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Background noise
Personal blog · smcv.pseudorandom.co.ukprogrammingsystems
Background noise is a personal blog at smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk about programming and systems. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One bare link to a 2015 post titled 'why polkit', shared in a thread about disliking systemd. The commenter gives no view on the writing. The blog is written by smcv.
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.
What Hacker News says?
http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/2015/why_polkit/
Comment linking /2015/why_polkit/
on “Why I dislike systemd”Submitted D-Bus communication with containers as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why polkit (or, how to mount a disk on modern Linux) (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GTK Hackfest 2016 as a story · 2 points
HN discussion