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.
As some people on Fedi are making it seem it is ;)
logged into reddit for the first time in ages again and was presented with this gem:
this brought to you by the comment "yeah mozilla fucked me up too but just in a different way than it fucked you up"
🚨🚨 URGENT: Multiple political groups are meeting NOW to discuss their voting on the Chat Control amendments TOMORROW. They are being lobbied massively by industry and NGOs. Chat Control hurts everyone. The template has been updated, take contact now: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ !
PSA: You CAN'T use bunny.net as DDoS protection for Mastodon/Fediverse servers.
Their reverse proxy implementation quietly breaks Mastodon request signing, and support just got back to me and said it's intentional and they won't fix it.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/38119
I'm disappointed.
Die 20-Uhr-Ausgabe der #Tagesschau verzichtet bei ihrer Berichterstattung zur #Weimer-Affäre darauf zu erwähnen, dass die 115 Buchhandlungen, die mit dem Deutschen #Buchhandlungspreis nominiert sind, sich geschlossen hinter die drei ausgeschlossenen linken Buchläden stellen.
Building a Package Manager on Top of Meson's Wrap System via 
@aksAkseli 
https://lobste.rs/s/ut7ph5 #programming
https://collider.ee/blog/2026-03-09-2328_building_a_package_manager/
Commentators like to compare the US and China’s AI development, but the truth is the two countries hold very different AI goals, so a direct comparison misses important details. https://spectrum.ieee.org/us-china-ai?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
@lcamtuflcamtuf 
Fuck . We're doomed.
Habe eine iranische Kollegin. Deren ehemalige Grundschule wurde getroffen, ihr Eltern wohnen am anderen Ende der Straße. Sie haben panisch ihr Haus verlassen, mussten aber zurück, um ihre Medikamente zu holen. Es fühlt sich so absurd an, dass das wirklich passiert.
@lcamtuflcamtuf 
@hakonaSpeed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦
I hope to god that it has 1M subscribers rather than 1K because most of them have a surreal sense of humor.
Southern Ontario (or even Canadian) friends... my CAA membership expires in 4 days. Should I re-up so I can get help if I need it (battery assist/towing), or just put a reputable towing company in my address book? ($136/yr vs one-time towing cost of $250)
Didn't need CAA this year, but who knows. Car's 10 years old now, running fine for now.
@lcamtuflcamtuf
Okaaay...the overall subject requires Special Relativity, but I'm sure they'll include that.
"ex-Mozillains are all alike; every ex-Mozillain is unhappy in their own way"
"ex-Mozillains are all alike; every ex-Mozillains is unhappy in their own way"
Finally learned a #figureskating skill that I’ve been trying to master for 15 years!! Power pulls require a huge amount of muscle control and puts a ton of force on your feet and ankles, so when I first tried to learn them, my coach said it was going to take a lot of muscle development to get there. And I finally got them!!
Seems as good a day as any to thank 
@hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) 
and team for the exemplary work on 
@encyclia can be fixed. 🙂
https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/473 means that people using 
@gotosocial will finally be able to follow @encyclia accounts soon (whenever I finish the upgrade).
https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/472 will let me (and others) handle more account resolution edge cases and reduce failure mode traffic after Fedify 2.1 is out.
(Disclosure: Using the name and logo of Encyclia – symbolically, since Encyclia is not a legal entity – I have an active monthly donation to
Seems as good a day as any to thank @hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) and team for the exemplary work on @encyclia can be fixed. 🙂
https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/473 means that people using @gotosocial will finally be able to follow @encyclia accounts soon (whenever I finish the upgrade).
https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/472 will let me (and others) handle more account resolution edge cases and reduce failure mode traffic after Fedify 2.1 is out.
Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
Link: https://www.wired.com/story/yann-lecun-raises-dollar1-billion-to-build-ai-that-understands-the-physical-world/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320600
Seems as good a day as any to thank @hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) and team for the exemplary work on @encyclia can be fixed. 🙂
https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/473 means that people using @gotosocial will finally be able to follow @encyclia accounts soon (whenever I finish the upgrade).
https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/472 will let me (and others) handle more account resolution edge cases and reduce failure mode traffic after Fedify 2.1 is out.
(Disclosure: Using the name and logo of Encyclia – symbolically, since Encyclia is not a legal entity – I have an active monthly donation to
Seems as good a day as any to thank @hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) and team for the exemplary work on @encyclia can be fixed. 🙂
https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/473 means that people using @gotosocial will finally be able to follow @encyclia accounts soon (whenever I finish the upgrade).
https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/472 will let me (and others) handle more account resolution edge cases and reduce failure mode traffic after Fedify 2.1 is out.
@lcamtuflcamtuf Somebody posted this for real?
@lcamtuflcamtuf Good to know that it's just a series of swirls.
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
Tony Hoare :( He’ll be quicksorting in heaven now.
I really identify with this commercial. Including the Barista's height 😆
PSA: If you have a very wide monitor [landscape], you also (potentially!) have a very tall monitor [portrait] 
*Somehow I had managed to forget this, in spite of using a vertical monitor for many years in the Before Times
EDIT: Swapped the words portrait and landscape, since I had put them the wrong way around! 
There’s a meme going around that an Open Source project “can’t” prevent LLM use by contributors because there’s no technical means to enforce this. This is idiotic and shows just how disingenuous slopmongers will be when told they can’t just submit slop.
Did you know there’s also no technical means to enforce that you didn’t copy some code you’re contributing from a proprietary codebase and say it’s original work? Somehow we haven’t given up on that!
The enforcement mechanism is exactly the same: There’s no *technical means* to prevent someone from being a filthy fucking liar. But there are *social means* to prevent them from contributing: You make sure that if they’re caught, they’re held publicly accountable for all of the rework and mess that resulted from their lies.
This has worked pretty well for decades in Open Source, and won’t stop working just because slopmongers wish really hard. Fucking scrubs.
It's come to this: The Ig Nobel Awards, presented at Harvard or MIT since the 1990s, is moving to Zurich because the US is not safe for foreign visitors
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/research-frontiers/ig-nobels-to-move-awards-to-switzerland-due-to-concern-over-us-travel-visas/91073250
There’s a meme going around that an Open Source project “can’t” prevent LLM use by contributors because there’s no technical means to enforce this. This is idiotic and shows just how disingenuous slopmongers will be when told they can’t just submit slop.
Did you know there’s also no technical means to enforce that you didn’t copy some code you’re contributing from a proprietary codebase and say it’s original work? Somehow we haven’t given up on that!
mastodon ai policy
this is just ‘Sent from my iPhone’ for gen zalpha
Before No Kings Day on March 28, we highly recommend joining the ACLU’s know your rights training. You will learn about your constitutional right to peacefully protest and best practices for reducing risks while taking to the streets: https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/911730/?utm_source=indivisible
It is that time of year when my 
@blogMaho Pacheco - Blog expires, so I'm taking the opportunity to give the site's style/CSS a quick makeover.
Do you like my new subscribe form, would you change something?
![This is a pop-up window titled "Follow This Blog" with the subtext "Get new posts delivered straight to your Mastodon timeline — no algorithms, no ads, no email inbox clutter. Just chronological blog posts from a fellow human." It has two main sections: the first section states "1 Already on Mastodon? Enter your server below:" with a text input field displaying "[@] mastodon.social" and a green "Follow" button below it. The second section states "2 New to Mastodon? It's a social network where you are in control." followed by three bullet points: "No ads, no algorithms deciding what you see" with a red circle icon, "Your feed is just posts from people you follow, in order" with a purple square icon, and "No company owns your account — you can move it anytime" with an orange lock icon, along with a green button labeled "Create a free account →". Below these sections, under the heading "OTHER OPTIONS", are buttons labeled "RSS Feed" and "Substack", each accompanied by a small icon. The window also has an "X" button in the top right corner to close it.](https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/116/206/471/606/849/265/original/c36b1b3f6f382e4f.png)
"AI can make mistakes, always check the results"
I fucking loathe this phrase and everything that goes into it. It's not advice. It's a threat.
You probably read it as "AI is _capable_ of making mistakes; you _should_ check the results".
What it actually says is "AI is _permitted_ to make mistakes; _you are liable_ for the results, whether you check them or not".
Except "you" is generally not even the person building, installing, or even using the AI. It's the person the AI is used on:
https://thepit.social/@peter/116205452673914720
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배는 고픈데 뭐 먹긴 애매하네
This evening we will switch Codeberg.org's issue search backend from Bleve to our new OpenSearch cluster. During this transition, search results might be unavailable or inaccurate as every issue is getting re-indexed. We've done a test on a snapshot of the data and then it took roughly 1 hour for re-indexing.
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
I’ve just had occasion to use Svelte / SvelteKit on a web project, and…
…it’s quite good. The core features are well chosen, and they work. The learning curve pays dividends. The resulting code is reasonably pleasant to read. As often as not, the surprises have sensible decisions behind them. It feels like it •is• the thing that React is •trying to be•.
There are gaps and quirks and barriers — it is a tool, after all — but if you’re writing a highly interactive SPA-style site, it gets the Paul Seal of Approval.
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🫧 socialcoding..
Jan Lehnardt 
Stefano Marinelli
infinite love ⴳ
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