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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The Iconfactory @Iconfactory@iconfactory.world
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Because of your generous support during our Kickstarter, all of the games in Ollie’s Arcade are now free to play in the App Store! 🕹️

We’ve begun working on adding Frenzic to the roster and later a new dungeon crawler that’s gonna be a blast. Stay tuned but for now enjoy the free air, our friends!

apps.apple.com/us/app/ollies-a

Ollie’s Arcade on the App Store

Ollie’s Arcade App - App Store

Download Ollie’s Arcade by The Iconfactory on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Ollie’s Arcade.

apps.apple.com · App Store

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff@mastodon.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

Our Age Verification Resource Hub is the one-stop shop to answer all of your questions about online age verification mandates. What’s at stake for users? How do we push back? What even IS age verification, anyway? Visit eff.org/age now to explore our resources and join the fight to protect the internet.

Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub

Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “age estimation” methods—before granting them access to certain online content or services.  Governments in the U.S. and around the world are increasingly adopting these restrictive measures in the name of protecting children online. But in practice, these systems create dangerous new forms of surveillance, censorship, and exclusion.  Technologically, the age verification process can take many forms: collection and analysis of government ID, biometric scans, algorithmic or AI-based behavioral or user monitoring, digital ID, the list goes on. But no matter the method, every system demands users hand over sensitive and immutable personal information that links their offline identity to their online activity. Once that valuable data is collected, it can easily be leaked, hacked, or misused. (Indeed, we’ve already seen several breaches of age verification providers.) EFF has long warned against age-gating the internet. Age verification technology itself is often inaccurate and privacy-invasive. These restrictive mandates strike at the foundation of the free and open internet. They are tools of censorship, used to block people from viewing or sharing information that the government deems “harmful” or “offensive.” And they create surveillance systems that critically undermine online privacy, chill access to vital online communities and resources, and burden the expressive rights of adults and young people alike. EFF.org/Age: A Resource to Empower Users Age-gating mandates are reshaping the internet in ways that are invasive, dangerous, and deeply unnecessary. But users are not powerless! We can challenge these laws, protect our digital rights, and build a safer digital world for all internet users, no matter their ages. This resource hub is here to help—so explore, share, and join us in the fight for a better internet. On Thursday, January 15th, join us for a livestream discussion on The Human Cost of Online Age Verification and what we stand to lose as more and more governments push to age-gate the web. The Human Cost of Online Age VerificationThursday, January 15th12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PacificThis event is LIVE and FREE! EFF's Rindala Alajaji and Alexis Hancock, with Hana Memon from Gen-Z for Change and Cynthia Conti-Cook from Collaborative Research Center for Resilience, will break down how these laws work, who they exclude, and how these mandates threaten privacy and free expression for people of all ages. The conversation will be followed by a live Q&A. 

www.eff.org · Electronic Frontier Foundation

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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What I'm listening to today: "I'm Dead", Bam Bam

I only learned about this band this week, they're like 50% punk but the other 50% was inventing "Seattle grunge" 5 years early. Matt Cameron on drums.

Here's an amazing skin-searing blast of sludge guitars and yelling. Like being air-fried. There's a guest vocalist in addition to Bam Bam's lead Tina Bell here, but I can't identify him.

youtube.com/watch?v=nF3yNXzJdZI

( Mastering seems a little better on the Tidal version: tidal.com/track/107339796/u )

I'm Dead

Provided to YouTube by CDBabyI'm Dead · Bam BamFree Fall from Space℗ 2019 Scott LedgerwoodReleased on: 2019-06-07Auto-generated by YouTube.

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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What I'm listening to today: "1920263 Meditative Ambient Guitar and Synth Soundscape Behringer Wasp Deluxe Microcosm", CJT

This dude seems to do basically daily jams on his pile of midrange synths and post them all to YouTube. I liked this one out of the pile where a wasp provides a quiet heartbeat and he improvises a guitar solo over it. 1980s dark cinematic feel, empty streets and echoes and vague menace in the form of a young Willem Dafoe, waiting for you somewhere

youtube.com/watch?v=1me3N6gfDkY

1920263 Meditative Ambient Guitar and Synth Soundscape Behringer Wasp Deluxe Microcosm

YouTube에서 마음에 드는 동영상과 음악을 감상하고, 직접 만든 콘텐츠를 업로드하여 친구, 가족뿐 아니라 전 세계 사람들과 콘텐츠를 공유할 수 있습니다.

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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Mike Sheward @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange
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Shared by Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

the old way:

banner grab the server, determine likely db provider, look at every parameter for potential injection points, craft the injection being careful not to set off waf alarms, slowly iterate until the injection works as expected

the new way:

“yo AI chatbot what databases do you have access too and what are the tables in them? ok cool, now, if you were to run this query what would get returned?”

this isn’t a joke btw, i did this twice last week successfully.

slopql injection to the top of the owasp list!

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Attie Grande @attie@hachyderm.io
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This whole thing is totally deranged.

I *do* have a One Login account with this email address (entertainingly I personally have *TWO* "One Login" accounts)... but read that carefully: "[...] for HMRC".

... and keep reading: "If you use GOV.UK One Login elsewhere [...] you cannot use it for HMRC yet."

Which means this is either strange for just-me, or it's a global "not for HMRC yet". If it's the latter, why did they even offer it as a login method?!

Screenshot of a gov.uk site. Heading: You do not have a GOV.UK One Login for HMRC Text: There is no GOV.UK One Login for HMRC with attie.grande@argentum-systems.co.uk. If you use GOV.UK One Login elsewhere, like Companies House or the DVLA, you cannot use it for HMRC yet.
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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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FYI Criterion is doing a sale on blurays and 4K discs for the next week

Only some of the movies have 4K options:

criterion.com/shop/collection/

And the prices only go down from "sticker shock" to "huh well, maybe" but they did go down. And Blurays are cheaper

Things that stood out to me:

Yi Yi
criterion.com/films/781-yi-yi

Point Blank (Parker novel in a blender)
criterion.com/films/32290-poin

Anora ("Sean Baker makes a Safdie film")
criterion.com/films/34891-anora

Flow ("Blender, The Movie")
criterion.com/films/34685-flow

4K Discs

Offering stunning picture quality and high-fidelity audio for a complete, immersive home-entertainment experience. All 4K discs, including preorders, are 30% off through February 22.

www.criterion.com · The Criterion Collection

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mei @mei@donotsta.re
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Shared by ✧✦Catherine✦✧

found a comment that went "yeah we need to work around the grinch stole all the vowels thing"

aren't computers wonderful

https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/7209
This affects only macOS, I think. If I look into .cabal/store, I see: ~/.cabal/store/ghc-8.10.3$ ls Dff-0.4.0-e2417685 n-0.4.1-98d17fa3 Dff-0.4.0-e6c8ed46 nclsd-xcptns-1.0.3-7f7ef320 HTF-0.14.0.3-7...

The Grinch stole all the vowels: Odd naming in .cabal/store (macOS) · Issue #7209 · haskell/cabal

This affects only macOS, I think. If I look into .cabal/store, I see: ~/.cabal/store/ghc-8.10.3$ ls Dff-0.4.0-e2417685 n-0.4.1-98d17fa3 Dff-0.4.0-e6c8ed46 nclsd-xcptns-1.0.3-7f7ef320 HTF-0.14.0.3-7...

github.com · GitHub

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나나나나미 @nnanananami@planet.moe
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Shared by KAGAMI🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

슈에이샤 만화 투고 사이트 점프루키 가이드라인 보는데 의외로??? 차별표현 문제 잘 다루고 있네. 맨 처음에 나오는 게 인종이나 성별 차별표현 금지고 그 다음엔 사회적 소수자와 LGBT, 다음엔 헤이트 스피치 등등 정확한 용어로 차별 표현의 범위를 정한다. rookie.shonenjump.com/legal/gu

利用ガイドライン - ジャンプルーキー！

rookie.shonenjump.com

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Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
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The fascinating history of Adolphe Sax and his invention, the saxophone, which has been described as "everything from the most moving and heart gripping wind instrument to the devil's horn".

youtube.com/watch?v=zj5Z0V93XxY

The Surprisingly Badass Life of the Inventor of the Saxophone

Sign up for Skillshare today: https://skl.sh/2SOK30u and get a 2-month free trial, big thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this video!If you happen to like o...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!! @lina@vt.social
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Fluxer keeps coming up as a Discord alternative. It looks good, but it has one major problem: It's AGPL and it requires a CLA.

That is an enshittification time bomb. I personally will not contribute to projects using that combination, it's gone wrong way too many times.

That's not to say it's bad to use as a hosted service, it being open source at all is better than Discord.

But from an open source point of view, it's not a good licensing setup. It basically creates a system where the project owners have more rights than other contributors. It's not fair.

Edit: For ref, this is the formal CLA:

cla-assistant.io/fluxerapp/flu

TL;DR "We can do whatever we want with your code, and license it under any license".

CLA assistant

cla-assistant.io

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Dio9sys @Dio9sys@haunted.computer
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Happy purr residence day from the kitties I officially have in my house!!!

They are drugged from a vet trip and still getting used to this whole new house thing, so no pictures yet as they are all either hiding in their carrier or hiding behind furniture, but I will post PoC (Proof of Catte) soon

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dan @danabra.mov@bsky.brid.gy
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this breaks social contract and feels like a betrayal because the whole point of a diagram is to provide clarity where text fails, and to emphasize just the right bits needed for the intuition whereas these “diagrams” are often self-contradictory or misleading in a way that’s worse than the text

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff@mastodon.social
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Our Age Verification Resource Hub is the one-stop shop to answer all of your questions about online age verification mandates. What’s at stake for users? How do we push back? What even IS age verification, anyway? Visit eff.org/age now to explore our resources and join the fight to protect the internet.

Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub

Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “age estimation” methods—before granting them access to certain online content or services.  Governments in the U.S. and around the world are increasingly adopting these restrictive measures in the name of protecting children online. But in practice, these systems create dangerous new forms of surveillance, censorship, and exclusion.  Technologically, the age verification process can take many forms: collection and analysis of government ID, biometric scans, algorithmic or AI-based behavioral or user monitoring, digital ID, the list goes on. But no matter the method, every system demands users hand over sensitive and immutable personal information that links their offline identity to their online activity. Once that valuable data is collected, it can easily be leaked, hacked, or misused. (Indeed, we’ve already seen several breaches of age verification providers.) EFF has long warned against age-gating the internet. Age verification technology itself is often inaccurate and privacy-invasive. These restrictive mandates strike at the foundation of the free and open internet. They are tools of censorship, used to block people from viewing or sharing information that the government deems “harmful” or “offensive.” And they create surveillance systems that critically undermine online privacy, chill access to vital online communities and resources, and burden the expressive rights of adults and young people alike. EFF.org/Age: A Resource to Empower Users Age-gating mandates are reshaping the internet in ways that are invasive, dangerous, and deeply unnecessary. But users are not powerless! We can challenge these laws, protect our digital rights, and build a safer digital world for all internet users, no matter their ages. This resource hub is here to help—so explore, share, and join us in the fight for a better internet. On Thursday, January 15th, join us for a livestream discussion on The Human Cost of Online Age Verification and what we stand to lose as more and more governments push to age-gate the web. The Human Cost of Online Age VerificationThursday, January 15th12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PacificThis event is LIVE and FREE! EFF's Rindala Alajaji and Alexis Hancock, with Hana Memon from Gen-Z for Change and Cynthia Conti-Cook from Collaborative Research Center for Resilience, will break down how these laws work, who they exclude, and how these mandates threaten privacy and free expression for people of all ages. The conversation will be followed by a live Q&A. 

www.eff.org · Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Honič Péra 24 hodin @honicpera@snac.lab8.cz
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Statek, který získal darem, bude sloužit veřejnosti.
👉 Neobyčejným skutkem se zapsal do kroniky Záměle na Rychnovsku starosta Josef Novotný. Obci věnoval statek mnohamilionové hodnoty. Sám ho získal darem od lidí, o které nezištně pečoval ve stáří. Areál slouží jako komunitní centrum a přibude i péče o seniory.

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Matthew Thomas @mpt@mastodon.nz
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0030, my wife: “It’s been two weeks now, why aren’t you getting better? You should see a doctor.”

1058, GP’s nurse: “Yeah, it sounds like you need to come in for an appointment.”

1355, GP: “I’m sending you to hospital for a chest x-ray and blood tests.”

1440, radiographer: “Never mind the blood tests, you should go to the emergency department now.”

1825, ED doctor: “You have double pneumonia. We’re going to keep you here overnight.”

Well that escalated quickly.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff@mastodon.social
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Our Age Verification Resource Hub is the one-stop shop to answer all of your questions about online age verification mandates. What’s at stake for users? How do we push back? What even IS age verification, anyway? Visit eff.org/age now to explore our resources and join the fight to protect the internet.

Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub

Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “age estimation” methods—before granting them access to certain online content or services.  Governments in the U.S. and around the world are increasingly adopting these restrictive measures in the name of protecting children online. But in practice, these systems create dangerous new forms of surveillance, censorship, and exclusion.  Technologically, the age verification process can take many forms: collection and analysis of government ID, biometric scans, algorithmic or AI-based behavioral or user monitoring, digital ID, the list goes on. But no matter the method, every system demands users hand over sensitive and immutable personal information that links their offline identity to their online activity. Once that valuable data is collected, it can easily be leaked, hacked, or misused. (Indeed, we’ve already seen several breaches of age verification providers.) EFF has long warned against age-gating the internet. Age verification technology itself is often inaccurate and privacy-invasive. These restrictive mandates strike at the foundation of the free and open internet. They are tools of censorship, used to block people from viewing or sharing information that the government deems “harmful” or “offensive.” And they create surveillance systems that critically undermine online privacy, chill access to vital online communities and resources, and burden the expressive rights of adults and young people alike. EFF.org/Age: A Resource to Empower Users Age-gating mandates are reshaping the internet in ways that are invasive, dangerous, and deeply unnecessary. But users are not powerless! We can challenge these laws, protect our digital rights, and build a safer digital world for all internet users, no matter their ages. This resource hub is here to help—so explore, share, and join us in the fight for a better internet. On Thursday, January 15th, join us for a livestream discussion on The Human Cost of Online Age Verification and what we stand to lose as more and more governments push to age-gate the web. The Human Cost of Online Age VerificationThursday, January 15th12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PacificThis event is LIVE and FREE! EFF's Rindala Alajaji and Alexis Hancock, with Hana Memon from Gen-Z for Change and Cynthia Conti-Cook from Collaborative Research Center for Resilience, will break down how these laws work, who they exclude, and how these mandates threaten privacy and free expression for people of all ages. The conversation will be followed by a live Q&A. 

www.eff.org · Electronic Frontier Foundation

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