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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Andy Piper @andypiper@macaw.social
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Shared by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

RE: mastodon.social/@MastodonEngin

There is a lot happening on the project right now, especially in the lead up to 4.6. We're also now part of the Social Web Working Group at the W3C. As usual, many moving parts to coordinate. I'm always excited to see the team's progress as we pull together our monthly update for the community.

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Mastodon Engineering @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social
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Shared by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

The February 2026 Trunk & Tidbits is posted. Our monthly engineering update, including progress on 4.6, our AI contribution policy, upcoming end-of-life for version 4.3, some posts about the Share button, and more.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/

Trunk & Tidbits, February 2026

Product and engineering updates from the Mastodon team.

blog.joinmastodon.org · Mastodon Blog

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dansup @dansup@mastodon.social
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Starter Kits are increasingly complex.

Admins can disable the feature entirely, set a max kit per user limit, limit kits to accounts with more than X followers, and even restrict access to create and use them per account!

Take these 4 error screens on the create kit url, each represents a different restriction.

Safe to say, this will be our most complex feature, and I can't wait to ship consent-driven Starter Kits to improve discovery and onboarding in Loops!

Loops Starter Kits Create Screen when feature is disabledLoops Starter Kits Create Screen when you don't have enough followersLoops Starter Kits Create Screen when you reached your max kit limitLoops Starter Kits Create Screen when admins have disabled this feature for your account
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Terence Eden @Edent@mastodon.social
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🆕 blog! “Unstructured Data and the Joy of having Something Else think for you”

I'm sure we have all met a person like this:

People who have an AI habit use it by default. I have watched someone ask ChatGPT the weather for tomorrow rather than simply open the weather app. Another time, they asked AI the question even after I had shown them the website…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/unstr
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Book cover for "Carry on Jeeves". A smartly dressed man and his butler face each other.

Unstructured Data and the Joy of having Something Else think for you

I'm sure we have all met a person like this: People who have an AI habit use it by default. I have watched someone ask ChatGPT the weather for tomorrow rather than simply open the weather app. Another time, they asked AI the question even after I had shown them the website with the same information. It's a crutch.— Ibster (@ibster.bsky.social) 9 March 2026 at 09:46 At a recent tech event, I b…

shkspr.mobi · Terence Eden’s Blog

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Metaph :verified_dragon: @Metaph@dragon.style
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Shared by Gabriele Svelto

AI Art Advice / Discourse

So if you're evaluating whether to commission or pay an artist, and you're uncertain whether they are AI, the most surefire way to make that determination is to ask the artist about their medium and their process. There is not an artist in the world that isn't happy to talk about their medium. If they're cagey about that, easy red flag.

If you're evaluating whether to favorite, comment, or engage with an artist on some level that doesn't directly involve exchanging money, the stakes are lower; you can still ask about the medium if you want, but like. If you don't have the time or energy or desire to have that conversation with every artist you engage with, and there's some art that you're on the fence about, I promise you, I PROMISE YOU, the engagement, the encouragement, the share, means THE WORLD to the artist if they're real, while withholding that engagement from an AI user really will not be felt by the prime movers of the AI world.

If 5% of the time you accidentally engage with AI art, that's still 95% of the time that you're actively encouraging and helping real artists get noticed in a sea of talent and an ocean of slop. That means everything.

Put another way: accidentally refusing to engage (or worse, encouraging others to refuse to engage) with a real artist based on arcane pattern-seeking and hunches that it might be AI is *far more damaging* to real artists than it is to AI and frankly, probably more damaging to them than AI itself.

You don't need to have a perfect success rate at AI detection. Support real artists by engaging with them instead of being so afraid of AI that you make it harder for them. It's gonna be okay. Connection and engagement is both the purpose of art and the best weapon we have against generative AI, and that is frankly great news for artists.

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Fireside Fedi @firesidefedi@btfree.social
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Fireside Fedi 79** **- Summer in Winter - Mona and her dog Summer share their Pictures and Experiences

Special thank you to @NorcalGma2@sfba.social !

🚀 **Watch the full VOD:** tubefree.org/w/7HgS4JYMNv4xG...
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Norcal Gma 2 (@NorcalGma2@sfba.social)

4.1K Posts, 2.82K Following, 4.33K Followers · Retired rural grandma, caregiver, and dog mom to a sweet lab named Summer. Love to bake and gift to friends and family. Happy in my garden. Living a quiet life on the north coast of California. Mean comments aren't necessary or welcome. Please be kind.

sfba.social · SFBA.social

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Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor@front-end.social
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Lmao a recruiter reached out to see if I was interested in being the founding frontend engineer for the VC funded startup Sauron. I shit you not. Tech bros were like “what LoTR reference can we use that is more blatantly evil than Palantir? I know, name it after the character that represents the literal devil! Yes! People will definitely want buy our home automation app with that name!”

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algernon, deployer of builds, builder of jank, fan of junk, and only junk (allegedly) @algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club
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Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy

Now this is a stance more projects should take. I've been following Redox OS for a while, it's a very interesting project, and this move made it even more interesting.

Well done!

#algernonReviewsHackerNews

CONTRIBUTING.md · master · redox-os / redox · GitLab

Redox: A Rust Operating System

gitlab.redox-os.org · GitLab

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TatTvamAsi @JazzyKindaFella@zirk.us
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Here we have a reporter making it very clear that Israel is an apartheid state:

@workersrightsWorkers Rights Channel @povertyandinequalityPoverty & Inequality Channel @workingclasshistory

to 🇺🇸 &
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@politicsPolitics Channel @socialmediaSocial Media Channel @humanitiesHumanities Channel

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