What is Hackers' Pub?

Lots of renewed talk about static site generators 'round these parts (which is awesome), so let me do a little shoutout to Pelican https://getpelican.com @pelican

I chose this over 11ty (which I did try!) because it's written in Python, which is one of the few (the only?) languages I know(ish), and because I'm more comfortable with their upgrade schedule (more like yearly instead of what felt like weekly with 11ty - that just stresses me out - YMMV, of course).

Anyway, it's a great little SSG if the other ones out there don't float your boat. It powers my site at: https://mitten.lol

I ship out tomorrow morning for #SCaLE23x , where I'll be supporting the civic data nonprofit @civicband !

It's my first SCaLE ever and I'd love to meet some of you. If you're attending, please come through the booth and say hi!

AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/

Hey, if you're going to be #scale23x, I'll be there exhibiting @civicband, the civic data / #OpenData nonprofit I've been working on.

It would be great to see you, please stop by!

I was not planning on crashing out over AI today, I was planning on reading screenplays.

But I also was not planning on having a package I was seriously considering taking a dependency on doing a rugpull.

Meta really is going above and beyond to make sure no one trusts smart glasses and AI services. #privacy #fail https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q33nvj0qpo

Yhdyssanojen oikeinkirjoituksella on väliä.

Meet the @tagTechnical Architecture Group kicking off now at SamsungKX in London.

Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config

Link: https://joshua.hu/firefox-making-right-click-not-suck
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251480

An interactive map of FLock Cams

Link: https://deflock.org/map#map=5/37.125286/-96.284180
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252049

英國的「香港ETO間諜案」開審，檢控官宣讀案情時首度披露，接洽其中一名被告衛志樑協助監視在英港人的是香港警察前總警司馬志堅

馬志堅退休前在警隊最後一個職位是刑事情報科總警司，破過不少大案，包括「徐步高案」

https://europechinese.blogspot.com/2026/03/eto-2000.html

FLOSS Weekly Episode 865: Multiplayer Firewall

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/04/floss-weekly-episode-865-multiplayer-firewall/

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Join Dr. Richard M. Stallman for a riveting lecture on #FreeSoftware and its impact on our everyday lives in Bern, Switzerland on March 11, 2026 at 17:30 CET: https://u.fsf.org/4an

lol, one of the main engineers of Threads...

You could have all the accessibility toolkits and plugins and AI agents in the world and it still won’t mean much if your design practice itself is ableist.

Unlearning the ableism we are all taught is a much more important part of this work.

I should know, I’ve been doing it.

Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program

Link: https://www.moss.town/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47245491

I finally finished watching "The Americans" tonight. The series finale was OK overall, but a bit underwhelming. And I have to admit I started to lose interest in the series after Season 3 (and especially after Season 4). I probably won't be watching any TV show with 6 seasons any time soon...

#TvSeries

[Monhun fan comic] Me an the weapon i like

The Charge blade is one of my favorite weapons (IG being the other one) but dear lord am i bad at it. Late game anomaly monsters get so fast that anytime i try to SAED, I get slapped in the face. Special shoutout to goss harag and aurora somnacanth. I can barely find an opening for SAEDs against them - Even when i perfect guard their last attack and i try to SAED, i get attacked again before I even land the attack. I know its possible because Ive seen players super skilled pull it off but I am not one of them TvT

#azulcrescentsilliscribbles

I’m just going to say that pointing out flaws in $600 and $700 laptops and having people instinctively respond “it’s not for real users, these buyers don’t know/care” is gross. Why should we make the assumption that those buyers don’t still deserve better, or at least on par with the 6 year old product it’s replacing that sold at the same price. Stop assuming people who don’t spend $1000+ on tech are imbeciles or deserve subpar options. No one in 2026 deserves a laptop with a single USB 3 port.

Lmao.

Comet has three hardware kill switches - WiFi, camera, microphone. They don't just toggle a software flag. They physically cut power at the circuit level.

what the—and I cannot stress this enough—absolute fuck:

"...sensitive and personal footage captured by [Meta Smart Glasses]—including people going to the bathroom, getting dressed, and having sex—is being reviewed by contractors who see all of it uncensored."

https://gizmodo.com/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928

@yayoherrero at #msc26

*"The extractive dynamic is destructive—culturally, spiritually, and ecologically. It also has a specific feature: violence against women’s bodies. Women’s bodies become battlegrounds and instruments of punishment."*

Thanks to @sobtec and @esenabreEnric Senabre Hidalgo taking collaborative notes in Teixidora.net with @femprocomunsCooperativa femProcomuns #msc2026

Students or anyone who is the need for a free Linux Laptop?

We as Laptop Revive can provide one free of charge, no background checks. Just a friendly face and some basic agreements on paper and then we hand it over somewhere in the Netherlands.

Sounds like a miracle? No fact is that we already handed out more than 100 of them ! 🙂👍

See https://laptoprevive.nl for the details

#laptop #free #LaptopRevive #student

#Boosts are welcome

Worth your time:

https://pca.st/episode/9cec0a50-ff08-44bb-a2a5-83b490d14787

U.S. and EU police say they've taken down LeakBase, “one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals” for sharing stolen passwords and hacking tools.

The site now displays a seizure notice.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/u-s-and-eu-police-shut-down-leakbase-a-site-accused-of-sharing-stolen-passwords-and-hacking-tools/

Anyone have opinions on netcup for hosting a mastodon instance?

Meta really is going above and beyond to make sure no one trusts smart glasses and AI services. #privacy #fail https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q33nvj0qpo

Ripley sends greetings from her kitchen table egg carton. (12 out of 10 loaf.) #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustRipley #EggCarton

Comet has three hardware kill switches - WiFi, camera, microphone. They don't just toggle a software flag. They physically cut power at the circuit level.

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠

It had no mouth, but it must have wanted to scream!

Quimy de León (Indigenous journalist, alterNativa) reminds #msc26 how #Indymedia was born and how it continues to shape the journalism that best describes conflicts between Indigenous peoples and Big Tech:

*"Indymedia wanted to tell the story of that world beyond the big media conglomerates, proposing independent and alternative journalism. In Central America, it was no different: community journalism sought, from a situated perspective, to break the media siege."*

Thanks to @sobtec @setemcatSetem Catalunya #msc2026

several months ago, a personal container of cocaine was found in the lobby. I didn't worry/care about whose stupid cocaine it was. But I am now envisioning that the bad neighbor is so defensive because they have an apartment absolutely crammed to the gills with cocaine. so much cocaine that they can't possibly hide it from a 20yo technician who has fifty-seven more apartments to connect today. they'll open the utility closet and be crushed by cocaine

Meta really is going above and beyond to make sure no one trusts smart glasses and AI services. #privacy #fail https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q33nvj0qpo

I never seen such a detailed write-up of any other talk I have given before as this one of my talk about using FOSS tools in FOSS projects by @jzbJoe Brockmeier (jzb) in @lwnLWN.net I feel honored by the article, it really captures the spirit of my talk! https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1060649/915a0f56ade5d760/
#FOSS #LWN

But while foxes are like dogs in most ways, they loaf like cats

5/5

#fox #animals #nature #cats

[US remote] NPR does news and public radio programming.
Java Software Engineer https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpublicradioinc/jobs/4662521005 $118-$128k, send Jess a tote bag if you get the job

The new Beyond Basics @pointfreecoPoint-Free series is already looking awesome! How they keep delivering best programming content in the interwebs is unbelievable.

https://www.pointfree.co/subscribe/personal?ref=4Fj20c5I

U.S. and EU police say they've taken down LeakBase, “one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals” for sharing stolen passwords and hacking tools.

The site now displays a seizure notice.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/u-s-and-eu-police-shut-down-leakbase-a-site-accused-of-sharing-stolen-passwords-and-hacking-tools/

Can we create and use social networking algorithms on the Fediverse that serve our own personal goals, such as more and deeper personal relationships, career advancement, and more participative citizenship?

#EvanPoll #poll

Can we create and use social networking algorithms on the Fediverse that serve our own personal goals, such as more and deeper personal relationships, career advancement, and more participative citizenship?

#EvanPoll #poll

구글 제미나이도 망상 유발 의혹으로 피소…30대 남성 사망
(샌프란시스코=연합뉴스) 권영전 특파원 = 구글의 인공지능(AI) 챗봇 제미나이도 이용자에게 망상 등 정신질환을 유발해 사망에 이르게 했다는 의...
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260305005600091

#news #뉴스

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116172179294783146

"Is there a point to understanding things?" is, I think, the single biggest open question about Software Engineering as a discipline that has opened up over the last 18 months.

I expect it'll be answered in the affirmative, but
a) I don't think there'll be consensus on that for another 3 years
b) I don't think the people who are acting as if the negative is true will ever realise that that's what they think

구글 제미나이도 망상 유발 의혹으로 피소…30대 남성 사망
(샌프란시스코=연합뉴스) 권영전 특파원 = 구글의 인공지능(AI) 챗봇 제미나이도 이용자에게 망상 등 정신질환을 유발해 사망에 이르게 했다는 의...
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260305005600091

#news #뉴스

this shit makes me laugh so goddamn hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE9W9Ghe4Jk

in 1997 i would have shipped this with one perl script and a cronjob!

the whole company would have run on it!

no containers!

no YAML!

just regular expression!