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`

Matthew Garrett @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

2/6/2026, 9:16:21 AM

Public

I feel like I've told this story before, but it's funny, so: back in the day at Google we wanted to check in the certificate chains for TPM vendors so we could verify that we were communicating with a real TPM, and we needed a license. We told legal that x509 certs weren't copyrightable and they said that there wasn't good precedent there so they couldn't sign off on it. This seemed like a problem.

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