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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Hello nerds!

We've just created the first release candidate version of #GoToSocial v0.21.0 Sacrilegious Sloth!

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.21.0-rc1

Adventurous admins can try updating to this release candidate, and let us know if there's any new and interesting bugs to be found.

We're really proud of this one, the sloth is starting to feel really useable and good!

Please read the migration notes carefully for instructions on how to upgrade to this version. Bear in mind there are a few big-ish database migrations in this one, which may take somewhere between a minute or 20+ minutes to run (depending on your hardware). Be patient, backup your database first, and don't interrupt the migrations.

Release highlights

  • Domain Limits: You can now create domain limits in the admin section of the settings panel, in order to do things like limit + mute all accounts on a domain (except ones you follow), add content warnings to posts from limited domains, mark media as sensitive (or don't download it at all).
    Documented here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/admin/domain_limits/
  • Indexable support: You can now mark your account as "indexable" by full-text search, in the settings panel. This will federate your preference to other servers, so that servers with full-text search functionality can include your posts in search results.
    Documented here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/settings/#mark-accounts-posts-as-full-text-indexable
  • Show reblogs on the web view of your profile (opt-in): A new setting in the settings panel allows you to opt-in to showing posts that you've boosted/reblogged on the web view of your profile. The default setting retains existing behavior (don't show boosts on the web view).
    Documented here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/settings/#include-boosts-on-the-web-view-of-your-profile
  • Better caching behavior for timelines. The number of database calls when browsing local + public timelines and lists should be significantly reduced.
  • Store + show reason for undownloaded media: When media fails to be downloaded from a remote instance, the reason why will be shown next to the post.
  • Include canQuote property on outgoing posts: Currently, this is always set to author-only, but it paves the way (and signals intent) for GtS to implement quote toots at some point.
  • Much improved OpenGraph previews: Whitespace is now preserved in OpenGraph previews, and media + formatting was rejigged, so linking to GoToSocial posts should result in much better OpenGraph-generated preview cards.
  • Expand/collapse all spoilers button on web view of threads: when viewing threads in the web view, you can now expand/collapse all spoilers at the click of a button.
  • S3 Object Info Caching: you can now configure cache.s3-object-info in order to mitigate expensive S3 info calls when doing nightly media cleanup.
  • Preserve significant whitespaces in incoming + outgoing posts: previously we were squashing a lot of whitespace together, which meant that, for example, indentation could get lost on posts federated into a GoToSocial instance. This is now fixed, so you can post poetry and whatnot without worrying about it looking like hot crap.
  • Millions of fucking bugfixes: we squashed a lot of them!
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Last year, we visited to showcase our laptops that are running seamlessly. 💻 🐧 💖 🚀

During , NovaCustom met Sebastian Kraus again, one of the board members of the Nix OS Foundation.

We are very proud to say that we now officially support @nixos_orgNixOS. We even have it as a preinstalled option on our website!

👉 Check out our latest blog post: novacustom.com/nix-os-support/

NovaCustom during NixCon25NovaCustom has NixOS on its website to be preinstalled when purchasing a computer or laptop.NovaCustom is also listed on the official NixOS website under the section 'Ships with NixOS'.
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The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the products and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

We rejected this demand in its entirety.

In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

And now we see each other in court.

But why all this?

Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

All of this is making Palantir nervous.

We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

The truth.

All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

the authors from the republik investigations (from left to right): maguerite meyer, lorenz naegeli, adrienne fichter, balz oertli, jennifer steiner
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然后看了看 16e 的售价。安卓售价。虽然对华为无感但是即使性价比低的华为四千多块钱也能买到华为第二梯队的 nova 15 Ultra 了。评价是不如等 iOS n 出了买 iPhone n-15

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경기도는 '부동산수사TF팀'을 발족해 하남과 성남, 용인 등지에서 불법 가격 담합 등을 한 주민들을 적발했다고 밝혔습니다. 경기도에 따르면, 하남시의 한 아파트 단지 주민 179명은 익명 카카오톡 오픈채팅방을 개설해 10억 원 이하로 매물을 팔지 못하게끔 담합했습니다. 이들은 10억 원 이하로 나온 매물을 소개하는 공인중개사무소는 '허위 매물 취급 업소'라며 포털사이트에 신고하고, 하남시청에 집단 민원을 제기했습니다. 성남도 용인도 마찬가지

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:63tlschoqosw5pzzjvgbsnhl/post/3menvnjoju22r

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Never get in an argument with a cat.
Never get in a fight with some ants.

My carpenter ants are DONE with winter. IDK why but they are awake. Maybe I gave them too much sugar as a winter snack, but it's time to get out the fluon again and set things up like it summer.

They won't be docile and let me clean their tank. They are trying to escape.

And I know you will think I'm making this up... but a four year old ant colony is much more sneaky and wily than a new ant colony.

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겨울올림픽에서 트랜스젠더 선수가 처음으로 설원에 섰습니다. 스웨덴 프리스타일 스키 국가대표 엘리스 룬드홀름은 여성으로 태어나 남성으로 정체성을 밝힌 트랜스젠더 선수로, 이번 대회에서는 여자부 경기에 출전했습니다. 여름올림픽 종목을 중심으로 이뤄진 성별 논쟁이 겨울 무대까지 확장되면서 IOC가 준비 중인 새 규정에 관심이 쏠립니다.

겨울올림픽 첫 트랜스젠더 선수 출전…IOC, 젠더 정책...

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Before I started dealing with FSKit (macOS's FUSE semi-equivalent) I thought volumes were either mounted, or unmounted.

Now I know about like 18 intermediate states, several of them meaning "only reboot will fix it (lest you disable SIP)". It's cool. I'm cool. We're cool.

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Serious question for computer touchers:

What are the differences, if any, between "user interface" and "user experience"?

I guessed a few things just from the names, but many seem to use these terms interchangeably leading to confusion.

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Ya están pegados los carteles para la Fedifiesta ✌️

Agradecido con toda la gente simpática que me atendió y me dejo poner el cartel
:blobcathearthug:

Solo a un local le pareció un cartel demasiado político "lo siento, no nos posicionamos en nada"
😐

Cartel de la fedifiesta de murcia con el texto: ¿Buscas alternativas a las redes sociales corporativas?
15 de febrero a las 11:00 a.m. 
Descubre qué es el fediverso y reflexiona con nosotres sobre el impacto de las redes sociales. Conoce a la comunidad comiendo empanadillas veganas al son de la música.
La Ajuntaera (Murcia), Calle Simón García, 45
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