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`

Sarah Jamie Lewis @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social

2/11/2026, 6:02:45 PM

Public

Today marks the 8th anniversary of the founding of the Open Privacy Research Society (@openprivacyOpen Privacy Research Society) which happened a few weeks after @dan_ballard and I sat down in a coffee ship in Vancouver and committed to trying to bootstrap a different kind of organization.

Since then no two years have been the same; from disclosing flaws in infrastructure in Vancouver and e-voting in Switzerland; to launching and maintaining @cwtch, to working and partnering with local orgs to build much needed systems.

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