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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Turns out German farmers grew too much potatoes last year, so now all the extra potatoes have to be consumed (the alternative is just burning them for biodiesel).
This means free potatoes for everyone in Berlin! :boost_ok:
They accept applications for batches over 1 ton until Monday; and also on Thursday and Friday there will be multiple distribution points across Berlin for picking up smaller amounts for personal consumption, measured in kilos.
4000-tonnen.de

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from 1997, using installed from a CD with the DE, it looked great at 1024*768 on a 15' CRT monitor. The popular browser was Netscape Navigator which was crashing a lot on linux, and I had to compile nearly everything as programs were never packaged. And of course, always having problems with compiler/libraries versions.

That was the pre-ADSL era, having to pay every minute spent online with a 5 kilobytes/second bandwidth modem connected on the DB25 serial port. Nice thing, no wifi driver issues at that time, as wifi and internet boxes did not exist yet.

PCs were already powerful enough to emulate not-yet-vintage consoles like and .

Nearly 30 years later linux has a larger audience, we have 4k monitors and optical fiber connections, nearly every single (even niche!) program is packaged, DEs have matured.

Everything is much more comfortable, but the (in its original sense) spirit is still there 🤟

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Le débat / est sans intérêt.
Le terme employé pour désigner la même viennoiserie ne doit pas être clivant.
L’important est que cette viennoiserie soit bonne 😋 en évitant les produits ultra-transformés, et que chacun prenne plaisir à en acheter dans sa boulangerie pour continuer à faire vivre son commerce de proximité.
Source : lefigaro.fr/langue-francaise/p

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I find it hilarious that Patrick McKenzie’s most recent Complex Systems podcast is sponsored by MongoDB 😂 really odd timing for an ad read talking about how it’s “enterprise ready” and how Fortune 500 corps trust it with their most critical workloads 😆

(MongoDB has a fairly long history of extremely serious security vulnerabilities, and there was a really big one within the past few weeks)

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mavens, I need your help!

I’m an inveterate Apple user since 1979 … got my first Mac two weeks after release in 1984.

My studio runs on Mac, and that’s not going to change … but I would love a dedicated laptop to leap wholeheartedly into open source computing.

I’m looking for recommendations on hardware and distro, Linux-newbie friendly, future-compatible, powerful yet still affordable.

Don’t need Windows or Mac for this – I want to discover a new world. Any suggestions? Thanks!

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RE: writing.exchange/@matt/1155722

We've officially hit our plan limit again here on Writing.Exchange, so on Friday this week, we're going to adjust our settings to only retain remote content from within the last 7 years (after Dec. 2018).

For everyone who's been around for that long, this means you'll lose older *remote* content (not your own posts), such as bookmarks and favorites.

If you want to back those up and you are comfortable getting technical, this tool can help export them: github.com/kensanata/mastodon-

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