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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Last weekend, I jailbroke my Kindle following the instructions from kindlemodding.org/.

It was easier than I expected, and now I can sync all kinds of ebook formats to it and install additional software (e.g., an alternative reader, a Libby client or even Linux).

It made me feel like a proper hacker and inspired me to draw this comic using all the pop culture clichés there are for depicting a *real* hacker. 😄

A comic version of me, sitting behind a desk in a dark grey hoodie and a pair of eye masks. On the table is a laptop with various stickers on it, and a Kindle is connected to the laptop via a cable. Behind me is the famous Matrix wall of green digits.
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Discord claims "most users" will never go through an age verification process because they're already monitoring your behavior.

For the majority of adult users, we will be able to confirm your age group using information we already have. We use age prediction to determine, with high confidence, when a user is an adult. This allows many adults to access age-appropriate features without completing an explicit age check.

Gotta say, constant behavior analysis is not the warm and fuzzy blanket they seem to think it is.

discord.com/safety/how-discord

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"...during her 11 months as the de facto leader of the US Agency for Global Media, Lake has done profound damage to America’s foreign broadcasters, and to America’s ability to communicate with the world." - Anne Applebaum & Yvonne Wingett Sanchez in The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/

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加了几个开源项目的 Matrix Space 潜水,看的最多的是 off-topic 房间,刚刚打开了 Continuwuity 的 off-topic 房间。

一群程序员非常突然地开始分享身边的景色照片,于是我这个住在东八区的人在凌晨看到了英国早上的海景、河景,德国的日落,还有希腊的…… 游泳池。

这种时候就会觉得人类和互联网还是有救的 :piepeek:

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Here are some other talks I recommend:

Wastrel: WebAssembly Without the Runtime by @wingoAndy Wingo (Wastrel uses Hoot!) fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future (wins "Christine's award for most charming presentation") by @gwilsammy g fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

Automerge + Keyhive Design Overview by @expedeBrooklyn Zelenka fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

BLUE - A generic build-system crafted entirely in Guile by @shepherdSergio Pastor Pérez fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

raylib: a 12-year adventure as a solo-maintainer fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

Too many other good talks to list of course (and I haven't gotten through all of them) but all of the above talks totally rule

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Wanted to see me speak at but couldn't make it? Here's the two talks I gave!

How to Level Up the Fediverse
(co-presented with ActivityPub co-author @tsyesikaJessica Tallon !) fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

Lisp is Clay: the Power of Composable DSLs fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

Can't get enough? Need more talks? We gave a bunch... 🧵

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개인적으로는 인터페이스 용어를 외래어(또는 외국어)나 한자어보다 고유어로 표현하는 것을 좋아한다. 예를 들면 ‘게시’보다는 ‘쓰기’, ‘전송’보다는 ‘보내기’를 쓰는 편이다.

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will no longer allow new free users to sign up using a VPN.

I understand the need to combat abuse, but I have to imagine there was a better way to do that. VPNs - while often overblown - are INCREDIBLY common even outside the privacy space, and are often one of the first entry-level steps some people take when getting into privacy. Even I use a VPN on all my devices and my router.

Very disappointing. I might delist them over this.

filen.io/hub/an-update-on-free

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K9VS、確実にお仕置きされそうな流行り方してるなあ
増えすぎてデッキの多様性が
:owaowari:​になってるし、こっちのターンに動きまくってくる不快さが段ちだからヘイトをかなり集めてる

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I’ve complained LLMs are bad at SwiftUI, and that’s not entirely accurate.

It has bad default approaches, because it’s all trained stale StackOverflow answers. It can be steered in the right direction if you know what you’re doing, but that’s kind of the problem.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Apple needs to massively improve its documentation and sample code to overcome this. Thousands of sample projects, actively maintained.

(Hi WWDR! Hire me to do this!)

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エリザベ酢 (@otolizzy) on X
山本太郎のドルガバ(20年くらい同じものを着ている)と大石あきこのモンクレール(実際はユニクロ)を叩きまくってるやつらが麻生太郎の超高級スーツのことは着こなしが最高!さすが!!って絶賛してるのってバカ以外になんていえばいいんだよ x.com/i/status/202150624603421

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