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.
Some of you noticed that @HolosDiscover is following you. It's a Fediverse search engine we built to solve a problem: when you start your own server with #Holos, your index is empty. #HolosDiscover provides a ready-to-use content catalog for everyone.
Only public posts from consenting users are indexed. Deletions and edits are reflected in real-time through ActivityPub activities.
How it works: https://discover.holos.social/how-it-works
Open-source (AGPL-3.0): https://codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-Discover
@okOK Bot hello?
In der Lokalzeit Dortmund ein Bericht über die beiden Brüder des in Dortmund von der Polizei getöten Mouhamed Dramé.
Beide wollen gerne hier arbeiten und die Stadt, so heißt es, wollen die befristete Aufenthaltserlaubnis nicht verlängern. Ein Skandal wie ich finde und nun gibt es einen offenen Brief:
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/ruhrgebiet/brueder-mouhamed-drame-wollen-bleiben-dortmund-100.html
Unterstützt die Forderung:
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/fur-eine-zukunft-fur-sidy-und-lassana-drame-in-dortmund
Update: Link zum TV-Beitrag:
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/lokalzeit-aus-dortmund/wdr-lokalzeit-aus-dortmund-oder-10-02-2026/wdr-dortmund/Y3JpZDovL3dkci5kZS9CZWl0cmFnLXNvcGhvcmEtNmE0NzRlMGMtMzg4MS00NzIyLWExMGMtZjVlZWJmZDJlNzAy
Danke an 
@filmtdenpottChristof Voigt fürs Berichten.
Arrivals and Departures
A sleepless night, a thought about the day I arrived and the day I'll leave.
https://my-notes.dragas.net/2026/02/08/arrivals-and-departures/
I miss Foreign Beggars.
Foreign Beggars and Noisia were just such an awesome combination with thier Project I Am Legion.
RIP Metropolis
https://noisia.bandcamp.com/track/make-those-move
#DrumAndBass 🇬🇧 🇳🇱
"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker
Link: https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tiktok-fake-news-creator-hate-immigrants
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962924
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I miss Foreign Beggars.
Foreign Beggars and Noisia were just such an awesome combination with thier Project I Am Legion.
RIP Metropolis
https://noisia.bandcamp.com/track/make-those-move
#DrumAndBass 🇬🇧 🇳🇱
寝寝寝ー寝・寝ー寝寝
キーボードは毎日使うから実質無料だよね
Oooh yes, tickets for the #Ruins (Tatsuya Yoshida x Risa Takeda) residency at Cafe Oto in June are now on sale!
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/byh-tatsuya-yoshida-x-risa-takeda/
I bought a copy of "The Book of PF" from 
@pitrhPeter N. M. Hansteen
It's the best and most comprehensive resource about the marvelous PF firewall that I've ever seen, and I've been using PF since the early days.
Amazing work!
It's available here on No Starch Press: https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition
I also recently wrote a practical guide on PF (https://blog.hofstede.it/pf-firewall-on-freebsd-a-practical-guide/) for anyone who wants to get started :-)
マウナケア山頂にしっかり雪が積もってたんだけど電話のカメラしかなくて下手くそな塗り絵みたいになってる
New blog post time!
This week's game is Firebugs, a stylish PS1 racer that combines high speeds with lots of items and manages to make it very approachable even if you're a racing game casual like myself. If you're fond of the Rollcage games, this is kinda like a third one by the same people!
https://ephemeralenigmascom.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/firebugs/
I was just struck by a section header in a Tyee article:
"**When companies can’t pay, taxpayers do**"
Understandable, happens all the time unfortunately. Here is the problem: it clearly indicates 'companies' are not 'taxpayers'. If corporations were paying the majority of Provincial revenues, **it would be in their interest to prevent other corps leaving cleanup costs to #BC.**
Bam. Suddenly corporations would support cleanup bonding insurance.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/02/03/BC-Halts-Plans-Make-Polluters-Pay-Cleanup/
おさんぽ〜
I am forking Mastodon and making it an Agentic Social Media. Looking for investors!
Ancora oggi, nel 2026, ci si imbatte in "firme" nelle email che recitano "pensa all'ambiente, prima di stampare questa email". Ma davvero c'è ancora qualcuno che stampa le email?
Daniel Finkelstein: how the world’s antisemites turned on me
https://www.thetimes.com/article/b2a9dcda-0ea8-45f3-9d5d-6267579a6707?shareToken=b2f3a9cfa52bc1132787b5c7dc875e19
Who are you… You must help me, please… Bring me the salmon treats… I can't… I can't see you… hear me… I need the salmon treats, you must bring me the salmon treats… Please bring … beg of you, bring the treats… Help me… I am Babka… Given up long ago… There is one thing I need to be rescued… You must… #バブカ
I was just struck by a section header in a Tyee article:
"**When companies can’t pay, taxpayers do**"
Understandable, happens all the time unfortunately. Here is the problem: it clearly indicates 'companies' are not 'taxpayers'. If corporations were paying the majority of Provincial revenues, **it would be in their interest to prevent other corps leaving cleanup costs to #BC.**
Bam. Suddenly corporations would support cleanup bonding insurance.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/02/03/BC-Halts-Plans-Make-Polluters-Pay-Cleanup/
@pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle i think pixelfed is the wrong client/platform if you want to read articles
@ricferrerRicardo Ferrer Rivero🇪🇺 @pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle
The more we keep thinking in terms of "platforms", the longer it will take us to make the open social web a reality.
PixelFed-the-backend could well be a "Generic" ActivityPub Server, separate from "PixelFed the nice way to browse and organize image posts".
let's bring #longform (text) support to the #photoverse
(this is not (mainly) about long texts on #pixelfed or #vernissage (they can both fall back to show the summary), it is about supporting image posts with the object type: `Article`)
* https://github.com/VernissageApp/VernissageServer/pull/442
* https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/6458
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/b2b8/fep-b2b8.md
We're excited to launch our most-requested Bridgy Fed feature: being able to interact with unbridged users!
Starting today, when people interact with you on the other side of the bridge, you'll get a notification over DM along with a "respond" link, where you can like, repost, reply, or block.
More details here: https://blog.anew.social/launch-interact-with-unbridged-replies-mentions/
Sent messages to all of my Discord friends and told them I'm deleting the app and asked for other methods to contact them and gave them my contact info as well.
Each one of them responded with contact info. They were leaving as well.
Don't let others keep you on a service that doesn't care about you.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/116043212772197701
Wow, good job y’all! Especially the folks who post a lot of images!
I've been writing a blog series about automating AV archival workflows. Part 3 dropped today, and it's the one I'm most excited about. The post details the features and functionality of AV Spex, a Python app I wrote for the Smithsonian's NMAAHC. It wraps open-source tools like QCTools, MediaConch, and MediaInfo into a single GUI, checks files against expected specs, and collects everything into one HTML report.
Full post here: https://eddycolloton.com/blog/2025/12/23/automating-av-archival-workflows-part-3
#poll for all you beautiful hard working professional computer touchers out there:
"my day job has me making the world a ____ place"
(be honest, don't just repeat what your CEO says)
Here’s your first warning.
Here’s your first warning.
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
omg they solved catsort
Watching a Star Trek clip recently, it struck me that humanity currently has ~7100 distinct languages. Yet on Star Trek, they speak "Klingon" or "Romulan" or "Vulcan", etc as if a planet only ever had one language. That'd be like saying you speak Human.
That's now going to bug me indefinitely.
:disgruntled:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/116047408377341614
Low-key, it's *my* most-requested feature, but I know a lot of y'all have wanted this as well ☺️
We're excited to launch our most-requested Bridgy Fed feature: being able to interact with unbridged users!
Starting today, when people interact with you on the other side of the bridge, you'll get a notification over DM along with a "respond" link, where you can like, repost, reply, or block.
More details here: https://blog.anew.social/launch-interact-with-unbridged-replies-mentions/
He's a handsome fellow #FosterCat #CatsOfMastodon
We're excited to launch our most-requested Bridgy Fed feature: being able to interact with unbridged users!
Starting today, when people interact with you on the other side of the bridge, you'll get a notification over DM along with a "respond" link, where you can like, repost, reply, or block.
More details here: https://blog.anew.social/launch-interact-with-unbridged-replies-mentions/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/116047408377341614
Low-key, it's *my* most-requested feature, but I know a lot of y'all have wanted this as well ☺️
RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/116047408377341614
Low-key, it's *my* most-requested feature, but I know a lot of y'all have wanted this as well ☺️
We're excited to launch our most-requested Bridgy Fed feature: being able to interact with unbridged users!
Starting today, when people interact with you on the other side of the bridge, you'll get a notification over DM along with a "respond" link, where you can like, repost, reply, or block.
More details here: https://blog.anew.social/launch-interact-with-unbridged-replies-mentions/
피곤타
like, you want to find Dave. Dave is way more common than you would think. most enemy groups will have a good crop of Daves.
n.b. pay attention to Co-Conspirator 1's artistry here. it's *not*, as lots of people wrote online derisively, that Dave is somehow totally clueless. no, dear Dave is "my secret agent", "my special informant", he knows what's up—and then immediately after: how was your meeting? how's your important job? what do *you* think of this secret information, love? (you're such an expert! you have access to all this classified info, that proves you're special!)
Dave has this hot Russian agent all over him because his job is so real and important, he's living in a goddamn spy thriller right now; and how much more spiritually satisfying is that, compared to being a random mook barked at in the office room! life under capitalism is a void in the heart, of course he would try to stretch that fantasy life as long as he could, no matter what the critic in his head said. Co-Conspirator 1 is not a blunt instrument at all, she's finely crafted for the exact purpose. when you study her, compare her technique here to that of ASMR roleplay videos; the trick is to keep them in a suspended state like, I *know* she's just performing a role for the leaks/patreon rn, but also maybe she developed real feelings for me…?, but no she's just pretending to get the goods, but she's so nice to me specifically, what if… until they don't care anymore about whether the sugar is real or artificial, they're just craving the next hit of sweetness.
this is honeypotting but the same principle works for other forms of scamming, not necessarily *literally* seducing them, but also metaphorically with the promise of getting rich or strong or healthy or spiritually ascendant etc.
![5. On or about March 23, "Dave, it's great that you get information about [Specified Country 1] first. I hope you will tell me right away? You are my secret agent. With love."
6. On or about April 12, "Sweet Dave, the supply of weapons is completely classified, which is great!"
7. On or about April 14, "My sweet Dave, thanks for the valuable information, it's great that two officials from the USA are going to Kyiv."
8. On or about April 19, "Dave, I hope tomorrow NATO will prepare a very unpleasant "surprise" for Putin! Will you tell me?"
9. On or about April 21, "You have a job in the Operations Center today, I remember, I'm sure there is a lot of interesting news there?"
13. In response to these requests, DAVID FRANKLIN SLATER indeed provided
classified NDI to Co-Conspirator 1. For example, on or about March 28, 2022, DAVID
FRANKLIN SLATER transmitted classified NDI regarding military targets in Russia's war
against Ukraine, and on or about April 13, 2022, DAVID FRANKLIN SLATER transmitted
classified NDI regarding Russian military capabilities relating to Russia's invasion of Ukraine](https://transmom.love/system/media_attachments/files/116/046/052/438/729/522/original/30f0610c43b622cf.png)
As burglars, they used some unusual techniques, ones Davidon enjoyed recalling years later, such as what some of them did in 1970 at a draft board office in Delaware. During their casing, they had noticed that the interior door that opened to the draft board office was always locked. There was no padlock to replace, as they had done at a draft board raid in Philadelphia a few months earlier, and no one in the group was able to pick the lock. The break-in technique they settled on at that office must be unique in the annals of burglary. Several hours before the burglary was to take place, one of them wrote a note and tacked it to the door they wanted to enter: "Please don't lock this door tonight." Sure enough, when the burglars arrived that night, someone had obediently left the door unlocked. The burglars entered the office with ease, stole the Selective Service records, and left. They were so pleased with themselves that one of them proposed leaving a thank-you note on the door. More cautious minds prevailed. Miss Manners be damned, they did not leave a note.
amazing 
the techniker ist informiert technique
An easier way to reply to fediverse DMs.
Cross-platform social web tool Bridgy Fed can already send you notifications about DMs it can’t bridge back across platforms, and starting today, Bridgy Fed lets respond to those DMs right inside Bridgy Fed.
He's a handsome fellow #FosterCat #CatsOfMastodon
nicole mikołajczyk
Jim DeLaHunt
+ 
David Lord 
Tom Casavant
Glyph
Chao-c'
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
Bridgy Fed for Bluesky
Chris Siebenmann
@theverge.space