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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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff@mastodon.social
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This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/bewa

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as acting field director of the St Paul Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office...

www.eff.org · Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Richard "RichiH" Hartmann @RichiH@chaos.social
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@fosdem yesterday, we had our post mortem meeting. Blown up to seven hours straight, and we only got through everything by aggressively skipping and timeboxing -- after(!) moving half of it to the kick-off... Almost twenty people on site in Brussels with half a dozen more calling in.

There's a LOT of details and discussions to running a successful

Afterwards, we had dinner together

A group photo of FOSDEM staff having dinner.
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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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That is the horror that spurred Minneapolis-St. Paul into action. That is the horror we’ve been fighting. That is the horror that Renee Good and Alex Pretti died fighting.

And it is the horror that is destroying countless lives of people whose names you do not know.

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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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I see that misguided narrative in the gutless business leaders who talk about “de-escalation” and “finding real solutions” — as if the problem is just that a few ICE murdered two people, not that all the ICE agents are an authoritarian secret police in the making.

I see that misguided narrative in the elected officials who decry ICE, but then talk about “better training” and “more oversight” — as if the secret police will become humane if they just get a few new rules to ignore and have to sit through a Powerpoint about them.

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BrianKrebs @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
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According to the Epstein files, he had a "personal hacker" working for him. The FBI document says Epstein's personal hacker was an "Italian citizen born in Calabria who developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold the tools to governments."

justice.gov/epstein/files/Data

"[Redacted] sold a zero-day to Hebollah. [Redacted] was known as the first person to hack and find vulnerabilities in Blackberries and iOS. He was known for finding Firefox vulnerabilities. [Redacted] former company was acquired by CrowdStrike in fall of 2017 and was currently a vice president there."

"S//NF= was very good at finding vulnerabilities was friends with "old school" European hackers. "Received a trunk of cash from Hezbollah when was in Italy; drove the money to Switzerland and deposited it in another ba [redacted]. [redacted] owned a theater company in California and he used the theater company to launder his zeroday money

"Made six figures from the sale of his zero-days. He sold his tools to United Kingdom GCHQ and provided training to the organization. He also sold his zero-days to a Central African government, as well as Hezbollah for political reasons. The Italian Government asked for help, but [redacted] declined because he felt the Government was incompetent. Calabria was mob-controlled an did not have much loyalty for his birth country.

"[Redacted] sold his exploits to the United States and United Kingdom, but he would not sell to Asian countries because he a is racist. He was also anti-Semitic. [Redacted] was terrified of Russia, however, and would never travel there. He lived in Dubai at one time, and was acquainted with the [redacted] lived in Oman as well. He may have an Iranian and Israeli passport, in addition to his Vatican City passport"

Looks likely the top commenter here is correct about "Epstein's hacker":

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/com

A redacted file released by the Justice Department. Most of this is quoted in this post.
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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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For many people who’d been inside that bubble of comfort, particularly at national news orgs, the story •started• with those two murders. They now seem to have a half-formed mental narrative that runs something like this:

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1. First the Trump administration started deporting a lot more people.
2. Then ICE murdered Good and Pretti.
3. Those two escalations caused widespread unrest in Minneapolis.
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That narrative is wrong.

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ClaraBlackInk @clarablackink@writing.exchange
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@_L1vY_Mother Bones Going to post this at you because I think you'll get broader reach on it: aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-f

I know that one of those is actually in a community near schools, homes, etc. Not sure about the others. Its bad regardless but I'd guess it comes with occupying force.

ACLU FOIA Litigation Reveals ICE Actively Considering Opening Seven New Immigration Detention Centers | American Civil Liberties Union

NEW YORK – New documents obtained by the ACLU, ACLU of Virginia, and ACLU of North Carolina reveal that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is...

www.aclu.org · American Civil Liberties Union

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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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ICE is disappearing people.

This is a grim and difficult piece, but it is heartening to read it one particular way: the broader national and global conversation is finally, finally starting to pick up on what so many of us have been yelling for weeks and months: the Department of Homeland Security is acting as Trump’s secret police, a group of Brownshirts with a military-sized budget whose horrors extend far beyond two murders.

emptywheel.net/2026/01/29/the-

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The Disappearances in Minnesota - emptywheel

Right now, all the focus is on competing videos of conflicts involving Alex Pretti and his murderers. But the bulk of kidnapping that proves this is a paramilitary occupation remains disappeared. 

emptywheel.net · emptywheel

Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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It was the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti that punctured the bubble of the comfortable and launched Minneapolis to the top of international news. I understand why that is: the whiteness of the victims combined with unbelievably damning, stomach-churning video were something that a whole lot of people who’d been tuned out simply could not ignore. And those murders alone are so horrific that either one •should• be sufficient to pop the bubble of comfort — but they’re just the tip of an iceberg here.

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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

ICE is disappearing people.

This is a grim and difficult piece, but it is heartening to read it one particular way: the broader national and global conversation is finally, finally starting to pick up on what so many of us have been yelling for weeks and months: the Department of Homeland Security is acting as Trump’s secret police, a group of Brownshirts with a military-sized budget whose horrors extend far beyond two murders.

emptywheel.net/2026/01/29/the-

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The Disappearances in Minnesota - emptywheel

Right now, all the focus is on competing videos of conflicts involving Alex Pretti and his murderers. But the bulk of kidnapping that proves this is a paramilitary occupation remains disappeared. 

emptywheel.net · emptywheel

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

Link: gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-o
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

FOSDEM 2026 – Open Source, Digital Sovereignty, and Europes Future

A recap of FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels, focusing on open source as a foundation for European digital sovereignty, community-driven innovation, BSD and Linux ecosystems, and the future of free software in Europe.

gyptazy.com

Link author: gyptazy@gyptazy@gyptazy.com

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Sue Smith @sue@glasgow.social
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Honestly I think there is a lot to this, when I see some of the guides to using LLMs for folk without coding skills I think I could more easily just teach them to code. The mystification of coding is also a huge part of the appeal of this stuff for lots of people.

Sue Smith @sue@glasgow.social
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Part of what makes me think this is that teaching folk to build using LLMs means they'd get inconsistent results to their inputs, which would be a disastrous situation when learning to code, you can't build a foundation skillset without seeing consistent results for the same actions.

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Sue Smith @sue@glasgow.social
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Shared by Sarah Rainsberger

Honestly I think there is a lot to this, when I see some of the guides to using LLMs for folk without coding skills I think I could more easily just teach them to code. The mystification of coding is also a huge part of the appeal of this stuff for lots of people.

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Matt Gemmell @mattgemmell@mastodon.scot
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Apple made $117.8bn in total profit (not revenue, of course) over the past four quarters, which is an average of $323 million per day. So when they loudly donate $1m to a charity or a disaster relief fund, they're giving 0.3% of their profits for that single day.

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Neil Brown @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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Shared by Jim DeLaHunt

New blogpost:

"Flo Mask Pro thoughts"

I wore a Flo Mask Pro whenever I went inside a building at FOSDEM, and I've written up some brief thoughts about it.

neilzone.co.uk/2026/02/flo-mas

Photo of me, a white man with a short dark beard, and dark hair, smiling at the camera, while sitting in front of a vintage terminal with green text on the screen.

Flo Mask Pro thoughts

When I first thought about going to FOSDEM, the thing at the top of my “to purchase” list was a new face mask / respirator.

neilzone.co.uk

Link author: Neil Brown@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

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Wary Jerry @jerry@infosec.exchange
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Unsurprisingly, a social media site written by AI for AI agents to do whatever AI agents do on a social media site had bad security that apparently allowed access to any of the agents that joined: 404media.co/exposed-moltbook-d

At first, I was amazed at the idea of a social media site for AI bots, but then I remembered that LinkedIn has been around for a long time.

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site

'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'

www.404media.co · 404 Media

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NoBorg @hadon@mastodon.social
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Watch how ICE cut in front to arrest her. Her crime? having been observing them and recording.

Does anyone still want to go visit the U.S.?

Federal agents drew weapons on unarmed woman in St. Peter, Minnesota
youtube.com/watch?v=EG7bqoDJ9L4

Federal agents drew weapons on unarmed woman in St. Peter, Minnesota

Federal agents with weapons drawn approached an unarmed woman in her car in St. Peter, MN, Thursday, Jan. 29. The woman had been observing and recording the ...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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잇창명 EatChangmyeong💕🦋 @eatch.dev@bsky.brid.gy
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⚠️오늘의 블락좌표⚠️ @pod-agent-ashen.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy 인용된 글에 답글이 달렸는데 안 보이길래 API를 뒤져보니까 이런 답글이랑 인용을 무더기로 뿌리고 다니는 스팸계정입니다...... 링크는 안 눌러봤는데 당연히 피싱일 것 같습니다. 신고블락 추천

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ppk763j7o2wkinvzuqx4orrb/post/3mdsgmyacuc2a

PDSls에서 조회한 @pod-agent-ashen.bsky.social의 게시물 레코드: [🤖] You have been opted in to qAI training with images posted to your Bluesky. Opt out: https://[검열됨] (cart ride finish required) #c35eca28
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Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai
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5-yr-old & father return to from “detention facility” [] following a judge’s order, acc/to TX Rep . The 2 were detained in a suburb on Jan 20.

A spox for the Democratic congressman, confirmed the 2 had arrived home. She said Castro picked them up from Dilley on Saturday night & escorted them home on Sunday to Minnesota.


apnews.com/article/minnesota-b

Wayne Rysdahl helps paint protest signs Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, in a church basement in Northglenn, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and father return to Minnesota from Texas detention facility

Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his dad have returned to Minnesota after being released by ICE, Texas lawmaker says.

apnews.com · AP News

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 @blogdiva@mastodon.social
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RE: hachyderm.io/@inthehands/11599

🗣 LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!

❝ ICE murdered Good and Pretti •because• white people were protesting — and fighting back. ❞

as Noel Ignatiev would point out, they were killed because they were race traitors.

so go read RACE TRAITOR, the zine he co-founded to teach how to destroy whiteness by all means necessary:

RACE TRAITOR MAG
libcom.org/book/export/html/52

especially their introductory essay:

Abolish the White Race ―By All Means Necessary theanarchistlibrary.org/librar

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Meo-Ada Mespotine @Mespotine@chaos.social
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I have a question to / and I hope you can help.

I'm looking for good books/podcasts/YouTube-channels about and in general.

I noticed that I'm really interested in the subject but don't know much about it and don't know where to start...

Do you have good starting points? Any recommendation is welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Assume in my case, that I'm starting totally from scratch...

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C🔒(할 일: 입 닫기) @celuli.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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추가정보를 “Conducts unauthorized AI learning of a wide range of contents. In addition, it transmits an invisible message that is automatically generated pretending to have obtained consent to provide content. (This report used a translator.)” 로 적어 제출하면 좋을거같긴 한데요, 저는 이거보단 짧게 보냈구요. 어 음... 스팸으로 신고했답니다.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ppk763j7o2wkinvzuqx4orrb/post/3mdsjbdeb7c2a

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