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.
The shitposts you are about to read are true, but the @-names have been changed to protect the innocent.
The CIA World Factbook has been a reference work for many, including Wikipedia for many years. It's been killed. Just like that. But facts still matter! Can we rebuild something better on top of 
@wikidata? Hit me up if you're interested!
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5702494/cia-world-factbook-dead
Sleepy Pabu is ready for belly rubs!
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![@TheDealMakerGuy (Twitter):
A Polish YouTuber just heated his house by burning 133 Lidl donuts in his stove.
14ยฐC-โ22ยฐC. Burned for 5+ hours.
Donuts have almost the same energy value as wood pellets - but at โฌ0.0024 per donut, they're insanely cheaper.
Fat Thursday in Poland just solved energy crisis.๐ฉ
[a photo of marek hoffmann/adbuster stuffing the polish donuts in a furnace-shaped object]
quote post (same author):
Fat Thursday donut mania in Poland.
Lidl selling them for โฌ0.0024. ๐คฏ](https://cdn.masto.host/shitposttrade/media_attachments/files/116/064/971/345/335/181/original/db32b3a884c37bbb.jpg)
Sleepy Pabu is ready for belly rubs!
The shitposts you are about to read are true, but the @-names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Sleepy Pabu is ready for belly rubs! #Cats #CatsOfBluesky
I need something to push to prod. Help me out, chat?
The CIA World Factbook has been a reference work for many, including Wikipedia for many years. It's been killed. Just like that. But facts still matter! Can we rebuild something better on top of @wikidata? Hit me up if you're interested!
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5702494/cia-world-factbook-dead
Have you seen this? This recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips that are by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
big fan of 
@Codeberg manual merging copy pasteable command line instructions. way better than github's
plus that "manually merged" button? mmm! ๐งโ๐ณ ๐ ๐
What makes a good social media post in your opinion? ๐
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
Cats! :3
What makes a good social media post in your opinion? ๐
Now is a good time to let those shoulders drop.
Artist Jovino makes bulletproof vests! Instagram is a hard place to leave as an artist, since it works really well for that. I'd. Like to boost it here. Two of these are in honor of vests - Alex Pretti and Liam Conejo Ramos. We need art during these times.
@Jovino here and On insta @jovino_bunny
#uspol #art #politicalArt #resistance #clothing #design
IronClaw: a Rust-based clawd that runs tools in isolated WASM sandboxes
Link: https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004312
so yeah, bad day for those folks, good day for everyone else.
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Add Data.Natural to some Haskell code. Next thing I know, it pulls in profunctors and kan-extensions. Really?
existence of secure boot implies the existence of insecure boot
@whitequarkโงโฆCatherineโฆโง firmware that explicitly permits the system to boot ONLY if it's signed by a key from UEFI DBXThis was very well organized and I generally agree with all of the scale and architecture guidance
blog.algomaster.io/p/scaling-a-...
How to Scale a System from 0 t...
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115393112086073911
Disapointing Denial of Snacks
anyway, thanks for everything treehouse quoted posts patch โค๏ธ
but tonight I am told we will finally be deploying Mastodon 4.5 (or at least there is a scheduled window to try, it may slip a few days).
thanks to 
@linaHoshino Lina (ๆไนใชใ) ๐ฉต 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!! for writing the necessary code to migrate treehouse-style quotes to upstream-compatible quotes.
but as the treehouse quotes patch rides off into the sunset, it would be nice to reflect on why we made it and where it came from.
a thread.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@webology/116064222320494391
For anyone who wants to see my new project or ask Agent questions, I'll be around 30(ish) minutes before again (or 2pm CT).
I have this doughnut-hole sized catโฆ
#CatsofMastodon
I need something to push to prod. Help me out, chat?
Byron realizing what day it is and that he's already behind schedule.
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These days I have seed and flavorful vegetables on my mind. I'm grateful to be part of an international community with that passion. One of the places on the internet I learn the most these days is a #Discourse #forum dedicated to that topic and I wish it could federate with Mastodon and similar networks, so the conversations could take place here too. Atm you need a 500$ business plan to integrate #ActivityPub plugin.
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Does anyone know of a #wayland compatible tool that can be used to find the mouse cursor?
I have a vague memory of a project that put some really flashy bling around the cursor (I can't remember if it was always on.. or just when the movement happened).
I am trying to re-create a feature of #durden / #arcan which makes your mouse cursor sparkle green after it has been idle for a bit and moves.
iOS Dev Weekly โ Issue 743 is out! Happy Friday, everyone! ๐ฌ
iOS Dev Weekly โ Issue 743 is out! Happy Friday, everyone! ๐ฌ
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Wow, your open source community isn't behaving with respect for people's effort and generosity in contributing to knowledge? The same open source community that tolerated people harassing women out of it on the regular and still put those people on stage? That open source community doesn't have the social norms to protect YOU now?
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Our digital security team has been taking a close look at court documents on the FBI's raid on a Washington Post reporter's home. There's a lot journalists can learn from this event. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/wapo-raid-security-lessons/
Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with a slow Internet connection to see who they really are.
This cursed idea must be stopped. No matter how faceblind you are and might want this as a party trick, computerized facial recognition for all makes the world an unsafe place for millions of people, especially those who use obscurity to hide from violent ex partners. The server will collect information. If not now, then later, and we will have made another panopticon. #surveillance
https://www.theverge.com/tech/878725/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses-name-tag-privacy-advoates
If anyone is at #Disobey2026 and would like to grab a beer/coffee, hit me up.
Happy Galentine's Day! You can now disable PRs on GitHub or limit them to contributors to your project! Amazing work from Helen Hou-Sandi, Camilla Moraes, Clay Miller, Stephanie Hang, Jan Maarten and more! Full details here https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-13-new-repository-settings-for-configuring-pull-request-access/
If anyone is at #Disobey2026 and would like to grab a beer/coffee, hit me up.
Want to know how many words, lines, or bytes are contained in a file? Type
"wc filename".
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>
This cursed idea must be stopped. No matter how faceblind you are and might want this as a party trick, computerized facial recognition for all makes the world an unsafe place for millions of people, especially those who use obscurity to hide from violent ex partners. The server will collect information. If not now, then later, and we will have made another panopticon. #surveillance
https://www.theverge.com/tech/878725/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses-name-tag-privacy-advoates
i gotta beef w/ canada but it's centuries old
Fuck Sandford Fleming & to hell w/ time zones.
After shutting down #HolosDiscover, we're rethinking the approach with #HolosIndex: users explicitly opt in by adding #HolosIndex to their bio with interest tags, then submit their profile. No assumptions, no default settings.
This will power interest-based discovery across the #Fediverse, helping people find each other through shared interests. Still all through #ActivityPub of course, with real-time deletions and updates.
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Tom Casavant
Evan Prodromou
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Dave Verwer
Stefano Marinelli
