What is Hackers' Pub?

A few days ago, a client’s data center (well, actually a server room) "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G.

I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an alert.

The office was closed for the holidays, but I contacted the IT manager anyway. He was home sick with a serious family issue, but he got moving.

To make a long story short: the company deals in gold and precious metals. They have an underground bunker with two-meter thick walls. They were targeted by a professional gang. They used a tactic seen in similar hits: they identify the main power line, tamper with it at night, and send a massive voltage spike through it.

The goal is to fry all alarm and surveillance systems. Even if battery-backed, they rarely survive a surge like that. Thieves count on the fact that during holidays, owners are away and fried systems can't send alerts. Monitoring companies often have reduced staff and might not notice the "silence" immediately.

That is exactly what happened here. But there is a "but": they didn't account for my Uptime Kuma instance monitoring their MikroTik router, installed just weeks ago. Since it is an external check, it flagged the lack of response from all IPs without needing an internal alert to be triggered from the inside.

The team rushed to the site and found the mess. Luckily, they found an emergency electrical crew to bypass the damage and restore the cameras and alarms. They swapped the fried server UPS with a spare and everything came back up.

The police warned that the chances of the crew returning the next night to "finish" the job were high, though seeing the systems back online would likely make them move on. They also warned that thieves sometimes break in just to destroy servers to wipe any video evidence.

Nothing happened in the end. But in the meantime, I had to sync all their data off-site (thankfully they have dual 1Gbps FTTH), set up an emergency cluster, and ensure everything was redundant.

Never rely only on internal monitoring. Never.

#IT #SysAdmin #HorrorStories #ITHorrorStories #Monitoring

Gina is keeping me company while I try to cool down after work.
Just as well I don't need the laptop 😔

Microsoft rebranding going great. This is probably one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. Satya himself probably made it with Copilot's help.

＼こんばんは！／
#初期ピカチュウ #推しぬい

Yesterday, after a mild query by some parents, my daughter’s primary school sent out a notice to say they were going to stop using their X account for comms.

It’s as simple as that. There are plenty of alternatives.

But even if there weren’t you can’t contribute to that.

And it can be as simple as
asking to prompt a change.

Any recommendations/suggestions for mail providers in the EU you're happy with if one were being asked about where to move to from gmail? None of the gmail exclusive features are too important and criteria are more the usual of decent support, stability, security as much as possible/reasonable.

Wike brings Wikipedia to your desktop without distractions. 📚🖥️

https://itsfoss.com/wike-wikipedia/

#linux #ubuntu #wikipedia

윈도우 정품키 해제하는 올바른 방법, 새 PC에 합법적으로 재사용하기

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfVEk9fzrYM

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'내란 개입' 방첩사 49년 만에 해체‥민간인 지휘 '국방안보정보원'으로 입력 2026-01-08 14:46 | 수정 2026-01-08 16:54 imnews.imbc.com/news/2026/po...

'내란 개입' 방첩사 49년 만에 해체‥민간인 지휘 '...

友達と遅めの初詣に行ってくる​​

これの顔まわりです #1月になったしアイコン自慢しようね

20 likes and I dub this

RE: https://void.rehab/notes/ah8ogb31ort4m64a

자도 피곤하냐

츤데레에 입이험하지만 누구보다 여주를 사랑함 vs 냉정하고 매사 완벽함을 추구하지만 여주에겐 따뜻함

'Gedreht'

#FotoVorschlag #photography #icm #abstract #art

최종 업데이트 26.01.06 10:54 어른들 울린 '감동주의' 스티커, 보육원에 시인이 산다 [인터뷰] SNS 달군 스티커, 직접 만든 김우진·현진 형제 "무심하게 쓴 말, 누군가를 위로하다니 신기" www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/View...

어른들 울린 '감동주의' 스티커, 보육원에 시인이 산다

I used to think of myself as an "innovator" 20 years ago. Today I'm probably better described as "ancient maintainer" as I'm mostly working on projects I've started 10-15 years ago. I used to believe a good maintainer churns out new and exciting features all the time, but I now I think that a good maintainer:

- keeps the lights on
- doesn't frustrate the users of their projects (less breaking changes and controversial/divisive features)
- tries to build a welcoming and enduring community around their projects
- values simplicity and the power of "saying no"/"less is more"

This article definitely resonated strongly with me https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-rime-of-the-ancient-maintainer/

#FOSS #OSS #SoftwareMaintenance

寒すぎる

운명의 신비로운 흐름

1. 때로는 우연이 필연처럼 느껴진다
2. 인생은 예측할 수 없는 여정
3. 작은 선택이 큰 변화를 만든다
4. 순간을 믿고 앞으로 나아가라
5. 모든 일에는 의미가 있다
6. 마음의 평화를 잃지 마라
7. 변화를 두려워하지 말자

ﾐｷﾌﾟﾙﾌﾟﾙｴｴ、ｱｰｱｰ

The Issue With Wii U Gamepads and How to Clone Them

https://hackaday.com/2026/01/08/the-issue-with-wii-u-gamepads-and-how-to-clone-them/

マ、懐かしいなあ…

@broadwaybabyto open murder by the government in the streets. There are a thousand ways to resist, but remembering this activist is one. Brace yourself and be ready to record and witness courageously like her and the people around her without whose cameras we would not know the truth. Everyone together, practice getting your camera out and getting to record! Drill getting to record like the patriot you are.

ぬるかるさんが初期の頃
一文字だけ鯖を立ててなかったっけ？

寒い。寒くて料理なんてしてられん

ぬるかるさんが初期の頃
一文字だけ鯖を立ててなかったっけ？

なるか？残クレスマホ民に

Z Fold 7が気になってくる〜〜〜〜​​
値段〜〜〜〜〜！！！！

'내란 개입' 방첩사 49년 만에 해체‥민간인 지휘 '국방안보정보원'으로 입력 2026-01-08 14:46 | 수정 2026-01-08 16:54 imnews.imbc.com/news/2026/po...

'내란 개입' 방첩사 49년 만에 해체‥민간인 지휘 '...

これ意外と割れるんだね

【AWS研修レポート】Cloud Operations on AWS Day1 - 運用の基礎とIaC編
https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/aws-cloud-operations-on-aws-day1-iac/

#dev_classmethod

チャットAIとの会話内容を盗む「Chrome」拡張機能が発見 ～しかもGoogleのお墨付き - 窓の杜
拡張機能、必要異に以上に入れない方が良いというのは以前から言われてはいますがこれは​​

Wir sind auf der Suche nach einer #iOS Schulung für unser Team. Grobe Idee ist ein Rundumschlag an best practices und moderner iOS Entwicklung mit SwiftUI und Swift Concurrency in der Praxis. Wir benutzen beides schon, es geht also nicht um eine erste Einführung sondern eher so Intermediate-Level. Viele unserer Kolleg:innen haben viele Jahre Entwicklungserfahrung aber nur wenige Jahre iOS Erfahrung.

Außerdem gerne CoreData (nicht SwiftData oder auf jeden Fall nicht *nur* SwiftData) in einem SwiftUI und Swift Concurrency Kontext.

Habt ihr Vorschläge?

Ich schreibe das auf Deutsch, da die Schulung wohl auch auf Deutsch sein müsste. Sonst hätte ich schon ein paar Ideen. 😄

[단독]쿠팡, 김앤장·전관 통해 ‘노동부 내부 정보’ 실시간으로 빼냈다 www.khan.co.kr/article/2026... “쿠팡은 해당 정보를 교차 검증하는 치밀함도 보였다. e메일에는 “이 보고가 B의 보고와 다르다”며 “김앤장에 내일 오전까지 좀 더 정확한 소스를 알아봐달라고 부탁했다”고 나온다. 여기서 거론된 ‘B’는 당시 쿠팡이 영입한 전 청와대 행정관 출신 임원을 지칭한다.”

[단독]쿠팡, 김앤장·전관 통해 ‘노동부 내부 정보’ ...

The first alpha release of #nREPL 1.6 is out https://github.com/nrepl/nrepl/releases/tag/v1.6.0-alpha1

So far it's mostly improvements (simplifications) of the internals, but that's never a bad thing. In my book simplicity and reliability are very strong related. :-)

#Clojure

'내란 개입' 방첩사 49년 만에 해체‥민간인 지휘 '국방안보정보원'으로 입력 2026-01-08 14:46 | 수정 2026-01-08 16:54 imnews.imbc.com/news/2026/po...

'내란 개입' 방첩사 49년 만에 해체‥민간인 지휘 '...

감사합니다

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Snowflake CLI で Streamlit in Snowflake の GitHub Actions 経由でのデプロイを試してた
https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/snowflake-cli-streamlit-in-snowflake-github-actions-deploy-try/

#dev_classmethod

ｼｺﾞﾄｵﾜﾘ​​

日本の皆さんこんにちは、大蟹翔平です🦀

12·3 비상계엄으로 정신적 피해를 입었다며 윤석열 전 대통령과 김건희 여사를 상대로 손해배상 소송을 낸 시민들이 윤 전 대통령 부부의 집인 서울 서초동 아크로비스타 아파트에 대한 가압류를 신청했으나 법원이 이를 기각했습니다.

비상계엄 손해배상과 함께 낸 ‘아크로비스타’ 가압류 신...

Algorithm and AI show a warped version of the reality, that gets then reinforced, and, create artificially inflated trends and other realities that mostly benefits the platforms.

Those are not neutral tools: they subconsciously shape our language, trends, and sense of identity.

For example, since chatGPT came out, people everywhere have been saying the word “delve” more (which might be in the training model because people who cleaned it used it a lot).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkXrTHpnQrQ