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.

Did I ever tell you about that one time I needed to reinstall LinuxPPC, and I was going to wipe the drive anyway, so before I rebooted into the installer I tried running `rm -rf *` as root, just to see what would happen?

As I remember, it got as far as like /dev, and then it somehow deleted something that instantly made the system incapable of deleting files, and halted. After that I was able to cd around the system but VERY little worked

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성폭행 재판 앞둔 노르웨이 왕세자 의붓아들, 추가 혐의로 구속 www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2026... "그는 이미 성폭행 4건을 포함해 전 연인을 상대로 한 폭력, 마약 소지, 교통 법규 위반 등 38개 혐의로 기소돼 오는 3일부터 재판을 앞두고 있다. 지금까지 불구속 상태로 재판을 기다려 온 그는 술과 코카인에 취한 상태에서 여자친구를 때리고 집에 있는 물건을 부쉈다고 인정했으나, 성범죄 혐의와 대부분의 폭력 혐의는 부인하고 있다."

성폭행 재판 앞둔 노르웨이 왕세자 의붓아들, 추가 혐의...

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RE: mastodon.social/@mcc/116003296

I'm trying to see if I can remember what this was like. It was very, very many years ago. But if I remember right, I had cd, because that's not a command it's a shell builtin, but I no longer had ls, but I could type "echo *" and that technically *would* give me a file listing.

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You don't use open source software because it's better (it usually isn't).

You don't use open source software because it's freer (it only sometimes is).

You don't use open source software because it's got better politics (it isn't always).

You use open source software because *it is the only option*. In the long run, if it isn't open source, it doesn't exist.

image source: keithstack.com

Email explaining Adobe is abruptly discontinuing Adobe Animate in one month.

@mcc any software that needs to communicate with a license server has a single point of failure. If someone’s writing code to deliberately stop their product working in a given circumstance then they are baking In unreliability and increasing support costs. There’s very few less rewarding tasks than convincing software that you’ve paid for that you’re not actually a thief.

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Thousands of sick and wounded Palestinians are eagerly waiting to leave Gaza for urgent medical care abroad as Israel opens the Rafah border with Egypt for “limited” crossings. Only five patients managed to exit today.

The border crossing – after being closed by Israel for nearly two years – will reportedly operate for six hours a day and allow the exit of only 150 people.


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youtube.com/shorts/QAW9Q... 조만간 많은 회사(?)에서 일어날 일 ㅎㅎㅋㅋㅋ 짧지만 잘 만든듯 ㅎㅎ 근데 사장이 이렇게 직접 시도해보기라도 하면 다행임 윗선은 대체로 요새 뭐가 일어나는지 잘 모르거나 생각이 없음...

CEO replaces company with Claw...

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I've moved all my home bulk data storage to ZFS (openzfs.org/wiki/Main_Page) over the last month. (If you haven't used it, it's awesome. More than you're thinking. More than that. It's worth learning.)

So, I'm in deep-learning mode and sometimes get stuck, right? *Every* time I get stuck or confused about something in ZFS there is a Klara Systems article which explains things clearly and with technical rigor. Love it. Huge thanks to Klara folks for sharing their expertise so widely!
klarasystems.com/articles/?top

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The Linux kernel community has quietly drafted a continuity plan for a post‑Torvalds era. 🐧

Rather than naming a successor, it outlines a collective process to select future maintainers — reducing “bus-factor-of-one” risk while preserving open governance and trust. ⚙️

Linus Torvalds says he has no plans to retire. ⏳

🔗 zdnet.com/article/linux-commun

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another page from 非人哉 "Inhuman!" that amused me because I'm a Halloween stan:

"Happy Halloween! The office is holding a festive little pumpkin carving contest. Here you go."

"H-HALLOWEEN?! Sir, did you forget we're all CHINESE spirits? You expect us to know what to do with a pumpkin?! Do we look like vampires and werewolves to you?!"

"... When did you guys learn how to do that?"

comic of a fox girl being handed a pumpkin and being astonished that the dragon, the bunny girl, etc are having no trouble carving theirs
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FOSDEM achievement = unlocked: yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting @bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// in person and grab some cool stickers, yay! 🥳

I was really sad to miss his keynote (early train, sigh), but I'm planning to watch it online.

It was amazing to meet so many wonderful people at ... I've already started a countdown on my phone for the next edition. I can't wait.

And now: reviewing hundreds of photos I took with my phone and my Canon DSLR. The nostalgia is real 🥲

a photo taken in the FOSDEM cafeteria showing Daniel Stenberg on the left (he's wearing a black wolfSSL t-shirt) and me on the right, wearing a "never mind the billionaires, here's the fediverse" t-shirt
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