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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The government illegally raided journalist Hannah Natanson’s home, abusing the legal system to do it.

This search flatly violated federal law. The court must order all her property returned and demand the DOJ explain why it hid the law banning raids on reporters’ homes.

nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/poli

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Interesting article. I guess the problem is about trying to fix the symptoms instead of the actual problem. A big issue is that the algorithms in use by Big Tech social media companies tends to favor content like this. If not, we would all just stop following people that share stuff like this. Instead it is forced on us like a Copilot.

The only answer is to ban user profiling and use of said profiling for ad and content selection.

technologyreview.com/2026/02/0

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1杯目 Ron Cubay Anejo
キューバ産のラムです
以前知人からキューバ土産で貰ったものの最後の一杯
美味しいけど、日本では取り扱いのないお酒なのでもう中々飲むことができません
同じキューバ産ラムならハバナクラブとかが近いのかな?

2杯目 黒糖焼酎紅さんご
黒糖焼酎だけど樽熟成したうえで洋酒のように40度でボトリング
こちらもラムみたいな風味で美味しい

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근데 진짜 호오를 떠나서 이재명 서사는 영화로 만들어도 될 듯 어릴 때부터 아동 노동에 시달리다 다쳐서 장애를 가짐 이 악물고 공부해서 변호사 됨 주민 의견 모아서 냈더니 버려짐 빡쳐서 정계 입문 시장으로써 성과 내고 국회 입성 대권 주자까지 올라갔다가 칼 맞고 상대에게 소수점 차이로 짐 근데 대통령 된 상대가 내란 일으킴 라방 켜고 국회 가서 겨우 저지함 결국 대통령 됨 반만 써도 설정과다라고 욕먹을 듯 다만 제일 큰 문제는 개연성인데 이제 대권 주자 상대였던 전 대통령이 내란을 일으킨 걸 어케 개연성 있게 설명해야 할지,,,

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it's probably because of how it does it, how it affects the entire world and the people in it, who profits from that, and what the future will be like if the world's richest humans are allowed to use it to enclose all human knowledge! hope that helps.

"I feel like I may never fully understand why you people don't find things like this useful.
What if you could consume, integrate, manipulate and recontextualize data about literally everything you care about?
It's still so perplexing to me that people are so mad about free context for any thing they love."
source: https://mastodon.social/@hotdogsladies/115999545937741564
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If you are a programmer, is your work primarily solo or collaborative with another human?

I was shilling github.com/magic-wormhole/shwi to a friend and they said it wouldn't benefit them! Am I projecting?

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which browser security features do you find the hardest to use correctly?

very interested in "other" responses too, I could only include 4 options in the poll

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Activision is trying to block Call of Duty XIM and Cronus cheaters again. New anti-cheat features will detect player inputs instead of the third-party devices, in a bid to prevent this popular cheating method. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/872976/...

Call of Duty tries to block XI...

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So I just figured out that 7digital sells cheaper 320kbps MP3s, as opposed to Qobuz that sells only FLAC files.

Most of the time, I prefer the FLAC files, but for something like a cheap best-of where I just want a taste of the band before seeking out physical media, it's a pretty good deal.

(Not sponsored, just think it's neat)

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We just released Mastodon 4.5.6, 4.4.13, and 4.3.19.

These versions contain various bug fixes, including a fix for a moderate security vulnerability.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r

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45 Millionen Arbeitnehmer*innen gibt es in unserem Land. Sie bringen jeden Tag ihre Leistung im Betrieb … und danach geht die Arbeit weiter, wenn Haushalt und Familie versorgt, der Nachbar unterstützt und der Verein organisiert wird. Es sind die hart arbeitenden Menschen, die Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft am Laufen halten.

Ich habe selbst jahrelang in schlecht bezahlten Jobs gearbeitet und weiß wie das ist, wenn man jeden Tag ackert und nicht weiß, wie man über den Monat kommen soll. 1/5

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RE: mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdev

For all us Web Developers there is the WebExtensions API detailed here (developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do) on the Mozilla Developer Network made by Mozilla, but for Mozilla we have this "AI Controls" mess, the most incredible display of "what is consent...really?"

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I feel like the push towards genAI is reflective of the notion that all things are just Product and the goal is to be Productive.

The drive is to get any sort of end result, whether it’s good or not, because all that matters is shipping something rather than what that thing actually is.

genAI is the fast fashion and Temu of creativity.

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Thanks all for listening to my talk about at 2026 today! Here's my deck for the talk: Fedify: Building ActivityPub servers without the pain.

Fedify: Building ActivityPub servers without the pain - Slidev

"Implementing ActivityPub looks simple at first—it's just JSON over HTTP,\nright? Then you hit JSON-LD context resolution. Then HTTP Signature\nverification fails on Mastodon but works on Misskey. Then you realize\nthe spec spans hundreds of pages across W3C documents and [FEPs] (Fediverse\nEnhancement Proposals), and every implementation interprets them differently.\n\nI went through this pain building [Hollo], a single-user microblogging server.\nHalfway through, I realized I was building a framework instead of an app.\nSo I extracted that framework and called it Fedify.\n\n[Fedify] is an opinionated ActivityPub framework for TypeScript. It handles\nthe protocol plumbing so you can focus on your application logic.\n\nIn this talk, I'll cover:\n\n - *Type-safe vocabulary:* The Activity Vocabulary spec is loosely defined,\n but Fedify maps it to strict TypeScript types. Your IDE knows that\n `Note.content` is a `LanguageString`, and calling\n `await create.getActor()` returns an `Actor` object.\n No more guessing at property shapes.\n\n - *Comprehensive signature support:* Fedify implements four authentication\n mechanisms—HTTP Signatures (draft-cavage), HTTP Message Signatures (RFC\n 9421), Linked Data Signatures, and Object Integrity Proofs (FEP-8b32).\n For HTTP Signatures, it uses [double-knocking]: trying RFC 9421 first,\n falling back to draft-cavage if rejected, and remembering the preference.\n This kind of interoperability work is exactly what you shouldn't have to\n do yourself.\n\n - *Framework-agnostic design:* Fedify works as middleware for Hono, Express,\n Fastify, Next.js, or any framework that speaks `Request`/`Response`.\n Bring your own database, ORM, and auth—Fedify only needs a key–value store\n for caching.\n\n - *CLI toolchain:* The `fedify inbox` command spins up an ephemeral server\n to receive and inspect activities. `fedify lookup` fetches any ActivityPub\n object by URL or fediverse handle—including from servers that require\n [authorized fetch]. No need to create throwaway accounts on production\n instances.\n\nI'll also share production stories: [Ghost chose Fedify] for federating their\npublishing platform rather than implementing the protocol themselves. Hollo\ndemonstrates single-user microblogging with full Mastodon API compatibility.\n[Hackers' Pub] shows how a developer community can integrate with\nthe fediverse.\n\nWhether you're building a new federated service or adding ActivityPub to\nan existing app, this talk will show you how Fedify turns months of protocol\nwrangling into days of actual development.\n\n[FEPs]: https://w3id.org/fep/\n[Hollo]: https://docs.hollo.social/\n[Fedify]: https://fedify.dev/\n[double-knocking]: https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-http-signature/#how-to-upgrade-supported-versions\n[authorized fetch]: https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-http-signature/#authorized-fetch\n[Ghost chose Fedify]: https://activitypub.ghost.org/day-4/\n[Hackers' Pub]: https://hackers.pub/\n"

hongminhee.codeberg.page

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The government illegally raided journalist Hannah Natanson’s home, abusing the legal system to do it.

This search flatly violated federal law. The court must order all her property returned and demand the DOJ explain why it hid the law banning raids on reporters’ homes.

nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/poli

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