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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Quds News Network @QudsNen@mastodon.neometropolis.net
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The Israeli occupation’s Interior Ministry is moving to officially register five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, including Havat Gilad, which sits on privately owned Palestinian land near Nablus.

Official recognition would allow these outposts to receive state funding, municipal services, and access to national infrastructure, while also enabling expanded construction under Israeli planning laws.

Under Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, settlement legalization has accelerated, with 25 settlements recognized in two months, aiming to reinforce Israeli control over Area C and block prospects for a Palestinian state.

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dan @danabra.mov@bsky.brid.gy
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i think detecting "does text look like a domain" was the intent of the linked function. but i think it's false positively identifying anything, even "foo", as a domain, because new URL("http://foo").hostname gives you "foo" this seems like nonsense to me

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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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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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@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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nicebyte @nicebyte@mastodon.gamedev.place
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VK_EXT_descriptor_heap proposal is a good read.
vulkan has come a long way, to the point that if you use all the modern improvements, it looks almost nothing like what came out in 2016.

dynamic rendering and unified image layouts were my favorites as obviating the most annoying (and often pointless on modern hw) parts of the api. this one is the best though, i've always hated descriptor sets.

docs.vulkan.org/features/lates

VK_EXT_descriptor_heap :: Vulkan Documentation Project

docs.vulkan.org

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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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Shared by mcc

@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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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified: @bicmay@med-mastodon.com
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"The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal information, including home addresses, could be used in efforts to remove them from the country."

kffhealthnews.org/news/article

With ICE Using Medicaid Data, Hospitals and States Are in a Bind Over Warning Immigrant Patients - KFF Health News

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is forcing hospitals and states to consider alerting immigrant patients that information from emergency medical coverage applications could be used in efforts to remove them from the country.

kffhealthnews.org · KFF Health News

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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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