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A Random Walk Down Tech Street
Personal blog · dustymabe.comsystemsprogramming
A Random Walk Down Tech Street is a personal blog at dustymabe.com about systems and programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Encrypting More: /boot Joins the Party”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on Linux disk encryption, such as instructions for encrypting existing installs and boot setups. One commenter cites a 2015 post on encrypting more of the boot process as an example.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Encrypting More: /boot Joins the Party2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-10
What Hacker News says?
Grub can actually handle booting from an encrypted ext4 root as well, no /boot needed. You do end up entering the password twice by default, but that can be dealt with by using a key file. Lots of blog posts out there with instructions to convert existing installations, for example http://dustymabe.com/2015/07/06/encrypting-more-boot-joins-t...
Comment linking /2015/07/06/encrypting-more-boot-joins-the-party/
on “Ubuntu LTS updating failing all over the world”Submitted Encrypting More: /boot Joins the Party as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting Up an Atomic Host Build Server as a story · 1 points
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