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`

Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop

1/26/2026, 4:35:49 AM

Public

Do you know how I got into FOSS stuff? Embarrassingly enough I went to a summer camp between junior and senior year of high school, I was def the oldest one at the camp, and took an "Intro to Linux" class

I got so excited I went home and bought a Red Hat for Dummies book and installed it from the CD-ROM

I got so into FOSS'y stuff over the next year my parents tried to do an intervention before I left for college

Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop

1/26/2026, 4:37:58 AM

Public

"Christine," they said, "we want to talk to you about something before you go off to college"

I thought they were going to warn me about partying

"You've really gotten into this Linux thing. But college is also a time where you're supposed to develop your social life, and if you just sit in your room playing with Linux, maybe you won't. We want you to uninstall Linux from your computer"

Oh! Well okay.

I lied and told them I would and wiped the Windows partition. Best decision of my life.

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