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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If you are running *any* version of Ghost from 3.24.0 to 6.19.0:

Stop what you are doing and upgrade to 6.19.1.

Like right now.

>> This is not a drill! <<

"A SQL injection vulnerability existed in Ghost's Content API that allowed unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary data from the database. This vulnerability is present in Ghost v3.24.0 to v6.19.0. v6.19.1 contains a fix for this issue. There is no application-level workaround."

CVE-2026-26980 CVSS 9.4

github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/secu

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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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Who knows how to secure open source better than the maintainers themselves? 🛡️

In Session 3 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, 67 more projects improved their defenses.

From securing the AI stack to strengthening the global supply chain, find out how these maintainers are making security improvements that benefit the entire ecosystem. 👇
github.blog/open-source/mainta

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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.

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The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification.

A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.

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@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw::paw: (footnote for those who want to know what it really is: not an outlet—it has no terminals—but a place to stick the power plug on this air conditioning unit when its disconnected. original photo source: kind.social/@PurpleJillybeans/ )

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You know how hard it is to make me not care about some tech thing, let alone make me feel actively negatively towards it? I'm a perpetual early adopter, run betas all over the place, self-host — hell, when I was a kid, I snuck into conferences just to get the software the handed out as swag (this is how I used Outlook as an e-mail client as a kid)!

I downloaded alpha-quality NVIDIA drivers to try and play with style transfer toys and Deep Dream. Let me say that again: I willingly and *on purpose* ran *alpha-quality* *NVIDIA drivers* so I could play with something that is an immediate precursor to modern genAI products.

I am the ideal target audience for AI products.

And yet, based on knowing even a little bit about what they are, I fucking *loathe* them.

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You know how hard it is to make me not care about some tech thing, let alone make me feel actively negatively towards it? I'm a perpetual early adopter, run betas all over the place, self-host — hell, when I was a kid, I snuck into conferences just to get the software the handed out as swag (this is how I used Outlook as an e-mail client as a kid)!

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A Democratic state representative in North Carolina delivered a key vote to pass several GOP immigration bills and said on the House floor that “all cultures are not equal.” In next month’s primary, she faces a challenge from her left.

boltsmag.org/north-carolina-20

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@julian @silverpill Are you guys even on the same Fediverse as I am?

- Dozens of FEPs under development
- 10+ task forces in the CG
- New work like quote posts from Mastodon
- Ghost.org went live in 2025
- E2EE from Emissary and Bonfire this year
- New Working Group to revise ActivityPub

There is a tonne going on. We just had a FOSDEM Social Web Devroom with 20+ presenters. FediMTL.ca is next week. Fediforum is the week after that.

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