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blog.fefe.de is a personal blog at blog.fefe.de about politics, programming and security. Since 2011, 76 different Hacker News readers have linked it 95 times, most often “Fefes Blog”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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2011–2026first – last linked?
Most-linked posts?
- Fefes Blog12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2016-04-18
- Fefe is back7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2011-05-13
- /7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2011-05-13
- /?mon=2025123 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-12-22
- Letter to the editor on that superconductor preprint paper2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-27
- /?ts=9cb54d352 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-05
- /?ts=9f60b12e2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-26
What Hacker News says?
Thank you! I had to scroll really deep in this page to understand some context. Because the link of this page goes just to say "Richard M. Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, resigned as president and from its board of directors." The discussion on this page expresses many personal opinions, many interpretations and a very small amount of facts. I personally had to go somewhere else to u…
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on “Richard M. Stallman resigns”Submitted Fefe is back as a story · 24 points
HN discussionAccording to [1], 3/4 came from renewables during the re-startup. Most of today's inverters are black-start ready. That is, they don't require external energy to startup, unlike nuclear, which is heavy, costly, and slow. German readers may find fefe interesting here [2]. He debunks many of these myths. [1]: https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/stromversorgung-in-spani... [2]: https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=96ee73ea
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on “Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal”Submitted 20 Years Fefe as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFefe is by no means "most Europeans", though he is quite well known as a ("political nerd") blogger in Germany. His comment on the matter, however, is less that of pointing and laughing and more that of worry, especially considering that there were some mild(er/ish) issues along similar lines in the wake of the 29C3. As a quick and dirty(!) translation of this blog post: http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=afb76b8d "The 'sexual…
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on “The PyCon Incident”Submitted The modern web - a representative screenshot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOne thing I, personally, find very interesting is that a lot of wording from the coalition contract on this and related matters is apparently taken from or at least based on [0] a document [1] released by the CCC for that very purpose. I haven't personally carefully verified this to be true, but I have no reason to distrust the linked report. [0] https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=9f60b12e [1] https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/20…
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on “Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'”Submitted Fefes Blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.fefe.de comes to mind, but it is in German. For a weekly HN digest, I read this: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
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on “Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?”Submitted AVG and Avast classify documents that contain HTTP://antifa.de/ as a virus (Ger) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI like this one a lot: https://blog.fefe.de/ It's in german, but has a nice mix of political and technical topics
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted Germany's most honest Blog (Fefes Blog) celebrates its 10th anniversary as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.fefe.de/ (in German, about software security, politics etc.) I like the design a lot.
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted Trouble with Paypal? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes, and meanwhile they illegally sniff your whole Internet traffic... just one current example https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a5f2e96c
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on “GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers”Submitted Letter to the editor on that superconductor preprint paper as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhat's interesting is that in the weeks leading up to the agenda, the Chaos Communication Club put up their own demands written like a digital agenda, essentially prewritten rules. And it turns out that the new agenda includes many of these rules! See https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=9f60b12e Things like companies being legally responsible for security holes in their products, a right to encryption, open standards in govern…
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on “New German government calls for European ban on biometric mass surveillance”Submitted Dietlibc pthread locking mechanisms and performance [german] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAs its about a 37c3 presentation here a comment from Fefe¹ in German https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=9b729398 According to him the exploit chain was likely worth in the region of a 8-digit dollar value. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Leitner I guess somebody is going to get fired.
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on “Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers”> Why do you consider "support everyone" to be obviously better than "build a better product for a subset of users"? Blogs are my newspapers, thats why. For me accessibility and downwards compatability outweigh the "product" a lot. I have a low-end smart phone for which most "products" are ununsable. Why do people throw away expensive hardware that woks perfectly fine? Because the modern software doesn't run on it.…
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on “Ghost Launches to The Public”I sincerely doubt that. Please remember that the engine control software is already there, doing exactly the same thing in normal operation: adjusting the engine settings to produce optimal results for the current driving situation. For example, the mix should certainly be different when the car is stationary (sitting at an intersection), than when accelerating or going full throttle. There is nothing underhanded ab…
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on “Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a Prophet”There's a somewhat-famous blog which fits quite well into this scheme (sorry, German language, but you won't miss out much, anyway ;-)): https://blog.fefe.de/ Also, the HTML versions of RFCs seem to qualify, such as: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 And of course the HTML versions of manpages are usually renedered in a minimalist style, too: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=du
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on “Brutalist Websites”For the non german speaking crowd, CSS reset: https://blog.fefe.de/?css= This is how it looks if you visit the site without a CSS cookie.
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on “Some news from LWN”> Yes, it displays "just fine" in links, lynx, elinks, etc., if your definition of "just fine" is Fefe's Blog. Hey, fefe has some pretty nice stylesheets for his blog https://blog.fefe.de/?css=darkgreen.css https://blog.fefe.de/?css=cold_blue.css https://blog.fefe.de/?css=ascii.css https://blog.fefe.de/?css=topaz.css https://blog.fefe.de/?css=janvsfefe.css https://blog.fefe.de/?css=lesefefe.css https://blog.fefe.de/…
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on “Some news from LWN”One of the most popular German blogs, fefe's blog, only has pure html. It's perfect for testing things because it is so fast. https://blog.fefe.de/
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on “Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog”> Any blog IMO should have a minimalist design. You want to draw attention to the content and present it as plainly and with as little visual clutter as possible. There is a German blog who hit "minimalist" rather well. http://blog.fefe.de/ Tbh, I prefer this kind of representation not just when it comes to blogs. Hackernews is another great example for "less is more".
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on “What I learned in ten years of blogging”There is prior art. I learned the term from German tech blogger Fefe: http://blog.fefe.de/?q=Popcorn-Reserve
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on “Ask HN: What is the dark side of working at a successful startup?”This is one of Germany's most popular blogs: http://blog.fefe.de/ It even is themeable: http://blog.fefe.de/?css=bild.css (to make it look like the German tabloid BILD) the CSS links can be external, as well, and an empty css parameter clears the theme cookie. That's what I consider plain and informative.
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on “How I do my computing”> The decision comes as Europeans grapple with record-high power bills, driven in large part by a gas supply shortage. an artificial shortage made by private investors. the russians are selling the gas as per contract, but because it is cheaper than what you can get on the spot market, some idiots are making a quick buck by selling the cheap gas for the spot market price. well, something like that https://blog.fefe.…
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on “Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline”But all the things you mentioned are optional. The web is amazingly backwards compatible. Best example: one of Germany's most read blogs: https://blog.fefe.de
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