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.
“The Pensacola Graffiti Bridge never disappoints.” - Constitutional Crisis Alert
#USpol
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@evan/115994966562674116
so it seems like the "federated events" W3C Community Working Group is gonna be a thing, psyched to see it finally taking shape. I guess the next step is to choose who is actually gonna be organizing it?!
I'm not going to waste my precious human time reading something that you didn't spend your precious human time writing.
I really don't care about the well-aligned randomly stolen words of a text-generating machine you are using for cheap marketing.
"Palantir says that 99% of Austrian voyagers to the US use the e-mail address g.sheissn@orschlo.ch"
"Fascinating."
Anyone in my followers list on a server that has secure fetch enabled? I want to use it to test my proxyUrl implementation for client to server #ActivityPub. :D
와 맨시티, 진짜 진짜 어려운 경기를 역전승으로 잡아냈다! 막판 셰르키 골이 취소된게 아쉬운데, 어쨌든 이겼으니까 됐다. 끝까지 포기하지 말자. 경기도 리그도 시즌도.
프로그래머로 살다 보니까 256이 만만한 숫자지만 이런 맥락으로 보면 또 새삼스럽게 엄청 큰 수구나라는 생각이 든다
I have deeply mixed feelings about #ActivityPub's adoption of JSON-LD, as someone who's spent way too long dealing with it while building #Fedify.
Part of me wishes it had never happened. A lot of developers jump into ActivityPub development without really understanding JSON-LD, and honestly, can you blame them? The result is a growing number of implementations producing technically invalid JSON-LD. It works, sort of, because everyone's just pattern-matching against what Mastodon does, but it's not correct. And even developers who do take the time to understand JSON-LD often end up hardcoding their documents anyway, because proper JSON-LD processor libraries simply don't exist for many languages. No safety net, no validation, just vibes and hoping you got the @context right. Naturally, mistakes creep in.
But then the other part of me thinks: well, we're stuck with JSON-LD now. There's no going back. So wouldn't it be nice if people actually used it properly? Process the documents, normalize them, do the compaction and expansion dance the way the spec intended. That's what Fedify does.
Here's the part that really gets to me, though. Because Fedify actually processes JSON-LD correctly, it's more likely to break when talking to implementations that produce malformed documents. From the end user's perspective, Fedify looks like the fragile one. “Why can't I follow this person?” Well, because their server is emitting garbage JSON-LD that happens to work with implementations that just treat it as a regular JSON blob. Every time I get one of these bug reports, I feel a certain injustice. Like being the only person in the group project who actually read the assignment.
To be fair, there are real practical reasons why most people don't bother with proper JSON-LD processing. Implementing a full processor is genuinely a lot of work. It leans on the entire Linked Data stack, which is bigger than most people expect going in. And the performance cost isn't trivial either. Fedify uses some tricks to keep things fast, and I'll be honest, that code isn't my proudest work.
Anyway, none of this is going anywhere. Just me grumbling into the void. If you're building an ActivityPub implementation, maybe consider using a JSON-LD processor if one's available for your language. And if you're not going to, at least test your output against implementations that do.
용소필 하면서 새삼스럽게 놀란 점... 주인공 빼고 캐릭터가 16명 있고 인형도 16종류 있고 아무 캐릭터한테 아무 인형을 줄 수 있으면 256가지 대사를 전부 직접 입력했다는 거겠지
I suspect a long term consequence of AI adoption in workplaces is that document reviews become worthless. An initial problem some have begun to encounter is where the author didn’t even read the document AI produced.
Some AI-forward companies have an even more pernicious problem of people not reading the document but instead asking AI what questions to raise to make it look like they did.
Over time this will become a waste of time with only the AI companies benefiting.
90s TV made 2020s America: Married with children, Roseanne, Jackass etc
idle thought: a feed that shows you only one random post at a time, you have to pull-down refresh like a slot machine lever to get a new one
RE: https://skyjake.fi/@lagrange/116035029279643901
This has been a long time coming.
I wouldn't say the app is perfect by any means, but by now it's certainly time-tested. I use it daily for browsing Gemini and managing bbs.geminispace.org on both the iPhone and iPad.
The TestFlight continues for beta builds.
Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser
Link: https://rabbitear.org/book/origami.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886569
We've successfully upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-alpha.4+mementomods-2026-02-08, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4.
This update includes today's latest daily build with 112 new commits from upstream since alpha.3 (2026-01-24).
What's new in Mastodon core - These are the changes Mastodon Team have introduced us in the latest nightly version we are running:
🔒 Security
- Upstream security patch
✨ New features (some only on the back end for now)
- Better language support: Horizontal and vertical posts can now coexist
- Mute end date now shown in badge
- Text-autospace added to post content
- Collections: create, edit, delete, and federated across servers
- Store remote actors' profile pic and header descriptions
- Flag to preserve cached media on cleanup
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix quote cancel button appearing in all statuses
- Fix followers with bell icon being notified of post edits
- Fix quote cancel button not appearing after edit then delete-and-redraft
- Fix remote account last status tracking
- Fix filtering of mentions from filtered-on-their origin-server accounts
- Fix connection leak issues
- Fix duplicate hashtag processing in object updates
🔧 Other
- "Anyone can quote" label changed to "quotes allowed"
- Various dependency updates (pg, brakeman, dotenv, pino, paperclip, etc.)
🔮 Upcoming
- A profile redesign is being built incrementally upstream
- Pinned posts, follow button reorg, featured tags, badges, timeline filters, and more are landing as foundational pieces.
🐦⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4 (nightly)
- Fix translate button color not matching link color
- Fix extra border-left showing up in mobile devices
Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4 is still a work in progress in the nightly branch. It's not 100% ready, but it's stable with today's Mastodon alpha.4.
Source code: https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon
As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here, and feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts. 
If anything feels off, please let us know!
Wczoraj w #OkoPress pisałem o pomyśle, by Centralny Ośrodek Informatyki ogarnął pakiet biurowy dla polskiej administracji:
https://oko.press/czy-instytucje-polskiego-panstwa-zdolamy-uwolnic-od-googla-i-microsoftu
Centralny Ośrodek Informatyki chce budować rozwiązania dla polskiej administracji w oparciu o otwarte oprogramowanie. Projekt ma mieć poparcie ministra cyfryzacji.
Świetnie! Czas najwyższy na uniezależnienie od usług i produktów monopolistów z USA.
Zadanie nie będzie jednak łatwe.
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Tiny reminder that it's important
to boost posts on Mastodon!
Liking only will not help a post being seen more. Boosting will! 
✨
Boost the posts you want others to see. Add hashtags to your posts to help others find them.
This is the Fediverse way 
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
I am definitely in favor of boosting lol I mean with no algo things that need to be seen may not get to see the light of day due to time zones etc. There seems to be an anti-boost mentality among some, that their feeds need to be a pure stream of personal thought. I for my part know that I’m not entertaining enough to pull off such an account 😆 boosts ahoy!
あとで読む。社会党の瓦解以降、政党の中道化と権力集中みたいなのは確実にあると思う。 https://note.com/jinminshinbun/n/n780419964d8f
Bei all der Aufregung um die Superbowl dürfen wir nicht vergessen, dass Al Bundy 1966 in einem einzigen Spiel vier Touchdowns erzielte und damit die Stadtmeisterschaft für die Polk High School gewonnen hat.
#shitpost #superbowl
日本大選點票快結束，自民黨至少獲得316席，單一政黨獲逾三分二議席，是日本二戰後首例
高市早苗在投票後就多項議題發表意見，包括稱為自己可參拜靖國神社營造環境
野田佳彥承認，反對派大敗，自己有「罪該萬死」的責任
Put on Grand Waltz in A Major by Francisco Tarrega to lull everyone into a false sense of security and then inflict a panic attack on everyone who was alive in the year 2000 several measures in https://musescore.com/user/19710/scores/31600967
오늘의 이상한 짤
@ai藍 やってないけどやった
よく出来ました♪
Why basketball isn't an outdoor winter sport
So I've done my part with this boycott, and I'd like to suggest as a focal point to go specifically after Amazon and AWS itself.
https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/
I'm concerned that actions that's too diffuse won't be noticed otherwise.
Also, if you're on X _still_ and giving them money thru ads/subscriptions, take a very long look in that mirror.
If you must engage with X, at least stop giving them money.
Tiny reminder that it's important
to boost posts on Mastodon!
Liking only will not help a post being seen more. Boosting will! ✨
Boost the posts you want others to see. Add hashtags to your posts to help others find them.
This is the Fediverse way
Weekends are too short 🥲
The best thing I ever made
I wish I could force every legislator
in favor of Age Verification to watch this amazing talk by Carissa Véliz,
So that they understand the dangers
of the surveillance infrastructure they are currently putting in place.
You should watch it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPRouBvgFE
#Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Fascism
@Em0nM4stodonEm thanks for sharing this, very important information that all need to hear.
I saw this on a Finnish post, so let me reformulate it a bit and post it in English.
Finnish universities 1996:
"Here's an operating system we created for you. Here's a chat network we created you can use with the operating system."
Finnish universities 2026:
"We don't know how to replace Facebook for public communications."
Learned helplessness.
Earlier this month we revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a Palantir tool called ELITE to decide which neighborhoods to raid.
This is what it looks like: https://www.404media.co/here-is-the-user-guide-for-elite-the-tool-palantir-made-for-ice/
Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition
Link: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/292452
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936105
因為在準備團隊內的分享會，用了某個 AI 簡報服務但全程都是手動產出wwwww
我真的很不會用 AI 
Blog post about my participation at 
@fosdem 2026 where I was talking about 
@servo https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/fosdem-2026/
A reader asked "How can I find good, human-made books?"
I'm going to counter the AI-slop by recommending more books that I love — ones I read, ones my friends write, ones I know are human art fighting to exist in an AI-slop world.
Don't look to algos to tell you what to read: ask your friends, go back to authors you love and see what they recommend, find real humans talking about real books. That's how books have always been found, before the algos colonized our info spaces.
個人的には、「民主党」の看板降ろしたのがでかいんじゃないかなという気がするんだよなぁ。反自民がこんなに少ないわけないので、単純に認知の問題として中道ってなに？みたいなのあるんじゃないか。とくに若い人と老人はそうかなと思う。そもそも人間ってなんもわからなかったら知られている選択肢のなかから選ぼうとする傾向あるとおもう。
Was looking for a garden center where I could buy sugarcane plants. And well. Now I know that opium plants still grow in the wild here in Germany and that owning the seeds is legal but planting them is not.
(What a coincidence that the website that sells sugarcane plants also sells these seeds)
AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it https://lobste.rs/s/gfsl25 #practices #vibecoding
https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real
Unfortunately it seems that Ikea is now enabling lock bits on their Zigbee devices. I also had to build a custom version of openocd to talk to this efm32s2 MCU https://github.com/knieriem/openocd-efm32-series2
And after sending a efm32s3_dci_device_erase command, I can debug the chip. So thanks for the $5 dev board with boost converter, Ikea, even if we have to start from zero for the firmware.
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