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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🚨 Wide ranging powers to restrict Internet access in the UK have been voted through 🚨

Ministers will be able to impose digital ID checks, curfews and VPN restrictions without Parliamentary scrutiny.

This can be used on websites, social media, apps and games with no need to show there's any harm to children.

Find out more ⬇️

openrightsgroup.org/press-rele

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An interesting issue on the Github repo of Mastodon : github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p What should be the size limit for an alt text on an image?
The current limit of 1500 chars is fine by me, as an alternative text should stay short. If a long description is needed, it can always been done in the toot or a thread of toots.
Isn't there a risk of encouraging very long alt texts by increasing this limit?
What do you think?

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RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1

...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.

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I have finished the temperature blanket panel for 2025! This is a decade-long project. Each stripe represents the local daily high temperature in farenheit: red is 90s, orange is 80s, yellow is 70s, and so on.

To capture the entire winter and summer seasons, the first bottom row actually starts on November 1st of the previous year, and the numbers are placed on January 1st of the labeled year, and it continues up from there.

A large crochet blanket that looks like a bar graph in stripes of rainbow colors, with 6 long vertical panels labeled with the years 2020 through 2025. Each panel shows the seasonal shifts in the daily high temperature. Notable highlights are the extremely hot summer of 2020, the very cold polar vortex of 2022, a strange week of warm days in the spring of 2023, and the extremely mild winter of 2024. The most recent panel shows evidence of our very short, wet summer this past year, with many fewer orange and red days.
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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/

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