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

2/9/2026, 3:36:06 AM

Public

Here is a hot take: to say "anything you can run in a container, you can just run on bare metal"² is the same "get good" fallacy as "you can write secure code in C". Yes, you can do it in theory, just as you can theoretically write your own large scale CI system in Bash¹, and both are about as good an idea in practice. Unix never developed the high level APIs that would make containers unnecessary in practice.

¹ https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-06-bash-is-not-enough/
² https://hachyderm.io/@budududuroiu/116037631105055920

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