What is Hackers' Pub?

It is depressing if someone experiences hate on here, especially if it puts them off using this place.

I follow people that regularly raise these issues, to hear how bad it is and what the causes are.

Five things seem to come up most often:

- Lack of representation in software design
- Users not being able to control who can reply to their posts
- Moderation being reactive rather than proactive
- Allowlists vs blocklists
- Cultural problems

Let's look closer...

🧵 Thread - Part 1 of 7

@cheeaunChee Aun 🤔 any way you can allow us to add a shortcut to our own profile in Phanpy? 🥺

The PyCharm team at JetBrains is hosting the inaugural PyTV Python Unplugged conference on March 4th in Amsterdam.

It's a FREE, online Python conference available to everyone everywhere. The event will be livestreamed and available on YouTube afterward.

Django-specific speakers include @sheena, @sarahboyce, and @carltonCarlton Gibson, among many others.

You can save the date here: https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-unplugged/

Ein monatelanger Streik der Kieler Werftarbeiter*innen und der IG Metall hat 1956/57 die Lohnfortzahlung im Krankheitsfall für alle erkämpft.

Aktueller denn je, denn genau diese - scheinbaren - Selbstverständlichkeiten werden gerade von der CDU angegriffen. Lange Zeit unvorstellbar.

Der Film dazu bei @3sat3sat , via @hope_n_beautywhy_o_why

https://www.3sat.de/film/fernsehfilm/die-mutigen-56-aufstand-ddr-100.html

Ein monatelanger Streik der Kieler Werftarbeiter*innen und der IG Metall hat 1956/57 die Lohnfortzahlung im Krankheitsfall für alle erkämpft.

Aktueller denn je, denn genau diese - scheinbaren - Selbstverständlichkeiten werden gerade von der CDU angegriffen. Lange Zeit unvorstellbar.

Der Film dazu bei @3sat3sat , via @hope_n_beautywhy_o_why

https://www.3sat.de/film/fernsehfilm/die-mutigen-56-aufstand-ddr-100.html

IF you are a fiction writer, especially of genre fiction, and

IF you would like to work with a professional editor who eschews the use of AI for writing or editing, and

IF you have a final draft sitting somewhere, that's been read by your trusted team of beta readers (you do have beta readers, don't you?), whether it's a short story or a 150K-word novel,

THEN

I might be the editor you're looking for. My specialties are SF/F, historical, horror, thriller, action/adventure, and weird (think William Hope Hodgson, Lovecraft, Blackwood, etc.). It's horror but not pure. It's . . . weird.

Yes, I'm mostly retired, but I'm not gone. I'd love to work with the right client! I've edited for clients around the world, so no worries if you're not in the US (I envy you, these days).

Maybe that is you.

https://grammargeddon.com/karen-s-conlin

#AmWriting #AmEditing #FictionWriters #FictionEditors #HistFic #HistoricalFiction #SpecFic #SpeculativeFiction #HorrorFiction

• Improved memory allocation calculation (uses sizeof on actual array element instead of explicit type)
• Better error message: filenames ending in '/' now report "Invalid filename" instead of "Is a directory"

IF you are a fiction writer, especially of genre fiction, and

IF you would like to work with a professional editor who eschews the use of AI for writing or editing, and

IF you have a final draft sitting somewhere, that's been read by your trusted team of beta readers (you do have beta readers, don't you?), whether it's a short story or a 150K-word novel,

THEN

I might be the editor you're looking for. My specialties are SF/F, historical, horror, thriller, action/adventure, and weird (think William Hope Hodgson, Lovecraft, Blackwood, etc.). It's horror but not pure. It's . . . weird.

Yes, I'm mostly retired, but I'm not gone. I'd love to work with the right client! I've edited for clients around the world, so no worries if you're not in the US (I envy you, these days).

Maybe that is you.

https://grammargeddon.com/karen-s-conlin

#AmWriting #AmEditing #FictionWriters #FictionEditors #HistFic #HistoricalFiction #SpecFic #SpeculativeFiction #HorrorFiction

*sound of a vibraslap*

🚀❄️ CryptPad Winter release (2026.2.0) is now available on GitHub!

🗃️ Updated Office applications
⏲️ History in Office applications
🌳 Redesigned drive tree

Along with a ton of fixes and improvements, please see full release notes for details:
https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad/releases/tag/2026.2.0

#cryptpad #privacy #e2ee #selfhosting

"In the beginning, the Web was simple. When I first encountered it in early 1993 (working for O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator[...]), there was only one browser for viewing web pages and it ran exclusively on the Unix platform. There were about a dozen tags that made any difference. Designing a web page was a relatively simple task."

https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-global-network-navigator/

#internet #TheWeb #cyberculture #technology #essay

Ring used the Super Bowl to launch “Search Party,” an AI feature that turns neighborhood cameras into a network to find a lost dog.

This isn’t about lost dogs. It’s about normalizing automated neighborhood surveillance.

https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/

#ring #surveillance #tech #privacy #superbowl #flock

Sketches for @accordioncat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy 😸!

#Google Fulfilled #ICE Subpoena Demanding Student #Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers

https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/

#privacy #politics

security advice, 1996: writing your passwords down in a notebook is a very bad idea and nobody should do it

security advice, 2026: writing your passwords down in a notebook is one of the most secure storage methods for most users

(fun how threat models change over time, eh?)

A software license doesn’t make software good.

Open source code written by a bunch of sexist, racist, ableist assholes is no viable alternative.

Free, libre, open source code is good when:

- there are design docs

- there are risk assessments

- there is user research

- accessibility is a requirement from the beginning

- it is private by design

- documentation is a part of every release

All of this is enabled by teams with a code of conduct, and no tolerance for assholes.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion is the key to all of the goals FLOSS projects claim to share.

If you're interested in funding or helping us find funding for a Discord replacement that's federated and end-to-end encrypted, we're interested in implementing that at @spritelyThe Spritely Institute ... we even had been talking about that being our big focus for 2026.

We have the skills and the underlying tech to pull this off. What we need right now is resources. Funding for open source nonprofits like ours really fell apart in 2025. If you think you know how to help, feel free to reach out.

Gallup has suddenly decided to stop doing presidential approval rating polls as Trump creeps to new lows. 🤔

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/

https://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 #DDoS #Scrapers #AI

Motorola’s Password Pill Was Just One Idea

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/motorolas-password-pill-was-just-one-idea/

Today marks the 8th anniversary of the founding of the Open Privacy Research Society (@openprivacyOpen Privacy Research Society) which happened a few weeks after @dan_ballard and I sat down in a coffee ship in Vancouver and committed to trying to bootstrap a different kind of organization.

Since then no two years have been the same; from disclosing flaws in infrastructure in Vancouver and e-voting in Switzerland; to launching and maintaining @cwtch, to working and partnering with local orgs to build much needed systems.

I got my first roll of #Super8 film developed. But, since I filmed near where I live, I cannot share the footage online. Still, it's so cool! Focusing on the Yashica Super-600 is not easy though, especially with a moving subject.

#BelieveInFilm #8mm

Today marks the 8th anniversary of the founding of the Open Privacy Research Society (@openprivacyOpen Privacy Research Society) which happened a few weeks after @dan_ballard and I sat down in a coffee ship in Vancouver and committed to trying to bootstrap a different kind of organization.

Since then no two years have been the same; from disclosing flaws in infrastructure in Vancouver and e-voting in Switzerland; to launching and maintaining @cwtch, to working and partnering with local orgs to build much needed systems.

Level up your next campaign and share the word about digital rights with your friends! EFF's dice set will look great doing both. https://shop.eff.org/products/liquid-core-eff-dice

On Discord Alternatives

Next month, Discord is going to start requiring age verification. The backlash from gamers everywhere has been predictable and justified. I guess their company name checks out. I've had a few people reach out to me because of my prior vulnerability disclosures and criticism of encrypted messaging apps. (Thanks, Toggart.) Unfortunately, asking a cryptography-focused security engineer for app recommendations is like asking a rocket scientist to…

http://soatok.blog/2026/02/11/on-discord-alternatives/

Want to go the directory you were just in?
Type "cd -"

Level up your next campaign and share the word about digital rights with your friends! EFF's dice set will look great doing both. https://shop.eff.org/products/liquid-core-eff-dice

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RE: https://gardenstate.social/@jenn/116049372624338211

today’s my birthday!

if you’d like to celebrate me, i would appreciate you looking at my work and perhaps sharing it with someone you know who may be charmed by my work

Last weekend, I jailbroke my Kindle following the instructions from https://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. 😄

#did #diday #digitalindependenceday

腹減った…寝るか​​
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Apparently you're not meant to answer "you're pretty" with "I know, right?!"

Did you expect me to lie?

#Exercitium: Sumas de 4 primos. https://jaalonso.github.io/exercitium/posts/2015/02/16-sumas_de_4_primos/ #Haskell #FunctionalProgramming #Math

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠

Demon core is the universal healing

Oops! 😋 You 🫵 have been 💉inFUCKTED💉 with 🐕RUSTY ROCKET MALWARE🐕

😱😱😱

pREPare 💊 for your DADDA 🫃🙎‍♂️ to be 👄SEXfiltrated🫦 to 🧚‍♀GIRL LEAKS🧚‍♀️ 😩💦

Be a nice little 💸🐖piggy🐖💸 and send $12,000 in 💸monero💸 and 🛑TRON🛑 if you ever want to see your 🍼dada🍼 again 🙆‍♀️

@sbrlStarbeamrainbowlabs's 2 laws of artificial intelligence:

1. AI will always hallucinatinate
2. AI will always be biased

AI is like a dictionary. It stores the important things in the training dataset in its memory. Then it matches against them when queried. Anything outside of what it learnt matches results in an inaccurate answer.

Data is generated by humans, who are inherently biased. We can't account for biases we don't know about.

What matters is not really AGI and media hype, but how we understand how models work, apply them appropriately, and continually work to understand and deal with bias as best we can - just like with irl.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEthics #GenAI

おっさんぽから戻ったらスタンドアローンLiDARルンバさんがソファの下に捕獲されていました。ごめんよう。ちょうど挟まっちゃう高さの隙間なんだよなあ…

He won't go out of his way to chase down our resident mouse (see previous post) but will, however, hunt Kraft Dinner with great determination.

He may have been successful in his lunchtime mugging. Punk.

#CatsOfMastodon

寫報告卡住了...再卡半小時，繼續不了今天就先休息了。

有時我會忍不住頻繁發帖，嘗試著找個不影響大家閱讀觀感的時間發。

這個點大家都睡了吧，睡了吧...？

請從配圖接收，我目前那感人的精神狀態...

想到了折衷辦法，忍不住的時候，我就不停編輯原帖。既滿足了表達慾，又不刷屏。比如現在...

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RE: https://gardenstate.social/@jenn/116049372624338211

today’s my birthday!

if you’d like to celebrate me, i would appreciate you looking at my work and perhaps sharing it with someone you know who may be charmed by my work

Zkuste to měsíc na vlastní pohon. Celý květen se dopravujte do práce, na nákup, na návštěvu, s dětmi do školy na kole, na koloběžce, pěšky nebo poklusem. Svými trasami můžete přispět k rozvoji bezpečné infrastruktury a přitom využít řadu doprovodných akcí, slev a vyhrát super ceny. https://dopracenakole.cz/kvetnova-vyzva

#bike2work #dopracenakole

Desert soup? I added pumpkin spice mix instead of cinnamon and nutmeg by accident.

My brain be confused.

Some quality Italian music for a relaxing Wednesday evening

https://song.link/s/2Z7cRvS9SjIM3fGNsT3Emt

#Music #MastoMusic #FediMusic #FediRadio #MastoRadio #JukeBox

GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

Link: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977210

Toyota Fluorite: "console-grade" Flutter game engine

Link: https://fluorite.game/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976911