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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"Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement "

petitions.assemblee-nationale.

On la fait monter jusqu'à 1 million ?

Fais ta magie Twi...euh !

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Gov. Walz has talked about activating the Minnesota National Guard, under his command. I appreciate that: among other things, I suspect it throws a barrier to the Trump regime trying to federalize them.

Would we want the National Guard protecting our schools? I trust them •far• more than the Minneapolis Police, but I’m still uncomfortable with the idea. I don’t like the prospect of our students being greeted at the school by people with camo and assault weapons. That, however, seems preferable being greeted by kidnappings and tear gas.

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Ah, another day full of Microsoft joy.

Months ago: $DAYJOB disabled access to standard IMAP/SMTP clients, limiting only to approved UA IDs via OAUTH2. So no mutt/neomutt, no OfflineImap/mbsync, no Claws, and no Thunderbird. Just the Outlook thick-client and the web-client. Fine, so I'll use the thick-client.

A month or three ago: some upgrade happened breaking the Outlook thick client. Their only options were upgrading the OS on the VM (to support the latest Outlook thick-client) or using the web interface. They didn't upgrade the VM, so I'm stuck with the unbearable web interface.

Today: I go to log into the webmail interface, and the SSO server web interface is down preventing me from reading or sending *any* email. Including what would have been cached offline by any of the above clients.

Meanwhile, my personal IMAP/SMTP server? still provides access from any CLI, GUI, sync-utility, or web client I set up. My MUA allows for offline access, so at least I can compose replies and queue them up if things go offline. Sigh.

I guess it's time to find something other than work to do.

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FWIW, I'm planning on continuing to maintain my fork of codeberg.org/gen-ai-transparency/open-slopware (now defunct), and will be accepting PRs. Can't let a good idea die because of loud-mouth slop peddlers.

For now it's going to live here: codeberg.org/hausgeist/open-slopware

EDIT: Nevermind, let's all join forces here: codeberg.org/small-hack/open-s

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anyone got experience using deguassing wands, such as the one pictured, on CRTs that don't have built-in degaussing coils? do they work? any sage advice from arcade & retro tech enthusiasts?

the little 4-inch CRTs we used in the infopoints at EMF Camp have some nonlinear warping that isn't corrected by tweaking the deflection oscillator amplitude/phase adjustment pots, and also isn't consistent with the tube curvature, so I'm suspicious of static magnetic fields.

a generic deguassing wand. it's a green plastic block with a mains power cable coming out of it. my guess is they're feeding AC into a magnetic coil, probably with a series resistor, to produce an alternating magnetic field.
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I am running geli on my FreeBSD home server with a Raidz1 setup. I updated this server from 13 to 14 and 14 to 15. It seems like even in 15, full disk encryption with geli is the only encryption setup supported by the installer.

Since FreeBSD 15 supports ZFS encryption, I was wondering whether it’s worth to take the manual effort to reinstall and to configure ZFS encryption. What are your thoughts on this?

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RE: wien.rocks/@noheger/1158776983

Hah, this tiny resize target on MacOS & Windows makes my blood-pressure go in unpleasant directions.

I love how my Xorg+fluxbox (or cwm on OpenBSD) based systems let me hold down the Logo/Mod4/Windows key and right-click-drag from *anywhere within the window* (or left-click-drag to move the window rather than resize). Itty-bitty target vs huge-whole-window-sized target? Yeah, I know which one I prefer.

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Share your knowledge about Free and Open Source with the @EUCommissionEuropean Commission and provide input for its European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy.

All feedback is welcome but there are five specific questions like: What are the main barriers that prevent adoption? & What is the added value of FOSS?

Input informs the Strategy which marks FOSS as a crucial contribution to technological sovereignty & security.
The Call is open till February 3.

ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r

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RE: todon.eu/@joeneXtra/1158773766

I am a very bad listener. Sorry. But I decided to go for the .

Reasons:

1. Yes e/OS had it's issues, but those issues are only when you choose their premium subscription (that I won't use). And if there are other issues coming up, there is also regular LineageOS.
2. I could not afford a refurbished Pixel 9 all at once (I don't trust regular second hands), so than I had to go for a new Pixel 9 on installment, and that is giving a lot of money to Google and that is of course not de-googling. 🤷
3. The Fairphone is of course more ethical than the Pixel and not American (European, Dutch). Not perfect, I know, but still worth supporting.
4. The Fairphone has a warranty of 5 years and an end of life on 25 June 2033 (!).
5. A few people I know and trust recommended the Fairphone to me. 🤗

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Huh, interesting. The Bandcamp widget's "site is down" template has been updated to link to Bluesky now instead of Twitter. Feels like a sign of the times sites are starting to realize their "site is down" status accounts aren't useful for a lot of people if they can't be seen logged out.

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I am running geli on my FreeBSD home server with a Raidz1 setup. I updated this server from 13 to 14 and 14 to 15. It seems like even in 15, full disk encryption with geli is the only encryption setup supported by the installer.

Since FreeBSD 15 supports ZFS encryption, I was wondering whether it’s worth to take the manual effort to reinstall and to configure ZFS encryption. What are your thoughts on this?

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Since some folks seem to need the point made razor-fine: Making a copy-pasta collage in MS Paint using pictures you found in Google Image Search is more artistic and honest than anything you ask a generative model to construct on your behalf.

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