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.
Here's my full opinion, with spoilers and all, on Starfleet Academy 1x05 "Series Acclimation Mil":
https://trakt.tv/comments/920016
This episode was a 9/10 for me.
Do you think I could start a blog about my brother and post enough content to it, such that at some point in the future LLMs treat me as the definitive source on info about him?
So I did a comedic trip on a pavement to launch my phone some distance and so need a new phone. Last time I checked the pixel 5 was still my preferred choice, its small, light, plastic back (less glass to crack), stock android and cheap. Anything better?
I just signed up for the #FediForum "Un-Workshop" coming up in March. Who else is planning to sign in?
🙋♀️🙋♂️🙋♀️🙋♂️🙋♀️🙋♂️
"Growing the Open Social Web" was already on my bingo card for 2026. I have my own ideas, but I'm more excited to hear what others have to say.
https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/
If we blame misinformation on social media for the trouble in our democracies, then growing the #Fediverse (responsibly) may be our best path forward.
If you're looking for a new controller for your Switchpcmacosandroid, I found the perfect product for you!
Been running through the FreeBSD installer multiple times for debugging and testing the OpenZFS book, and realized:
much of the learning curve could be eliminated by adding two options in the disk setup menu: "Single Disk ZFS" and "Single Disk UFS." Select one of those, and the most confusing part goes away.
When using ZFS as the file system the "df" command is reporting the pool size
and not file system sizes. It also does not know about descendent ZFS
datasets, snapshots, quotas, and reservations with their individual space usage.
Use the built-in "zfs list" command to get a better overview of space usage:
zfs list -o space
-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116018667989776687
YET MILLIONS OF “WHITES” COULD NOT VOTE
in New York, if you didn't have an English sounding name EVEN IF YOU WERE A CITIZEN LIKE PUERTO RICANS, you had to take a test to vote.
the 1975 ammendment to the Voting Rights Act (Section 4e) banned linguistic discrimination, giving millions of migrants, including Europeans, the right to vote in their language.
it’s why section 4(e) is called THE 🇵🇷 PUERTO RICAN AMENDMENT. we shut that shit down after 80 years of lawsuits.
It is hard to see more people saying that they are being harassed, or otherwise don't feel safe, in the fediverse.
I am *not* on the receiving end of abuse here, which makes it even harder to see others having such a rubbish experience.
Especially because of what I suspect to be the reasons for such a different experience.
비트코인 6만6천달러까지 추락…"가상화폐 '서사의 위기'"
(샌프란시스코=연합뉴스) 권영전 특파원 = 가상화폐 시가총액 1위 종목인 비트코인의 가격이 추락을 거듭하고 있다.
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260206005700091
My fosdem talk is up!
I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/
Hi folks! Is this thing on? Can you see this?
My fosdem talk is up!
I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/
Welcome to Mastodon, 
@HennaVirkkunen !
As Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, you have highlighted how the Fediverse plays an important part in protecting the EU's #DigitalSovereignty and supporting European alternatives.
> Spend some real time speaking to the estimated 4.5 million white people who still live in South Africa—a number that has remained steady since the late 1980s—and most will tell you that they are better off now than they were under the white regime that was purportedly designed to protect them. Violent crime has fallen by nearly half since its peak in 1993. The rule of law largely operates, elections are free and fair, and white politicians hold major cabinet ministries
https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/south-africa-apartheid-police-state
there are logos. and then there are logos
I'm taking a break from using Mastodon. The experience here has been less-than-great the past few weeks, and I am tired of this cycle repeating.
In an effort to stay in touch, I've launched a newsletter at veronicaexplains.net. Future blog posts will go there as well.
I explain more in the inaugural post: https://veronicaexplains.net/launching-ghost-on-new-domain/
I have also turned on ActivityPub for this blog, you can follow it at 
@veronicaVeronica Explains (via Ghost).
@vkcvkc (Veronica Explains) @veronicaVeronica Explains (via Ghost) I hate that this has/is/will happen(ed/ing) to you. I feel like this is a larger problem that we as a species will need to tackle.
I feel like social media is antithetical to the development (so far) of the human brains of many. I am not smart enough to fix it or even really understand it.
My theory is in no way trying to diminish your suffering, but to point our that you have done nothing wrong, and the people being rude to you are defective and/or deficient.
I'm taking a break from using Mastodon. The experience here has been less-than-great the past few weeks, and I am tired of this cycle repeating.
In an effort to stay in touch, I've launched a newsletter at veronicaexplains.net. Future blog posts will go there as well.
I explain more in the inaugural post: https://veronicaexplains.net/launching-ghost-on-new-domain/
I have also turned on ActivityPub for this blog, you can follow it at @veronicaVeronica Explains (via Ghost).
@vkcvkc (Veronica Explains) @veronicaVeronica Explains (via Ghost)
<3 I've been happy to see your posts here and appreciate your heads-up.
</3 I'm sorry that people haven't been respectful and that there's not a way to tune things to work better.
Big Heat Pumps Are Doing Big Things
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/05/big-heat-pumps-are-doing-big-things/
Probably weird #webdev question.
What is the easiest way to make a blog. I don't want any complicated framework, dealing with SEO (I don't care if anyone will read it), analytics... Just something that is like Libre Office for website that can create the file structure, theme the site and stuff like that.
Yes I know that I can just use some CMS download theme and stuff it with my text, I know that I can save files as HTML in Libre Office, I know that there are some online solutions that also offers hosting and other services.
Just something that will be local, spits out HTML file that I can maybe deploy somewhere through FTP if I will be satisfied with it and I don't have to touch text editor or only for small adjustments.
Is there something like that?
I'm taking a break from using Mastodon. The experience here has been less-than-great the past few weeks, and I am tired of this cycle repeating.
In an effort to stay in touch, I've launched a newsletter at veronicaexplains.net. Future blog posts will go there as well.
I explain more in the inaugural post: https://veronicaexplains.net/launching-ghost-on-new-domain/
I have also turned on ActivityPub for this blog, you can follow it at @veronicaVeronica Explains (via Ghost).
I've uploaded my latest video explaining the TikTok changes to TikTok 3 times and it has a collective total of 2 views across all three uploads, hours apart.
Def no censorship going on here. The algorithmic timeline is going great.
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
https://www.404media.co/vibe-coding-is-killing-open-source-software-researchers-argue/
I was on the podcast The Secret Lives of Games to discuss Michael Brough's first commercial game, 2011's Vertex Dispenser:
https://secretlives.games/all-systems-brough-vertex-dispenser
I talk a lot about my personal history with this game!
When using ZFS as the file system the "df" command is reporting the pool size
and not file system sizes. It also does not know about descendent ZFS
datasets, snapshots, quotas, and reservations with their individual space usage.
Use the built-in "zfs list" command to get a better overview of space usage:
zfs list -o space
-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
“Claude Code added GasTown as a feature” You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.
For those of you not hyper into the AI space: Claude code added gastown as a feature, basically.
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Kicking myself for a lost pun opportunity today. I was reviewing a PR relating to metrics and counters where I suggested an alternate approach, but I didn't say something like "my counter proposal is..."
Next time, I'll be ready!
I dream of being able to store my online social presence, identity, and history just as — an (organized) set of static files.
A set that I control.
And, I can (if I want to) host myself. (I.e., I am the "source of truth" / "origin" for my files.)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/116018261922778583
#ActivityPub #FediDev #FediDevs #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX
fep-ae97-client stores "you" as a collection of JSON files (including identity, which is just a secret key).
It is very limited though. Representing some protocol data such as follow relationships, as static files, is going to be quite a challenge.
I've uploaded my latest video explaining the TikTok changes to TikTok 3 times and it has a collective total of 2 views across all three uploads, hours apart.
Def no censorship going on here. The algorithmic timeline is going great.
Very interested to see how this goes
code.claude.com/docs/en/agen...
Orchestrate teams of Claude Co...
今夜は寝ちゃいます…！
腰の痛み少しマシになってほしいっ
European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams
Link: https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-trials-european-open-source-communications-software/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901452
Claude Opus 4.6
Link: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902223
150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation
Link: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/150-mb-minimal-freebsd-installation/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841897
CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook
Link: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/the-world-factbook/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46899808
My fosdem talk is up!
I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/
a new AI model was just released -- and the press already wrote up about it? do these people get heads up that they get complete articles written at the same time the thing happens?
I love how the 
@lfnwLinuxFest Northwest rotate the featured speakers randomly every few minutes from their homepage. https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/
Sometimes I catch myself sometimes don't.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.6. Our smartest model got an upgrade.
Opus 4.6 plans more carefully, sustains agentic tasks for longer, operates reliably in massive codebases, and catches its own mistakes.
It’s also our first Opus-class model with 1M token context in beta.
Strands of thoughts
#365moments #Smartphonepic #Photography
"If I could walk five hundred miles,
and I could walk five hundred more,
Do you believe," the Walrus said
"I'd fall down at your door?"
"I doubt it", said the carpenter
And howled a bitter roar
Programming Patterns: The Story of the Jacquard Loom
Link: https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/jacquard-loom
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846940
We are going live in 10 minutes to discuss all things “Point-Free Way”, TCA 2.0, 8 year Point-Free celebration (and giveaway) and answer questions from our viewers!
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