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`

Dan Piponi @dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz

1/10/2026, 9:38:22 PM

Public

I learnt a long time ago not to respond to SMS messages like "How are you today?". But when I was off work for a day feeling sick and I got a message "Are you going in to work today?" I was only 80% confident it was fake.

And I responded and it was fake.

So now I don't know if "Are you going into work today?" is just a standard message that gets blasted out in the hope that it catches sick people by chance, or whether someone (an AI?) had seen my mention of testing positive for Covid here and somehow connected that to my phone number. Probably the former.

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