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.
You may be tempted to roll your eyes and say that this was obvious, but there is a substantive difference between pointing out there is a slippery slope and having solid evidence that Ring's CEO is planning to expand Search Party beyond lost pets. Kudos to 404 Media.
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We plan to disable the "live feeds" of the local and federated timelines on mastodon.social within in the next couple of weeks. They are already disabled on mastodon.online. While these feeds can be useful on smaller, topical or regional servers, they have limited use on larger servers like ours.
The live feeds present all content on the server immediately and essentially pre-moderation, which presents a particularly poor experience to new users finding the fediverse for the first time.
Move to a better instance, that doesn't gatekeep how you use it.
https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/
Garment Notation Language: Formal descriptive language for clothing construction
Link: https://github.com/khalildh/garment-notation
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062329
If you have the technical chops, join some of the conversations on https://activitypub.space, help move the protocol that powers the fediverse forward.
Not your cup of tea? You can always donate to your server's admins, or admins of servers your friends are on. Or any server, really. Pick one at random!
But above all, keep a positive attitude. Welcome new people. Encourage positive conversations. Shitpost.
And if you have to vent, go ahead, but don't drag other people down.
For me, a lot of the protocol-level stuff is a bit above my head, so I've been focusing more on advocating. My own followers may be familiar with my work on https://jointhefediverse.net, a site I see regularly shared and linked to.
I also contribute to and curate https://fediverseexplorations.org.
I've made creative bots followed by over 10,000 people.
https://bots.stefanbohacek.com
And there's even more at https://stefanbohacek.com/fediverse!
These are just some ideas, and I hope they encourage and inspire others!
In conclusion...lol. Here's my overarching point:
We need more people on the left unified in progressive ideals *and* who understand that just because republicans are the bad guys, it doesn't make democrats the good guys.
We Americans are constantly conditioned to view the world in terms of Good vs. Evil. It's in our media, our art, our politics. If Group A is Evil, then Group B *must* be Good.
That line of thinking fucks us every time, because the world isn't Avengers Endgame.
The Good vs Evil dichotomy at play:
Liberals left TwitterX for Bluesky. Musk was the "bad guy" so, new users assumed that BS were the "good guys." People literally referred to the respective platforms as the "good place" and "bad place."
Is BS better than X? Sure. But that wasn't the narrative.
New users projected liberalism onto BS when, in fact, BS was built on a libertarian manifesto. It's only now, 40m users in, that we're seeing what that means in practice.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/bluesky-may-have-the-juice-but-we-don-t-have-to-drink-the-kool-aid/
Ich schiff einen Igel vor Lachen!
"re:publica Vienna"
"claude" pronounced like "cloud" because it's a pun
"claude" pronounced like "clod" because it's fucking ai bullshit
@alexiaAlexia ΘΔ 
@liaizonwakest ⁂ I don't think SWF wants to be "the" organization for defining applications on the Fediverse, but we do want to clear obstacles to collaboration between developers. There are at least two other groups doing social standards on ActivityPub right now:
@alexiaAlexia ΘΔ @liaizonwakest ⁂
- The Social Web Community Group at the W3C (@socialcg@w3.social). This is an open group for extending and improving ActivityPub and related standards. There are task forces for forums, groups, end-to-end encryption, remixing, discovery, data portability, trust and safety, geosocial data, and more.
- The FEP process. Loosely connected to the SocialCG but more lightweight. https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/
Today’s #BatsInBlankets cutie is this Evening Bat (Nycticeius humeralis) who passed his flight testing last night with flying colours. He will officially join the group that’s being released in the coming days! #BatsInMyBelfry
와아아 멸망이다아아아아아
You know how everyone's freaked out about how technology is impacting teens? Notice how often the voices of teens are missing from the conversation? Come to the Wayfinding: Teenhood event next week and hear a panel of actual genuine teens talk about their perspectives on it! It was so hard to put this one together because teens but I am so freaking excited about it because teens!! https://luma.com/wayfinding3 #toronto
Uhh, whoops. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/microsoft-says-office-bug-exposed-customers-confidential-emails-to-copilot-ai/
Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers' confidential emails to Copilot AI | TechCrunch
Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers' confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies.
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
Link author: 
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
OK, I'm keeping a permanent top-five list of best Fediverse-themed songs. I'll update as more songs are made!
1. Fedilike
2. John Mastodon
3. Moi aussi je peux décentraliser des trucs si je veux
@alexiaAlexia ΘΔ @liaizonwakest ⁂ Part of my job is making sure people know about the work we do. If there's any apology to be made, it's on my behalf! Thanks for highlighting it and reminding me that we have communications work to do.
@alexiaAlexia ΘΔ @liaizonwakest ⁂ I don't think SWF wants to be "the" organization for defining applications on the Fediverse, but we do want to clear obstacles to collaboration between developers. There are at least two other groups doing social standards on ActivityPub right now:
日本今年1月外國遊客人數統計4年來首度錄得下跌，較去年1月少了4.9%
中國旅客急寫60.7%，只餘38.53萬人，是上月遊客減少的主因
香港按年跌17.9%；初步觀察，即使計及農曆年因素，這個跌幅也偏大，但要觀察本月數據才能更準備掌握最新港人遊日意欲
마냥 즐겁게 살 수는 없을까
Alex Karp, CEO von Palantir, des Konzerns für Überwachungssoftware, hat in einer Videokonferenz mit Investoren gesagt:
„Palantir ist hier, um [...] die Institutionen, mit denen wir zusammenarbeiten, zu den Besten der Welt zu machen. Und wenn nötig, werden wir unsere Gegner einschüchtern und sie gelegentlich sogar töten. Wir hoffen, Sie unterstützen das.“
Da will jemand Gott spielen - und lädt Firmen und Regierungen mit Geld dazu ein, mitzuspielen.
Kein deutsches Steuergeld für den Dreck!
Every now and then people break into a fight on here over fediverse vs the Atmosphere (or Bluesky, as its main representative).
I get it. Many of us get frustrated when we see people flocking to a VC-funded fediverse competitor.
But let's focus this energy on making the fediverse a place people want to spend their time in.
「青海」も、2種類読み方があります。 「あおみ」（東京都）と「おうみ」（新潟県）ですね。 ちなみに、新潟県には「青海川（おうみがわ）」という駅もあります。
Seriously, I don't think most Americans have put together that natalism, "naturalism," anti-science, anti-medicine, anti-vax, pedophilia, misogyny, queerphobia, eugenics, racism, anti-immigrant xenophobia, anti-woke, anti-DEI, and disempowering labor through automation and "AI" are all interlocking parts of modern fascist ideology.
Decentralised social media isn't just a tech experiment, it's critical infrastructure for a resilient democracy. Bertelsmann Stiftung's latest report explores how open protocols like ActivityPub can break tech monopolies.
How do we scale? The report calls for better usability & lower entry barriers; mandated interoperability via EU policy; public institutions hosting their own instances.
Thanks to 
@bjoernstaBjörn Staschen and 
@SaschaSascha Foerster 
Clara Ruthardt and Charlotte Freihse
🪼 #oc 백합 해파리캐 짜던 건데 설정 메모를 어따 해놨는지 기억이 나질 않음 ㅇ<-<
커미션 신청 감사드립니다!
Decentralised social media isn't just a tech experiment, it's critical infrastructure for a resilient democracy. Bertelsmann Stiftung's latest report explores how open protocols like ActivityPub can break tech monopolies.
How do we scale? The report calls for better usability & lower entry barriers; mandated interoperability via EU policy; public institutions hosting their own instances.
Thanks to @bjoernstaBjörn Staschen and @SaschaSascha Foerster Clara Ruthardt and Charlotte Freihse
방콕 여행 좀 알아보다가, 한국인들이 많이 줄었다고 해서 바트화 환율을 봤더니, 어... 줄어들만 했네. ㅋㅋㅋ; 싼 물가를 원하면 베트남이라는 대체재도 생겼고 굳이 태국을 고집할 이유는 적어졌지.
Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
Link: https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-ga
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063005
그러고보니 캐나다도 태풍경보가 내렸다고 한다
I hate Logitech, the company
I’m making a Mark Watney kind of dinner tonight 🚀
그러고보니 캐나다도 태풍경보가 내렸다고 한다
Every now and then people break into a fight on here over fediverse vs the Atmosphere (or Bluesky, as its main representative).
I get it. Many of us get frustrated when we see people flocking to a VC-funded fediverse competitor.
But let's focus this energy on making the fediverse a place people want to spend their time in.
Everry once in a while I post a link to this masala chai recipe: I wish every hipster cafe that claims to make ‘chai’ would just follow this recipe
(Ideally, don’t use a tea bag that claims to be for ‘masala chai’. I’ve never found a decent one)
@reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
What do you mean by „another fediverse culture“ ?I talked about it before in this thread:
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114421698141076701
But —
The Fediverse doesn't have a single culture. It has many cultures.
The Fediverse doesn't even have a single mass-culture.
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114225137060121782
Different parts of the Fediverse and different groups of people on the Fediverse have different cultures — different social norms, different traditions, different (cultural) expectations, etc.
Wow, it's snowing in Vancouver
RE: https://mastodon.social/@staff/115849914607258480
I dont like this
Oh… it's that guy from the Internet
Overproduction
국민은 선거에서 잘못된 선택을 할 수 있다. 한국만이 아니라 선진국에서 모두 벌어지고 있는 현상이다. 이를 어떻게 보완할 지에 대한 고민이 필요하다. 4년, 5년 후에 다시 선택한다는 여유가 없는 시대가 되었다.
It's a problem that we only have one Universe. It's very hard to do statistics with N=1.
뭔가 근데 이거 완전 다른말인데 어느 순간부터 렌게님 글의 볼드가 자주 보이기 시작했...
PictoPulse356
Jenniferplusplus
Inside Fediverse
MJ+
Emelia 👸🏻
Ael Yokan
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Chao-c'