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`

mhoye @mhoye@mastodon.social

3/28/2025, 1:07:18 PM

Public

In case this is useful to somebody:

Because of corporate collusion with law enforcement dating back to the 80s, all colour printers put tracking information on their printouts, whether you're printing a colour document or not, encoding information that ties printouts back to the specific printer used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

In 2018, scholars at TU Dresden created a tool to re-anonymize color-printed documents by obscuring that data:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3206004.3206019

The tool: https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda

Printer tracking dots - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

mhoye @mhoye@mastodon.social

3/28/2025, 2:34:56 PM

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Relatedly: don't forget that office and networked printers aren't really "printers" and haven't been for decades; they're networked servers that happen to output printed media. They store userID and datestamped logs of everything anyone prints on them, and nobody throws out logs.

Stay safe out there.

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