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Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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Ok y'all, as a rule I would not link to the Daily Mail, any more than I would link to FauxNews, but this...I cannot even....flames on the side of my face....

ICE Barbie wants to do a reality show where asylum seekers travel around the country in a boxcar, competing in "regional style" events like log rolling or cattle roping.

There are not enough walls to line all these bastards up against when the revolution comes.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1

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(soon a blog post)

Thinking about setting up a little cooperative called . Where we use letsencrypt style certificate generation, renewals and distribution, with ACME support, but only for certificates that have EKU (Extended Key Usage) entries that go beyond serverAuth, the only thing Google will accept from mid next year :) Context: Thread and replies at social.wildeboer.net/@jwildebo

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I am very happy that today we merged the pull request switching the Mastodon frontend build chain from the very old (and outdated) Webpack 4 to @vite ⚡️

It is not visible to end-users but it will greatly improve the developer experience with working on the Mastodon frontend and opens the door for many good things.

I started the initial work 2 years ago, then @chaosexanimaecho ✨ took over and got it over the finish line 🚀

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

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If you ever wondered why I rage against clouds and push towards selfhosting and a more sovereign Europe, here you go: Microsoft has kicked the ICC out of their e-mail platform.

It was ordered by Tangerine Mussolini - but Microsoft might be even more at blame here with their Ireland spin-off bullshit and hoax. As many suspected, it was a bold lie.

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Today's real champion is this one. One of my PC Engines APU devices - I don’t remember the exact year I bought it, probably 2017.

It worked at my home as a router/firewall with OPNsense for several months, then in 2018 I installed it at a client’s site, "as a temporary emergency solution". Still running OPNsense, always kept updated, and it hasn’t missed a bit since then.

During a severe thunderstorm, the access point and switch connected to it were fried, but it kept going - silently and reliably. Zerotier, Wireguard, port forwarding, bandwidth graphs - all handled in a hot office, often with the air conditioning turned off during holidays.

It did everything, and it still works.

The client moved to a new location this morning, and the APU was replaced with a more powerful device (in anticipation of a future Internet upgrade). I decided to take it back with me (technically, it’s still mine) - they couldn’t find the power adapter, probably still packed in boxes, but up until 07:30 this morning (the last time I connected to the server behind it via VPN), it was perfectly reliable.

I’ll probably keep using it - I have others - maybe in the office as a file server with two attached drives.

Honor to the device, honor to OPNsense, honor to FreeBSD.

A PC Engines APU embedded system board housed in a red metal enclosure, sitting on a wooden table. The back panel displays three Gigabit Ethernet ports, two USB 3.0 ports, a DB9 serial console port, and a power input jack.
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I am very happy that today we merged the pull request switching the Mastodon frontend build chain from the very old (and outdated) Webpack 4 to @vite ⚡️

It is not visible to end-users but it will greatly improve the developer experience with working on the Mastodon frontend and opens the door for many good things.

I started the initial work 2 years ago, then @chaosexanimaecho ✨ took over and got it over the finish line 🚀

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

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I am very happy that today we merged the pull request switching the Mastodon frontend build chain from the very old (and outdated) Webpack 4 to @vite ⚡️

It is not visible to end-users but it will greatly improve the developer experience with working on the Mastodon frontend and opens the door for many good things.

I started the initial work 2 years ago, then @chaosexanimaecho ✨ took over and got it over the finish line 🚀

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

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Today's real champion is this one. One of my PC Engines APU devices - I don’t remember the exact year I bought it, probably 2017.

It worked at my home as a router/firewall with OPNsense for several months, then in 2018 I installed it at a client’s site, "as a temporary emergency solution". Still running OPNsense, always kept updated, and it hasn’t missed a bit since then.

During a severe thunderstorm, the access point and switch connected to it were fried, but it kept going - silently and reliably. Zerotier, Wireguard, port forwarding, bandwidth graphs - all handled in a hot office, often with the air conditioning turned off during holidays.

It did everything, and it still works.

The client moved to a new location this morning, and the APU was replaced with a more powerful device (in anticipation of a future Internet upgrade). I decided to take it back with me (technically, it’s still mine) - they couldn’t find the power adapter, probably still packed in boxes, but up until 07:30 this morning (the last time I connected to the server behind it via VPN), it was perfectly reliable.

I’ll probably keep using it - I have others - maybe in the office as a file server with two attached drives.

Honor to the device, honor to OPNsense, honor to FreeBSD.

A PC Engines APU embedded system board housed in a red metal enclosure, sitting on a wooden table. The back panel displays three Gigabit Ethernet ports, two USB 3.0 ports, a DB9 serial console port, and a power input jack.
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The difference moving from webpack to vite in mastodon makes:

running on my machine: `time RAILS_ENV=production bin/rails assets:precompile`

Before: 89.54s user 7.74s system 283% cpu 34.332 total

After: 38.47s user 3.29s system 132% cpu 31.593 total

vmst.io/@mergebot/114517784881

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A senior at Northeastern University filed a formal complaint and demanded a tuition refund after finding out her professor was secretly using AI tools to generate notes. The professor has admitted to using several AI platforms.

Turnabout is fair play. Now the students are going after teachers for using ChatGPT.

fortune.com/2025/05/15/chatgpt

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