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.
I'd like the dudes on this international women's day, even those posting about it, to do a quick look around of their lives, take stock. Are there a lot of women in your circles and spaces? If not, now might be a great time to reflect on that and start asking questions and thinking about changes you could make to improve that.
Bad news 😔💔
I am sad to announce today that unfortunately I will not be working with Privacy Guides anymore after the end of this month.
Good news! 🚨 
I will be available for a new position or contract, starting in April!
I am looking for a position or contact for:
✊ Digital rights activist (with a specialty in privacy rights)
🔒 Privacy expert or consultant
Fediverse and Mastodon advocate
🙌 Managerial position
📰 Tech journalist
💻 Technical writer
💚 Or any other fitting positions
I am especially interested in working with nonprofit organisations, cooperatives, open-source projects, privacy-oriented software companies, or any other organisations working for the public good.
🇨🇦 Remote from Canada
All the work I produce is guaranteed to be AI-free
Let me know if you hear of any good opportunities!
Look, it's a mess out there and you can react to that mess by deciding everyone else is a moron or you could react to it by deciding most people are trying to get by with a different context than yours and start working the problem. Those are your choices pretty much, can't choose "no mess"
Changing the clock on the microwave, my aquarium light timer, and the auto feeder machines for the last time! No more time changes!
Snuggle wuggle time
盛產鐵鍊女的中國人拿一個日本人性侵女性的新聞說日本人都是變態。
這都不是五十步笑百步了，這是一萬步笑百步吧？
Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn
Link: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/press/press-releases/rijksmuseum-researchers-discover-new-painting-by-rembrandt-van-rijn
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249139
バイテン大統領就任！？
Look, it's a mess out there and you can react to that mess by deciding everyone else is a moron or you could react to it by deciding most people are trying to get by with a different context than yours and start working the problem. Those are your choices pretty much, can't choose "no mess"
완성!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pulse Jet Ski Chases the Winter Blues Away
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/08/pulse-jet-ski-chases-the-winter-blues-away/
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber 
@laurenshof we also don't have to wait for the Mastodon team to implement the ActivityPub API to use it with Mastodon. It could be implemented by an external group and merged into Mastodon. It could live in a fork like Hometown.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @laurenshof we could also implement a façade API server.
It could provide the ActivityPub API as an interface to clients, and use the Mastodon API as an interface to the server. The façade would just provide a thin translation layer between the two.
This is all starting to change though, and I think it came out of being intentional about who I platform and how. Where do I spend my time? How do I be intentional about the content I consume, and how do I increase the volume of industry content from people who identify as women or non-binary people?
When I go to product events now, I spend more time talking to women and non-binary people. These conversations are so much better.
Once you start looking, you find an incredible gold mine of brilliant tech people, like:
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@RuthMalan
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@dahukannaDawn Ahukanna
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@grimalkinaCat Hicks
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@elizayerElizabeth Ayer
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@hazelweakly
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@renata
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@iris_meredithIris
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@mcc
- @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber
All people who absolutely need to be platformed more.
What's your content diet, and how do actively shift your consumption to something more interesting?
For my current professional career, my strongest advocate has been Jenny Wanger.
She's one of the most prominent voices in product operations, and genuinely one of the most brilliant people I've ever met in my life.
My #1 career advocate. It's such an honour to have that kind of recognition.
You can read her work here:
https://jennywanger.com/blog/
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @laurenshof There's also no reason whatsoever that any server needs to drop its support for the Mastodon API to implement the ActivityPub API. They're not mutually exclusive. Mastodon already implements almost all of the read-only part of the ActivityPub API; they really don't need to do a lot get the read-write portion working.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @laurenshof we also don't have to wait for the Mastodon team to implement the ActivityPub API to use it with Mastodon. It could be implemented by an external group and merged into Mastodon. It could live in a fork like Hometown.
I've been really lucky to have so many high profile men/allies support me in my journey. They shared their platform with me and actively sponsor my work.
But where are the women? Is it because I never sought out community with women because I never felt like I belonged there?
I don't know.
This is all starting to change though, and I think it came out of being intentional about who I platform and how. Where do I spend my time? How do I be intentional about the content I consume, and how do I increase the volume of industry content from people who identify as women or non-binary people?
When I go to product events now, I spend more time talking to women and non-binary people. These conversations are so much better.
Once you start looking, you find an incredible gold mine of brilliant tech people, like:
- @RuthMalan
- @dahukannaDawn Ahukanna
- @grimalkinaCat Hicks
- @elizayerElizabeth Ayer
- @hazelweakly
- @renata
- @iris_meredithIris
- @mcc
- @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber
All people who absolutely need to be platformed more.
What's your content diet, and how do actively shift your consumption to something more interesting?
I've spent the last 10 years in tech. I'm trying to come up with a list of women who've truly advocated for me in my career, and my list is so much longer from the years before tech. In recent years, my woman-identified advocates have been from outside tech too.
Such an uncomfortable fact to sit with.
I've been really lucky to have so many high profile men/allies support me in my journey. They shared their platform with me and actively sponsor my work.
But where are the women? Is it because I never sought out community with women because I never felt like I belonged there?
I don't know.
I've spent the last 10 years in tech. I'm trying to come up with a list of women who've truly advocated for me in my career, and my list is so much longer from the years before tech. In recent years, my woman-identified advocates have been from outside tech too.
Such an uncomfortable fact to sit with.
Does anyone remember a website that was trying to make a database of all of the landlords in Berlin overlaid on top of open street maps?
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @laurenshof I don't think it's necessary to get feature parity with the Mastodon API to make this take-off happen.
The most interesting API clients won't be clones of Elk or Tusky; they'll be implementing games, new social interactions, IOT, events, and so on.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @laurenshof There's also no reason whatsoever that any server needs to drop its support for the Mastodon API to implement the ActivityPub API. They're not mutually exclusive. Mastodon already implements almost all of the read-only part of the ActivityPub API; they really don't need to do a lot get the read-write portion working.
Happy International Women's Day to all women of any style or configuration <3
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @laurenshof I don't think it's necessary to get feature parity with the Mastodon API to make this take-off happen.
The most interesting API clients won't be clones of Elk or Tusky; they'll be implementing games, new social interactions, IOT, events, and so on.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @laurenshof There's also no reason whatsoever that any server needs to drop its support for the Mastodon API to implement the ActivityPub API. They're not mutually exclusive. Mastodon already implements almost all of the read-only part of the ActivityPub API; they really don't need to do a lot get the read-write portion working.
With my #FOSDEM, #ConfConf, and many other hats on:
We will be organizing another https://ConfConf.org ! An (un)conference about organizing conferences.
6th and 7th of June in #Sofia, #Bulgaria
Same as last year, we will be focusing on #OpenSource and #Community conferences. We will either remain invite -only or closely review all registrations to make sure it's community people.
1/n
With my #FOSDEM, #ConfConf, and many other hats on:
We will be organizing another https://ConfConf.org ! An (un)conference about organizing conferences.
6th and 7th of June in #Sofia, #Bulgaria
Same as last year, we will be focusing on #OpenSource and #Community conferences. We will either remain invite -only or closely review all registrations to make sure it's community people.
1/n
Last year, we brought together #CCC, #COSCUP, #eventinfra, #FOSDEM, #FOSS4All Korea, #FOSSASIA, #FOSSNorth, #IndiaFOSS and I am certainly forgetting several.
If in doubt, poke me if you'd fit.
And please help us: like a conference? Make their organizers aware of this.
And, as always, #retoot appreciated!
C# 15 & .NET 11 preview 3 finally got discriminated unions!
https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/proposals/unions.md
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @laurenshof availability on more servers will unlock more opportunities for clients, and so on.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @laurenshof I don't think it's necessary to get feature parity with the Mastodon API to make this take-off happen.
The most interesting API clients won't be clones of Elk or Tusky; they'll be implementing games, new social interactions, IOT, events, and so on.
“내 뇌를 수술하는 의사가 수술 중에 암산으로 소인수분해를 하길 바라지는 않는다” → 수학자가 하는 일이 이런 거라고 생각하는 수준의 사람 말은 거르십시오 …
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5foobamlhnjwazum3jcdaft6/post/3mgkepp6s6k2k
Enjoy #FiresideFedi ?
Enjoy #clips ?
Enjoy #silly #fun #community getting to know #people ?
Make sure to follow @fsfclips@tubefree.org
tubefree.org/c/fsfclips/videos
Currently featuring clips from interviews with @lrnz@feed.lrnz.it @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br @pluralistic@mamot.fr @blenderdumbass@blenderdumbass.org @bmxescape@mastodon.social and @Lioh@social.anoxinon.de
Follow @firesidefedi@tubefree.org for full #episodes !
tubefree.org/c/firesidefedi/...
Follow the #livestream to catch #Live shows as they're being recorded @ozoned@stream.firesidefedi.live !
This is ONLY possible, thanks to the #Fediverse !
LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances
Link: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47297453
Voting feels great and is a good reminder how awesome democracies are. But it doesn't safe you from the anxiety before the results come in and you already know that too many people voted for the face-eating leopards again.
Not only did the US, per its own ‘intelligence,’ bomb this girls primary school, THEY BOMBED IT TWICE.
www.reutersconnect.com/item/the-pri...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z/post/3mgix5syjz52c
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https://x.com/p_bomber_fsp/status/2030683485527224705?s=46&t=WIrgYRHpdmZQaiXD2W_iqw
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @laurenshof I think one thing we'll have to do in the near term is dual-stack on the API client side. Targeted apps with narrow functionality, like a share button, could support both APIs. It's relatively easy to discover which API(s) a server supports.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @laurenshof
I also think adoption of the ActivityPub API will follow a ratchet pattern between servers and clients.
We're already seeing a number of server implementations appear.
This is making clients like https://checkin.swf.pub/ or https://github.com/evanp/ap possible and interesting.
As these clients increase in functionality and popularity, we're going to see pressure by users on more "mainstream" servers like Mastodon to implement the ActivityPub API.
WOMEN: hey can we get equal rights and equal pay for equal work?
COMPANIES: no
COMPANIES ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY: no, girlboss ✊🏻♀️
This is your official notice that we'll be making a major security release for Sharkey tomorrow (between and ) in coordination with Misskey. Please be ready to patch your instances soon as humanly possible, as the vulnerabilities at play are extremely severe. Note that IceShrimp and Firefish derivatives are not affected, only direct forks of Misskey.
2001: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
2026: Use this tool, or you’ll fade into irrelevance
Fuck, man.
I don’t even know where to begin. This isn’t even about LLMs anymore. Casting aside human beings for their particular skills and experience is a fucking repulsive attitude.
Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat
Link: https://www.cio.com/article/4125103/oracle-may-slash-up-to-30000-jobs-to-fund-ai-data-center-expansion-as-us-banks-retreat.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298183
Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model
Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/phi-4-reasoning-vision-and-the-lessons-of-training-a-multimodal-reasoning-model/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258737
てなわけで帰宅
Happy international #womensday
@ZoufalecZoufalec©️ Já jsem tady úplně novej, ale neboj, já se rozkoukám 😉
2001: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
2026: Use this tool, or you’ll fade into irrelevance
With my #FOSDEM, #ConfConf, and many other hats on:
We will be organizing another https://ConfConf.org ! An (un)conference about organizing conferences.
6th and 7th of June in #Sofia, #Bulgaria
Same as last year, we will be focusing on #OpenSource and #Community conferences. We will either remain invite -only or closely review all registrations to make sure it's community people.
1/n
Last year, we brought together #CCC, #COSCUP, #eventinfra, #FOSDEM, #FOSS4All Korea, #FOSSASIA, #FOSSNorth, #IndiaFOSS and I am certainly forgetting several.
If in doubt, poke me if you'd fit.
And please help us: like a conference? Make their organizers aware of this.
And, as always, #retoot appreciated!
With my #FOSDEM, #ConfConf, and many other hats on:
We will be organizing another https://ConfConf.org ! An (un)conference about organizing conferences.
6th and 7th of June in #Sofia, #Bulgaria
Same as last year, we will be focusing on #OpenSource and #Community conferences. We will either remain invite -only or closely review all registrations to make sure it's community people.
1/n
ConfConf 2026 has been announced!
Website: https://confconf.org/
What: A free conference for organisers of conferences around free and open source software and hardware, and the surrounding ecosphere
Dates: June 6&7 2026
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Cost: free, supported by FOSDEM and Grafana Labs
If you are a conference organiser of a conference in FOSS ecosphere and would like to attend, reach out to request a voucher.
Last year, we brought together #CCC, #COSCUP, #eventinfra, #FOSDEM, #FOSS4All Korea, #FOSSASIA, #FOSSNorth, #IndiaFOSS and I am certainly forgetting several.
If in doubt, poke me if you'd fit.
And please help us: like a conference? Make their organizers aware of this.
And, as always, #retoot appreciated!
Mariatta 🤦🏻♀️ 
Glyph
Inside Fediverse
Youngbin Han
blabaere
（仮）
kat
篠原 瑞希 
Jan Lehnardt 
FOSDEM