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.
올림픽 전 ‘메달을 따면 어떨 것 같냐’는 물음에 “웃을 것 같다”던 쇼트트랙 신성 임종언(19)은 자신의 생애 첫 올림픽 메달(동)을 딴 뒤 코치의 품에 안겨 남몰래 눈물을 훔쳤습니다. “나 자신을 믿고 경기를 펼쳤다”는 임종언은 막판 아웃코스 뒤집기로 화려한 데뷔전을 치렀습니다.
남자 쇼트트랙 1000m 동메달 임종언 “끝까지 발 내...
This week on my revolution.social podcast I talk to 
@mikeMike McCue of Flipboard, the dot.social podcast, and former Netscape executive. We go through the way we created an open internet on the web and how that was lost in the social media smartphone era, concluding with the struggle to restore an open social internet for all based on protocols like ActivityPub, ATprotocol, and Nostr. https://fountain.fm/episode/0vjUP8LWvOjSpIPto25z
RE: https://www.threads.com/@mid810/post/DUqyZkikpXO
Middle曾經被網民笑是香港「發情文學」的代表
連這樣的創作者都要說話，很能說明這個地方發生了什麼事…
this vlog i put on TikTok earlier is actually a meticulously composed essay, im pleased both by the rhetorical structure i devised and the fact that i was able to perform it with the illusion of spontaneity. a 3 minute vlog on tiktok is a risky bet, a 3 minute vlog in which your ultimate thesis is implied but unsaid riskier still, but it's doing well so looks like i hit the mark with the target audience
We're Doomed. Now What? by Roy Scranton, 2018
An American Orwell for the age of Trump, Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day with fierce insight and honesty. We're Doomed. Now What? penetrates to the very heart of our time.
The Aliens are here
Emiliania huxleyi is one of the most abundant organisms in today’s oceans.
From:
Experimenting on a Small Planet.
Composition with floppies, using two different kind of fills: cross hatching and BenDay dots.
CMYK on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.
Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/floppy/
#MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI #PlotterTwitter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #PenPlotter #Floppies #FloppyDisk
FR#152 – The DSA Needs Big Tech
Last week was the FOSDEM conference, where my time was mostly spend chatting with people so I had little time actually listen to all the talks at the event itself. I want to spend some time on one panel in particular, because while rewatching the panel I realised it surfaced some pretty deep structural issues between the fediverse and the DSA.
The panel “The Fediverse and the EU’s Digital Services Act” brought together Alexandra Geese, a Member of the European Parliament and one of the lead negotiators of the DSA; Felix Hlatky, the recently appointed Executive Director of Mastodon; and Sandra Barthel, founder of the Alliance of Open Networks. The title of the panel suggested this was about complementary approaches to the same problem of how Europe can protect democratic discourse online, but turns out there’s a bit more to it.
Geese laid out the DSA’s most powerful provision clearly. Article 34 requires Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs, defined as platforms with more than 45 million monthly active users) to assess systemic risks, and allows the Commission to mandate changes to algorithms, targeting systems, and business models. This, Geese argued, is what makes the DSA meaningful. It gives Europe the ability to intervene in how platforms shape public discourse, without having to become a “ministry of truth” that decides what content is or isn’t allowed.
Hlatky then described the fediverse as a fundamentally different kind of network. “It’s a network of a lot of small networks. In fact, in the fediverse there’s around 30,000 active small servers.” He went on: “From a regulatory point of view, it’s very attractive because they all of them default under the SME exemption, small medium enterprises, so all of these servers are very small so they fall under this exemption.” When asked what makes the fediverse a nicer place than mainstream social media, Hlatky pointed to design and culture: “Polarizing content on Mastodon and the broader fediverse, it will never be amplified in the same way as in other networks, simply because of design choice, that this content doesn’t have this strong amplification. But the second thing that is probably more important is that trust and safety is not an afterthought, something that is bolted on later because we need this for regulatory compliance, but it’s part of the initial product design process.”
These are both reasonable statements on their own, but positioned next to each other it is visible that both Geese and Hlatky describe projects that work against each other. Geese’s entire model depends on VLOPs actually existing, as without a platform that crosses the 45 million monthly active users article 34 of the DSA has nothing to act upon. The DSA’s power to force algorithmic changes, to mandate risk assessments, to reshape business models, all of it requires a centralized platform large enough to qualify. Without a VLOP, the DSA actually does very little. On the other hand, Hlatky, as the Executive Director of one of the largest software developers building the alternative, is explicitly celebrating the fact that nothing in the fediverse qualifies for the DSA, and that the structure of the network makes it likely that nothing will ever qualify. The network architecture of the fediverse creates the possibility for the large majority of participants (if not everybody) to avoid DSA regulation via the SME exemption.
During the panel, Geese was remarkably candid about the geopolitical pressure the European Commission faces when trying to enforce the DSA against US-based platforms. She described how US government threats, including tariff escalation and NATO posturing, are actively deterring the Commission from enforcement. In her framing, DSA enforcement is no longer just a regulatory question, and she sees it as one of three fundamental geopolitical conflicts facing Europe, alongside defense against Russia and economic competitiveness, and argued that enforcing the DSA requires political courage at the highest levels of European leadership.
This problem of political will only matters if VLOPs exist to enforce the DSA against. In a network of 30,000 small servers, there is no entity for the Commission to pressure, and no platform for the US government to shield through diplomatic coercion. The fediverse sidesteps the geopolitical vulnerability that Geese described, but does so by eliminating the regulatory lever entirely.
The very geopolitical pressure that makes DSA enforcement difficult is itself an argument for the fediverse. If the Commission can be coerced into not enforcing against US-based VLOPs, then a network architecture without VLOPs is more resilient, not just technically but geopolitically. But that resilience comes at a cost to both sides of the current power dynamic. For the US, a world without VLOPs removes the ability to fuse state power with platform power, the dynamic that currently allows the US government to shield companies like X and Meta from European regulation. For the EU it removes the regulatory lever that the Commission has spent years building, and with it the role the EU has carved out for itself as the global counterweight to Big Tech. The EU’s position in digital governance, as well as the way the EU understands itself, is built around being the entity that regulates platforms. Without platforms large enough to regulate, that position loses its foundation.
For Hlatky, this avoidance of the DSA is not a big problem, as he sees many positive traits for the fediverse, such as polarizing content not being amplified and trust and safety being integrated into product design. However, these traits can better be described as how Hlatky views Mastodon, as those are not characteristics that are intrinsic to an ActivityPub network, and the claim that trust and safety is integral to Mastodon’s product design is contested within the community as well. While other ActivityPub software also proclaims these traits, it might just be an emergent property that flows from the type of people and their interest who are the early adopters and new builders of of open social platforms. In a potential world where open social protocols gain mass adoption, I’m not sure these characteristics will hold up, especially if it becomes a hyped new technology that attracts a very different user base with other priorities.
This is something I have written about before: one of the reasons the European Commission actually needs platforms like X to exist is that it has built its entire regulatory infrastructure around the assumption that VLOPs exist. Open social networks don’t just offer an alternative to Big Tech, they undermine the assumptions that European digital regulation is built on. The panel at FOSDEM was collegial and constructive, and everyone agreed that the fediverse is good and the DSA is necessary. But nobody asked the harder question: if the fediverse succeeds in replacing centralized platforms, what regulatory framework takes over from the DSA?
For Protocols For Publishers I gave a presentation on the state of the open social web, explaining to publishers how both ActivityPub and atproto have different visions for how a social network can function. In my opinions these visions can be complementary to each other, with atproto well suited for the distribution of news, and ActivityPub creating new primitives for community building. The slide deck can be downloaded here.
PieFed has seen a sustained growth of new users over the last week, increasing it’s total user base by 50% in a week. The main driver of growth for PieFed, created by New Zealand based developer Rimu Atkinson, is a popular post on the BuyFromEU subreddit that describes the platform as an European Reddit Alternative. While impressive growth in relative terms, in absolute terms the entire network is still small, with some 8k monthly active users (MAU) for PieFed and 36k MAU for Lemmy.
Mastodon has announced that they are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment, where they’ll recommend “the closest server geographically that is in the correct language during the sign-up flow.” Mastodon using the mastodon.social as a default server for signup has been a point of critique for years within the community, and the organisation is now addressing this feedback.
Holos continues to be one of the most interesting projects moving ActivityPub forward. It runs an ActivityPub servers on your mobile phone, with a relay that handles your identity, as well as data forwarding for the periods when your phone is inaccessible. The latest update allows you to set your identity based on a domain name you own, fairly similar to atproto. Once the project launches as a 1.0 I’ll write a more detailed explainer about it and why I think it matters, for the protocol-minded people I already recommend taking a look.
FediMTL is a conference about digital sovereignty and the social web, that will be held on February 24, 2026 in Montreal (streaming options also available).
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr152-the-dsa-needs-big-tech/
스트리트 포토그래피, 더 넓게 다큐멘터리 사진은 초기부터 몰래 찍고 속여 찍었다는 의혹과 비판이 이어지던 장르이다. 보도, 공공 기록에서부터 개인 인격의 침해까지 이어지는 스펙트럼 중 어느 부분에 선을 그을지는 그 사회와 시대의 맥락 속에서 비교형량 후 결정할 수 밖에 없다. 관대하던 나라들도 변하고 있으며, 더욱이 과거와 지금의 사진 기술, 문화는 크게 다르다. 사진 그리고 영상은 사회의 룰에 따라야 한다. 불타는 예술혼이 그에 반한다면, 최소한 그로 인한 책임과 비난은 그 예술가가 져야 할 짐이다. 사회는 그 대가를 무겁게 매겨야 하고.
닉 1:1 등신대 피규어! 에? 단돈 1199만원! 미친놈아 게다가 할인행사로 10만원을 깎아드립니다! 1%도 안 되잖아 Tq 배송비 10만원 별도. 미친놈아
The 
@nlnet GenAI policy is the only one I've come across so far actually making a clear statement on the incompatibility of LLM outputs with open source: https://nlnet.nl/foundation/policies/generativeAI/
Have any of the big license organisations (thinking OSI, FSF, Creative Commons) said anything like this (either pro or anti)? Or would their funders disapprove?
⚠️ Age verification is the antithesis of privacy, it always requires identifying users and invading their privacy, to learn more read our article about the dangers of age verification. 📣
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/
Age Verification Wants Your Face, and Your Privacy
Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict access to content online have been multiplying in recent years. The problem is, implementing such measure necessarily requires identifying each user accessing this content, one way or another. This is bad news for your privacy.
www.privacyguides.org · Privacy Guides
Link author: 
Em 
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
✨ Wanna learn more about how to protect your privacy? 🔒 Check out our website https://privacyguides.org where we publish news and recommendations surrounding privacy and security tools, services, and knowledge. 💛
⚠️ Age verification is the antithesis of privacy, it always requires identifying users and invading their privacy, to learn more read our article about the dangers of age verification. 📣
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/
Age Verification Wants Your Face, and Your Privacy
Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict access to content online have been multiplying in recent years. The problem is, implementing such measure necessarily requires identifying each user accessing this content, one way or another. This is bad news for your privacy.
www.privacyguides.org · Privacy Guides
Link author: Em @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
2024年我國輸美總項數共有1萬1414項（具實績5236項），包括屬232條款下的產品1150項（具實績774項），以及談判前適用對等的10264項（具實績4462項）。近兩年美國已躍升為我國第一大出口市場，占我國對全球出口的3成。
台美關稅拍板！ 行政院：輸美產品豁免產品達2072項 https://ec.ltn.com.tw/article/breakingnews/5342116
의지의 최가온은 올림픽 3연패를 노리던 클로이 김(미국·88.00점)과 오노 미츠키(일본·85.00)를 제치고 시상대 맨 꼭대기에 섰습니다. 눈 덮힌 설산에서 애국가가 울려 퍼진 것은 한국 겨울올림픽 사상 처음 있는 일입니다. 넘어져도, 다쳐도 절대 포기하지 않고 두려움을 극복했기에 얻어낸 최상의 결과물이었습니다.
집념의 최가온, 눈발 속 가장 높이 날았다…금메달 확정...
Experimenting on a Small Planet by William W. Hay, 2016
A History of Scientific Discoveries, a Future of Climate Change and Global Warming
This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate. Bill Hay takes you on a journey to understand how the climate system works.
HOW ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
IS DRILLING HOLES IN THE
SHIP OF STATE
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
—Edward Lear, “The Jumblies”
From:
Global Warring
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Shamblog
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
🤨 TF did I just read
나한테 기대하는 게 전혀 없는
그런 친구가 필요해.
Now or Never by Tim Flannery, 2018
Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future
A forceful call to climate change action and a pragmatic roadmap toward sustainability from the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers . Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available, Tim Flannery offers a guided tour of the environmental challenges we face and their potential solutions in both the big picture and in specific detail.
![He explores everything from techniques for storing the carbon that dead plants release into the earth to the fragile balancing act between energy demands and food supply in India and China, from carbon-trading schemes in South America to a collaboration between a Danish wind-energy company and an automobile manufacturer that may produce a viable electric car and end the reign of big oil. Now or Never is a powerful, thought-provoking, and essential book about the most urgent issue of our time. It burns with Flannery's characteristic mix of passion, scientific precision, and "offhand interdisciplinary brilliance" ( Entertainment Weekly). "Shocking . . . [Flannery] writes for a general audience with passion and clarity.
" —Jim Hansen](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/055/684/291/965/206/original/a99962a2223d30cf.jpg)
Discord Just Killed Anonymity
Link: https://michael-dev-tech.github.io/Website/matrix.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996067
[박치현의 기후과학] 겨울과 여름이 충돌하는 한반도 기후:
계절이 서로의 영역을 침범한다. 겨울과 여름이 충돌하고 있다. 은유가 아니다. 기상 관측 기록 위에서 실제로 벌어지는 일이다. 영하 15℃ 아래로 떨어진 새벽 공기와 영상 10℃에 가까운 오후 공기가 사흘 안에 교차한다. 20℃를 오르내리던 11월 초 늦더위가 엿새 만에 영하로 꺾인다. 계절이 순서대로 이동하지 않는다. 서로의 영역을 침범하며, 밀어내고, 되받아친다.우리는 오랫동안 기후위기를 ‘평균 온도 상승’으로 이해해왔다. 하지만 최근 한반도의 기후변화는 기준값만으로 설명되지 않는다. 평균은 오르고 있지만, 그 평균 위를 오가는
https://www.newspenguin.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=21215
(2026-02-13 08:27:18)
Iranian missiles
The #HugoAwards nominations opened today. For the third year in a row, I'm proud to be responsible for making the software that you'll use to nominate and vote, which is open source and free software.
It is built on #Python and #Django. I don't take donations for my work, but the foundations behind those libraries (and the others that NomNom depends on) certainly do!
Consider a donation to Django (https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/) or the PSF (https://www.python.org/psf/donations/) to support my work!
How the AstraZeneca vaccine may cause rare blood clots
In very rare cases, the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has caused a side-effect called VITT – a form of spontaneous blood clotting that can be fatal.
WHY IS THAT THE FIRST RESULT
if not us, who? If not now, when?
Eyes on the Earth
Vital signs of the planet
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/earth/#/vital-signs/air-temperature/airs-infrared-surface-3day
The Kyiv family, with its pets and pigs, defying Russia and the cold
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-cold-kyiv/
The #HugoAwards nominations opened today. For the third year in a row, I'm proud to be responsible for making the software that you'll use to nominate and vote, which is open source and free software.
It is built on #Python and #Django. I don't take donations for my work, but the foundations behind those libraries (and the others that NomNom depends on) certainly do!
Consider a donation to Django (https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/) or the PSF (https://www.python.org/psf/donations/) to support my work!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRJjXMs9eMc
연이나 신곡 나왔습니다 !!!! 홍보하고 갑니다 ㅠㅁㅠ
私の新曲です！宣伝させてください！
#misskey作曲部 #オリジナル曲 #자작곡 #노래토돈
After threatening to ban TP-Link router sales over alleged links to China (which TP-Link denies), the Trump administration has reportedly put that ban plan on hold ahead of a summit with China, suggesting it was political leverage and not about cybersecurity.
From me in November: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/banning-tp-link-wont-save-america-from-its-own-terrible-cybersecurity/
From Reuters today: https://reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-china-trade-detente-fuels-mothballing-key-china-tech-curbs-2026-02-12/ (via 
@metacurity)
🧠구글의 초격차? Gemini 3 Deep Think 업그레이드
구글이 또 한번 앞서나가나요🫢
Gemini Ultra 구독자 대상 Deep Think 모델 대격변 패치!
‘깊은 과학적 지식과 실용적인 엔지니어링의 유용성을 결합해 추상적인 이론을 넘어 실제적 응용을 이끌어냄‘
공개된 응용사례:
1️⃣ 논문의 수학적 결함 발견 (러트거스 대학): 고도로 기술적인 수학 논문을 검토, 인간의 Peer Review에서도 발견하지 못했던 미묘한 논리적 오류 찾음
2️⃣ 신소재 개발 (듀크 대학): 반도체 소재 발견을 위한 복잡한 결정 성장 공정 최적화에 활용, 이전 방식으로 어려웠던 정밀한 목표치 달성 제조법 설계
3️⃣ 실제 엔지니어링 활용: 스케치를 3D 프린팅 가능 결과물로 변환(!!) 도면 분석후 복잡한 형상 모델링해 3D 프린팅용 파일 생성
벤치마크야 뭐ㅋ ARC-AGI-2 84.6%에 국제 과학 수학 올림피아드 금메달 레벨에…
박사논문 준비해야하는데… Ultra 결제를 해야하나😭
The first release of WebIntents will be published later tonight ✨
朝食食べたけどまだお腹空いている
Ubisoft workers say company is still "not listening" following 1,200-person strike, legal action could be next aftermath.site/ubisoft-worker...
무엇이든 해내는 사람들의
15가지 말버릇
Why intelligent life is unlikely
When youtube titles are accidentally more correct than intended
Foone🏳️⚧️
힐씨
Maho 🦝🍻
julian
Andreas Freise
Adam Johnson 
시오
Paul Cantrell
