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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jnkrtech @jnkrtech@treehouse.systems
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Second time this week that someone has explicitly or implicitly accused me of using an LLM to write my Reddit comments.

“Ameliorated is a pretty big word, are you an English major?”

No, dipshit, I just put in the effort to communicate precisely.

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Anya @TheSunnyOne@eldritch.cafe
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Boost with CW: UK, transphobia, direct action

fediverse.gendercensus.com/@ge

Gender Census (@gendercensus@fediverse.gendercensus.com)

UK folks in the mood for a little bit of armchair activism, search online for your local library and check if the catalogue contains this book. If it does, contact your library and ask them to remove it. The article below has some talking points. #transphobia #activism

fediverse.gendercensus.com · Gender Census

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Mark Dominus @mjd@mathstodon.xyz
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sour and pessimistic uspol lament

I was skimming through the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices yesterday, and thinking, as I often do, that one of the finest things in the U.S. is our highway signage. No joke, I am really proud of our achievements here. They are a triumph of civic administration and a valuable application of our affluence for the public good.

(The manual is available online for free and will be of great delight to many varieties of nerd: mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/kno_11th_Ed )

And then I thought it's probably only a matter of time until the current administration figures out a way to line their pockets with highway sign funds, announces that highway signs are Fake News and Woke and fucks them up somehow or eliminates them entirely.

A complex and detailed diagram from the MUTCD, explaining the proper appearance and road spacing of a series of signs announcing an upcoming highway exit.
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William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

"What we suspected but weren’t told was that their job was to black-out Trump’s name every time they found it. …

When you’ve lost Marjorie Taylor Greene & Lauren Boebert, both of whom have had a look at the unredacted Epstein files, you have a whole lot to worry about. Trump is cornered by the life of sexual abuse he led in the past. He doesn’t just face allegations from women and a legal judgement against him from a woman he raped."


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William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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"The big headline of the day was made by Congressman Jamie Raskin, who upon exiting the redaction room told the press that a search of all the unredacted Epstein files – not just the redacted files released publicly – revealed that Donald Trump’s name appears more than one million times."

~ Lucian K. Truscott


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luciantruscott.substack.com/p/

How many more times will we have to read the words, “It’s way worse than you think?”

That phrase was uttered this time by, of all people, Marjorie Taylor Greene after she had visited the ultra-secure room in the Department of Justice where members of Congress can read, but not copy, the unredacted Epstein files.

luciantruscott.substack.com

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William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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"What does it say about the moment we're in that there have been no consequences yet for anybody on this list? There have been overseas, but not here in America. ...

This is going to be an election where, where Trump decides, 'We'll have to keep doing crazier and crazier and crazier things' because he is in such a deep hole right now."

~ Rick Wilson


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lincolnsquare.media/p/epstein-

Epstein Files Bombshells & Trump's Polling Flameout | The Strategy Session with Rick Wilson, Joe Trippi, & Stuart Stevens

Jobs numbers (bad), Trump's polling (worse), Epstein fallout (catastrophic).

www.lincolnsquare.media

William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

"The big headline of the day was made by Congressman Jamie Raskin, who upon exiting the redaction room told the press that a search of all the unredacted Epstein files – not just the redacted files released publicly – revealed that Donald Trump’s name appears more than one million times."

~ Lucian K. Truscott


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luciantruscott.substack.com/p/

How many more times will we have to read the words, “It’s way worse than you think?”

That phrase was uttered this time by, of all people, Marjorie Taylor Greene after she had visited the ultra-secure room in the Department of Justice where members of Congress can read, but not copy, the unredacted Epstein files.

luciantruscott.substack.com

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William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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“'We must be clear: this release does not provide closure. It feels instead like a deliberate attempt to intimidate survivors, punish those who came forward, and reinforce the same culture of secrecy that allowed Epstein’s crimes to continue for decades.' ...

It’s time for the United States of America to have the kind of accountability for the Epstein class that we’re seeing elsewhere in the world."


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William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

"What does it say about the moment we're in that there have been no consequences yet for anybody on this list? There have been overseas, but not here in America. ...

This is going to be an election where, where Trump decides, 'We'll have to keep doing crazier and crazier and crazier things' because he is in such a deep hole right now."

~ Rick Wilson


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lincolnsquare.media/p/epstein-

Epstein Files Bombshells & Trump's Polling Flameout | The Strategy Session with Rick Wilson, Joe Trippi, & Stuart Stevens

Jobs numbers (bad), Trump's polling (worse), Epstein fallout (catastrophic).

www.lincolnsquare.media

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William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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"It turns, out destroying people’s lives and livelihoods with no allegiance to anything but your own wealth and power is always evil. So, it turns out, it’s the same guys. Same billionaires. Same vibes. Same moral black hole—just different crimes on different days."

~ Cliff Schecter


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blueamp.co/p/donald-trumps-sup

Donald Trump’s Super-Predator Billionaire Buddies Step Out of the Shadows

Trump's Jeffrey Epstein Entourage prey on young girls, jobs, pensions, democracy, and now the truth itself—and these billionaire enablers are only getting worse, believe it or not.

www.blueamp.co

William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

"When you strip away their jargon of 'network states' and 'effective altruism,' you’re basically looking at a reboot of white supremacy and fascism. These people don’t believe capitalism is compatible with democracy."

~ Wajahat Ali


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thelefthook.substack.com/p/eps

Epstein's Genocidal Crypto Bros Are Willing to Kill Us All For Their Techno-Fascist Paradise

Technology reporter & author David Z. Morris researched the nihilistic values system of the broligarchy who shared Epstein's eugenics framework and desire for a world without rules or accountability.

thelefthook.substack.com

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William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

"The hideous crimes of Trump's ICE in the present and the revelations about the hideous crimes of the past that implicate so many rich and powerful white men, including Trump and his commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, are together a sort of pincers move. They corral the administration from two angles, clarifying its utter disregard for the human rights of, well, everyone but powerful white men."

~ Rebecca Solnit


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meditationsinanemergency.com/a

Auspicious Omens and Excellent Insubordination

I started this out as a letter to a friend who's feeling down about where we as a nation are at in this moment, and I am still learning how this newsletter thing works so thought I could use the newsletter template to produce a private document, maybe a PDF,

www.meditationsinanemergency.com · Meditations in an Emergency

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Ro @are0h@polychrom.ing
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Shared by phildini

It’s kind of wild when you think about how many Black and Brown teachers, scholars and experts got pushed out of the fedi over the years, but this place still, somehow, considers itself progressive.

In that context, it makes a lot of sense why Blacksky is improving as quickly as it has.

It’s just not as antagonistic to learning and adapting.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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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

FOSDEM 2026 - Wastrel: WebAssembly Without the Runtime

fosdem.org

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OpenStreetMap Ops Team @osm_tech@en.osm.town
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Shared by Dr. Anna Latour

OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today. We're working to keep the site online while facing extreme load from anonymous scrapers spread across 100,000+ IP addresses. Please be patient while we mitigate and protect the service.

OpenStreetMap logo

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

www.openstreetmap.org · OpenStreetMap

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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So for a long time I found LISP elegant but I found the syntax infuriating. Then I made my own LISP variant with semi-significant whitespace and helper syntax— each line (up to whitespace or comma) is wrapped in an implicit (), a : wraps a () to the end of the line, a {} wraps its interior in (lambda), a [] wraps its contents in (list ), "x.y" becomes "get x y". Suddenly, I found it usable!

I wonder if I could just make an editor that applies these rules implicitly, and then I could use GUIX.

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Renata @renata@cosocial.ca
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For Canadian fintech sovereignty, I’d like to invite people to take a look at what Brazil did with Pix

Pix is an instant payment system managed by the central bank of Brazil - it’s a government thing. It enables people and businesses to pay/receive transactions without fees and without the need of a credit card. All you need is a bank account and a personal identification number you use to link to that bank account. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(pay

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Pix (payment system) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Zhuo-Fei Hui @zfhui@mastodon.social
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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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Taggart :donor: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
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Shared by Christine Lemmer-Webber

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

A Safer Discord by Default: New Teen Safety Updates

Discord is rolling out global teen safety updates designed to create age-appropriate experiences by default.

discord.com

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Steve Herman @newsguyusa@flipboard.social
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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/

What Is Kari Lake Trying to Achieve?

The Arizona politician has wasted millions of dollars while blocking U.S. efforts to bring reliable news to repressive countries.

www.theatlantic.com · The Atlantic

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