What is Hackers' Pub?

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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Hi Mastodon!

I am Muiz, a student pursuing Computer Science, with a liking for Mathematics, Emulation Programming, Computer Graphics and Backend Engineering.

Far as my hobbies go, I love reading, travel, Game Boy Advance (GBA) games, chess and photography to name a few.

Would love to connect with people sharing a similar background and interests :blobcat:

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アメリカ合衆国の政治はひどいと思うけど、ミネアポリス市長とかヒルトン系列のホテルとかがICEは出ていけと堂々と言ったり、政権批判をするセレブリティがいっぱいいたりするのは本当にうらやましい
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 joanwestenberg.com/the-rime-of

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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

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This is Renee Nicole Good, the 37 year old woman murdered by ICE in Minneapolis earlier today.

She was a wife, mother and a fellow writer.

She was shot point blank in the head as she was attempting to drive away from armed masked thugs.

This should never have happened.

Say her name. Share her photo. Do not let ICE and DHS control the narrative.

She was not a threat. She was an innocent victim and she was murdered.

Photo of Renee Nicole Good standing in a shoulder less dress in front of water

@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.

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