Hackers' Pub

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`

Felix Palmen @zirias@bsd.cafe

4/24/2025, 5:32:05 AM

Public

There's a lot that could still be improved in #swad, but I don't get that "proof of work" idea out of my mind, so I started a branch to work on it:

https://github.com/Zirias/swad/pull/1

I really think it makes sense when you want some publicly known "guest login" which is still protected against #bots. Not sure yet whether this will succeed, we will see!

It certainly won't be as "fancy" as #anubis, but do the same thing functionally: Require the client to find a #nonce that, combined with a server-provided #challenge, hashes to something with 'n' leading zeros using #sha256. In contrast to anubis, swad won't have to proxy everything (but rely on nginx' auth_request), and no challenge will be issued when the user logs in with credentials some *other* credentials checker accepts.

Add "proof of work" credentials checker by Zirias · Pull Request #1 · Zirias/swad

Add a credentials checker that accepts the result of some "proof of work" (of the same kind used in "anubis") instead of a password. This should allow well-known "guest log...

github.com · GitHub

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