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`

Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ @xgranade@wandering.shop

1/18/2026, 12:11:58 AM

Public

Two things I've realized in today's Arcalibre work:

• Calibre makes far more assumptions than I'd realized about how the project is laid out on the filesystem. That makes sense for how early Calibre versions were distributed, but breaks a lot of assumptions that were much later made by PEP 517.
• Some Calibre features involving fetching updates send an installation-specific UUID to a remote server. It's not the biggest privacy issue, but it's not trivial either.

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