障害で」とやり出すのが目に見える。
とにかく自分より優遇されているっ「ぽい」人が差別の対象になり得る。 https://x.com/i/status/2016886659724562617

근데 오늘 누르는것이 실패하면 아마 금은 가격은 더 위로 갈것 같습니다... 볼린저 밴드 평균가격 (중간 파란선) 밑으로 내리는것을 벌써 몇번 실패했는데 그뒤로 몇일뒤에 다시 오르고 그랬으므로...

@FinchHavenFinchHaven sfba @ralfbecker

Ich hoffe es ist ok, wenn ich in Deutsch antworte.

Du bringst damit einen wichtigen Punkt ein, der viel mit dieser anfänglichen "Fehldarstellung" des Forkiverse zu tun hat.

Es wurde doch sehr als ein eigenes Netz verkauft, das zwar Anbindung an Fediverse hat, aber irgendwie etwas anderes wäre.

Der Lebensmittelpunkt ist die lokale Timeline, wie Du richtig angedeutet hast. Für die Leute im Forkiverse war die lokale Timeline das Netz. Sie haben sich darin bewegt, haben dort die Beiträge der anderen Menschen im Forkiverse gesehen.
Hashtags wurden gelegentlich genutzt, um bestimmte Themen zu abonnieren. So entstanden dann Hashtags wie CatsofForkiverse.

Es blieb also innerhalb dieser eigenen lokalen Gemeinschaft, obwohl sie technisch immer Teil des Fediverse waren. Innerhalb dieser lokalen Timeline brauchte man keine Hashtags.

Dadurch, dass man sich nicht außerhalb dieser lokalen Gemeinschaft bewegte, entstanden natürlich auch keine Routingeffekte mit anderen Instanzen.

So hat sich, wie sagst, der Zustand entwickelt, dass "das Forkiverse in einem separaten, alternativen Universum existiert".
Dabei war das immer meine Kritik, dass es sich vom Fediverse absondert.

@ralfbecker Ok, dann ist es wohl ein allgemeines Aktivitätsthema und keine technische Problematik.

Ich denke immer noch, dass ein Großteil der fehlenden Verzahnung mit dem restlichen Fediverse auch daran liegt, dass eigene Hashtags verwendet werden und somit Beiträge, die im Fediverse große Reaktion bekommen würden, eben dort nicht ankommen, sondern ausschließlich im Forkiverse verbleiben.

Für diese Begriffsthese, die ich häufiger verwendet habe, weil eben Sprache und Codewörter, was Hashtags sind, ganz maßgeblich verantwortlich dafür sind, ob Beiträge, die technisch grundsätzlich vorhanden sind, auch in den entsprechenden Kontexten erscheinen, wurde ich von manchen immer etwas verlacht, ich denke aber weiterhin, dass hier ein Schlüssel liegt.

*groom groom groom*

(Turns out, holding the shutter button on my phone camera records video)

#CatsOfMastodon #DogsOfMastodon

Copy the link to this update: Catherine O'Hara confirmed dead at 71
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/livestory/catherine-ohara-dead-9.7068523?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Look at this bug i found

@zotheca

Dropping into the middle of this from Mastodon

"I still think that a large part of the lack of interlocking with the rest of the fediverse is also due to the fact that own hashtags are used"

I've been camping on the #Forkiverse

/public/local

ever since it's been up

Checking just now I see virtually *no* hashtag use, period

That's zero

Searching from my Mastodon instance for the single hashtag I see, nothing is returned

It's almost like the Forkiverse exists in a separate, alternate universe, not to overwork the -verse suffix...

cc @ralfbecker

皆さんは、欲望がどんな混乱を世界に引き起こしてきたか見ようとしません。個人的安定、自分の達成、成功、権勢、地位、威信への願い。自分がすることすべてに全責任があるということを感じていないのです。#fedibird

Hanging out in the Friday Fresh chat over at @TIBtv and so impressed and inspired by the eclectic mix of music and visuals. Also, it was cool to see New Jersey represented with videos from myself, my longtime friend/collaborator @ChristianBeach and fellow @BlowUpRadio artist @jasondidner during the hour. Hoping to get some more NJ artists to join the fediverse this year.

From: @nham
https://nham.co.uk/2026/01/135831/

비트코인보다 더 날뛰는데 이상하게 오늘은 코인도 골로 갔군요 허허

Might get banned from the #forkiverse for this, but I think I need the Algorithm. How am I supposed to know who to follow, what to pay attention to, or what’s going to be most interesting to me without an Algorithm feeding it to me? Old Facebook worked because it was my friends, but this is just a bunch of random people I don’t know. How do I navigate this? I feel like the humans in WALL-E freed from their entertainment pods unable to navigate the world.

So for starters, I don't entirely get what's #forkiverse and what's mastodon "main". Or, I guess there's no difference in the interface. But then WHAT IS the difference?

@X00001Radio Wave Girl🗼 @catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠

Biblically accurate cat owner

With all the recently unemployed people in tech nowadays (3+ years of rolling layoffs), I wonder if there's enough available skill and drive to form local co-ops dedicated to getting their city/state/county off of Microsoft/Google/AWS tech stacks and onto something open and non-corporate?

It'd almost certainly be cheaper than what the city/state/county are paying now and would actually boost local employment.

I just scrolled down the #Forkiverse and then the punk rock instance counterforce.social and almost got envies. People mostly try to have a good time.

Then I scrolled through typo.social and figured, that I must have cluttered my timeline with a lot of politics, noise any hashtags from other instances.

Time to do some weeding.

Hi #forkiverse friends and hi @CaseyCasey Newton @kevinKevin Roose

I wrote my first Substack and feel like sharing it on a platform of nice people.

My essay is about phone addiction and a post on my distinctly anti-phone IG account that just went viral last night.

https://focusrestjournal.substack.com/p/suffering-with-mobilomania

Dear #forkiverse - anyone else hate the mastodon client? I can't decide what would make it better to find a decent client.

Throw big or go home #pottery #ceramics #forkiverse

ClawdBot Skills ganked all my crypto

Link: https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/clawdbot-skills-ganked-your-crypto
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827731

Our intrepid 20%-er @dillonfranke exploited a vulnerability in CoreAudio. See his process for gaining privilege escalation on a Mac:

https://projectzero.google/2026/01/sound-barrier-2.html

On FehrTrade today: my #HeatedRivalry tribute fleece based on THE Team Canada one Shane wears. Since I get mistaken for Canadian enough as it is, I opted for HOLLANDER 24 on the back of mine instead of CANADA.

I sewed it all from scratch & I adore it!

https://blog.fehrtrade.com/gallery/10573/a-heated-rivalry-tribute-fleece/

#sewing

皆さんは、欲望がどんな混乱を世界に引き起こしてきたか見ようとしません。個人的安定、自分の達成、成功、権勢、地位、威信への願い。自分がすることすべてに全責任があるということを感じていないのです。#fedibird

Spring 2026 @CMUDBCMU Database Group Seminar Series: PostgreSQL vs. The World → https://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/spring2026/

Starting Mon Feb 2nd @ 4:30pm EST over Zoom. We will alternate between a speaker from either a Postgres DBMS or a non-Postgres DBMS. Open to the public. Videos available on YouTube afterwards.

SCHEDULE
‣ Feb 2: Redpanda Oxla
‣ Feb 9: Amazon Aurora DSQL
‣ Feb 16: TopK
‣ Feb 23: Microsoft Azure HorizonDB
‣ Mar 9: turbopuffer
‣ Mar 16: YugabyteDB
‣ Mar 23: TonicDB
‣ Mar 30: PixelTable
‣ Apr 6: SpacetimeDB
‣ Apr 13: Supabase Multigres
‣ Apr 20: VillageSQL

so the only place where you can break reactivity becomes the place where it has the risk of looping. rather than something upstream.

피고해서 명암 개판

先程の撮って出しです
#misskey写真部

LOL love how a little 'ist' snuck in there. I used to have English, Swedish and German all live as spell check and autocomplete on my smartphone keyboard at once, but it got confused as heck. I now have both English and German on at once, and switch into Swedish only when needed.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jrzyao2holfkgrsfbq2tue27/post/3mdnwwgopj22a

Catherine O’Hara has died at 71. Her work spanned generations, her comedy held empathy, and her presence made space for sadness, joy, and everything in between. Here are 71 thing you need to know about her: https://zurl.co/f7CZO

LOL love how a little 'ist' snuck in there. I used to have English, Swedish and German all live as spell check and autocomplete on my smartphone keyboard at once, but it got confused as heck. I now have both English and German on at once, and switch into Swedish only when needed.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jrzyao2holfkgrsfbq2tue27/post/3mdnwwgopj22a

And if I have a simple webserver with static files?

"Anubis is meant to sit between your reverse proxy (such as Nginx or Caddy) and your target service. ?"

better things are not possible.

https://fosstodon.org/@adafruit/115970745296890150

Our intrepid 20%-er @dillonfranke exploited a vulnerability in CoreAudio. See his process for gaining privilege escalation on a Mac:

https://projectzero.google/2026/01/sound-barrier-2.html

Deadline this weekend - apply by Feb 1st, 2026!

Do you want to go to EuroBSDCon https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/ but need support to do so?

Or do you know someone in that situation? Apply for the Paul Schenkeveld Travel Grant before February 1st, 2026!

https://eurobsdconfoundation.org/travel-grant.html

#eurobsdcon #netbsd #openbsd #freebsd #conference #travelgrant