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.

Esther Alter @esther_alter@mastodon.social
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Shared by Nora Tindall

Laid off :/

I know:

- Unity C#
- Rust
- Python

I can learn:

- Anything

I am in Massachusetts. Remote work would be great too

I've 8 years of experience as an MIT software engineer specializing in research simulation platform projects. I would prefer: not creating the next big AI thing, not making weapons, never having to think about blockchain anything.

Anyone got anything?

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Horologram @horologram.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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사람들은 분기 단위별로 개선이 되길 바라는데 현실에서 플젝 해보신분들은 아시겠지만... (잘난척하는것은 아닙니다 ㅠㅠ) 사내 사외 온갖 이상한 이유로 망한 플젝 한 5-10개 위로 한두개가 잘되서 거기서 발전이 나오는 구조입니다;; 이러면 5년 넘게 걸리는 경우가 많고요 조별과제는 매우 어렵습니다... 2명 조별과제인 결혼도 어려운데 이게 몇백 몇천 단위로 돌아가는것이 한방에 잘되면 이상한것임;;

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Horologram @horologram.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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요새 AI 관련 기사는 보통 자극적으로 작성이 되는데 딱히 신경써서 볼 필요는 없다고 생각함다... 닷컴 버블시절에도 수많은 회사들이 무리하게 통신 인프라에 투자했고 어떻게 이걸 써야하나 다들 우왕좌왕하는 사이에 리턴이 그만큼 당장 안나오는것 같으니까 버블이 꺼졌고 혼란스러운 시기가 지나갔는데 그 잿더미 위로 살아남은 기업들이 있었고 실제로 발전을 했고 생활을 개선을 했죠 ㅎㅎ; 가까이서 본 분들은 잘 아시겠지만 경영진들과 CEO들도 사실 잘 모릅니다 그냥 잘 아는척만 하는 경우가 많고 나중에 뒷북치는 경우가 많고 등등

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Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
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"What they don’t often tell you is how fun the resistance can be: the marches joyous and laced with adrenalized anger, people cheering the brass band that thumps its way down the block, chanting and pumping fists, belting out a ubiquitous profane call and response about ICE."

nytimes.com/2026/02/18/opinion

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Kim Crawley 😷 @kimcrawley@zeroes.ca
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Shared by rob pike

I want you to spread the word that Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media is forcing his editors to "use" Gen AI as much as possible. The book I wrote for them, Hacker Culture: A to Z, is probably the last non-tech manual they ever published that isn't tainted by Gen AI.

I quit my goddamn fucking professor position at OPIT because I would rather risk my ability to pay my rent than subject my students to Gen AI "e proctoring."

Please check out stopgenai.com, I beg of you.

neuromatch.social/@jonny/11608

Stop Gen AI – Mutual Aid and Political Activism

stopgenai.com

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Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
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Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl at today's hearing over social media’s alleged harms to children:

"If your glasses are recording, you must take them off. It is the order of this court that there must be no facial recognition of the jury. If you have done that, you must delete it. This is very serious."

latimes.com/california/story/2

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives for a landmark trial over whether social media platforms deliberately addict and harm children, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Mark Zuckerberg testifies in L.A. trial over claims social media makes kids addicted

The Meta chief executive was called to the witness stand in a civil trial over a lawsuit that accuses Instagram of knowingly causing harm to children.

www.latimes.com · Los Angeles Times

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto@mas.to
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“Russia’s use of first-person view (FPV) drones to strike mainly civilian targets in the Ukrainian near rear is indicative of a pervasive culture within the Russian Armed Forces that seeks to both weaponize and institutionalize intentional civilian harm as a purposeful tool of war.”

understandingwar.org/research/

Russia’s FPV drone campaign in Ukraine institutionalizes intentional civilian harm as a tool of war

Russia's use of FPV drones to strike civilian targets in Ukraine indicates a culture seeking to weaponize civilian harm as a tool of war.

understandingwar.org · Institute for the Study of War

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Mariatta 🤦🏻‍♀️ :python: @mariatta@fosstodon.org
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The previous homeowner had great taste and picked super unique appliances and lighting fixtures for the house but dang it's so hard to find replacement parts for these things 😵

Some of these I could only get by ordering online, while some others are no longer supplied so I have to replace the whole thing.

I feel like software development is the same.
Sometimes you'd inherit a codebase, the dependencies become outdated and need update/replacement, so now it becomes your maintenance nightmare.

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Evan Prodromou shared the below article:

Growing the Social Web

Evan Prodromou @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org

I'm going to be participating in the Growing the Open Social Web workshop at Fediforum on March 2, 2026. I'm excited to talk to other people who care about the Fediverse about ways to connect more people through ActivityPub. Fediforum invited attendees to publish position papers before the workshop. SWF has a number of hypotheses about growth of the social web; I'll try to summarise some of them here. Growth can't come at the expense of privacy. People currently on the Fediverse must have […]

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Minsoo Choo :freebsd_logo: @minsoochoo@bsd.cafe
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My work on LLDB’s FreeBSDKernel plugin:
minsoo.io/future-of-the-freebs

The name FreeBSDKernel will be changed to FreeBSD-core, since it only provides functionalities to examine core dumps. Traditional live kernel debugging is done through gdb-remote plugin with FreeBSD’s gdb stub.

Future of the FreeBSD Kernel LLDB Plugin

FreeBSD offers several approaches to kernel debugging: DDB, live kernel debugging, and core dump analysis. DDB is an interactive debugger built directly into the FreeBSD kernel, with syntax inspired by GDB — making it immediately familiar to most developers. Live debugging leverages FreeBSD's GDB stub (defined under sys/gdb); on the

minsoo.io · Minsoo Choo

Link author: Minsoo Choo :freebsd_logo:@minsoochoo@bsd.cafe

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Radio Dreyeckland @RDL@freiburg.social
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Shared by Quincy ⁂

Das Sozialgericht Karlsruhe hat in einem Eilbeschluss erklärt, die Regelung zur Arbeitspflicht im sei verfassungswidrig. Nach Auffassung des Gerichts ist zudem die Streichung des soziokulturellen Existenzminimums „verfassungsrechtlich nicht zulässig“ Ob die Verfassungsfeinde das Urteil beachten? Gespräch mit Tareq Alaows von . rdl.de/beitrag/die-regelung-zu

"Die Regelung zur Arbeitspflicht ist verfassungswidrig"

Wie kürzlich bekannt wurde, hat das Sozialgericht Karlsruhe mit einem Eilbeschluss vom 12.

rdl.de · Radio Dreyeckland

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Radio Dreyeckland @RDL@freiburg.social
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Das Sozialgericht Karlsruhe hat in einem Eilbeschluss erklärt, die Regelung zur Arbeitspflicht im sei verfassungswidrig. Nach Auffassung des Gerichts ist zudem die Streichung des soziokulturellen Existenzminimums „verfassungsrechtlich nicht zulässig“ Ob die Verfassungsfeinde das Urteil beachten? Gespräch mit Tareq Alaows von . rdl.de/beitrag/die-regelung-zu

"Die Regelung zur Arbeitspflicht ist verfassungswidrig"

Wie kürzlich bekannt wurde, hat das Sozialgericht Karlsruhe mit einem Eilbeschluss vom 12.

rdl.de · Radio Dreyeckland

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evacide @evacide@hachyderm.io
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Shared by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

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.

404media.co/leaked-email-sugge

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs

Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

www.404media.co · 404 Media

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Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
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Shared by Quincy ⁂

Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information.

For some reason it hasn’t put out a security advisory - but instead buried it in a service alert which isn’t publicly visible.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr

Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails

Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information.

www.bleepingcomputer.com · BleepingComputer

Link author: Sergiu Gatlan@serghei@mastodon.social

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Growing the Social Web

Evan Prodromou @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org

I'm going to be participating in the Growing the Open Social Web workshop at Fediforum on March 2, 2026. I'm excited to talk to other people who care about the Fediverse about ways to connect more people through ActivityPub. Fediforum invited attendees to publish position papers before the workshop. SWF has a number of hypotheses about growth of the social web; I'll try to summarise some of them here. Growth can't come at the expense of privacy. People currently on the Fediverse must have […]

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silverpill @silverpill@mitra.social
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Shared by FenTiger

In previous years, I published two "fediverse tech roadmap" posts:

- Fediverse tech roadmap 2024
- Fediverse tech roadmap 2025

However, I didn't publish such post this year because not much has happened in 2025. Many problems I talked about require complex solutions, but unfortunately proposed solutions are often very limited or lead to centralization. Or worse, there is no solution but only an imitation of work. I don't want to write about that.

I saw a thread today where ATProto ecosystem was compared to #ActivityPub. Things are happening in the Atmosphere, but not in Fediverse. MAU graphs are flat. What's going on?

There are multiple factors at play, but I think fake activity may be the biggest contributor. Trivial developments presented as breakthroughs. Features that already exist somewhere in Fediverse presented as new inventions. Vaporware. Specs written by people who have no idea how to implement them. Working groups that do nothing but meetings.

Real work is ignored, competent developers see that and quit.

We need to fix this.

For my part, I will continue to document #Fediverse development at @weekinfediverseWeek in Fediverse :fediverse_light:. But this newsletter doesn't have much impact.

Fediverse tech roadmap - Post by @silverpill

Fediverse tech roadmap - Post by @silverpill

mitra.social · Mitra Zero

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Rob Wainwright @apex@androiddev.social
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Shared by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

I know this might be a long shot but I'm wondering if anyone knows the best place for custom PCBs?
Specifically I'm looking for a place that is able to manufacture github.com/DiscoStarslayer/dis -- a flashcart for a 22 year old obscure game console.
I don't really understand anything about how this works so any recommendations are welcome.

WIP Cartridge and BIOS dumper for the V-Smile. Contribute to DiscoStarslayer/disco-cart development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub - DiscoStarslayer/disco-cart: WIP Cartridge and BIOS dumper for the V-Smile

WIP Cartridge and BIOS dumper for the V-Smile. Contribute to DiscoStarslayer/disco-cart development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com · GitHub

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Lilith Wittmann @Lilith@chaos.social
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@hweimerHendrik Weimer Nur weil eine Stelle ursprünglich von Horizon Geld eingerichtet wurde, kam das Geld für Sachen die heut Umgesetzt werden nicht aus Horizon 2020.
Horizon 2020 war auch deutlich mehr als Förderung von gewissen OSS Technologien. Aber der Teil mit den OSS Technologien zu Programmbeginn war absolut nutzlos.
Wenn man Milliarden per Gießkanne ausgibt passieren auch gute Dinge, das heißt aber nicht, dass das Förderprogramm als ganzes sinnvoll war.

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Coffeehound RetroSharka 🏳️‍⚧️ @SharkaBytes@oldbytes.space
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Shared by Gabriele Svelto

The kind of character portraits that write their own stories.

A motley crew of NPCs you'll run into in 'Beast City', one of the last cities remaining on Earth after WWIII, where 'screamers' descend into the depths of the bio-monster infested BIAS zone to hunt them for credits and score.

One of the earlier sci-fi/cyberpunk dungeon crawlers I've played.

📺: The Screamer, MagicalZoo, 1985 (PC-88/98)

eight pixel art anime character headshots in a gallery, all with characterful expressions, and with various post-apocalyptic cyberpunk vibes, such as a guy in a mass and tiny red goggles, one with a punk mohawk, another with baseball cap and beard, someone with long blonde hair and a Poison/JoJo--alike cap, and a goofy looking guy wearing a pilot's helmet. They all look like they'd fit in great with a Shadowrun campaign.
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