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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Telling people to "just use Linux" hasn't broken the OS duopoly. It doesn't matter that I get better fps gaming on Linux, or that I don't get ads baked into the OS itself.

Telling people to "just use Signal" hasn't broken Facebook's chokehold on messaging. It doesn't matter that using Signal is *exactly* as difficult as using WhatsApp, for fuck's sake, WhatsApp uses Signal libraries internally!

Many people actively prefer the corporate tech they see in as, that aligns with corporate power.

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Each time a new privacy-invasive
feature like facial scanning is implemented, if people in majority comply and accept to use it, it will soon become normality, and other options will be marginalized or even removed entirely.

If each time a new privacy-invasive
feature is implemented people opted to refuse it, it would soon be discontinued.

Each individual opposition to privacy-invasive features matters.

It is an act of self-protection but,
perhaps even more importantly,
it is also an act of protest.

A protest against the normalization of mass surveillance and the loss of privacy rights.

The fact that there are other cameras around doesn't mean that more cameras or additional scanning is not making things even worse.

If we do not refuse,
if we do not fight for our privacy rights,
we will lose them all.

@Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified:

💯!!!

I recently tried to check in for an international flight online. It asked for a picture of my passport, with a disclaimer [paraphrasing] that my passport info would be sent to a third party for processing.

That's a hard pass for me. I'd rather wait in line at the airport then have some third party I don't know about have access to my passport info

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壹傳媒創辦人黎智英於2月9日被判囚20年,英國政府同日宣布擴大英國國民(海外)護照(BNO)簽證資格。

BNO持有人在1997年香港主權移交前未滿18歲、現已成年的子女,可毋須依附父母,獨立申請BNO簽證,其伴侶及子女亦可一併循此途徑移居英國。英方預計,新安排將於未來五年額外吸引約2.6萬人赴英。

英國內政大臣Shabana Mahmood表示,英國會履行對香港人的「歷史承諾」,形容自2021年BNO簽證計劃推出以來,已為近17萬名港人提供「避風港」,讓他們在英國建立新生活。她同時強調,英國在恢復邊境秩序及移民管控的同時,仍會歡迎真正有需要的人。

英國外相Yvette Cooper亦指出,現屆政府將繼續支持香港人,確保因年齡問題而錯失保障的年輕人,能夠獲得應有的安排。

May be an image of text that says 'KN KEHD CHI 離港 BR 된 KINGDON 英國放寬BNO簽證資格 97前未成年子女 可獨立申請 中駐英使館批政治操弄 治 駐 英 使 館'
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Each time a new privacy-invasive
feature like facial scanning is implemented, if people in majority comply and accept to use it, it will soon become normality, and other options will be marginalized or even removed entirely.

If each time a new privacy-invasive
feature is implemented people opted to refuse it, it would soon be discontinued.

Each individual opposition to privacy-invasive features matters.

It is an act of self-protection but,
perhaps even more importantly,
it is also an act of protest.

A protest against the normalization of mass surveillance and the loss of privacy rights.

The fact that there are other cameras around doesn't mean that more cameras or additional scanning is not making things even worse.

If we do not refuse,
if we do not fight for our privacy rights,
we will lose them all.

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First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.

They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then what? Rinse and escalate.

You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.

We don't have to wait that it escalates.

We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.

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그나저나 어제 본 몰트북 우려 기사에서 몰트북 공간이 "프롬프트 인젝션 공격의 온상지다" 라는 대목에서 잠깐 쓴웃음이 지어진 것이, 커뮤니티에서 이상한 명령어나 기준을 배워 와서는 직무에서 사달을 내는 것은 인간도 마찬가지가 아닌가 하는 생각이 들었다. 가끔 인간은 인간도 딱히 잘 못 하는 걸 AI라면 해낼 거라고 기대하는 것 같다.

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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: ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet

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.

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RE: mastodon.online/@bartgroothuis

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Each time a new privacy-invasive
feature like facial scanning is implemented, if people in majority comply and accept to use it, it will soon become normality, and other options will be marginalized or even removed entirely.

If each time a new privacy-invasive
feature is implemented people opted to refuse it, it would soon be discontinued.

Each individual opposition to privacy-invasive features matters.

It is an act of self-protection but,
perhaps even more importantly,
it is also an act of protest.

A protest against the normalization of mass surveillance and the loss of privacy rights.

The fact that there are other cameras around doesn't mean that more cameras or additional scanning is not making things even worse.

If we do not refuse,
if we do not fight for our privacy rights,
we will lose them all.

@Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified:
Years ago, when websites and corporations said, "We track you to give you personalized ads..." I was like "You lost me at the tracking part."

Never considered using biometrics, facial scanning, retina scanning or anything of the like on any device.

These things are not supposed to know me. They're supposed to do a thing when I'm using them and stop doing things until I need to use them again.

All data will get exploited in the Information Age.

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슈퍼볼 하프타임 쇼에서 배드 버니 공연에서 라틴 아메리카 샤라웃하고 스페인어로 멘트치고 노래하는거 정말 멋있었는데 이거 보고 "미국 행사에서 저럴 필요가 있냐"는 인스타 한국인들의 댓글, 그리고 좋아요 무수히 받는 모습을 보고.. 할말을 잃음 한국에 만연한 차별주의는 우리가 생각하는것 이상으로 훨씬 심각하다

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미국 싱크탱크인 스팀슨센터의 앤드루 오로스 일본 프로그램 국장은 자민당의 압승 원인의 하나로 일본 극우정당인 참정당 지지자들을 끌어온 점을 들면서 "이는 한일 관계에 긍정적일 것"이라고 말했다. 오로스 국장의 이러한 설명은 이번 총선 결과로 자민당이 극우 세력에 휘둘리지 않을 만큼 압도적인 의석을 확보한 것이 오히려 정치적·외교적 안정화에 도움이 되면서 한일 관계 발전에 긍정적 영향을 미칠 수 있다는 것으로 풀이된다. ... ??? 뭔 웃기는 소리지 -_-; 참정당 극우 가져왔다는건 자민당이 더 많이 극우드라이브를 한단건데...

美전문가 "주한미군 감축 예상…중무장 육군부대가 1순위...

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Git security tip!

You might know that you can use a Yubikey or similar hardware key to store your SSH key... but forges like GitHub identify you by your public key, so you can only secure access to one GitHub account with a single key... not!

If you use ed25519-sk keys, you can have as many as you want!

The traditional OpenPGP Card setup can only store a few keys per YubiKey (only one of which is usually set up for signing/authentication), but using the newer FIDO2 ed25519-sk flow, the keys are stored "wrapped" outside your token so you can have an unlimited number.

There's a small catch though: With OpenPGP you can secure your key with a PIN/password verified on the token, and enter the PIN once to unlock it on first use, then just touch it for every authentication (until disconnect or reboot).

With ed25519-sk you can either require a PIN every time, or not at all.

You can still encrypt the "wrapped" key on your computer (that's what the new passphrase that ssh-keygen asks for does), but then that passphrase is checked on the computer so there's no attempt limit.

My personal hack is to use both. Encrypt the ed25519-sk private token with OpenPGP, cache it only in RAM when loading it into ssh-agent.

I wish FIDO2 had a "cached PIN/persistence" mode though! ;;

Edit: I'm being told resident mode can do what I want but it didn't work when I tried it... will update if I figure it out!

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Hund verursacht Auffahrunfall in Mannheim-Sandhofen
mannheimer-morgen.de/orte/mann

Der Hund hat den Unfall übrigens nicht verursacht sondern fehlender Sicherheitsabstand.

Lernt eins in der Fahrschule btw.

Natürlich wird da dann im Alltag und dem schnell schnell nicht mehr drauf geachtet, aber eins sollte sich immer der Tatsache bewusst sein, dass der Vorherfahrende plötzlich bremst.

Ich versteh nicht, wieso bei Autounfällen nie das tatsächliche Problem benannt wird: die fahrenden Personen.

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「感じがいいのが強い」みたいな話はまあいろんな場面で実際あるけど、今回の選挙絡みでマスコミが報じてるの見ると、おまえらそんな他人事みたいに語ってないでちゃんと仕事しろよという気持ちになる

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自由としてのFree Softwareにコピーレフトの思想が強すぎると感じた人たちが創ったOpen Sourceというフレーズがソフトウェア業界の一部から良いものだというふいんきをもらったことで論文誌とかハードウェアとかにも良いものとしてのオープンが広まってしまったのかもしんまい。まあそういうものと思うしかないよねぇ

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