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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Der Postillon 📯 @derpostillon@mastodon.social
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Shared by leyrer

Deutschland will Influencer aus Dubai ausfliegen, sobald sie ihre Steuererklärungen gemacht haben der-postillon.com/2026/03/infl

Deutschland will Influencer aus Dubai ausfliegen, sobald sie ihre Steuererklärungen gemacht haben

Dubai, Berlin (dpo) - Nach dem amerikanisch-israelischen Angriff auf den Iran und iranischen Attacken auf mehrere Golfstaaten fürchten etliche deutsch

www.der-postillon.com · Der Postillon

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social
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I have a piece out in The Guardian today on how the internet is becoming a fully surveilled digital panopticon and why we need to fight back
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz

Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

www.theguardian.com · the Guardian

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404 Media @404mediaco@mastodon.social
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Some AWS services are down in the Middle East. Recovery is unclear as it requires 'careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators,' according to Amazon.

404media.co/amazon-data-center

Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai

Some AWS services are down in the Middle East. Recovery is unclear as it requires 'careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators,' according to Amazon.

www.404media.co · 404 Media

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Guillaume Tronix :python: :emacs: :nix: :linux: @gtronix@infosec.exchange
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"National Book Tour for Cindy Cohn’s Memoir, ‘Privacy’s Defender’"

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eff.org/press/releases/nationa

National Book Tour for Cindy Cohn’s Memoir, ‘Privacy’s Defender’

SAN FRANCISCO – Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn will launch her memoir, Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance (MIT Press, March 10), with events in San Francisco and Berkeley before embarking on a national book tour. In Privacy’s Defender...

www.eff.org · Electronic Frontier Foundation

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
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Shared by ✧✦Catherine✦✧

So, I have actually read the text of California law CA AB1043 and, honestly, I don't hate it. It requires operating systems to let you enter a date when you create a user account and requires a way for software to get a coarse-grained approximation of this that says either 'over 18' or one of three age ranges of under-18s. Importantly, it doesn't require:

  • Remote attestation.
  • Tamper-proof storage of the age.
  • Any validation in the age.

In short, it's a tool for parents: it allows you to set the age of a child's account so that apps (including web browsers, which can then expose via JavaScript or whatever) can ask questions about what features they should expose.

In a UNIX-like system, this is easy to do, with a tiny amount of new userspace things:

  • Define four groups for the four age ranges (ideally, standardise their names!).
  • Add a /etc/user_birthdays file (or whatever name it is) that stores pairs of username (or uid) and birthdays.
  • Add a daily cron job that checks the above file and updates group membership.
  • Modify user-add scripts / GUIs to create an entry in the above file.
  • Add a tool to create an entry in the above file for existing user accounts.

This doesn't require any kernel changes. Any process can query the set of groups that the user is in already.

If a parent wants to give their child root, they can update the file and bypass the check. And that's fine, that's a parent's choice. And that's what I want.

I like this approach far more than things that require users to provide scans of passports and other toxically personal information to be able to use services. If we had this feature, then the Online Safety Act could simply require that web browsers provide a JavaScript API to query the age bracket and didn't work unless it returned 'over 18'.

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ProPublica @ProPublica@newsie.social
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ProPublica has sued the Department of Education in federal court, accusing it of withholding public records about how it’s enforcing civil rights protections for millions of U.S. students.

propublica.org/article/educati

ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools

Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.

www.propublica.org · ProPublica

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
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So, I have actually read the text of California law CA AB1043 and, honestly, I don't hate it. It requires operating systems to let you enter a date when you create a user account and requires a way for software to get a coarse-grained approximation of this that says either 'over 18' or one of three age ranges of under-18s. Importantly, it doesn't require:

  • Remote attestation.
  • Tamper-proof storage of the age.
  • Any validation in the age.

In short, it's a tool for parents: it allows you to set the age of a child's account so that apps (including web browsers, which can then expose via JavaScript or whatever) can ask questions about what features they should expose.

In a UNIX-like system, this is easy to do, with a tiny amount of new userspace things:

  • Define four groups for the four age ranges (ideally, standardise their names!).
  • Add a /etc/user_birthdays file (or whatever name it is) that stores pairs of username (or uid) and birthdays.
  • Add a daily cron job that checks the above file and updates group membership.
  • Modify user-add scripts / GUIs to create an entry in the above file.
  • Add a tool to create an entry in the above file for existing user accounts.

This doesn't require any kernel changes. Any process can query the set of groups that the user is in already.

If a parent wants to give their child root, they can update the file and bypass the check. And that's fine, that's a parent's choice. And that's what I want.

I like this approach far more than things that require users to provide scans of passports and other toxically personal information to be able to use services. If we had this feature, then the Online Safety Act could simply require that web browsers provide a JavaScript API to query the age bracket and didn't work unless it returned 'over 18'.

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에스텔 뉴스계정 @transborder.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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카타르 LNG시설 가동중단에 아시아·유럽 천연가스 가격폭등(종합) 송고2026-03-03 00:01 유럽 벤치마크 50% 가까이 폭등…아시아 지표도 40% 올라 www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2026...

카타르 LNG시설 가동중단에 아시아·유럽 천연가스 가격...

카타르 LNG시설 가동중단에 아시아·유럽 천연가스 가격폭등(종합) | 연합뉴스

(뉴욕 브뤼셀=연합뉴스) 이지헌 현윤경 특파원 = 카타르 국영 에너지기업 카타르에너지(QE)가 이란의 드론 공격으로 라스라판 액화천연가스(LNG...

www.yna.co.kr · 연합뉴스

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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First-ever in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe

Link: health.ucdavis.edu/news/headli
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Surgeons in the operating room

First-ever in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe, study finds

A UC Davis Health research team has safely performed the world’s first spina bifida treatment combining fetal surgery with stem cells, according to results from Phase 1 of an ongoing clinical trial. These results have been published today in The Lancet.

health.ucdavis.edu · news

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leyrer @leyrer@23.social
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Bin ich eigentlich der Einzige, der wenn er "Inspect" im Browser verwendet, im Kopf die Pink Panther Titelmelodie abspielt? :D

Henry Mancini - Pink Panther (Best Of Both Worlds, October 4th 1964)
youtube.com/watch?v=3Lxqjzik-8w

Henry Mancini - Pink Panther (Best Of Both Worlds, October 4th 1964)

Henry Mancini performing 'Pink Panther' with Tubby Hayes on saxophone on Best Of Both Worlds on October 4th 1964.Remember to subscribe to keep up to date wit...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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GENKI @nibushibu@vivaldi.net
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「ブラウザーも検索エンジンもちゃんと選ぼうぜ」という話はいままでプライバシーとか健全な競争を維持するみたいな側面がメインで、実際に日本のスマホ法みたいなのも公正取引委員会が主導だったりするわけだけど、

そこにきて LLM とか AI サービスが台頭してきた今をふと振り返ってみると

• それらサービスの背景に Big Tech と呼ばれる企業がある
• その多くがアメリカ企業だったり一部は中国企業だったりする
• そのアメリカはイスラエルと一緒になって国際法を無視した軍事行動をとってる
• 去年イスラエルのネタニヤフに逮捕状を出した ICC の判事に対してアメリカは制裁措置をとっていて、それによって判事個人やその家族が VISA などのクレジットカードが使えなくなったり、アメリカ企業のクラウドサービスが使えなくなったりしている

という状況が現時点ですでに起きていて、

つまり、なんかブラウザー・検索エンジン・クラウドサービスとかを「選ぶ」ということは、
もう「プライバシー」とか「公正な取引」とかそういう次元では無くなってきているという感じがある。

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lydschi @lydschi@chaos.social
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Die Iwona Laub ist die Frau vom Angelo
korrekt müsste die Schlagzeile lauten wie österreichische Steuerflüchtlinge die freiwilligen in einer arabischen Diktatur leben statt in ihrem Heimatland Steuern zu zahlen den Beschuss erleben
derstandard.at/story/300000031

Wie Österreicher in Dubai den Beschuss erleben

Zwei Frauen und ein Mann schildern die Situation unter dem Schutzschirm der Emirate. Es gibt Explosionen, aber keine Panik, erzählen zwei Investoren und eine Podcasterin

www.derstandard.at · DER STANDARD

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CoMaps @CoMaps@floss.social
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Shared by Chris Siebenmann

Since the in December, every first Sunday of the month has been a "Digital Independence Day" for trying out alternatives to dominant/big tech platforms.

If you're looking to explore alternatives to Google or Apple Maps, why not give CoMaps – or any of the other open source map-applications that are based on data from – a try!

You can learn more about the here: edri.org/our-work/didit-edri-m

a sharepic showing a black and white photo of a broken chain, with the text comaps @ #didit digital independence day overlayed next to a colorful CoMaps screenshots showing robben island (one of the locations suggested in a former social media campaign for places that would make good screenshots)
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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case

Link: northdakotamonitor.com/2026/02
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345 million in North Dakota oil pipeline case • North Dakota Monitor

A North Dakota judge officially ordered Greenpeace to pay $345 million to the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline following a nearly yearlong tug-of-war over a Morton County jury’s verdict.

northdakotamonitor.com · North Dakota Monitor

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase

Link: understandlegacycode.com/blog/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase - Change Messy Software Without Breaking It

When a codebase is large and complex, it's risky to big changes. Here's a structured way to approach

understandlegacycode.com · Understand Legacy Code

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mekka okereke :verified: @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
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So the F-15 is the most successful combat aircraft in modern history. 104 air combat engagements with enemy aircraft. 104 victories. Zero losses. A perfect record.

Only 6 F-15s have been lost to ground based fire in all history. 3 of those 6 were friendly fire under this Operation Epstein Fury.🤡

Add those 3 lost F-15s, to the F-18s that fell off of ships...🤦🏿‍♂️

And the helicopters that crash into civilian planes...😢

And you begin to understand why all this "warfighter" and "increasing lethality" talk is nonsense.

Competence matters. Communication matters.

I am not debating this with y'all.

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leyrer @leyrer@23.social
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"Dieses Dokument kann nur auf Windows-Desktop-Computern angezeigt werden. Der Zugriff von Mobilgeräten oder macOS wird nicht unterstützt."

Also so wird das bei mir nie was mit den ID Austria Phishing....

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Mastodon Mergebot @mergebot@vmst.io
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Profile editing: Allow adding arbitrary featured tags (#38012) by ChaosExAnima has been merged! github.com/mastodon/mastodon/c

Profile editing: Allow adding arbitrary featured tags (#38012) · mastodon/mastodon@74b3b6c

Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - Profile editing: Allow adding arbitrary featured tags (#38012) · mastodon/mastodon@74b3b6c

github.com · GitHub

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