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.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@davebauerart/115978434303703479
This was a really fun conversation! Thanks for having me on, 
@davebauerartDave bauer
@andypiper Quick update if you wanted to listen to my podcast with Andy but are not enthusiastic about corporate media here is my self-hosted podcast Castopod. https://cp.davebauer.art/@makingproblemstosolve/episodes/andy-piper-computer-art-and-building-community-c3arf
Even though the video discusses France and the EU looking to reduce their risk by decoupling from big US tech companies, I think Americans should probably consider doing the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZL-nRB23RI
Nebula version: https://nebula.tv/videos/tldrnewseu-why-france-wants-to-build-european-digital-sovereignty
왜 해물찜을 보일링씨푸드라고 하는 거냐... 할거면 우설도 카우통규 라고 쓰고 설선물세트도 루나뉴이어프레젠트세트라고 써라
This is MY kind of wedding reception.
unity complain
unity scenes and prefabs are hostile to version control. they cannot merge which makes collaboration impossible. i do not know how teams manage this despite being a professional unity developer for over fifteen years.
Trump is fuelling a humanitarian crisis in Cuba, with an oil blockade that is leading to devastating power outages and rationing. This administration is determined to dominate the hemisphere with brute force and naked impunity.
Canada has a long history of good relations with Cuba. We have consistently voted at the UN to end the blockade of Cuba, and millions of Canadian tourists have visited the island.
We should immediately follow Mexico’s lead and condemn this act of economic warfare. And we should step up with humanitarian assistance to the Cuban people, as NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice calls for in this excellent parliamentary petition: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7082
Prime Minister Carney, silence is not an option when Trump attacks sovereign nations in the Americas. Canadians expect you to stand up for human rights, international law, and against the bullying of smaller nations by a rampaging superpower.
おはようござい
I've never understood the desire to talk into Mickey Mouse's shorts anyway.
宮舞って顔いいよな……あっ
Got a question for everyone in my wider circle (everyone who can see this, basically). If I wanted to work on a discord-style chat system, but doing so meant redirecting all my time away from other open-source projects (including Sharkey) for at least a year, should I go for it?
@silverpill Possibly to your interest, if you haven't seen it already: https://autocrypt2.org Apparently only 25 pages long, with seemingly clear and specific steps and some code examples (at least in cursory skimming): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-autocrypt-openpgp-v2-cert/
起床
Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general mental exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/ai-intensifies-work/
おはようございます。
Also discussed: Google giving you sports results to make incognito mode more plausible. (Ep.238)
Landing one of my most ambitious PRs to date — switching vixen's VFS RPC from TCP to SHM (who loves 3-letter-acronyms). I was in suspense the whole time that the macOS sandbox would get in the way and... nope! Works fine 😌
(This is Rust⇄Swift IPC btw, using facet + postcard under the hood)
MIT Living Wage Calculator
Link: https://livingwage.mit.edu/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950152
on that note i have been taking inventory of various things in plain text then progressively converting it to turtle. keyboards i own, concerts i've been to, stuff like that -- pretty bounded within a single document, a good exercise to mapping relations and ontological practices. we'll see what falls out
Pretend I know nothing about home design/home improvement (because I don't).
I want to wallpaper one of my office walls. Is there a specific brand of wallpaper I should look at?
For chronic pain reasons, I'll hire someone who knows what they're doing to actually put it up.
Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
Link: https://defusedcyber.com/ivanti-epmm-sleeper-shells-403jsp
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946062
Eddie Bauer, venerable outdoor apparel retailer, declares bankruptcy
Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eddie-bauer-bankrupt-outdoor-apparel/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948708
First post on public network created using minimitra:
All identifiers are ap URIs, so only FEP-ef61 implementers can load this post and interact with it.
Even though the video discusses France and the EU looking to reduce their risk by decoupling from big US tech companies, I think Americans should probably consider doing the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZL-nRB23RI
Nebula version: https://nebula.tv/videos/tldrnewseu-why-france-wants-to-build-european-digital-sovereignty
and now to log off for several days and go work on my website, methinks
Kickeroo #cat #cats #CatsOfMastodon
@martinvermeerMartin Vermeer FCD There's so many interesting things out there and only so much time and brain!
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.
Podcast-Aufzeichnung. Die Katze hilft. #Podcasting
Alright well this is very much a WIP but it's already more info than I've found on this subject anywhere else on the web: the fandom discord to IRC migration page is live!
tech ceos: return to office for synergy and kismet reasons
also tech ceos: why are you talking to your coworkers. just ask the ai
big news for all the cowards out there
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/post/3mehblstckk2e
Has anyone figured out how to use ActivityPub to make something IRC or Discord shaped?
Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 (MiniDisc player) via 
@jevinskieJevin Sweval https://lobste.rs/s/w8uju4 #hardware #reversing
https://sir68k.re/posts/rh1-firmware-available/
Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
Link: https://research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947777
Despite a policy shift away from renewables from the Trump administration, energy companies are still turning to the fast and cheap power of solar and wind energy to provide power. The thing that’s actually changing? Their messaging. https://spectrum.ieee.org/trump-renewable-energy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
Ordered an “abolish ice” flag from flagsforgood.com
It came with a free whistle…
It feels like a real sweet spot that I'm notable enough to have my name appear multiple times in a Wikipedia search but not notable enough to appear at all in an Epstein files search.
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