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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I just learned a new nightmare that will also prevent me ever moving back to America.

In Victoria, a used mattress has to be clearly labeled as such by law at sale.

In many American states, mattress stores can simply reupholster a used mattress and sell it as brand new.

I may never sleep again.

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Because mastodon is like a 99% male audience, I will say this: if you have an aging mother you are in relationship with and care about, do NOT make her go through medical stuff alone. I am skilled & mean enough to fight through medical stuff and even so you would not believe how bad it is. Just accept that you cannot imagine.

I talk to a lot of people's aging moms and they are abandoned & alone even in nice families. I don't care how awkward it is, you have to try to ask them about it.

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William Gibson is one of history's most quotable sf writers: "The future is here, it's not evenly distributed"; "Don't let the little fuckers generation-gap you"; "Cyberspace is everting"; and the immortal: "The street finds its own uses for things":

en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2026/03/17/tec

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Two boxers squaring off. One (with blue gloves) has the head of William Gibson. The other (red gloves) has the head of Margaret Thatcher. The background is an engraving of a 16th century complex machine.

Image:
Dylan Parker (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uncle_Gibby.jpg

CC BY-SA 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
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I feel so grateful again today to spend time in frank discussions with caring people who have genuine problems who want to go beyond blaming people for those problems. And for discussions in which we can confidently and openly acknowledge what's going on and even who bears responsibility for it and even explaining why that's happening, all without needing to assign blame and feel superior.

experience.jbrains.ca

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This is amazing. DHS bought a warehouse in a city called Social Circle, Georgia. When the city council asked DHS how they planned to use the warehouse, DHS refused to answer.

So, the city cut off water and sewer services and put a lock on the water meter, and said that services will remain off “until ICE indicates how water and sewer to the facility will be served without exceeding the limited infrastructure capacity.”

Outstanding. We need more of this! This is how we stop fascism.

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이로시즈쿠는 다케스미(죽탄)을 처음 써 보는데, 파이롯트 기본 잉크처럼 흐름이 굉장히 좋고, 색, 점도, 질감 모두 확실히 그 이상의 고급 잉크네. 병, 포장도 예쁘고. 당연하겠지만 파이롯트 펜과의 궁합도 매우 좋다.

고급 잉크로 추천이 많은 이유를 알겠다. 잘 만든, 좋은 잉크다. 아주 못살 가격도 아니고. ㅎㅎㅎ

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