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Bryan Quigley
Personal blog · bryanquigley.com/posts/mindsharesystemssecurity
Bryan Quigley's personal blog at bryanquigley.com covers systems and security. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-11, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Bryan Quigley's pages that track which Ubuntu flavors dropped i386 images and the patent status of MPEG-2 decoding on the Raspberry Pi. The comments cite these pages as sources without judging them.
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What Hacker News says?
This reminds me of a tangential matter. The Rasberry Pi has a built in hardware decoder for MPEG-2. You can pay a licensing fee and enable the decoder. This is despite the fact that the relevant patents on MPEG-2 have expired in the US and much of the world[1]. The issue is that there are still active patents in Malaysia[2]. [1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/939 [2] https://bryanquigley.com/pages/mp…
Comment linking /pages/mpeg2-patent-tracker.html
on “eBay removing Raspberry Pi listings as they “encourage infringement””Submitted Firefox Snap is the best way to run Beta Firefox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBryan kept a track of what flavors have dropped i386 from their images. https://bryanquigley.com/pages/papers/ubuntu-drop-i386.html
Comment linking /pages/papers/ubuntu-drop-i386.html
on “i386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10”Submitted Browsers and how they show Trust and Encryption as a story · 1 points
HN discussion