Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social

1/29/2026, 4:24:45 PM

Public

A (slightly indirect) co-worker is retiring tomorrow, and so he has been steadily decommissioning his sysadmin's collection of machines over the past while, sending my group a stream of 'please remove this from DNS & DHCP & etc, it's gone' update requests. Seeing these go by is giving me feelings, especially with the final few today (his most central machines).

Maybe it's a bit like the famous scene from 2001 of HAL having its circuit boards pulled.

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