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.
WHAT? We’re hosting a launch party for Privacy’s Defender, a new book by EFF’s Cindy Cohn!
WHEN? Thursday, March 12 at 6:30 PM.
WHERE? Ciel Creative Space in Berkeley, CA. RSVP Today! https://www.eff.org/event/privacys-defender-book-launch-party
Les Libraires indépendants du Québec lancent Booksellers.ca pour défier Amazon
Le modèle s’inspire de librairies.ca, un succès d'achat local tant économique que culturel
“Ask not what you can do for the commons, but what the commons can do for you.”
Coined by 
@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding..
If we incentivise people to contribute to the commons because it fulfills their needs directly, we can scale pro-social technology to the point where it effects societal change.
Interested in helping #FreeSoftware users find freedom-respecting programs by updating the Free Software Directory (FSD)? Please consider joining the FSD meeting this Friday on IRC. Read more at: https://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2026-03-13-irc #FreeSoftwareDirectory #FSF
RE: https://social.northbaypython.org/@NorthBayPython/116200846033756876
two people bought tickets yesterday, presumably on the basis of this message
great to know that people care for their conference organisers
why not be the first person to buy one today?
Nach 8 Jahren G20-Repressionswahn gibt die Staatsanwaltschaft auf.
Alle Beschuldigten im Rondenbarg-Verfahren haben Einstellungsangebote erhalten.
Ein Angriff auf die Versammlungsfreiheit ist gescheitert - dank kollektiver Solidarität.
https://rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/g20-gipfel-hamburg-2017-nach-acht-jahren-verfolgungseifer-gibt-die-staatsanwaltschaft
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116205075329513597
...in which Amazon tell us that outages were caused by unreviewed AI code...
oh yeah somebody said something about there being no doubt about productivity gains because 'they see them everyday'?
Well ok I'll accept your still anecdotal evidence but I would like to debit hours from those x1 engineers productivity gains and raise a credit for hours lost by every person affected by these outages. #AI
さてそろそろ寝るぞい
Hey 
@gabbomangabboman the wafrn dev 
@alexiaAlexia ΘΔ the new pronoun feature isnt stripping out html from Sharkey?
I added tags to attic.social bookmarks
you can see my bookmarks here 👀
https://attic.social/bookmarks/did:plc:rgrzo7xept2yb2auooex4rlg
(hopefully nothing is broken i'm kinda winging this project)
Big Tech occupied our free web. So what do we do?
We are loud about it. 😎
(Translation: The internet is occupied)
machine learning is a dangerous technology that is making life worse for everyone. deploying a model in a way that could cause harm to the public should require a license and liability insurance. https://archive.is/C7uVc
New Patch Can Boost Linux ZRAM Compression Performance By Over 50%
The Linux ZRAM module for creating compressed block devices in RAM could be on the edge of a nice I/O compression performance boost...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-ZRAM-50p-Compress-Boost
そういえば今日駅のベンチに優先席あった
Gerade flog hier tief ein Tiger vorbei. 🤔
[단독] 몸값 뛴 엔비디아 '구형 GPU'…삼성이 만든다
등록 2026-03-08 18:38
[단독] 몸값 뛴 엔비디아 '구형 GPU'…삼성이 만든...
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.
#MastoDev #MastoAdmin #Mastodon
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/trunk-tidbits-february-2026/
Rebasing in Magit
Link: https://entropicthoughts.com/rebasing-in-magit
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323105
냠
Seen on Reddit and I want it etched on the wall.
> "Wu-Tang is for the children. Age verification is for the state."
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rpo7je/comment/o9mpsl2
ARTE.tv featured our project in a recent documentary on European digital dependencies:
https://openwebsearch.eu/wo-bleibt-das-europaische-google-oder-facebook-arte-tv/
🥳 A big shoutout goes to @djoerd from our team at 
@Radboud_uniRadboud University whom you can see in the interview!
University Passau, @Radboud_uniRadboud University, CERN, German Aerospace Center, Leipzig University, Technische Universität Graz, IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, CSC-IT Center for Science, A1 Slovenija d.d., Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 
@osfOpen Search Foundation, 
@LRZ_DELeibniz Supercomputing Centre , SUMA-EV, 
@nlnet
💸 Need help getting to DjangoCon US 2026? Opportunity Grants are available!
Grants can cover travel, lodging, and other conference-related costs. No need to be a speaker or first-timer to apply — we consider everyone.
⏰ Deadline: March 16 at 11AM CDT
👉 https://forms.gle/xYSsdAGR5RbvtH9q7
彼（あ）がいい（？？）
@stuxstux⚡ I guess putting MAGA on a blue cap would be much more subtle - yet delivering the same message 😉
Today 
@kopperkopper 
shared a post on the fediverse titled how to not regret c2s, and I found it genuinely interesting to read, even if I'm not sure its proposed architecture actually solves what it sets out to solve.
The author's frustration with naïve #C2S implementations is well-founded. Slapping an #ActivityPub facade onto an existing Mastodon-like server and calling it C2S doesn't buy you much—you end up with the rigidity of a bespoke API without any of the interoperability C2S is supposed to offer. The “JSON-LD flavored Mastodon API” framing is apt.
The proposed solution is to split responsibility more aggressively: the C2S server should be nearly stateless and dumb, storing ActivityPub objects without interpreting them, while a separate “client” layer handles indexing, timelines, moderation, and exposes its own API to the frontend running on the user's device. It's a clean separation of concerns on paper.
But here's what bothers me. When you map this architecture onto familiar terms, it looks roughly like this:
That's not a new architecture. That's just the current architecture with the labels shifted. The interesting question is which interface gets standardized, and the author's answer is the one between the C2S server and the “client” layer—the bottom boundary.
The problem is that what people actually want from C2S is to connect any frontend to any server. The portability they're after lives at the top boundary, between the frontend and whatever is behind it. But the author explicitly argues against standardizing that layer: “we don't really need a standardized api,” they write, leaving each client free to expose whatever API it likes.
Which means frontends remain locked to specific clients, just as Mastodon apps are locked to the Mastodon API today. The interoperability promise of C2S—log in to any server with any app—isn't actually delivered. It's been pushed one layer down, out of reach of the end user.
There's real value in the post's thinking about data hosting vs. interpretation, and about the security implications of servers that understand too much. But as an answer to the question C2S is supposed to answer, I'm not convinced.
FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement
Link: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.4R/announce/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321499
The hidden compile-time cost of C++26 reflection
Link: https://vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/refl_compiletime.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277865
Mündizität
後から自分の英語を読むと文法エラーがボロボロと光って見えるのやめてほしい。ｴｰｱｲには出力できない温かみのあるbroken Englishでござい
Langsam erreicht die deutsche Politik trumpische Dimensionen: jeden Tag wird eine neue Sau durchs Dorf getrieben, manchmal auch gleich zwei. Das ist übelst anstrengend.
Langsam erreicht die deutsche Politik trumpische Dimensionen: jeden Tag wird eine neue Sau durchs Dorf getrieben, manchmal auch gleich zwei. Das ist übelst anstrengend.
CLIPPY.md
望月衣塑子、百田尚樹のyoutubeに出てあんなのを褒めまくっててグロいな、もう随分前からキッツイなと思ってたけどもうかなりの段階に来てるのではないか
CLIPPY.md
레오파드게코가 물그릇의 물을 마신다는 매우매우 매우 희귀한 광경을 우주에 송출해봅니다.
틴케이스 좋아하시나요?
https://smartstore.naver.com/dami2
작은 스티커나 간단한 마스킹 테이프등을 넣어서 보관하기 좋은 사이즈로 제작한 백합 틴케이스에요.🥰
정말 정말 간만에 틴케이스를 제작해 봤는데, 색도 선명하고 사이즈도 딱 마음에 들게 나와서 무척 기뻤답니다.
1월 오프라인에서는 실물도 보여드렸는데, 예쁘다는 칭찬을 정말 많이 받아서 어깨가 으쓱해졌었어요. 😘❤️
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116205075329513597
...in which Amazon tell us that outages were caused by unreviewed AI code...
oh yeah somebody said something about there being no doubt about productivity gains because 'they see them everyday'?
Well ok I'll accept your still anecdotal evidence but I would like to debit hours from those x1 engineers productivity gains and raise a credit for hours lost by every person affected by these outages. #AI
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Tom Casavant
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Wouter Tebbens ⁂
2.5D作曲Vtuber 
