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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"한강에 거꾸로 담가야" 고문 생생한데… 검찰, 납북어부 2차 피해 재심에 '묵묵부답' www.hankookilbo.com/news/article... "박씨는 본보에 "신명구씨가 간첩이라고 많은 사람이 잡혀가 이런 일을 당했는데, 그 사람이 무죄면 남편도 무죄 아니냐"며 "산증인이 있는데도 기록이 제대로 없다고 기각된 게 억울하다"고 호소했다. 신지우씨도 지난해 5월 광주지법 순천지원에 재심을 청구했지만 검찰은 '기각' 의견을 냈다. 주범의 무죄확정판결 자체는 새로운 '증거'에 해당되지 않아 재심 개시 사유가 안 된단 논리였다."

"한강에 거꾸로 담가야" 고문 생생한데… 검찰, 납북어...

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[단독]5분만에 음식 조리·포장까지?···자영업자 쥐어짜는 쿠팡이츠 www.khan.co.kr/article/2026... "30일 경향신문 취재를 종합하면, 쿠팡이츠는 최근 권장 조리시간을 더 짧게 변경한 것으로 파악됐다. 매장과 메뉴에 따라 달라지지만, 일부 가게들에선 주문 접수 시 음식을 조리하고 포장을 해서 배달을 보내는 기본 권장 시간이 5분으로 설정된다. 윤씨 가게의 경우 과거엔 기본 권장시간이 10분이었지만, 현재는 5분으로 줄었다고 했다."

[단독]5분만에 음식 조리·포장까지?···자영업자 쥐어...

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[Kobo 01/31 今日99]

📘 白癡(杜斯妥也夫斯基最具自傳色彩代表作)
👤 杜斯妥也夫斯基(Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский)
📝 城邦出版集團/商周出版
🗓 2022/06/07
💲 TWD 99 (76% off)
🔗 kobo.com/tw/zh/ebook/Cvp92LVO2
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描繪一個絕對美好的人,世界上沒有比這更難的事了……所有認為《白癡》是我最好作品的人,都令我感到一種分外的喜悅。──杜斯妥也夫斯基  ◎杜斯妥也夫斯基最私密作品,淋漓刻畫個人面對死刑經驗與愛的理想  ◎翻譯名家耿濟之全本俄文直譯,最值得珍藏的杜斯妥也夫斯基譯本  ◎書附人物介紹與年表在駛往彼得堡的火車上,年輕的沒落貴族梅什金公爵聽見鄰座乘客談起擁有絕世美貌卻身世不幸的女子納斯塔霞。她的肖像引發了梅什金公爵心中強烈的情感,即使他懷抱的並非一般正常的愛情……「她很美......一個人有這樣的美,就可以...

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An Australian-Jordanian developer launched a TikTok clone called UpScrolled that was supposed to be a haven for pro-Palestinian content in the face of shadow bans. It reached 1,000,000 users this week and sits atop App Store rankings. It is now being subsumed by Nazis, with mods unable to keep up.

TikTok deal fuels rise of UpSc...

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Protobuf를 제거하고 Rust↔C 직접 바인딩으로 성능 5배 개선
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- PostgreSQL 확장 프록시인
PgDog 가 SQL 파싱 성능을 높이기 위해 *Protobuf 직렬화 대신 Rust 직접 바인딩* 을 도입
- 기존 Protobuf 기반 구조를 *C–Rust 직접 변환(bindgen + Claude 생성 래퍼)* 으로 교체해 *파싱 5.45배, 디파싱 9.64배* 속도 향상
- 성능 병목은 *pg_query_parse_protobuf* 함수…
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https://news.hada.io/topic?id=26253&utm_source=googlechat&utm_medium=bot&utm_campaign=1834

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빌 게이츠가 러시아 소녀들과 성관계를 가진 후 아내 멜린다 게이츠에게 성병을 숨기려고 했다는 내용의 엡스타인과의 이메일도 공개됨. 이에 대해 빌 게이츠는 '전혀 터무니없고 완전히 거짓'이라고 말하는 중인데 멜린다의 말을 생각해보면 빌 게이츠의 주장이 그렇게 설득력 있지는 않다.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5u54z2qgkq43dh2nzwzdbbhb/post/3mdo5umuvxg2p

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블룸버그는 30일 금값이 12% 이상 폭락하며 온스당 5000달러 밑으로 떨어졌다고 보도했습니다. 은값 하락 폭은 36%로 더욱 컸습니다. 금값의 일일 하락 폭은 1980년대 초 이래, 은값 하락 폭은 역대 최대입니다. 케빈 워시가 차기 연준 이사회 의장으로 지명된 것이 일차적 원인으로 꼽힙니다.

‘매파 성향’ 워시 연준 의장 지명에…금·은 가격 ‘역...

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And last is... me! Hi, I'm looking for work. I was the animation lead for Wanderstop. I rigged every character, set the animation style, hired and set schedules, and did a huge amount of animation and anim code, FX work, and more. Enjoy my new demo reel and then email me at jobs@auratriolo.com!

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전래동화 봤던거 중에 나중에 역사 배우면서 일본이 왜곡한 동화라는거 알게된거

1. 고려장: 일본의 한 지방의 풍습을 전래동화로 만들어버리기.
2. 도깨비: 흔히 알려진 머리에 뿔 달리고 가시달린 방망이 들고 다니는 도깨비는 일본의 오니라는 사실.

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wakest ⁂ FOSDEM shared the below article:

January 30th, 2026: New Frontiers

Relay, By We Distribute @relay@newsletter.wedistribute.org

Welcome back! We've been on a break for the past few months, but with the new year, we're doubling down on our efforts to keep the Fediverse informed on the latest developments of the space. We've got a lot of exciting things in store for you, so buckle up.

Fediverse

As always, there's a whirlwind of development happening around this space, even if it's not immediately obvious. Apps and platforms are being developed, organizations are renewing commitments to improve the network, and people are sharing all kinds of resources on how to get involved.

Apps and Updates

Loops is Now on the App Store
We did it. After months of building, testing, and countless late nights, Loops is officially available on the App Store. It’s been quite a ride since October. We shipped OAuth support, launched the mobile beta, built a whole new project website, and kept adding features people actually wanted. The For
Loops Official BlogDaniel Supernault

Loops, the open source, federated alternative to Tiktok, has now landed on the Apple App Store. Finally, the app is available to the general public on both iOS and Android. Check out the Community Roadmap to see where future development is heading!

Publish your videos with PeerTube for mobile! | JoinPeerTube
The PeerTube mobile app continues to grow and now includes a creator mode! Let’s take this opportunity to review the latest developments and the impro…
JoinPeerTube

Recently, PeerTube updated their mobile app to include publishing capabilities, so now mobile users can upload videos directly from their phones!

Launch: Domain Blocklists
In November last year, we began developing additional user-facing moderation features for Bridgy Fed users. While blocking users across the bridge was always possible via DMs, we knew it would be easier for users to manage their lists on the Bridgy Fed settings page, and it would also enable us
A New SocialAnuj Ahooja

A New Social has announced a new feature for their Bridgy Fed project, which now makes it possible to block domain names across the bridge. This is a solid quality-of-life improvement, and we can't wait to see what A New Social does next!

Bonfire 1.0.1: Building Momentum
We’re back with an update focused on making your social web experience livelier, more connected, and truly yours. Plus updates on the crowdfunding campaign and what’s next.

Bonfire is already back with a 1.0.1 update, adding loads of new features like hashtag following, post scheduling, support for the Mastodon API, and lots of other things. This release has tons of features, fixes, and improvements, which you can read about in the changelog. Also, Bonfire's crowdfunding campaign is still open for late pledges.

Bandwagon.fm - December 2025
December 2025

Bandwagon is a music service for the Fediverse, and has been doing amazing work over the past 12 months. Ben Pate reflects on what has happened over the past year, and teases a preview roadmap of what's happening in 2026.

Protocol and Ecosystem

New Social Web Working Group at W3C
Today the W3C standards organization announced a new working group to advance the ActivityPub and Activity Streams standards. The Social Web Foundation, as a W3C member organization, will be partic…
Social Web Foundation

The Social Web Foundation has announced an official Social Web Working Group at the W3C. The group is chartered through January 31st, 2028, and will "...maintain the ActivityPub, WebSub, Activity Streams, Activity Vocabulary,
MicroPub, Linked Data Notifications, and Webmention specifications, as
well as related Notes."

The Fediverse Experiment
Experimenting with a new internet
Search Engine with PJ VogtPJ Vogt

Earlier this month, the Search Engine podcast announced a new Mastodon instance called "The Forkiverse". The effort is a collaboration with Hard Fork's Kevin Roose and Casey Newton. Since its initial announcement, instance has grown to 9,500 user accounts.

There Is One Fediverse. There Are A Thousand Ways To Join It.
When I showed my sister-in-law my toot.wales feed, she gave the response I believe most people genuinely feel: “It’s lovely! If only there was an app.” She doesn’t want a pr…
jaz-michael king's blogFollow this Blog on Fediverse

Jaz-Michael King from IFTAS has published a really nice overview of how he worked with the Newsmast Foundation to produce a special app for his instance, toot.wales. He also shares some of the tools he's been specifically building for his community to make users lives easier.

Arts and Music

The Indie Beat Television
A consent driven live stream of indie music videos and animation from artists across the Fediverse. See Now Playing info at https://mastodon.social/@tibtvnowplayingbot - Fediwall at https://shorturl.at/CrWD3 - Submit your videos at https://theindiebeat.fm/the-indie-beat-tv/ - CAUTION: Many videos have flashing lights!
The Indie Beat Television

Popular Fediverse radio streaming service The Indie Beat FM has opened up an MTV-like 24/7 live stream featuring original Fediverse content and programming. The service provides a variety of shows, including music videos, podcasts, and interviews.

NHAM Update Opus 12 (Fedi MTV Edition)
NHAM Update Opus 12 (Fedi MTV Edition) by @sknob@mamot.fr It’s been a while, hasn’t it? No comment. Ahem. Let me jump right in! The Indie Beat Television The big fedi-music-related event since the last Opus post was of course the launch of The Indie Beat Television (@TIBtv@tv.theindiebeat.fm). To say that it went well would be [...]
NHAMFollow

Our friends over at NHAM are creating videos and media for The Indie Beat TV. Here, they reflect on their individual efforts and what they're making.

Randy AKA Lime Bar - Building IndieBeat TV and Making Federated Music - The Lorenzo’s Music Podcast - The Lorenzo’s Music Podcast
This episode of the podcast, I meet musician Randy AKA Lime Bar who built the new IndieBeat TV music video network
Tom RayTom Ray

Lorenzo's Music Podcast sits down to interview Limebar about his involvement with the TheIndieBeatTV project. It's a great discussion, and goes to show how connected the music community is within the Fediverse right now.

From Around the Network

X Is a Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem
Fediverse Report #148: X is not a just platform problem anymore, it’s a power problem, and why you cannot compete as platforms with power.
connectedplaces.onlineLaurens Hof

Laurens Hof from Connected Places wrote a really great piece analyzing the underlying problems that plague social networks like X and Facebook. The underlying issues highlighted involve power structures within the United States, and how they interact with X operationally.

A newbie’s guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 3: Let’s install NextCloud
A step-by-step visual guide for self-hosting newbies that shows off how to install NextCloud via the YunoHost system
Elena RossiniElena Rossini

Elena Rossini has published her third installment in her YunoHost series, which focuses on easy-to-use tools for self-hosting. This one focuses on Nextcloud, the open source federated cloud system. Check out Part 1 and Part 2 as well!

Fediverse: An overview for community organizers | Stefan Bohacek
Fediverse as a tool for communities and community organizers.
Stefan BohacekStefan Bohacek

Stefan Bohacek put out a comprehensive guide for community organizers making the case for why the Fediverse is worth using for the purpose of building communities, and provides information to tools and moderation resources for first-time instance admins.

IFTAS Response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence “Towards European open digital ecosystems”
IFTAS welcomes this initiative and strongly supports the Commission’s recognition of open-source software as a strategic component of digital sovereignty, security, and innovation. The EU open-sour…
IFTASFollow

Here, IFTAS commends the EU on embracing open source technology as a key to digital independence from Silicon Valley, and sheds some insight into the growing pains networks such as the Fediverse has had, particularly when it comes to funding developers and bolstering community-based moderation.

Growing the open social web: case studies from Newsmast - SFSCON
SFSCON Talk
SFSCON

Our friends over at Newsmast Foundation gave a great presentation at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFSCON). Michael Foster and Saskia Welch talk about some of the challenges of running a nonprofit organization, doing advocacy for the Open Social Web, and some of the things their organization has been up to.


Bluesky

FR#150 – On ICE, Verification, and Presence As Harm
Bluesky built a verification system designed to distribute trust, and then didn’t use it when it mattered.
connectedplaces.onlineLaurens Hof

Bluesky is currently in hot water for verifying the official Immigration and Customs Enforcement government account on their network. The backlash has created several discussions about the role of a social networking company or organization has when it comes to government compliance and protecting users.

Money for mutual resilience: Introducing Blacksky Cash
Mutual aid has always been about more than money. But money, shared intentionally, can be a powerful expression of solidarity. This is us building toward that future.
Blacksky AlgorithmsMarisa Rando

Blacksky Algorithms has announced an amazing new initiative to support mutual aid called BlackSky Cash. It's a thought-provoking effort with impressive goals, and it's exciting to see what's coming here.

Rudy wants revolution. (@rude1.blacksky.team)
Any blacksky.app users who get banned from bsky should try logging into the staging.blacksky.community website. Looking to get feedback + identify any lingering bugs. Email support@blacksky.app with those. Missing data from non-Blacksky hosted accounts + older posts is expected https://staging.blacksky.community
Bluesky Social

Speaking about Blacksky for a minute, it's worth bringing up the fact that the project is running a full infrastructure stack at this point. Their efforts have allowed Blacksky to run independently from Bluesky, while remaining interoperable with it.

Introducing Osprey V1.0: Open Source Infrastructure for Real-Time Abuse Mitigation
Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Roost has announced a 1.0 release of Osprey, an open source tool for managing spam, harassment, and illegal content. It's used by Bluesky, Matrix, and Discord for rapid response to all kinds of incidents, and provides tools for investigation and management.


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The Anachronistic Internet: When Cat Videos Actually Mattered

Summary: A late-night, sleep-deprived rant about how the internet used to work, triggered by watching 2 Broke Girls and realizing how anachronistic everything feels now.

The Anachronistic Internet: When Cat Videos Actually Mattered

So here I am, 3 AM, can’t sleep, supposed to give a talk at FOSDEM in a few hours, and I’m pretty sure I’m getting sick after three weeks of travel. What does any rational human do in this situation? Watch 2 Broke Girls, obviously.

And holy shit, does that show feel anachronistic now.

Hipsters Don’t Exist Anymore (And Other Revelations)

First off, the hipster jokes. Nobody makes hipster jokes anymore because hipsters either don’t exist or became less culturally relevant than emos. Remember emos? Yeah, that’s how dead hipsters are.

But it wasn’t just the cultural references that felt ancient. It was the internet itself.

There’s this scene where Caroline (the blonde one) takes Max’s laptop to do some business stuff and stumbles upon her browser history. Not search history—browser history. And what’s in there? Cat videos. A cat ringing a doorbell. A kitten doing funny stuff. She rattles off 5 or 6 different videos.

And I’m sitting there, exhausted and probably feverish, thinking: “Holy crap, that’s how we used to consume content.”

When Million Views Actually Meant Something

Remember when a video with a million views was a big deal? Not just numerically, but culturally? It meant millions of people actively sought that thing out. Someone told them about it—word of mouth, in real life—and they went home, opened their browser, fired up YouTube or Google, and searched for “cat ringing doorbell” or whatever.

They made a conscious choice to watch it.

That’s so radically different from today it might as well be from a different species of internet.

Today, a million views means an algorithm shoved something in front of a million eyeballs. Half those people probably didn’t even want to see it. They were just scrolling, trapped in the engagement machine, and the algorithm decided their attention belonged to that video for the next 30 seconds.

The Browser History Archaeological Dig

Let’s talk about browser history for a second. When was the last time you checked yours? I mean really looked at it?

Back in the day? Browser history was like an archaeological dig of your curiosity. It told the story of how you discovered things, how you followed rabbit holes from one interesting thing to another. You’d see the path from “funny cat videos” to “how do cats see color” to “are cats colorblind” to “evolution of feline vision” to “why are my eyes dry” to “computer screen blue light” to “buying blue light glasses”

That was the internet. A web of curiosity, not a feed of algorithmic manipulation.

The Walled Garden Apocalypse

Today, that same cat video discovery journey happens inside TikTok or Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts. It’s all contained within one app, one ecosystem, one company’s idea of what you should see next.

The browser? It’s basically just a container for apps now. Gmail, Slack, whatever productivity tool your company forces you to use. The actual web—the place where you could stumble upon weird personal blogs and random forums and people’s actual thoughts—that’s mostly dead.

We traded the open web for engagement algorithms and dopamine slot machines.

When Sharing Was Intentional

Here’s another thing that hit me during my 2 Broke Girls insomnia spiral: sharing used to require effort.

If I wanted to show you a video, I had to copy the URL, paste it in an email or IM, and send it to you. You had to click it, wait for it to load, and make the conscious decision to watch it. There was friction, and that friction meant something.

Now? I can “share” something by double-tapping it, and it gets blasted to everyone who follows me, whether they want it or not. The algorithm decides who sees it and when. There’s no intentionality, no curation, no thought.

We optimized the friction out of sharing and accidentally optimized the meaning out of it too.

The Great Attention Heist

This is what really gets me: somewhere along the way, we agreed to let algorithms decide what deserves our attention. We handed over one of the most precious resources we have—our focus—to systems designed to extract maximum engagement, not deliver maximum value.

In the old internet, your attention was yours. You decided to search for something. You decided to click on a link. You decided to bookmark something for later. You were the curator of your own experience.

Now? Your attention is a commodity being traded in real-time auctions you don’t even know are happening.

But Wait, It Gets Worse

The really messed up part is how normalized this has become. We act like this is just how the internet works, like it’s some natural law. But it’s not. It’s a business model. A very specific, very recent business model that prioritizes engagement over everything else.

Quality? Doesn’t matter as long as people keep scrolling. Truth? Secondary to virality. Your mental health? Not their problem. Your time? Their most valuable asset.

We’re not users anymore. We’re the product. And we’re being sold to advertisers who want to influence our behavior.

The FOSDEM Connection (Because Why Not?)

Speaking of influencing behavior—I’m supposed to talk about social web and community building at FOSDEM in a few hours. And maybe that’s the connection here. The old internet was more like open source: decentralized, community-driven, built by people who cared about the craft, not the profit.

The new internet is more like proprietary software: controlled by a few big players, optimized for their benefit, not yours, and increasingly hostile to alternatives.

Maybe that’s why I’m feeling so nostalgic for browser histories and intentional sharing and cat videos that people actually searched for. It wasn’t just a different internet—it was a different philosophy about how technology should work.

So What Now?

I don’t have a grand solution here. I’m literally writing this at 5 AM while probably getting sick and definitely procastinating.

But maybe awareness is the first step? Maybe we can start making more intentional choices about where we spend our attention? Maybe we can support platforms and tools that respect our agency instead of exploiting it?

Or maybe I’m just being an old man yelling at algorithmic clouds.

Either way, I should probably try to get some sleep before I have to explain why social web matters to a room full of people who already know why social web matters.

At least that’s one thing that hasn’t changed: programmers still love stating the obvious to each other at conferences.


Update: The FOSDEM talk will be fine. Caffeine is a hell of a drug.

Also readable in: https://maho.dev/2026/01/the-anachronistic-internet-when-cat-videos-actually-mattered/ by @mapacheMaho 🦝🍻:

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막바지 강추위에 잇달아 수도계량기 동파…밤사이 30건
(서울=연합뉴스) 황재하 기자 = 막바지 강추위 속에 서울 전역에서 수도 계량기 동파 피해가 잇달았다.
yna.co.kr/view/AKR202601310254

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