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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I slightly updated my website which is based on my nerdy engine.

I recently added several improvements and made some smaller changes to the design to make it more readable but also slightly more modern. I'm not sure if this isn't already too fancy again where it should focus on simplicity and alignment with traditional manpages.

If you're interested into manpageblog, you can find it at:
GitHub: https://github.com/gyptazy/manpageblog
Ports: https://www.freshports.org/www/manpageblog/



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"アメリカでは昨年、2人の子供を含む3人が麻疹(はしか)で死亡した。本来であれば避けられたはずの死だ。アメリカの昨年のはしか感染者数は2276人に上り、2024年の285人に比べ8倍近くに膨れ上がった。この感染急増も防ぎ得たはずだ。ではなぜ回避できなかったのか。"
https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories/world/2026/02/587369.php

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Spojené státy a Evropa patří k sobě, uvedl Rubio. USA jsou podle šéfa americké diplomacie připraveny napravit minulé chyby a budovat nový světový řád samy, dávají ale přednost spolupráci s Evropou. Američané si nepřejí, aby jejich spojenci byli slabí, protože to oslabuje i USA.

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I saw someone
buying roses
and I thought:
maybe that’s love.

I saw someone
carrying chocolates
and I thought:
maybe that’s love.

I saw someone
entering a jeweler’s
and I thought:
maybe that’s love.

And I saw someone
wearing a mask
and I thought:
that’s definitely love.

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Recently, there was a question by @taylorlorenz about how you explain the Fediverse to someone who doesn't use it.

And usually, what we tend to do is we talk about servers and decentralisation and federation and ActivityPub and all these highly technical concepts.

I've been thinking about it, and all that technical stuff is really impressive work by people far more clever than I'll ever be.

But for me, that technology is a facilitating thing. It's like trying to describe how a bicycle works, rather than why you ride it.

Instead, what the Fediverse is, is a place to have conversations online without algorithms, AI, and ads getting in the way.

Which is increasingly a rare thing online.

Almost the entirety of the internet, from SEO on the web to YouTube to TikTok to Spotify to Instagram and X and Facebook, has been turned into a race to game an algorithm designed to sell ads.

What makes the Fedi unique is that it's not that.

And I suspect if you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Lemmy, or Pixelfed, or GtS, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining it as algorithm-free, ad-free, AI-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a decentralised protocol.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub

@ajAJ Sadauskas I'm less sure that would work on its own. All of the corporate enshittified networks they already use started out that way too.

To make those points I think you have to focus on the community side. Shit like @FediPact:FediPact: #FediPact :FediPact: -- I've got the stats somewhere but off the top of my head I think it was something like 30% of servers had Meta blocked before they'd really even *tried* to join, just from the announcement that they might. The fact that, unlike corporate networks where they do what they want and users whine about it until they get bored, around here it feels like debating the future of the network *actually shapes it*. Everything is built by consensus, not cash. By donations and volunteers and passion. Any VC startup can be slop free for a few years but that stuff is what *keeps* Fedi slop free.

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Recently, there was a question by @taylorlorenz about how you explain the Fediverse to someone who doesn't use it.

And usually, what we tend to do is we talk about servers and decentralisation and federation and ActivityPub and all these highly technical concepts.

I've been thinking about it, and all that technical stuff is really impressive work by people far more clever than I'll ever be.

But for me, that technology is a facilitating thing. It's like trying to describe how a bicycle works, rather than why you ride it.

Instead, what the Fediverse is, is a place to have conversations online without algorithms, AI, and ads getting in the way.

Which is increasingly a rare thing online.

Almost the entirety of the internet, from SEO on the web to YouTube to TikTok to Spotify to Instagram and X and Facebook, has been turned into a race to game an algorithm designed to sell ads.

What makes the Fedi unique is that it's not that.

And I suspect if you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Lemmy, or Pixelfed, or GtS, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining it as algorithm-free, ad-free, AI-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a decentralised protocol.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub

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I can say the is a different place than any other social media platform I have been on. I've been here since 2022. When my self-hosted instance went down for a couple days, I didn't yearn for social media like a drug. I wondered how certain people's cats were, one person had a mother in the hospital, someone was getting a new job, one had the blues, etc, etc. I missed people more than viralness of a platform. Thank you for being my Old Friends.

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