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.

Ingo Dachwitz @roofjoke@mamot.fr
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Auf den ersten Blick haben die Meldungen nicht viel gemein:

- In UK wird ein Mann festgenommen, weil er mit einem Täter verwechselt wird: theguardian.com/technology/202
- In den USA überschwemmt Meta Strafverfolger mit falschen Hinweisen auf vermeintlich strafbare Inhalte: theguardian.com/technology/202

Beide Probleme beruhen auf fehlerhaften KI-Systemen. Warnungen vor Automatisierung in der Strafverfolgung gibt es seit Jahren, sie wird trotzdem großflächig ausgerollt.

We're gonna see a lot more of this.

Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away

Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking ‘10 years younger’

www.theguardian.com · the Guardian

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FreeBSD Foundation @FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

New to FreeBSD and not sure where to start? You’re not alone.

In this second video of the series, I'm walking through the FreeBSD Foundation's Getting Started page.

On this page, you’ll find:
— The official FreeBSD Handbook
— Installation guides for desktops and virtual machines
— Step-by-step written walkthroughs for common setup options
— Links to community spaces: forums, Discord, Reddit, and LinkedIn

freebsdfoundation.org/resource

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passthejoe @passthejoe@snac.bsd.cafe
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I really miss this one. I had a huge Ruby script that made it easy to make the entries and post them to 3 different sites (one of which was this microblog), and I liked seeing all my social posts in one place.

Ode -- the blogging software -- was something. The guy who made it, Rob Reed, kind of dropped out of site. He never really updated it after this 2010 release, but it did a lot and worked pretty well.

It was kind of out of time in that it was a Perl CGI app that seemed to be based on Blosxom (https://blosxom.sourceforge.net/), but extended it. Rob also wanted to use the system to teach programming and system administration. It zigged when everyone else was zagging toward static site generators. I eventually did, too, though I never got all of the entries in the main blog into my Hugo or Zola sites.

While I liked the immediacy of writing a file and having it publish automatically (because every user got a fresh site built by the Perl script), you pretty much had to have an Apache server so .htaccess could work its magic. I think the few users of Ode over the years tried to make the script work on other web servers, but those efforts are lost to history, as all the forums we used are very likely gone forever. I might have notes on some of this, but ...

I'm still more sold on static site generators, even though the front matter is generally too complicated (true for both Hugo and Zola, bu t not as true for @bt@bsd.cafeBradley Taunt's wruby, which I think is real contender). I generally use templates or scripts to generate the raw post files, so that's a solved problem.

But as you can see, I wrote 800+ entries on that main Ode blog, and there are a few thousand on the microblog. It obviously worked for me, and I'd like to have that many (hopefully good) entries in a blog that I was currently writing.

blosxom :: the zen of blogging ::

blosxom.sourceforge.net

passthejoe @passthejoe@snac.bsd.cafe
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

The kind of immediate writing I did in that microblog -- which went to Mastodon anyway -- was easy because I used a script in the terminal is better done in a "real" microblog like snac2, but it's nice to have an archive of what I was thinking (and typing into my Ruby script).

I haven't done a programming project like it (https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster) ever since, and I should. I want to do something that's a desktop GUI, and programs that help me write and publish blog posts with less friction still have a lot of appeal.

The social media paradigm of "type into the box, hit send" is still pretty powerful. All the things you need to add to a post (title, tags, categories, images) just makes everything take longer, and in my case it makes me write less, or write fewer shorter posts. That's good or bad, I guess, depending on how you look at it.

I still think @bt@bsd.cafeBradley Taunt has the right idea with his simpler static site blogging systems https://btxx.org/projects/
Easily create social media posts and upload them to Twitter, Mastodon and a blog - passthejoe/blogPoster

GitHub - passthejoe/blogPoster: Easily create social media posts and upload them to Twitter, Mastodon and a blog

Easily create social media posts and upload them to Twitter, Mastodon and a blog - passthejoe/blogPoster

github.com · GitHub

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BSDTV @bsdtv@bsd.network
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

NYC*BUG dmesgd post:
RPi Zero 2W 15.0-RELEASE releng/FreeBSD 15.0

dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=vi

Launched in 2004, dmesgd aims to provide a user-submitted repository of searchable *BSD dmesgs. The dmesg(8) command displays the system message buffer's content, and during boot a copy is saved to /var/run/dmesg.boot. This buffer contains the operating system release, name and version, a list of devices identified, plus a whole host of other useful information. We hope others find this resource useful and further contribute to its growth. Contact us at [ admin at lists dot nycbug dot org ]. Note that this site is not a substitute for sending the dmesg directly to the respective project.

Submit your dmesg here:

dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=su

NYC*BUG dmesgd

New York City BSD User Group dmesgd

dmesgd.nycbug.org

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Silverkey | 은열쇠 @silverkey.social@bsky.brid.gy
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RP) 유튜브 프리미엄 라이트는 프리미엄에서 뮤직만 빠진 게 아니라서 그렇습니다 . 안내처럼 "대부분"의 영상에서 광고가 안 나오는 거지. 일부 영상에서는 광고가 나오는 이상한 형태입니다. 또 여기 이미지에서 언급되지 않지만, 검색이나 탐색을 할 때는 광고가 계속 표시될 수 있다고도 안내를 하더군요. support.google.com/youtube/answ...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6gj3ydet5xfqadacw235mfa3/post/3mfqsjncwrk24

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Michael Dexter @dexter@bsd.network
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

The recording of the February 25th, 2026 Production User Call is up:

youtu.be/aYJ4sWotYho

Than you Ruben and Alexey for helping test Rob's SHA512ext patch on recent hardware!

We discussed the a surprise on "LTS" Ubuntu, the 2.4.1 and 2.3.6 releases, did a deep dive into the "mountpoint" property, discussed other administrative conventions, a new illumos patch by Matt Ahrens, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: bsdfund.org

2026-02-25 OpenZFS Production User Call

The recording of the February 25th, 2026 #OpenZFS Production User CallThan you Ruben and Alexey for helping test Rob's SHA512ext patch on recent hardware!We ...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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passthejoe @passthejoe@snac.bsd.cafe
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

I'm in a resurrecting mood. After bringing back the two blogs I host on NearlyFreeSpeech.net, I went into my domain host and connected a bunch of sites on the Caddy web server I run on an AlmaLinux 9 VPS. It's mostly sites that I'm already hosting on https://tilde.club, except with my domains:

https://passthejoe.net
https://zola.passthejoe.net
https://stevenrosenberg.net
https://wruby.passthejoe.net

Caddy makes everything so easy.

Welcome to ~tilde.club~

tilde.club

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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg@mastodon.social
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So someone called me a "hobby programmer" the other day and I was affronted! But now I've thought about it some more, I think I'll take that. I think I've always been a hobby programmer, regardless of the industry I've been in or how much I've been paid to write code

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[랜선효도] 제주감귤🍊 @jejuorange.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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Shared by 초무

파바·뚜쥬, 이 대통령 ‘담합’ 질타에 빵값 내린다…일부 케이크도 1만원 인하 www.hani.co.kr/arti/economy... 대통령 “설탕값이 16.5% 내렸다는데, 설탕을 쓰는 상품은 가격을 그대로 유지해서 소비자는 혜택도 못 받고 공정위가 열심히 한 결과물을 업체들이 독식하게 하면 안 된다”

파바·뚜쥬, 이 대통령 ‘담합’ 질타에 빵값 내린다…일...

파바·뚜쥬, 이 대통령 ‘담합’ 질타에 빵값 내린다…일부 케이크도 1만원 인하

이재명 대통령이 최근 연이어 ‘담합’ 행위를 거세게 비판하며 물가 안정을 압박하자, 제분·제빵업체들이 연이어 가격을 인하하겠다고 나섰다. 시제이(CJ)제일제당은 26일 밀가루 제품 가격을 평균 5% 추가 인하한다고 밝혔다. 시제이제일제당은 지난달부터 이달 초까지 업소용

www.hani.co.kr · 한겨레

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KDE @kde@floss.social
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KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign

will cut off independent developers to if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorgF-Droid and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.

keepandroidopen.org/

Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there's even a test version of Krita for Android.

KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen.

keepandroidopen.org/open-lette

The logo of the "Keep Android Open" campaign is an Android robot dressed as Darth Vader. Across the top it says "I AM ALTERING THE DEAL" in all caps, and below the robot it says "Pray I don't alter it further". This is a reference to how Android acquired a massive catalog of apps be making access open to the platform back in the day, and Google assuring it would remain open, as opposed to the iOS platform which was (and still is) very restricted. And, of course, Star Wars.
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niconiconi @niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be
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Shared by ✧✦Catherine✦✧

Perceptions of mobile basestation simulators be like.

US: The StingRay is an extremely sophisticated and dangerous spying system used by the FBI, conducting mass surveillance on citizens!
China: Ah yes, all scammers have one at the back of their van for SMS spamming and 2FA code sniffing to steal credit cards since the 2010s. Every Shenzhen market vendor with a laptop and a radio front-end can put together their own rig for sales.

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niconiconi @niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be
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@ignaloidas@not.acu.ltIgnas Kiela BTW, it's well-documented in China that anti-drone jammers are used by farmers for sabotaging competitors or personal revenges. So yes, civilian electronics warfare is a thing here. Some people claim China has the most sophisticated drone EW capabilities in the battlefield for this reason (since even mass-produced civilian systems have some countermeasures for immunity). I believe it's a joke, but considering how much improvised civilian equipment is used in the Russia-Ukraine war, it probably has an element of truth.

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한겨레 @hanibsky.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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정부가 오는 6·3 지방선거를 앞두고 인공지능을 활용한 가짜뉴스가 확산하면서 이를 차단하기 위해 총력 대응에 나서기로 했습니다.

지방선거 앞두고 AI 딥페이크 영상 확산…정부 “무관용...

지방선거 앞두고 딥페이크 영상 확산…정부 “무관용 원칙 대응”

울산남구 선관위는 6·3 지방선거 입후보예정자 ㄱ씨를 지난 9일 경찰에 고발했다. 선거운동을 위해 ‘외국의 유명 시사주간지에서 ○○의 발전을 이끌 인물로 ㄱ을 선정했다’는 내용이 담긴 허위 불법합성물(딥페이크) 영상을 인공지능(AI)으로 제작해 딥페이크임을 표시하지 않

www.hani.co.kr · 한겨레

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