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.
Big news for Mastodon GmbH. They have formally joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
If you’re not in the design/tech world, trust me when I say this is a big step for the fediverse. The W3C establishes the standards used for the internet.
This is a solid path forward for small tech.
https://github.com/w3c/socialwg/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-03-06-WG-kickoff.md
#Mastodon #News #Technology #Fediverse #W3C #SmallTech #FOSS
EDIT EDIT EDIT: Yeah just an attack on github actions https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/kubernetes-el-compromised-how-a-pwn-request-exploited-a-popular-emacs-package
EDIT: I seem to be amending a lot of my posts lately, but actually I am not sure if an agent was involved in this, but a GitHub Actions token exfiltration at minimum was
Even emacs users are not immune to the risks of supply chain attacks from people using LLMs in their toolchain. kubernetes.el compromised via another agent attack https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1rowm5i/first_hacked_emacs_package/
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
I need volunteers for a test. I’m hosting #nomadnet #reticulum page on my experimental micropython esp32s3 node. Could you connect with nomadnet capable browser (MeshChat would do fine) with a tcp interface to rn.varnatransport.com:4243 and see if you can load the page? On the page there’s a link with mp3 - easter egg message (2kb) 😁 The page is hosted on the esp32s3 itself (below). I’ll leave the node online for few hours to see if it’s stable with more than one link (me).
It turns out GenAI code changes are causing serious incidents and outages at Amazon with "high blast radius" https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/
Junior / middle engineers no longer allowed to push GenAI code to production without senior engineer review
(HT 
@KimPerales )
EDIT: Better link above than before. Old one is here:
https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de
Thank you to the 200+ attendees who stopped by Booth #112 to connect, share stories, and talk about what you're building with FreeBSD or how you got started with FreeBSD.
The energy this year was a testament to the strength of the open-source community, from longtime contributors to those discovering FreeBSD for the first time.
If you're just getting started with FreeBSD, here’s a clear place to begin:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/resource/getting-started-with-freebsd/
I'm in for 
@fediforum episode 7! See everyone at the end of April.
Iranian anarchists: “We continue to organise and resist”
News, Mar 10th
Second interview with Anarchist Front on repression and resilience, regional war, and internet shutdowns
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/03/10/iranian-anarchists-we-continue-to-organise-and-resist/
RE: https://example.viii.fi/posts/69b029a4-2ee5-0f49-b23b-333d1e8ee38b.json
OK! Editing posts now works.
A fully complete #ActivityPub server in under 80KB of code.
https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/
I think supporting polls will be too hard, so I'm declaring this feature complete (although not bug free) for now.
If you have any suggestions for how to improve it - let me know 🙂
#ActivityBot
Fragments: reporting fines, engaging with gen AI, experience engineering, watching the ralph loop, migrating COBOL
RE: https://example.viii.fi/posts/69b029a4-2ee5-0f49-b23b-333d1e8ee38b.json
OK! Editing posts now works.
A fully complete #ActivityPub server in under 80KB of code.
https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/
I think supporting polls will be too hard, so I'm declaring this feature complete (although not bug free) for now.
If you have any suggestions for how to improve it - let me know 🙂
#ActivityBot
Legalize transgenderism and ninja swords
RE: https://example.viii.fi/posts/69b029a4-2ee5-0f49-b23b-333d1e8ee38b.json
OK! Editing posts now works.
A fully complete #ActivityPub server in under 80KB of code.
https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/
I think supporting polls will be too hard, so I'm declaring this feature complete (although not bug free) for now.
If you have any suggestions for how to improve it - let me know 🙂
#ActivityBot
Iranian anarchists: “We continue to organise and resist”
News, Mar 10th
Second interview with Anarchist Front on repression and resilience, regional war, and internet shutdowns
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/03/10/iranian-anarchists-we-continue-to-organise-and-resist/
Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts:
"Moltbook is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, a Meta spokesperson told us. Moltbook creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr will join the team as part of the acquisition. Deal terms were not disclosed."
Didn’t one of the founders already go to OpenAI? https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/meta-acquired-moltbook-the-ai-agent-social-network-that-went-viral-because-of-fake-posts/
@uint8_tZ̈oé ⛵ 
@mcc @KimPerales It won't last that way forever but I think that could be the sad interim state we are heading towards for a while
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @uint8_tZ̈oé ⛵ @mcc @KimPerales
Long before vibe coding, one of my managers created a PR. It was awful, but none us wanted to review it, because he was from our manager, and had a bit of a temper. It sat there un-reviewed for months until he handed it off to a coop student to finish. I can't remember if it ever got merged. I left not long after.
Amazon really going for that coveted Nine Fives uptime.
GenAI: putting "break things" into "move fast and break things"
could a depressed person do this?
[eats a third bagel]
fastest rejection email so far: less than two hours
shopify, I've never quite felt so thankful and inadequate.
Hello friends, we lost access to our old Varia fediverse account, but we are now back and ready to federate!
This is our new account, please follow us on here to connect with us again.
For those who don't know us, Varia is a member-based collective that maintains a ground floor space at Gouwstraat 3, Charlois Rotterdam, since 2017. Together we experiment with creating and maintaining physical and digital infrastructures needed for collective, cultural work. More about what we do here: https://varia.zone/en/
#introductions
it also makes typing weird
Electrical Light in Rarefied Gas, by M. Rapine, from French science writer Amédée Guillemin’s Les phénomènes de la physique (1868).⠀
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See more wonderful images from Guillemin’s physics books on our site — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/optics-illustrations-from-the-physics-textbooks-of-amedee-guillemin-1868-1882 https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1359629681641852936/photo/1
Debian Linux decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/
Good stay away from that crap. AWS/Amazon just other day said they are seeing massive prod outages. We want stable desktop and server. No AI. Gen AI can 2>/dev/null himself.
The PlayStation Can Produce Mind-Boggling Effects 
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
meow-boggling effects!
@mcc @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @KimPerales also the vibe coder junior will hardly mature into senior
@uint8_tZ̈oé ⛵ @mcc @KimPerales The current trajectory is: don't hire any new junior engineers. Instead, management generates the slop PRs themselves and sends them to senior engineers. "Hey, what do you think?" and you have to figure out how to tell your boss "I'm sorry but this is really bad" and they won't understand why
Debian Linux decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/
Good stay away from that crap. AWS/Amazon just other day said they are seeing massive prod outages. We want stable desktop and server. No AI. Gen AI can 2>/dev/null himself.
I unironically think people would be more careful about the output of LLMs if the go-to icon were 🎲 rather than ✨ .
音響・映像の送出用PCとしてキッティングするための設定が紹介されているのだけど、「なぜOS標準の設定から変更するのか」が逐一説明されていて勉強になる。おそらく数多の失敗の経験が背景にあると察せられる
Windows10,11を音響映像送出またはコントロール用PCとしてセットアップする | 音響・映像・電気設備が好き
https://ameblo.jp/holycater/entry-12831009981.html
The PlayStation Can Produce Mind-Boggling Effects
I briefly appear in this video about why rm -rf / is even possible and why efivarfs (which is my fault) turned this from merely destroying operating systems to bricking motherboards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iwvu0uozhs
The PlayStation Can Produce Mind-Boggling Effects
Please don't floss your teeth on camera during a Zoom or similarly delivered call. Thank you.
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116205343316077705
Lmao. Gen AI is causing outages at AWS and Amazon causing business income loss. So now all AI created code needs senior developers to check it twice. So how is this saving time? #ai #llm #aws
listening to a good conversation with Vint Cerf, 
@brewsterkahle, Jon Stokes, and Cindy Cohn on the 
@internetarchive Future Knowledge podcast (@7349923)
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7349923?episode=46886266500
Turing Award winner and former Oxford professor Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. Hoare is famous for quicksort, ALGOL, Hoare logic and so much more.
https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html
Here's a different article about the same topic https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/amazon-calls-engineers-to-address-issues-caused-by-use-of-ai-tools-report-claims-company-says-recent-incidents-had-high-blast-radius-and-were-allegedly-related-to-gen-ai-assisted-changes
age verification; foss; abuse
Apparently it is time to say it again: You aren’t helping or achieving anything by squatting onto github/gitlab/irc/etc to tell people, that you think age verification is a bad idea.
1. Nobody involved thinks the laws proposed in some US states are a good idea.
2. There is a more nuanced discussion to be had whether some form of standardized parental controls are, but technical forums aren’t the place to do that either and the situation is heated enough, that even the most socially skilled people aren’t in the mindset for nuanced anymore. (Congrats!)
3. Unfortunately a large part of the FOSS space is financed by companies, who want to continue selling hardware with Linux and we live in a society. So if this becomes law, something will have to give. The correct way to oppose this is by participating in the process. Vote, write to your representatives, etc. (Or viva la revolution, good luck)
4. All you are doing by writing in those pull requests is pilling onto the abuse some of the most burned out people in the industry already experience over this and other even stupider topics.
5. Figuring out the line to walk between designing something adequate to comply to different (existing and proposed, potentially conflicting) legislation and privacy is difficult and you are not doing anybody a favor by making the space to do this in collaboration transparently and openly hostile. Ending up with various different/non-standard stacks to do this would have even worse consequences.
6. If you actually have technical feedback and are up-to-date on all the relevant context, of course you are welcome to participate. But expect to do the work in that case, just complaining will again not help.
Jeez.. people, you aren’t doing better than the wayland haters. And no, just being on the right side of the general debate, doesn’t justify this shit.
I unironically think people would be more careful about the output of LLMs if the go-to icon were 🎲 rather than ✨ .
!!CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!!
„Beyond Raccoon City“: Call for Abstracts zu Resident Evil als transmedialem Horror-Franchise. Beiträge zu Games, Film, Fandom, Popkultur und Medienökonomie gesucht.
They're probably planning to harness the collective power of OpenClaw to do what Meta does best: inciting genocide.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@hugovk/116205674134112929
Python 3.15a7 is now ready for testing with the new built-in frozendict type!
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🫧 socialcoding..
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