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.
So I finally (what, a decade behind popular trends??) am having reason to experiment with actual use of Docker in production, and…I’m surprised at how disappointing it is.
The configuration is clumsy, a dangerous mix of boilerplate and footgun customization points. The dockerfile / compose division of labor is nonsensical; it apparently grew by accretion instead of design. There are lots of loose ends left for hosting services to tie up, and the product thus fails in what would seem to be a primary goal of avoiding hosting vendor lock-in.
Am I simply Not Getting It Yet™, or is the state of the art actually like this?
The fediverse is anti-capitalist. The fediverse is anarchist praxis. The fediverse is not a protocol. The fediverse caries an ideology of communal care and mutual aid for our fellow humans. The fediverse should never be neutral on ideology. The tools we are building provide infrastructure for communication but they also shape that communication.
The fediverse is trans. Trans as in non binary. Trans as in transition. Trans as in transitional.
The fediverse is anti-capitalist. The fediverse is anarchist praxis. The fediverse is not a protocol. The fediverse caries an ideology of communal care and mutual aid for our fellow humans. The fediverse should never be neutral on ideology. The tools we are building provide infrastructure for communication but they also shape that communication.
SHA-256 just got kneecapped: 37-step collision, 6 steps past the 2013 wall. Your “immutable” blockchain now has a 12-year-late crack. Do you still trust 256-bit hashes? https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/232
Here are some samples of AI generated ads used by criminals in Myanmar to prey on desperate, unemployed job seekers across Asia and Africa. "Typing speed" is a giveaway, they want people who can learn preprepared scam scripts with ease. The always pretend the job is in Thailand or Cambodia, knowing that nobody would agree to travel to war-torn Myanmar. The ordeal begins when they are picked up at airports in these countries...then driven into Myanmar. Meta and Telegram are part of the problem.
The UN estimates that over 120,000 people have been trafficked to scam camps in Myanmar since 2021, and endured various forms of exploitation and torture. It has become a billion dollar industry, with the scams targeting vulnerable people in Europe and North America.
Thai NGOs meanwhile, bravely coordinate rescues, negotiate with border guards to arrange the transfer of victims back to Thailand. But they are swamped and have limited means.
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja 
@dansup
3. "Exchange of ideas". There are some really interesting things for us to learn from each other in the different protocol communities. I think the client-first, dapp-style development happening in the ATProto community is a *great* architecture for us to adopt in the Fediverse. You mentioned long-form text standards between FEP-b2b8 and standard.site -- another great opportunity for some mutual learning.
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja @dansup
4. "Window of opportunity". This is a more complex one, but it is compelling. Basically, there is a non-zero chance that Bluesky's leadership team changes in the next few years, or that their strategy changes. (This has happened with other social networks like Twitter when the advertising business model was adopted.) They may at some point try to claw back the value that's been generated with the current open protocol, open source model. Hopefully not, but you never know!
The only important protocol is kindness
India, the Philippines and China are prompt to repatriate their nationals. But African states do not do so. As such, Africans are becoming disproportionately targeted by Chinese criminal orgs knowing that little will be done to rescue them.
Africans who escape Myanmar can expect to spend lengthy stints in Thai immigration jail until they get the money for airfare/fines.
The UN itself is low on money, & issued a call last year for some $2.5M to fly home 1,000 survivors.
https://roasiapacific.iom.int/news/iom-urgently-seeks-usd-25-million-repatriate-victims-trafficking-forced-criminality-stranded-along-thai-myanmar-border
Here are some samples of AI generated ads used by criminals in Myanmar to prey on desperate, unemployed job seekers across Asia and Africa. "Typing speed" is a giveaway, they want people who can learn preprepared scam scripts with ease. The always pretend the job is in Thailand or Cambodia, knowing that nobody would agree to travel to war-torn Myanmar. The ordeal begins when they are picked up at airports in these countries...then driven into Myanmar. Meta and Telegram are part of the problem.
The only important protocol is kindness
Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat
Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/stephen-colbert-says-cbs-forbid-interview-of-democrat-because-of-fcc-threat/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051793
She spends a lot of time on YouTube, watching bird videos
It can't be good for her critical thinking skills...
1/4
I honestly have no idea what he's thinking. Enigma wrapped in a mystery, a.k.a. cat.
Hello fediverse friends.
For The Globe and Mail newspaper, I've spent the last four months hearing from survivors of Myanmar's infamous scam compounds. Run by Chinese criminal syndicates with the collaboration of at least one Burmese pro-junta militia, the camps are staffed by trafficking victims, including a growing number of Africans who are beaten, electrocuted and raped if they don't meet scamming targets. They aren't paid for their efforts.
My story is published.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-africans-scam-camps-myanmar-scamming-rings-asia/
Since 2021, a coup induced civil war, and the pandemic have created a booming scamming industry based out of Myanmar. Hundreds of scam compounds have since sprouted up, typically along the Burmese-Thai border. They target westerners with cryptocurrency and romance scams. But they are staffed by trafficked people from across Asia and Africa, who travel to Thailand believing they will be hired at well paying tech jobs in Bangkok...before being driven across the border where their ordeal begins.
Business cat has important kitty business to attend to (sleeping 20 hours a day) 
Hello fediverse friends.
For The Globe and Mail newspaper, I've spent the last four months hearing from survivors of Myanmar's infamous scam compounds. Run by Chinese criminal syndicates with the collaboration of at least one Burmese pro-junta militia, the camps are staffed by trafficking victims, including a growing number of Africans who are beaten, electrocuted and raped if they don't meet scamming targets. They aren't paid for their efforts.
My story is published.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-africans-scam-camps-myanmar-scamming-rings-asia/
まったり過ごしました…やはりらくがきは楽しい…！
そろそろ寝ちゃいますね！
@dansup We're stronger together, Dan. It's not worth throwing stones.
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja not throwing stones, just spittin facts. To much glazing over AtProto when many seem to forget its history, so I feel a duty to remind people of this.
ATProto never cared about openness or the social web, or they would have adopted ActivityPub and helped improve it.
They had to control everything. Jack even said he regrets that himself.
Please welcome the newest member to the CPython core team, Itamar Oren!
https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-itamar-oren/106078
Who needs a weighted blanket when you have cats?
"AI" can't fix the problem. "AI" *is* an essential part of the problem.
Jack Dorsey had the chance to build on ActivityPub in 2019, chose to invent a whole new protocol instead, watched it become the exact kind of VC-funded corporate platform he said he didn't want, left the board, and is now funding Nostr.
ATProto doesn't care about what they can't control, or they would use ActivityPub, period.
I honestly have no idea what he's thinking. Enigma wrapped in a mystery, a.k.a. cat.
Over the past year, Creative Commons communities around the world have continued to show what’s possible when people come together around shared values of openness, collaboration, and care. In 2026, we want to deepen our community engagement, strengthening connections and creating more meaningful ways for everyone to engage.
Read our new blog post for a peek at some of our community plans: https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/17/building-what-comes-next-community-engagement-at-creative-commons/
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja @dansup
2. "Bigger is better". Because we're bridged, more people on Bluesky and ATProto services is helpful for the Fediverse. It means more creators making cool content for Fediverse users to read and listen to and use, and it means a bigger audience for Fediverse creators to reach. Bigger networks are, generally, better. (Thanks, Metcalfe's Law!)
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja @dansup
3. "Exchange of ideas". There are some really interesting things for us to learn from each other in the different protocol communities. I think the client-first, dapp-style development happening in the ATProto community is a *great* architecture for us to adopt in the Fediverse. You mentioned long-form text standards between FEP-b2b8 and standard.site -- another great opportunity for some mutual learning.
Some people collect stamps; we at CSS Day collect browser vendors. We already announced Vivaldi and Ladybird; today we add Google and Microsoft.
This allows our attendees to complain efficiently about CSS problems in many browsers at once, while their representatives smile, take notes, apologise, and promise to do better.
Today we announce the following speakers:
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@patrickbrosset (Microsoft)
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@UnaUna Kravets (Google)
- and 
@argyleinkAdam Argyle (CSS)
See our full line-up at https://cssday.nl
Fluxer is an open-source, independent instant messaging and VoIP platform. Built for friends, groups, and communities.
https://fluxer.app
There are two race conditions hard problems in distributed systems: and guaranteed deli
Seltsam. Obwohl heute Fastnacht ist, ist es überhaupt nicht dunkel.
so long losers, my ship just came in
![Screenshot of an email that begins, “Hi Ethan, We see you have credibility in [topic], and we’d like to sponsor you.” (“Topic” is set off with square brackets, suggesting that it was supposed to be replaced with something else before sending. Yeah, I know.)](https://cdn.masto.host/followethanmarcottecom/media_attachments/files/116/087/799/582/953/970/original/a06f3ac2de49a25b.jpeg)
Lateral climbing
Never ending 確定申告 dread... 
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja @dansup There are a lot of cases for Fediverse developers to support cooperation.
1. "They're like us". As you've pointed out, ATProto has evolved (almost?) beyond the control of one venture-funded startup. There is a community of third-party developers who are doing interesting things. They are more like Fediverse developers than we realize. Even if the foundations of ATProto suck (agree to disagree!), there's some cool work being done by cool people who share a lot of our values.
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja @dansup
2. "Bigger is better". Because we're bridged, more people on Bluesky and ATProto services is helpful for the Fediverse. It means more creators making cool content for Fediverse users to read and listen to and use, and it means a bigger audience for Fediverse creators to reach. Bigger networks are, generally, better. (Thanks, Metcalfe's Law!)
AIの軍事利用を巡り国防総省がAnthropicとの関係解消を検討 - GIGAZINE
https://gigazine.net/news/20260216-pentagon-anthropic-ai-safeguards/
『AnthropicはClaudeを暴力行為の助長や兵器開発、監視活動へ利用することを禁止しており、ベネズエラ攻撃への利用について問われた広報担当者は「Claudeやその他のAIモデルが、機密か機密ではないかを問わず、特定の作戦に使われたかどうかコメントすることはできません」と言及を避けた上で、「政府機関であろうと民間であろうと、Claudeを利用するにはAnthropicの利用規約を守ることが必須です」と述べました』
AIエージェントの普及によってこのままだと𝕏のようなプラットフォームは数ヶ月から最大2年後には使えなくなってしまうとWorldcoin共同創業者のAlex Blaniaが主張。
ボットを防ぐのはほぼ無理になっていく中、人間である認証が大事になってくる。
... and i think that it's important to be able to understand what is accurate and what is not, in order to engage with it. that's it
also, sorry i got a lot of replies about this: yes, sometimes companies want regulation because the burden means that they're the only ones that can comply i am not saying that the desire fore regulation means they're good. i'm just saying that "none of them want any regulation" isn't accurate...
#GivingTuesday
For those who love the web and want to support open, accessible, international, privacy-respecting, secure web standards we ask that you spare a moment and support the World Wide Web Consortium as we continue our work to make the web work -- for everyone.
#ShareTheLove
https://www.w3.org/support-us/
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja @dansup I have a major voice because I'm ride-or-die for ActivityPub. That's my role.
You and I have different roles in the social web. I think yours is really important, and I'm glad you do it, but it's not mine.
We can achieve a lot together even if we don't agree on everything.
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja @dansup So, I'd like to give you some unsolicited advice, since you've been so generous with yours.
If you want to see more cooperation between people on the Fediverse and the ATmosphere, telling people on the Fediverse that they're bad and wrong and nasty isn't working. It may be true, but it's not effective.
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My company requested a "headshot" and this is the best photo I can find.
@evanEvan Prodromou If you agree, then I think you should be promoting and endorsing more kindness and productive criticism instead of threads like this that push people away. You have a major voice here, be a part of pushing a positive culture.
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja @dansup I have a major voice because I'm ride-or-die for ActivityPub. That's my role.
You and I have different roles in the social web. I think yours is really important, and I'm glad you do it, but it's not mine.
We can achieve a lot together even if we don't agree on everything.
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