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anarcat
Personal blog · anarc.atsystemsprogrammingsecurity
anarcat's personal blog at anarc.at covers systems, programming and security. Since 2015, 42 different Hacker News readers have linked it 93 times, most often “Qalculate Hacks”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
anarcat
Most-linked posts?
- Qalculate Hacks4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-02-09
- Mumble Dreams2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-04-10
- Managing good bug reports2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-10-15
- procmail Considered Harmful2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-03-03
- Securing my IRC (irssi, screen) session with dtach and systemd2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-20
- A short history of password hashers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-02
- Trying out Keybase2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-10
- Hacking My Kobo Clara HD2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-23
- Traffic meter per ASN without logs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-31
- Diversity, education, privilege and ethics in technology2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-27
What Hacker News says?
> But I don't think they're around anymore and have no idea how you could achieve similar functionality with dynamic pages anyway. Chromium's MHTML "Save as…" and the SingleFile WebExtension should both save copies of the rendered DOM. Apparently Safari has WebArchive and Mozilla had MAFF for similar use cases. I think WARC is supposed to save enough data about network streams for dynamic pages to work. At least on…
Comment linking /blog/2018-10-04-archiving-web-sites/
on “The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack”Submitted GnuTLS audit: passive cleartext recovery attack as a story · 146 points
HN discussionI tried a bunch of terminals and ended up switching from urxvt to termite https://github.com/thestinger/termite a few years back (mainly for it's better handling for refreshing certain curses style output). This might be the best recent overview of some of the pros and cons between some of the different options: https://anarc.at/blog/2018-04-12-terminal-emulators-1/
Comment linking /blog/2018-04-12-terminal-emulators-1/
on “Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop”Submitted Using LSP in Emacs and Debian as a story · 90 points
HN discussionMy first upload will soon be 10 years ago. One thing that is definitely noticeable is that while creating a package is still by no means trivial, it has definitely become much, much easier. 10 years ago, you had a handful of very idiosyncratic build helpers to help you manage your package. Today, effectively it's just one [1], debhelper, and it has become trivial to build packages with it. It's a very powerful frame…
Comment linking /blog/2019-02-05-debian-build-systems/
on “Winding down my Debian involvement”Submitted How to Nationalize the Internet in Canada as a story · 48 points
HN discussionI've found Syncthing to work well with my Kobo; it's easier than plugging it in and adding/removing books through Calibre. There's a KOReader plugin ( https://github.com/jasonchoimtt/koreader-syncthing ), or it can be enabled/disabled through Nickel ( https://anarc.at/hardware/tablet/kobo-clara-hd/#install-sync... ).
Comment linking /hardware/tablet/kobo-clara-hd/
on “Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders”Submitted Matrix Notes as a story · 48 points
HN discussionDifferent conclusion for the same article: I picked mlterm https://anarc.at/blog/2018-05-04-terminal-emulators-2/
Comment linking /blog/2018-05-04-terminal-emulators-2/
on “Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator”Submitted Why native apps matter as a story · 42 points
HN discussionhttps://anarc.at/hardware/laptop/purism-librem13v4/#hardware... And the third top level comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hr8hvi/not_recommend... I've heard similar things in the past, but can't remember where.
Comment linking /hardware/laptop/purism-librem13v4/
on “Pine64 announce the Pinecil, TS100 compatible RISC-V soldering iron”Submitted A quick review of file watchers as a story · 38 points
HN discussionthis fits my theory that the average bus factor is ~1: https://anarc.at/blog/2019-10-16-bus-factor/ Cynics have also suggested the average is closer to zero, but I still have hope that we at least need buses for a catastrophe to happen. ;)
Comment linking /blog/2019-10-16-bus-factor/
on “Libinput's bus factor is 1 (2019)”Submitted Wayland: I3 to Sway Migration – Anarcat as a story · 28 points
HN discussion> I know xterm is the slowest of the bunch, but it always works with minimal putzing. I though that Xterm was the fastest in terms of latency and configured adequately, pretty going dealing with big amounts of text: https://anarc.at/blog/2018-05-04-terminal-emulators-2/ Xterm*fastScroll: true I am really grateful for Xterm, it is a great default for all my machines.
Comment linking /blog/2018-05-04-terminal-emulators-2/
on “XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought”Submitted The Neo-Colonial Internet as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI found this benchmark http://anarc.at/blog/2014-11-18-bup-vs-attic-silly-benchmark...
Comment linking /blog/2014-11-18-bup-vs-attic-silly-benchmark/
on “Best Linux server backup system?”Submitted Btrfs Notes as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI thought Debian were moving towards "pagure" (developed by Fedora)? https://anarc.at/blog/2017-06-26-alioth-moving-pagure/ Then I saw this, which dates from August 2017: https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/GitNext/GitLab Personally, I work on a medium-size free software project, which has to choose between JIRA/Confluence (current), Github (where pull-requests currently happen), custom CI scripts/infra with Jenkins and…
Comment linking /blog/2017-06-26-alioth-moving-pagure/
on “We're switching to a DCO for source code contributions”Submitted What is going on with web servers as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThanks for this. I am loosely familiar with mbsync and OfflineIMAP, used to use OfflineIMAP with mutt but it had a lot of bugs and crashed often. In this article https://anarc.at/blog/2021-11-21-mbsync-vs-offlineimap/ the author observes missing emails with both of them. And I thought neither tool supported upload, am I mistaken? Is simply using rsync to transfer the mail folders from one Maildir-based email server…
Comment linking /blog/2021-11-21-mbsync-vs-offlineimap/
on “Maildir-utils: index, search and manage Maildir mailboxes”Submitted Losing the War for the Free Internet as a story · 8 points
HN discussionhttps://anarc.at/blog/2016-10-14-bug-reporting/
Comment linking /blog/2016-10-14-bug-reporting/
on “How to write a bug report that actually gets resolved – and why everyone should”Submitted Calibre Replacement Considerations as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe companion article to this is "procmail considered harmful": https://anarc.at/blog/2022-03-02-procmail-considered-harmful...
Comment linking /blog/2022-03-02-procmail-considered-harmful/
on “Migrating from Procmail to Sieve”Submitted 20+ Years of Emacs as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIn case you haven't seen, in April, Framework published an official Optimizing Ubuntu Battery Life guide that is quite useful: https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/optimizing-ubuntu-bat... If that doesn't help, I'd recommend reviewing some of the resources: * Framework Forum Linux battery life tuning thread (300+ messages) https://community.frame.work/t/guide-linux-battery-life-tuni... * anarcat's Framework Batter…
Comment linking /hardware/laptop/framework-12th-gen/
on “Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive – Enclosure”Submitted A more nuanced view of LLMs as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> This is patently false, the latest Kobo Libra Color is using secure boot which completely locks out custom development: > > https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=363175 Thanks for the link on mobileread. I was not aware of current development in direction of secure boot / chain of trust. Not OP, but when I was looking for an e-reader, I looked up the Pinenote. I could not find easily a lot of informat…
Comment linking /hardware/tablet/kobo-clara-hd/
on “Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe”Submitted procmail Considered Harmful as a story · 6 points
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