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.
are there any non-terrible mdm vendors
Can someone on this side of the web plainsplain atproto, activitypub, etc to me? Not technically but like, ... Not politically, maybe like... Explain it like a recap of a reality TV show?
atproto = "distributed" like housewives stars; there's few of them and they're very expensive to maintain
activitypub = "distributed" like survivor stars; they're all completely psycho but they can built a functioning shelter from parts they found in the woods, and there's like 100 seasons
some ways to override the browser's security rules
Building a 24-bit Arcade CRT Display Adapter, From Scratch https://lobste.rs/s/dkjllb #graphics #hardware
https://www.scd31.com/posts/building-an-arcade-display-adapter
月に1度LinkedInおぬぬめの求人を眺める作業をしてるとむかあしの同僚が今こんな会社に!!って懐しくなるよね
this randomly popped up in a web search and (while not relevant to my original query) was indeed relevant to my interests!
> Containerization is a Swift package [from the mothership itself] for running Linux containers on macOS.
That’s the way I like it. 🤗 Is a pizza without olives and anchovies a pizza? 😎😉
something I don't think I've ever seen explained is whether there's any situation where it's safe to set "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *" other than "if your site literally never serves any private data"
(I often hear "don't do it" which is fair I guess, but also like the Mastodon API intentionally sets Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and that's extremely useful)
Ripple/XRP (a cryptocurrency company) just granted 200k USD to Social Web Foundation, "...to research sustainable revenue and operating models for digital publishers and community-run platforms":
This means they will be able to influence the development of the ActivityPub specification at W3C.
For those who don't know: Interledger, WebMonetization and OpenPayments are basically the same thing, these projects were created by Ripple ~10 years ago in order to insert their cryptocurrency and related payment services into web standards. These projects are sometimes presented as independent, but this is a lie, they are not (not in 2019, not in 2025).
Needless to say, Ripple itself is a borderline scam: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2019/03/01/is-ripple-a-scam/. It's not even a cryptocurrency really, their infrastructure is completely centralized and no one in cryptocurrency space takes them seriously. But they have a lot of money to bribe people, so I am sure that we will hear more about their adventures soon.
One of the milestones that must be achieved before releasing Hollo 1.0.0 is supporting the ActivityPub C2S API, which in turn depends on ActivityPub C2S support in Fedify—also a major milestone for that project.
this randomly popped up in a web search and (while not relevant to my original query) was indeed relevant to my interests!
> Containerization is a Swift package [from the mothership itself] for running Linux containers on macOS.
“Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition. We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.”
“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.”
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
Pabu greeted me at the door, and eagerly ushered me upstairs to play string with him
살짝 불안하군
Hoping a math genius can explain the "correct" answer on this to me.
![Math problem with vector A = [3, 6, 9], Vector B = [2, 4, 6] and an "answer" to the question "Multiply the vector 2B" consisting of 6, 12, 18, 6, 12, 18.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/014/199/002/347/630/original/7f16eae329e660ce.png)
We're investigating European-based Patreon alternatives. Does anyone have any experience with any of them? We're looking at Steady but it appears that they process their payments through Paypal which kinda defeats the point of trying to use a European platform...
#madeinEurope
Attention please, I would like to get opinions on this question from people who actually use #Cloudron, and aren’t just aware that it’s proprietary software which is what originally put me off of it all the way back in 2016:
Is Cloudron actually good? 🙂
An artist who restored a fresco in a church in central Rome with a likeness of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has wiped out his own artwork after it sparked outrage. The story began on Saturday when La Repubblica daily revealed that the face of a freshly-restored winged figure in the San Lorenzo in Lucina church closely resembled Meloni. FRANCE 24's Seema Gupta reports from Rome.
#Italy #Meloni #art
RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/116014190318886946
I love those things. They make life less…boring!
An artist who restored a fresco in a church in central Rome with a likeness of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has wiped out his own artwork after it sparked outrage. The story began on Saturday when La Repubblica daily revealed that the face of a freshly-restored winged figure in the San Lorenzo in Lucina church closely resembled Meloni. FRANCE 24's Seema Gupta reports from Rome.
#Italy #Meloni #art
Special shoutout to a fun little account, a film reviewer who writes all their reviews on the back of a beer mat:
They also feature beer from time to time 🙂
Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain
Link: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2513692-yawning-has-an-unexpected-influence-on-the-fluid-inside-your-brain/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826803
Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety
Link: https://news.uark.edu/articles/80669/emotional-support-from-social-media-found-to-reduce-anxiety
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888532
What album have you probably listened to the most over the years?
Special shoutout to a fun little account, a film reviewer who writes all their reviews on the back of a beer mat:
They also feature beer from time to time 🙂
RE: https://masto.hackers.town/@ladytel/116012845694010808
Feeling a bit attacked, here. Rightly so, though.
also comes in jsx-less flavor
Morning reflection: becoming an adult isn’t about getting older, but about learning when the time comes to "disengage". When the stream of thoughts, disagreements, integrity, that feeling of being right, turns into a simple "OK".
Not because you changed your mind, but because you understand that continuing to argue won’t change it either.
And so that OK is both an ending and a beginning: the end of the discussion, and the start of putting into practice what you believe anyway.
According to Carl Jung, the second half of life is not a decline. It is a different psychological journey altogether. The first half is about building a place in the world. The second half is about discovering who you are without the world’s applause.
We recently came across an amazing project called uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist.
As they describe it, it's:
A huge blocklist of manually curated sites (1000+) that contain AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing) with uBlock Origin or uBlacklist.
There's something really lovely at the top of the uBlock Origin filter list, just under the description, that brought us a small bit of very-much-needed joy, and we wanted to share it here with others 🫶
! HAPPY PRIDE MONTH
! Please support authentic artists! Whether it be commissions or donations, an amount of any size helps!
! I love you.
! You are valid.
! LGBTQ+ Rights!
! Keep your chin up--we will get through this together <33
! Have a happy day!
#NoAi #FuckAI #AIBlockList #uBlockOrigin #BlockList #uBlacklist #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #queer #QueerRightsAreHumanRights
RE: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/get-the-location-of-the-iss-using-dns/
Cooool. Also, nerdy as fuck and I love that.
就中國港澳辦斥責巴拿馬法院裁定長和子公司的運河碼頭經營合約違憲一事是搬起石頭砸自己的腳，警告巴拿馬「自我打臉自食惡果」，巴拿馬總統 José Raúl Mulino 強烈反駁說，巴拿馬是法治國家，國內外各方都應尊重該國司法獨立
Tear gas (which should not be used on children) (which was not justified in use against any of those people) (which should be illegal in general) should be skipped on the ground. They're launching it into the air. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
Apparently someone feels like his lunch time treats are over-due...
오늘은 어제보단 일을 많이 하긴 했는데 여전히 작업 시간이 모자르네
弊ホームページのMakefileにNetlifyさんがデプロイしてくれたページのデジタル署名を検証するターゲットを追加しようと思ったらもう誰かが追加してくれてた。3週間前か。 #もうだめだ
https://github.com/zunda/zunda-home/commit/f0a1501dc85769fbb6efaa821c4eeecef758b538
Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch
Link: https://www.scd31.com/posts/building-an-arcade-display-adapter
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888795
Tear gas (which should not be used on children) (which was not justified in use against any of those people) (which should be illegal in general) should be skipped on the ground. They're launching it into the air. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
Scientists have created a clock that estimates the time it would take before there was a crash in orbit if satellites couldn’t steer. The current time is 5 and a half days, and it’s only getting shorter. https://spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-syndrome-crash-clock?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
Listening to a 50-year old cassette on a Walkman from 1998… and it sounds really good.
In 50 years from now, will any of current streaming services still be around?
Confession time:
Yes I've been using AI coding agents for a while now, and this week for the first time I had to admit to myself.
*They've absolutely made me dumber.*
I've been struggling to even know how to approach a problem, and it's finally hit me - I feel devastated, like some part of my brain that knows how to code has been lobotomised.
I'd name the feeling closer to despair - that the hope that things might change has just gone.
今夜も少し頑張った…けど色々間に合うか心配…！
遅刻魔の私を許しておくれ…
それでは
I think Odin sincerely believes humans can conjure bacon out of thin air if you stare at them cutely enough #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon
Everywhere...
Hoags Object: A Strange Ring Galaxy
Credits: R. Lucas, STScI, AURA, Hubble Heritage Team, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography
No thanks, I'll just try filing your mail in the Spam folder and see if that works tho. #crunchyroll
What I'm listening to today: "Eutow" (live at Flex/Vienna 1996), Autechre
These days each Autechre tour is like a unique album, but their live sets have always been full of unreleased tracks, alternate versions, mashups¹. Here's a completely screwed version of the danciest track from Tri Repetae++, feeling way slower without changing the tempo, something mesmerizing, a decaying orbit around a black hole, spiraling inexorably inward
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZGBMpXgnaU
¹ Listen here for Basscadet fragments
What I listened to today: "BASTL🏰CITADEL｜#4 - Crushed strings ( 🧙♂️FX WIZARD, nRings, uO_C, little nerd )", boop _e_
One of my fav things in modern music tech is Bastl's nano-modular "Kastle"—recently rebooted as the "Kastle 2/Citadel" series, available as either a eurorack module or the Kastle patchwire format & reprogrammable as any of 3 different devices. Here, the FX WIZARD mode glitches the venerable "Rings" Karplus-Strong module. Have I lost you? It's crunchy sounds
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Olivier Forget
Stefano Marinelli
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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
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