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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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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Description of ICE violence, injury

fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb.bsky.social)

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

bsky.app · Bluesky Social

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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What I listened to today: "Secuencia Techno con Syntakt y Microfreak", RM1_music

Super satisfying techno set on two desktop devices. Hard driving thumps, surreal whooshing. At some point I have to face the fact I never actually learned the names of EDM subgenres I just like, listen to everything, and that makes writing these descriptions hard some days. Someone who did the research could probably identify the 3 microgenres here. All I can say is it's highly raveworthy

youtube.com/watch?v=dJSwNiQ4KPU

Secuencia Techno con Syntakt y Microfreak

Elektron Syntakt Arturia Microfreak Techno Music

www.youtube.com · YouTube

mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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Shared by mcc

What I'm listening to today: "BASTL WAVE🐦‍⬛BARD｜#14 - DRONE", boop _e_

A couple days ago I posted this artist using the Citadel, a eurorack module reprogrammable as any of Bastl's "Kastle 2" devices. Here's the equivalent desktop/handheld device, this time programmed as a "Wavebard", with the eurorack cables replaced with little wires.

Track is a soulful, disorienting dream about being lost in fog while giant glowing blobs of color pass by you, paintsplotches in the mist

youtube.com/watch?v=0uVWrZffwEc

BASTL WAVE🐦‍⬛BARD｜#14 - DRONE

- Patching -🐦‍⬛WAVEBARD==============CV → SAMPLE MODTriangle LFO → PITCH MODGATE → BANK🐦‍⬛FX : DELAY----------------------KASTLE 2 WAVEBARD _ BASTL INSTRUM...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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Alice McFlurry :bc: @Alice@beige.party
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Can everyone please stop with the AI generated profile photos?

It's absolute slop and it's killing the environment.

If you want a profile pic that's grossly exaggerated and looks nothing like you, I'd be happy to draw a bad caricature for free.

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Fedi.Tips @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
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Shared by Inside Fediverse

This account has a website full of tips and step-by-step guides about how to use Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse:

➡️ fedi.tips <-------- Click here to open the website

The entire site is written in ordinary non-technical language, aimed at a general audience. There's a section at the top with quick links to the most essential stuff, and a complete list of guides below that.

If you can't find the answers you want on the site, ask me and I'll try to help directly.

Illustration of a stylised fox opening a treasure chest. Inside the chest are icons of various Fediverse services including Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube as well as the overall Fediverse logo.

Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

fedi.tips

Link author: Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver@mastodon.social
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Shared by Inside Fediverse

Sometimes when I talk to other developers and the topic of a DID comes up — I get the feeling they are making them out to be more complex than they really are

They are just a way to turn an ID (identifier) into a URI

There are certain technologies that expect URIs — and if you want to use your ID with it, you need to turn it into a URI

As a side note — the Fediverse turns Fediverse IDs into URIs by turning them into acct-URIs (rather than DIDs)

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver@mastodon.social
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Sometimes when I talk to other developers and the topic of a DID comes up — I get the feeling they are making them out to be more complex than they really are

They are just a way to turn an ID (identifier) into a URI

There are certain technologies that expect URIs — and if you want to use your ID with it, you need to turn it into a URI

As a side note — the Fediverse turns Fediverse IDs into URIs by turning them into acct-URIs (rather than DIDs)

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Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk@mastodon.social
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Shared by Paolo Melchiorre

Handy thing I just spotted coming to Python 3.15:

"The -W option and the PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable can now specify regular expressions instead of literal strings to match the warning message and the module name, if the corresponding field starts and ends with a forward slash (/).

"(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in gh-134716.)"

docs.python.org/3.15/whatsnew/

github.com/python/cpython/issu

Editor, Hugo van Kemenade,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.15, compared to 3.14. For full details, see the changelog. Summary – Release highlights: PEP 799: A dedicated profilin...

What’s new in Python 3.15

Editor, Hugo van Kemenade,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.15, compared to 3.14. For full details, see the changelog. Summary – Release highlights: PEP 799: A dedicated profilin...

docs.python.org · Python documentation

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna@mathstodon.xyz
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Heard about the am-dash (theamdash.com/) on the latest episode of 99 Percent Invisible.

As I understand it, there's no unicode for the am-dash yet. While I have downloaded Times New Human and Areal, I wouldn't now how to actually get the am-dash in a LaTeX-generated document, since the command to get it is more than a single character.

I hacked something together, but obviously that's not the same.

Does anybody know how to do it properly? Or maybe someone has already contacted Cocogun to ask if they'd be willing to collaborate on a project to make a tiny LaTeX package or something, just so we can use the am-dash in our LaTeX-typeset documents?

Text: "While this will work in a pinch — especially for a LaTeX hacker like me — it's not quite the same as a proper am-dash." Instead of em-dashes, tho, there is a mirrored integral laying on its side.LaTeX source code for the standalone document. The am-dash-like character is achieved by a mathmode integral sign that is first rotate -82 degrees by a rotatebox command, then mirrored by a scalebox command.
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Jake Howard @jake@theorangeone.net
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Shared by Paolo Melchiorre

This is getting out of hand, now there are 3 of them!

With 0.12.0 of django-tasks, the DB and RQ backends are now in their own packages and repositories - making the separation between the interface and flagship backends clearer.

github.com/RealOrangeOne/djang

Breaking changes DB and RQ backends have been extracted into their own packages From this version onwards, django-tasks will aim to mirror the upstream django.tasks package as much as possible. The...

Release 0.12.0 · RealOrangeOne/django-tasks

Breaking changes DB and RQ backends have been extracted into their own packages From this version onwards, django-tasks will aim to mirror the upstream django.tasks package as much as possible. The...

github.com · GitHub

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John Ripley @jripley@mastodon.social
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@mcc I've read that the average inefficiency of money laundering is roughly 2:1 to 3:1, as in when you do crime, you're going to lose 50-67% of your proceeds in schemes to 'legitimize' it. So BitCoin could probably end up 2-3x the cost of energy and still be in common use. That's probably where it's asymptotically heading, now.

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Evan Prodromou @evan@cosocial.ca
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It's funny to see people joining Substack in 2026 and saying, "I am reluctantly beginning a Substack since it's now clearly the only way to make money as a writer. Someone please help me find the check box in the account settings to accept my $250,000/year revenue guarantee from Substack like Matthew Yglesias got."

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Quenby @Quenby@cutie.city
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

Him: well what's your big brain idea to eliminate food assistance fraud?

Me: universal food assistance

Him:

Me: because there wouldn't be a system to cheat, everyone would just get a check

Him: and who does that benefit?

Me: family farmers and human beings who rely on food for nutrition

Him: what about rich people?

Me: what about them?

Him: you would give them food assistance too?

Me: that's what universal means

Him: you can't do that

Me: yesterday you said I couldn't tax them and now you won't let me feed them either?

Him: they can afford food

Me: then it should be fine to tax them

Him: but if you tax them they won't have as much money

Me: I'm willing to offer universal food assistance

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Terence Eden @Edent@mastodon.social
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Shared by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

If you wanted to send me a monetary tip for my excellent Mastodon posts, which platform would you prefer to use?

(Please don't be a dick in the replies as a muting often ofends.)

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Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo: @evgandr@bsd.cafe
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

As I wrote before (mastodon.bsd.cafe/@evgandr/115) I tried to use TURN server for communication with my relatives, but failed to setup secure enough solution. So, I decided to try an old and reliable solution — Asterisk. With the help of a book "Asterisk: The Definitive Guide" from J.V. Meggelen & R. Bryant & L. Madsen, of course.

First, I was forced to build the asterisk package by myself (from ports, ofc), since the binary version from NetBSD repository compiled with the all DB support, except my favourite PostgreSQL database.

By the way, adding users and writing dialplan with the help of aforementioned book was not so hard as I expected :drgn_happy_blep:. Same for network setup. Since, I'm using PJSIP I just opened SIPS port and a range of UDP ports for RTP protocol on the my firewall. Despite, my home network hidden behind NAT on the router, there are no big problems with networking — end-user devices and an Asterisk server connected with use of simple star topology.

Surpisingly, the quality of the voice call is excellent comparing with service, provided by local cellular network operators. I suppose, that the secret in used codecs, or it is because there are not so much users (only 2) of my service.

Hand-drawn diagram of connection between my Asterisk server and the two end-users with mobile phones (with Linphone application on these phones).
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mms :runbsd: + :emacs: @mms@bsd.cafe
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

I wonder: since I have problems with speeds when it comes to fetching data from freebsd pkg, would torrent work? Would a torrent-based (or any p2p) package manager work? So, say you share all packages that are in your cache.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird@sauropods.win
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

About that $50k ICE "bonus"

Some people will do anything for money, or maybe they are just in dire situations. Anyway $50k to join ICE might tempt some people.

Well.

* It's not 50k it's 10k per year for five years. Big difference.
* It is a five year *commitment* bonus. You need to work the full five years OR you must pay it back.
* So if your work for 3 years then quit you owe them 30k! (money you may need for a lawyer)
* The first 10k will be about $6500 after taxes.

Just so everyone knows.

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Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
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Blacksky has already built their own ATProto stack that's fully independent from Bluesky.

Now Eurosky is making progress as they roll out their own PDS.

I see more independent infrastructure springing up on atp.fyi/network, including AppViews.

For anyone hoping that we'll get another wave of people coming to the fediverse once Bluesky folds/enshittifies, that might not necessarily be the case as people will have more options to stay in the Atmosphere.

Bluesky network map

atp.fyi

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