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Imran's Blog
Personal blog · blog.imraniqbal.orgsystemsculture
Imran's Blog is a personal blog at blog.imraniqbal.org about systems and culture. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-08, and you can follow it by feed.
8mentions?
3HN people?
2023–2026first – last linked?
Stuff I feel like blogging about.
What Hacker News says?
If you want a N=1 "study" https://blog.imraniqbal.org/advertising-works/
Comment linking /advertising-works/
on “YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled”Submitted Learning to Boot from PXE as a story · 97 points
HN discussionThis is what I see on a linux machine with only 6GB of ram: https://blog.imraniqbal.org/ram/ (TL:DR OOM errors and the kernel starts reaping processes) Just seems so odd as I remember playing gta vice city on a pentium 3 with 128mb of ram and now I need 6GB+ to just browse the web
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on “Fast Machines, Slow Machines”Submitted WTF Ubiquiti as a story · 24 points
HN discussionJust my 2cents that I wrote about here[0]. It boils down to: 1. Ease of use for non technical folks (my dad in the post) 2. The dangers of having an exposed ssh port (even on non standard ports) I just don't have the time or compute to constantly tweak my security settings for a publicly exposed port, so the easiest way to solve the problem is to not have the port publicly exposed --- 0: https://blog.imraniqbal.org/…
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on “Tailscale Has Partnered with Mullvad”Submitted Why are they forcing it? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.imraniqbal.org/ Random stuff posted infrequently
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Can't Read Slop Anymore as a story · 1 points
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