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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Underappreciated feature of Kagi: it prunes its index far less aggressively than other search engines do. Given the lack of direct full text search on the wayback machine, it's a very effective way for me to still search dead sites or locate individual dead pages to then look up via a web archive.

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Funny how building an ActivityPub plugin for #indiekit fully based on Fedify, migrating my Mastodon account to my own server @rick@rmendes.net and building my own UI to consume AP content from the #Fediverse made me use even more than before.

This post is simultaneously a blog post, an #ActivityPub object in the inbox of my followers and a syndicated post to Bluesky.

Next in line? getting inspired by #Wafrn and turn this indiekit/AP instance into my own #Bluesky Pds.

🔗 https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/03/12/a67cd

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AI has now damaged almost every part of a reasonable OSS stack, from systemd to Python itself.

We need to understand that blast radius, to understand where and how energies can be spent, whether it's reverting that damage, working with governance to prevent and contain damage, or whether it's forking damaged projects entirely.

We cannot afford the luxury of time on this one. We need to understand the problem **now**.

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Once again, I humbly come to you to ask: do you know of any bloggers that write regularly about the #Fediverse, #ActivityPub, #ATproto, or anything of that nature?

As the network grows, it feels like it’s harder and harder to find individual voices and perspectives. If you’re writing stuff about the network, its evolution, the culture, and the people on it, I’m interested in following you.

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Some potential implications of this:

- Global prices for oil, natural gas, fertilizer, and other resources will remain high and volatile. Everyone will get poorer as a result. People who are already poor will experience critical shortages.

- The Gulf states will face serious and potentially existential stability crises.

- Iran is in a position to extract concessions from its adversaries and will almost certainly attempt to acquire a nuclear weapon.

- Countries in Asia, and potentially elsewhere, that depend on Middle Eastern oil imports will face destabilizing unrest.

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I see the announcement by a commercial marketing agency of a venture capital based app store joining the fediverse.

Is the we have capable of avoiding as it grows and attracts an increasing number of corporations, who make it their market?

Is our landscape resistant to corporate capture and eventual takeover and domination? Just like the Corporate Web, also decentralized.

There are nice niches on the web, like a bloggosphere, bulletin boards, and news readers, that all still exist. But web as a whole is predominantly corporate, arguably not commons based, for the people by the people.

Social experience design defines "commons based" as "where people are in control of their future on a path of healthy evolution and natural growth". A core principle is being sustainable at all times, and timely acknowledge and mitigate risks.

Is fediverse commons based? Did we cocreate the Future of Social networking?

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軍복무 전체기간 연금가입 인정…李대통령 "약속은 지킵니다"
서울 임형섭 기자: 이재명 대통령은 13일 보건복지부가 내년부터 군 복무 전체 기간을 국민연금 가입 기간으로 인정하기로 한 것과 ...
yna.co.kr/view/AKR202603130172

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"既存および発表済みの投資を回収するために、AI企業が稼ぎ出さなければならない額は2兆ドルだ。この数字は、Amazon、Google、Microsoft、Apple、Nvidia、Metaの売上高を合算した額を上回る。"

2兆ドルの問い:AIバブルの崩壊後、何が残されるのか? » p2ptk[.]org p2ptk.org/ai/5458

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軍복무 전체기간 연금가입 인정…李대통령 "약속은 지킵니다"
서울 임형섭 기자: 이재명 대통령은 13일 보건복지부가 내년부터 군 복무 전체 기간을 국민연금 가입 기간으로 인정하기로 한 것과 ...
yna.co.kr/view/AKR202603130172

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I understand everyone is under pressure, and I wish you all the best. Especially if we disagree on things, I am often wrong.

I feel that everything I had hoped to gain from writing FLOSS is slowly but surely eroding. My freedom and joy are being soaked up by intense pressures, both internal to FLOSS and external.

Software will get worse before it gets better. Burnout could push maintainers to lower their standards and embrace "AI". Hardware will continue to complexify.

Where does this end?

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I do not worry about being "left behind" due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about a massive dip in the quality of software that's already been moldering for years due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the FOSS maintainers who are already under-compensated for their work burning out entirely having to deal with the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the environmental impact of the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the laundering of FOSS (and non-FOSS source available!) code into projects that are now legally culpable due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the people who can no longer write code without leaning on an LLM coding agent becoming helpless without spending ridiculous (and increasing) amounts of money to companies that may or may not exist in a year due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I do not worry about being "left behind" when it all comes crashing down and people who are actually skilled have to pick up the pieces and rebuild due to the adoption of LLM coding agents.

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