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.
Trump Says He’s Just Going To Make Some Shit Up To Justify Nationalizing The Election Process | Techdirt
Amazon illegally imposed a wage freeze on unionized employees, according to a ruling by the B.C. Labour Relations Board.
“Amazon wants to punish workers who have been actively engaged in bargaining a fair collective agreement. Amazon wants you to blame the union,”
https://rabble.ca/labour/amazon-illegally-imposed-a-wage-freeze-on-unionized-employees-in-b-c/
Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court.
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'A note reading “Hahaha get wrecked ya surveilling fucks” was attached to one of the destroyed poles, and somewhat incredibly, broadcast on the local news.'
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the-us-people-are-dismantling
Finally got a hold of the Orion Newby vs. Adelphi University judgment.
Link: https://www.nycourts.gov/REPORTER/3dseries/2026/2026_26021.htm
In short, Adelphi used Turnitin to accuse Orion, a student with Autism Spectrum Disorder, of using generative AI to write an essay. He was sanctioned and experienced harm. He spent over $100K in legal fees and won.
People with ASD have been reported to have higher rates of false positives from Turnitin's AI detector. Stop using Turnitin if you don't want lawsuits.
Hat-tip: 
@davidpwhelanDavid Whelan
STREET ART UTOPIA @streetartutopia@streetartutopia.com
We often think of art as something that hangs on a gallery wall or gets painted on a concrete building. But what happens when artists use the deep roots, towering trunks, and living leaves of the forest as their medium? From monumental wooden sculptures in Mexico to carved tree trunks in Ghana, here are 14 incredible examples of nature and human creativity joining forces. 🌿 1. Come Into Light — Daniel Popper in Tulum, Mexico 🇲🇽 A monumental wooden figure with intricate carved […]
Read more →I haven't posted this for a while, here's my links for anyone interested:
https://linktr.ee/gammitin
There's an invite link (bottom link on my linktree) to the awesome retro community RHD, filled with knowledgeable, helpful & friendly retro enthusiasts and lots of awesome content.
やばい、体調悪すぎて逆に寝れるか怪しい
めっちゃいいステータス追加した
寝るー
ICE
Fucking wild that ICE is detaining people who are trying to *leave* the country. It’s all graft and violence for its own sake, all the way down.
明日もおしごと！というわけでねます。
최근 장도리 손에서 1억년만에 청년캐가 나왔다는 소식입니다 락님과 노는 중 #무노즈
The suspension of email service by Microsoft for an official of the International Criminal Court has been cited as one of the factors causing booming interest & investment in #DigitalSovereignty in Europe. It was a wake up call for European governments that U.S. tech firms would follow U.S. influence over EU rights. The ICC announced in late 2025 that they will move away from #Microsoft services.
#USA_TechHegemony
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/microsoft_asks_uk_parliament_to_correct_record/
Wow, this blog post from 
@thelocalstack about getting verified on #Linkedin is pretty shocking: https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
If you see my name being verified somewhere, you can be pretty sure it won't actually be me, because I wouldn't agree to any of that... 😱
tak bardzo cieszę się że otoczyłam się tak cudownymi ludźmi (albo to oni otoczyli mnie), kocham życie
최근 장도리 손에서 1억년만에 청년캐가 나왔다는 소식입니다 락님과 노는 중 #무노즈
⚠️ Update #Guix due to Security issue ⚠️
It is strongly recommended to do a "guix pull", update all profiles. Restart the Guix Daemon, on Guix System reboot.
A potential security issue was identified in Guix's glibc package which impacts the Guix Daemon when run in privileged mode.
See the discussion on Codeberg for more details:
Rest is Rust. Motion is Lotion. 👟💨
🎯 Proof that "Age is just a number.” In our SPARTA Strength Class at the Malden Senior Center, we have rockstars from ages 65 to 93 proving that 💥HIIT is for everyone.
We are focusing on more than just reps—we are building community. 💪🏾
#MaldenMA #NorthShoreMA #Boston #HIIT #HealthEquity #SeniorFitness #HeartHealth #StrengthTraining #Longevity #aging #mentalhealth #accessibility #fallprevention #diversity #fun
Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries
Link: https://alexanderbjoy.com/two-sentence-journal-approaches/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053410
Und hier die richtige Headline:
"KAPITULATION: Union und SPD stimmen gegen Regulierung US-amerikanischer und chinesischer Netzwerke"
Last Friday marks an interesting thing. I received my first e-mail that has obviously been rewritten by an AI. I know this because the person who sent it has an atrocious way of misspelling almost every word and his output is very disjointed and hard to follow.
Now I received something that was very polished. The business-casual of e-mail communication. It however did very little to the content, which was just has hard to follow, except now there was an added layer of the #AI misunderstanding what it was about.
It did not make him feel any more professional, except how I couldn't even figure out what it was about.
Last Friday marks an interesting thing. I received my first e-mail that has obviously been rewritten by an AI. I know this because the person who sent it has an atrocious way of misspelling almost every word and his output is very disjointed and hard to follow.
Now I received something that was very polished. The business-casual of e-mail communication. It however did very little to the content, which was just has hard to follow, except now there was an added layer of the #AI misunderstanding what it was about.
It did not make him feel any more professional, except how I couldn't even figure out what it was about.
Rest is Rust. Motion is Lotion. 👟💨
🎯 Proof that "Age is just a number.” In our SPARTA Strength Class at the Malden Senior Center, we have rockstars from ages 65 to 93 proving that 💥HIIT is for everyone.
We are focusing on more than just reps—we are building community. 💪🏾
#MaldenMA #NorthShoreMA #Boston #HIIT #HealthEquity #SeniorFitness #HeartHealth #StrengthTraining #Longevity #aging #mentalhealth #accessibility #fallprevention #diversity #fun
“Social Security is going to be broke by 2033. I’ve been trying to tell everyone. It’s less than 7 years away. Instead of funding foreign wars and foreign countries, Social Security needs to be saved! If seniors can’t collect their SS check the government should be burned down.”
- Marjorie Taylor Greene
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-issues-warning-over-social-security-11555706
may I have a simple burger PLEASE, sir
The #resistance in #minneapolis is another level. #news #Politics
🇪🇺🚌 With the #EU Parliament and Council ramping up their work on the #DigitalOmnibus, noyb continues to fight for changes to preserve your privacy rights.
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If you use an LLM to generate your security report, but ignore the part where it says "triage this report according to your security process" and just post it as a public GitHub issue, you deserve bad things!
Anyone who is about to complete, or already has completed, an age-verification or identity-verification process online should read this short article.
Especially if it's on LinkedIn or Discord.
"I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over." by @thelocalstack
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
#Privacy #LinkedIn #Discord #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification #MassSurveillance
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
@thelocalstack
Not only is it amazing that you shared your experience, but is a well written article. People take for granted what they now know after reading something like without having to go through it themselves.
Thanks for sharing.
A retired British primary school teacher with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE in the US while on holiday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. 
@steveSteve Bate So, I disagree that we have to exclusively adopt a message-passing paradigm for ActivityPub.
EDIT: note that it's exclusive.
@evanEvan Prodromou @smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. @steveSteve Bate ActivityPub already is a message passing paradigm
@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. @steveSteve Bate one anti-pattern I dislike seeing in ActivityPub discussions is that only one interaction defined in the ActivityPub spec is valid: an HTTP POST to an actor's `inbox` for server-to-server interactions.
We can use HTTP GET to fetch additional data about objects, actors and collections.
@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. @steveSteve Bate So, I disagree that we have to exclusively adopt a message-passing paradigm for ActivityPub.
EDIT: note that it's exclusive.
Do not comply.
Do not share your ID or biometric data with abusive platforms requesting it. You have a choice to say no, complain, and leave.
This is an important act of resistance for the future of humanity.
This isn't just about privacy, this is also about safety, diversity, democracy, and human rights.
#Privacy #MassSurveillance #HumanRights #Fascism #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification
Crabfield!
some final touches
I wish people would stop using the "but there are legitimate use cases" argument to recommend some slop machine to me.
I won't use it! I will stop listening to them! I won't even listen to anything else they might have to say unless they are able to make a convincing case how Slop-enAI (and its ilk) will ever stop roasting the planet, rotting our brains, and burning money in any other way than by going bankrupt.
I'm so exhausted by the Slop Mania!
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#LLMs #StopTheSlop
트위터식 불매의 가장 아이러니한것은
일단 그 사람들이 "X"를 여지껏 불매안하고 쓴다는 점에 있다고 생각하며...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bmkgnkgowz5lpvrxve7sjj4k/post/3mfexog45622v
요즘 그림을 통 안 그렸어... 좀 그려야하는데
Furthermore, I think Bluesky is providing something valuable: a lot of people are trying to leave X-Twitter *right now* because it has become a completely toxic place.
The fact that Bluesky's team has managed to scale to receive such users is incredible, nearly feeling miraculous.
On the fediverse we also see a lot of accusations of Bluesky being owned by Jack Dorsey, and this isn't true. My understanding is that Jay performed an impressive amount of negotiation to allow Bluesky to receive funding independently.
These days Jack Dorsey is instead focusing on Nostr, which I can only describe as "a sequel to Secure Scuttlebutt with extremely bad vibes where bitcoin people talk about bitcoin"
I participated a bit in the process of when Bluesky was Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal's personal project. I also believe Jack and Parag were sincere about Bluesky as a decentralized social network protocol that Twitter would adopt, which is the directive that Bluesky was given as an organization.
When Jay Graber was awarded the position to lead Bluesky, I was not surprised. To me, Jay was the obvious choice to deliver what Bluesky was being directed, and I do think Jay is an excellent leader
There is also something which Bluesky gets right which the fediverse does not. I mentioned that Bluesky uses decentralization *techniques*, and the most important of those is content-addressing. This allows content to exist even when a server goes down.
This is a great decision and I have advocated that the fediverse do so as well. In fact several years ago I wrote a demo in 
@spritelyThe Spritely Institute's early days showing off how one could build a content-addressed ActivityPub in a spec-compatible way.
And before we make it any further can I say that I watched a nice medley of David Bowie and Cher singing, and it was so lovely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPlN8RBP-Ws
@mlemwebDr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber said "of course it's very heteronormative despite having two queer coded icons on the stage and ISN'T THAT THE WAY I guess
But where was I? Oh yes. We had talked about why PDS'es aren't enough (blog/google analogy), relative costs of hosting things on ATProto vs ActivityPub, etc etc
But we haven't gotten into the really interesting parts which are the structural analysis stuff, so let's move onto that
Remember that the idea of "fully self-hosting" on Bluesky/ATProto at this point is primarily abstract; nobody is really doing it. But of course there's a place where tens of thousands of people are running their own servers for millions of users, and that's the fediverse/ActivityPub.
As said, tens of thousands of people are self-hosting *today*. Fediverse software doesn't just scale up, it scales *down*.
GotoSocial is cheap enough on resources where you can run it for family and friends on a raspberry pi or spare laptop you have sitting around.
Now you're hitting the point in this thread where some of you may be thinking "aha! this is where Christine is saying that the fediverse/activitypub are awesome and atproto is terrible!"
you have NO IDEA HOW MUCH I CRITICIZE THE FEDIVERSE ALL THE TIME, I do it all the time, and will later here
The fediverse has a lot of flaws. Oh trust me, we're gonna get to that.
But comparison-wise: what I mean to say is that architectural decisions matter, and scaling up isn't the only thing that's important, *scaling down matters too*.
If you care about decentralization, anyway.
As said, tens of thousands of people are self-hosting *today*. Fediverse software doesn't just scale up, it scales *down*.
GotoSocial is cheap enough on resources where you can run it for family and friends on a raspberry pi or spare laptop you have sitting around.
Now you're hitting the point in this thread where some of you may be thinking "aha! this is where Christine is saying that the fediverse/activitypub are awesome and atproto is terrible!"
you have NO IDEA HOW MUCH I CRITICIZE THE FEDIVERSE ALL THE TIME, I do it all the time, and will later here
But where was I? Oh yes. We had talked about why PDS'es aren't enough (blog/google analogy), relative costs of hosting things on ATProto vs ActivityPub, etc etc
But we haven't gotten into the really interesting parts which are the structural analysis stuff, so let's move onto that
Now you may be saying, "Christine, this is really unfair, because you're looking at ActivityPub servers which are only dealing with a small amount of the network, what if it were an ActivityPub mega-node? What are the costs THEN huh?" and "What if we hosted just PART of ATProto?"
What then INDEED
の絲針紡🐬🤓 
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Maho 🦝🍻
Inside Fediverse
