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.

So Duo (the multifactor authentication service that loves) has integrated with Persona (the privacy destroying, Peter Thiel backed, AI-linked, facial scanning and mapping "identity verification" software)

You know the recent Discord snafu that received such massive pushback and caused so many people to leave Discord that they've dropped their identity verification?

Yeah, that Persona.

Duo integrates it into Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and even Duo Essentials...

...which means many working class folks will have no option but to be enrolled into and use Persona...

...or be fired.

duo.com/docs/identity-verifica

Identity Verification Last updated: January 23rd, 2026 Overview  To help protect organizations from the ever-growing threat of social engineering attacks, Duo integrates with Persona to offer integrated identity verification (IDV) workflows which provide high-assurance of user identities before allowing critical workforce user lifecycle actions in your organization.  Identity verification is part of the Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and Duo Essentials plans.
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So Duo (the multifactor authentication service that loves) has integrated with Persona (the privacy destroying, Peter Thiel backed, AI-linked, facial scanning and mapping "identity verification" software)

You know the recent Discord snafu that received such massive pushback and caused so many people to leave Discord that they've dropped their identity verification?

Yeah, that Persona.

Duo integrates it into Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and even Duo Essentials...

...which means many working class folks will have no option but to be enrolled into and use Persona...

...or be fired.

duo.com/docs/identity-verifica

Identity Verification Last updated: January 23rd, 2026 Overview  To help protect organizations from the ever-growing threat of social engineering attacks, Duo integrates with Persona to offer integrated identity verification (IDV) workflows which provide high-assurance of user identities before allowing critical workforce user lifecycle actions in your organization.  Identity verification is part of the Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and Duo Essentials plans.
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そもそもMastodon API等のアプリケーション固有のAPIと比較したときにActivityPubのC2S APIの何が嬉しいかというと、拡張も含めてActivity Streamsオブジェクトの表現の決定権をクライアントに委ねることでサーバによる対応によらずともクライアント主導でイノベーションを駆動できるという点もあるだろうから、もしサーバが既知の型のアクティビティしか受け入れないのだとしたらそれはMastodon APIの下位互換でしかなくなるよね(クライアントサイドで署名できる等の利点もあるとはいえ)

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Recently, there was a discussion about generic #ActivityPub servers. Several people claimed that they were working on one, but it turned out that their "generic" servers only support activities defined in the ActivityPub specification. Such a server shouldn't be called generic. It is not difficult to build, neither it is an interesting concept because competing protocols (e.g. Nostr) already offer much more.

I've been writing a #FEP that describes how to build a real generic server. It is not finished yet, but I feel like now is a good time to publish it:

FEP-fc48: Generic ActivityPub server

This kind of server:

- Can process any object type, and can process non-standard activities like EmojiReact.
- Compatible with FEP-ae97 clients.
- Does not require JSON-LD.

I attempted to implement it when I was researching security properties of FEP-ae97 API: https://codeberg.org/silverpill/fep-ae97-server. Back then I didn't know what to do with side effects, but now I think that we can simply force clients to specify them.

Special thanks to @mariusormarius and @trwnhinfinite love ⴳ for their input.

#C2S

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The CSS Working Group published a First Public Working Draft of Selectors Level 5. Selectors are patterns that match against elements in a tree, and as such form one of several technologies that can be used to select nodes in a document. Selectors have been optimized for use with HTML and XML, and are designed to be usable in performance-critical code.

w3.org/news/2026/first-public-

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📡 Erfolg für die digitale Freiheit: Funkrichtlinie entschärft!
Gute Nachrichten für die Elektronikbranche, Open-Source-Fans und Funkamateure in Europa! Die umstrittenen Verschärfungen der EU-Funkrichtlinie (RED) sind vom Tisch. 🥳

Was war das Problem?
Die geplanten Artikel 3.3i und 4 hätten dazu führen können, dass auf Funkgeräten nur noch herstellerzertifizierte Software laufen darf. Das hätte nicht nur die Innovationsfreiheit massiv eingeschränkt, sondern auch alternative Software-Projekte (Open Source) blockiert.

Das Ergebnis:
Keine Aktivierung: Die Europäische Kommission hat die Initiative offiziell als verworfen markiert.

Sieg der Vernunft: Eine Folgenabschätzung ergab erhebliche wirtschaftliche Nachteile ohne echten Sicherheitsgewinn.

Wettbewerb gesichert: Freie Software und Hardware-Innovationen bleiben in der EU weiterhin möglich.

Die Piratenpartei hat sich intensiv gegen diese Einschränkungen eingesetzt und über den Erfolg berichtet. Den vollen Hintergrund und die detaillierte Analyse findet ihr hier:
👉 piratenpartei.de/2026/01/31/pi

Hinweis: Dieser Beitrag dient der Information über aktuelle politische Entwicklungen im Bereich der Gesetzgebung. Er stellt keine Wahlempfehlung oder Unterstützung für eine Partei dar.

Ein Informationsgrafik-Banner zum Thema EU-Gesetzgebung auf einem dunkelblauen Hintergrund mit dezenten gelben Sprenkeln. 

Zentraler Text: In großen, hellblauen und weißen Buchstaben steht dort: „EU-FUNKRICHTLINIE (RED) entschärft“.

Grafische Elemente: * Ganz oben ist die stilisierte Grafik eines Mikrochips zu sehen.

Auf der linken Seite weht die Europaflagge an einem weißen Mast.

Auf der rechten Seite befindet sich die Illustration eines Funkamateurs mit Headset an einem Funkgerät, umschlossen von einem Kreis aus gelben EU-Sternen.

Im unteren Bereich zeigt ein blaues Icon einen Monitor, auf dem eine Lupe ein Code-Symbol < /> und ein geöffnetes Vorhängeschloss fokussiert – ein Symbol für Softwarefreiheit und Sicherheit.

Hintergrund: Im Hintergrund ist schemenhaft die Landkarte von Europa erkennbar.
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I have just set up a Meshtastic node at Oghill, Co Kildare, Ireland. It's in the house at the moment, but I hope to mount it outside soon.

If anyone else in the area is experimenting with this technology, let me know.

The closest node I see on the Meshtastic map is Newbridge, which is probably too far for a single hop.

Edit: The node is called "Meshtastic-Oghill". If you find yourself on the Dublin-Waterford train, see if you can make contact with it between Kildare and Athy.


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Dieses ewige Shaming von Fertigmahlzeiten und Convenience nervt.

Vorgekochte Dinge, fertig geschnittenes Gemüse und Instantprodukte erlauben Menschen mit Einschränkungen unterschiedlicher Art ein bisschen mehr Selbstständigkeit. Das hat nicht immer was mit Faulheit zu tun.

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AI ADDED ‘BASICALLY ZERO’ TO US ECONOMIC GROWTH LAST YEAR, GOLDMAN SACHS SAYS

Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investments are translating into US GDP growth

File this under "No shit, Sherlock"

is constantly close to going bankrupt and can't make a profit even with BILLIONS on investments. They've got to start selling ad space on

The Bubble is going to burst hard. (No, it's not

gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically

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*Amazing* story out of NYC:

Cops go to a big public snowball fight, immediately the cops act like cops and start threatening people, menacing them with weapons, etc. The public snowballs the cops, everyone is still having a fun time. Cops freak out, get even more violent, the crowd starts concertedly snowballing them. Cops leave under the constant snowballs, tails between their legs because even they know they can't shoot someone for this.

Cops have now had a multi-day screaming crying snotty public breakdown demanding arrests and prosecutions, they're calling it assault, they're saying officers were hospitalized. The pig union is giving this the full treatment, screaming lives were at risk. "What if it was rocks?!" The NYPD's 86 full time PR staff are pumping out doctored images of Black kids with their skin darkened and making them look older, trying to find the scariest action shots of snowball fights.

Mamdani has responded "We're not outlawing snowball fights." Bragg has already dropped the most severe charges from the one arrestee.

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I’m building a new tool and looking for volunteers to test it! A linktree.

It’s designed for two types of people:

Normies / newcomers – Think of it like a free, privacy-respecting Linktree. No trackers, no ads. But here's the cool part: it's a Trojan horse for the fediverse. Your profile link is itself an ActivityPub actor. That means people can interact with it directly in the fediverse, and it encourages exploration of open platforms.

Fediverse users, If you have multiple accounts (, , Loops, a federated blog…), you know the struggle: sometimes you just want one persona to follow. This tool gives you that. It doesn’t post on its own (read-only), but it boosts all your other accounts and even has its own inbox. PLUS it can receive and show your badges issued by @badgefedThe BadgeFed Project !

Interested in testing? Reply here, I will reach out in the next 24-48hrs with an invitation link.

One webpage screenshot in white background and big letters saying Your links, Your Identity our NetworkA screenshot of links in rows, showing a profile with Pixelfed, Blog, Mastodon, LinkedIn links among others.
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