What is Hackers' Pub?

It was my first full week back, so let's try Office Hours again this week.

📅 Friday, February 6th, 2026, 02:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada) https://time.is/0230PM_06_February_2026_in_CT?Jeff%27s_Office_Hours

I will start some LLM + open-source work on my new project (possibly a new product) at 2 PM CT, in case anyone wants to join early.

🤖 https://time.is/0200PM_06_February_2026_in_CT?Jeff%27s_Office_Hours

I'm supposed to be working, but something's getting in the way. Something too fluffy and adorable to move

I should be writing the 2nd book in our Underspace series (book 1 is available now - about a girl who finds the doorway to another world on the roof of her school - you might like it!)

But I think I have to stay here and pay attention to Molly. She's being highly persuasive (pic for evidence). I don't think I can talk my way out of this one...

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #pets #writing #fantasy

[빗썸] 고객 여러분께 사과드립니다 bloomingbit.io/feed/news/10... "본 사안은 외부 해킹이나 보안 침해와는 무관하며, 시스템 보안이나 고객 자산 관리에는 어떠한 문제도 없음을 분명히 말씀드립니다. 고객 자산은 기존과 동일하게 안전하게 관리되고 있으며, 현재 거래 및 입출금 역시 정상 운영 중입니다. 이번 사안으로 인해 고객 자산 손실이나 피해는 발생하지 않은 것으로 파악되나,.." 공중에 뜬 20조원 감당할 수 있을까?

[빗썸] 고객 여러분께 사과드립니다

RE: https://mstdn.games/@britt/116013094706931728

So, I helped Britt out with moving her instance to a new server provider this week.

While the people at toot.io were relatively helpful in our email chain (once she was finally able to get a hold of them in the first place anyways), the setup at toot.io was a bit strange and not optimized for an instance of her size. The actual server itself was well *over*powered for her to be seeing the slowdowns she was, and Mastodon & especially Postgres just weren’t using those resources to a full extent.

Honestly the biggest red flag 🚩🚩🚩 to me isn’t what toot.io is doing now necessarily, but that it was apparently sold(?) to completely new management without notice to customers. In a niche service industry like this, that seems like a big problem to me, to not even explain who’s taking over and why you should trust them.

The previous ownership is probably more at fault for this relatively speaking, but it’s probably a good opportunity for toot.io customers to reevaluate their hosting options… Even if you ultimately end up sticking with toot.io, you simply might not be fully aware of what’s going on over at your own hosting company anymore, and that’s always worth double-checking 👀

#MastoAdmin #MastodonAdmin #MstdnGames #InstanceMigration #Tootio

The best thing about philosophy is that all the great philosophers in history were basically wrong about almost everything, so there's really not that much pressure to be right.

you're telling me you bit this coin?

#vendredilecture avec Stagiaire au spatioport Omega 3000 et autres joyeusetés que nous réserve le futur.

Une belle anthologie sous la plume de @ploum J'ai particulièrement accroché à l'étrangeté merveilleuse des "oiseaux", l'absurdité des "imposteurs" ainsi qu'au concept du "Dernier espoir."

#mastolivre #SFFF

[빗썸] 고객 여러분께 사과드립니다 bloomingbit.io/feed/news/10... "본 사안은 외부 해킹이나 보안 침해와는 무관하며, 시스템 보안이나 고객 자산 관리에는 어떠한 문제도 없음을 분명히 말씀드립니다. 고객 자산은 기존과 동일하게 안전하게 관리되고 있으며, 현재 거래 및 입출금 역시 정상 운영 중입니다. 이번 사안으로 인해 고객 자산 손실이나 피해는 발생하지 않은 것으로 파악되나,.." 공중에 뜬 20조원 감당할 수 있을까?

[빗썸] 고객 여러분께 사과드립니다

you have probably heard that webassembly supports garbage collection. are you looking for an ahead-of-time compiler for wasm with gc? as it happens, i have written a little monograph on the topic https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/06/ahead-of-time-wasm-gc-in-wastrel

I'm supposed to be working, but something's getting in the way. Something too fluffy and adorable to move

I should be writing the 2nd book in our Underspace series (book 1 is available now - about a girl who finds the doorway to another world on the roof of her school - you might like it!)

But I think I have to stay here and pay attention to Molly. She's being highly persuasive (pic for evidence). I don't think I can talk my way out of this one...

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #pets #writing #fantasy

> Need a logo for spout2pw
> Take the spout2 logo, flip it around and change the colors, stick the pipewire logo inside

Yes I am very creative ^^;; (hey at least it's not AI!)

Just published with @femprocomunsCooperativa femProcomuns Social and solidarity economy and shared knowledge: Facilitating and integrating the collaborative adoption of digital commons in Catalan coops: https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/digital-commons-in-Catalan-coops

BDSM enjoyers LLM enthusiasts 🤝 “Let me show you my custom harness”

It’s out!
The video of my FOSDEM 2026 talk on decentralised badges + ActivityPub (BadgeFed) is now online 👀

Check it out here:

https://video.fosdem.org/2026/h2215/JEMNBZ-decentralised-badges-activitypub-badgefed.av1.webm

Part of the Social Web track:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/social-web/

#FOSDEM #ActivityPub #Fediverse #BadgeFed

I finally got to reading PKD's "Ubik" this week. I think I bought the paperback like 10 years ago, but I never read it, because I hated the print quality. :D I really hate it when the text in a book is not looking crisp and sharp, but I'm a weird person I guess.

Anyways, I'm happy to report that this was probably my favorite PKD book I've read to date. What's your favorite?

#books #bookstodon

BDSM enjoyers LLM enthusiasts 🤝 Let me show you my harness

Same, fridge. Same.

#humor #humour #fridge

I'm looking for a C compiler that:

- is simpler and smaller than TinyCC
- is capable of compiling TinyCC
- is written in *very* simple C or a language simpler than C
- can plausibly support risc-v (I can add codegen myself, just can't have deeply hardcoded x86 assumptions)
- has a FOSS license
- is not GNU Mes

Does anything matching these criteria exist?

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

Link: https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912800

커미션과 유튜브는 순항 중

I should do a production run of my analog-toolkit, my small STM32G431 dev-board. It comes in handy again and again, I have broken out most useful peripherals, USB, PD, UART, I2C, HRTIM, TIMs, Op-Amps, Comperators, the DAC and of course a bunch of ADCs (with on board capacitor, pull-up, pull-down and biasing options).

I just recently used its ADC and comperator in parallel to measure the time between two tigger events. The ADC was reading the averaged analog rail on which the trigger event occurred, setting an internal DAC to the negative comperator pin, with the the analog rail going to the positive comperator pin. The comperator was then set to start and stop a timer. Basically an automatic trigger voltage was measured and set via the adc, while high speed trigger events triggered the comperator, handy!

Assembling a few this evening by hand, a friend asked me for one. I should really have a few assembled, giving them out to friends, like with the OtterPills!

Link to board: https://github.com/jana-marie/analog-toolkit

빗썸, 고객 수백명에 1인당 2천억어치 비트코인 ‘오입금’ 이벤트 중 1인당 2천원어치 주려다 2천개씩 50만개 지급…한때 10% 급락 www.hani.co.kr/arti/economy... 코인으로 1인 당 2000억 입금 된 사람 중 80여명이 이미 팔고 튀었다고.

빗썸, 고객 수백명에 1인당 2천억어치 비트코인 ‘오입...

Two-tier society

@hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) I wasn’t able to join you talk on Tuesday but the slides inspired me to finally try @fedifyFedify: ActivityPub server framework 🙌
What a cool library thank you so much for building it. It was amazingly easy to get going.

Got inspired by @liaizonwakest ⁂’s posts about groups earlier this week:
https://groups.louismerl.in/groups/test

Source code incoming.

Heute ist bei mir Toot-Recycling-Woche. Das gibt sich wieder.

애초에 코인이랍시고 아무한테나 2000억을 실수로 입금할 수 있는게 무슨 가상화폐고 안전한 블록체인 어쩌고냐고. 진짜 인류 전체의 발전을 방해하는 잡것들이다.

Pinguine heißen so, weil sie sich um die Latenz ihrer Internetverbindung sorgen.

Oder war es wegen des Echolots?

🚨 Last call for proposals! The CFP closes on Sunday, February 8 (end of day), so if you've been working on a talk idea, now is the time to polish it and send it in. We'd love to see you on stage this April. 🌺

https://2026.djangocon.eu/cfp/

#djangoconeu #djangocon #django

A #ThankGNU! to Sally Gudbrandsen, Sandra Hatcher, and Shashank Sabniveesu for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

急にThinkpad死んだと思ったら帯電？

The fact that the President of the United States posts a racist video with an image depicting the Obamas as apes and we’re supposed to pretend it’s perfectly normal, everyday stuff shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

折田さん🥖 #FGO #イラスト

Ich habe den Nordpol erreicht 💪

多数決で勝つことが民主主義なんじゃなくて、多様な民意が表明されそれらを調整しながら合意を導きだすのが民主主義で、いまの自民党を支持するのはそういう意味でありえない。

雨とカンヒザクラ

블친분들이 종종 저의 나이와 성별을 궁금해하셔서 이 트윗으로 한번에 말씀 드립니다. 17살. 남자이고요. 평소에 반 여자아이들에게 <소드아트온라인> 의 주인공인 키리토와 닮았다는 이야기를 많이 듣습니다. (제가 말만 걸면 여자들이 뺨을 붉히더군요)

ちょっとツラ貸しなさいよ

I should do a production run of my analog-toolkit, my small STM32G431 dev-board. It comes in handy again and again, I have broken out most useful peripherals, USB, PD, UART, I2C, HRTIM, TIMs, Op-Amps, Comperators, the DAC and of course a bunch of ADCs (with on board capacitor, pull-up, pull-down and biasing options).

I just recently used its ADC and comperator in parallel to measure the time between two tigger events. The ADC was reading the averaged analog rail on which the trigger event occurred, setting an internal DAC to the negative comperator pin, with the the analog rail going to the positive comperator pin. The comperator was then set to start and stop a timer. Basically an automatic trigger voltage was measured and set via the adc, while high speed trigger events triggered the comperator, handy!

Assembling a few this evening by hand, a friend asked me for one. I should really have a few assembled, giving them out to friends, like with the OtterPills!

Link to board: https://github.com/jana-marie/analog-toolkit

なんかよくわからないけどたくさんClaude使ってたら50$分のクレジットもらった
でもすぐ150円くらい使っちゃう

AI 붐 때문에 명확해진게 인류의 에너지와 자원은 굉장히 제한적이고 몇몇 나라에 몰려있으며 반도체도 필요한 그 시점에 충분히 찍을 수가 없음. 스마트폰, 컴퓨터 다 마찬가지란 이야기. 대만, 한국에 전쟁나면 인류는 일정 수준 이상의 컴퓨터를 만드는게 불가능해진다. AI 만능, 기술 만능 이전에 그냥 전세계가 피보는거야. 전쟁나면 KRW보다 비트코인이 안전할 것 같아요?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a6qvfkbrohedqy3dt6k5mdv6/post/3me76j3pqss2u

Apparently AMD's AutoUpdate downloads the updates over HTTP and executes them without any validation (presumably as SYSTEM user). AMD was notified of the vulnerability but according to them "attack requiring physical access to victim's computer/device, man in the middle or compromised user accounts" are out of scope.

Madness.

source: https://web.archive.org/web/20260206152314/https://mrbruh.com/amd/

#vulnerability #infosec #cybersecurity

Just for fun, I tried signing up for https://litessl.cn/, the free Chinese ACME CA (powered by TrustAsia), using the browser translator.

After going through 4-5 captchas, one of which was unsolvable, they want to verify my phone number.

Dunno if it works if you're not Chinese, and I'm not sure I want my identity in a government cryptography database (too late), so I guess I'll give up.

Being on Team Words Mean Things is difficult these days, particularly when multibillion-dollar companies put out breathless press releases saying "By using our massive language model, whose training data includes every version of GCC ever released, and having it autocorrect its own output by testing it against GCC, we managed to make a C compiler that mostly works for only $20,000 in a week and gosh I have so many feelings."

I mean, what the fuck are we even doing here.

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

the first bandcamp friday of 2026 is here 💗 back in december, i released my latest slab, weaving unreleased songs & feelings through a number of electroacoustic tools into an ambient tapestry of introspective yearning. everything left unsaid remains within me

https://ourdearfriendthemedic.bandcamp.com/

#ambient #ambient_music #bandcampfriday