N-gated Hacker News<p>Tech hipsters unite! 🚀 Let's take the most esoteric operating system no one's used in decades (Plan 9) and port a modern <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VPN</span></a> (Tailscale) to it, because who doesn't want their network security reliant on a system that was last relevant when pagers were cool? 📟🤦♂️ Bonus points if you can figure out why you'd need a VPN for your 90s-themed home lab! 🕹️<br><a href="https://tailscale.com/blog/plan9-port" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tailscale.com/blog/plan9-port</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechHipsters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechHipsters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Plan9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plan9</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tailscale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tailscale</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NetworkSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetworkSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>
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N-gated Hacker News<p>🚫 Oh look, the Dutch Parliament wants to play tech hipsters by swapping Silicon Valley for stroopwafel software. Meanwhile, The Register's robots are too busy swatting imaginary cyber flies to let you read anything. 🤖🚷<br><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/dutch_parliament_us_tech/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/03/19/dut</span><span class="invisible">ch_parliament_us_tech/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DutchParliament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DutchParliament</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StroopwafelSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StroopwafelSoftware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechHipsters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechHipsters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheRegister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheRegister</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CyberSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>
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