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Danny van Heumen
Personal blog · dannyvanheumen.nl/postprogrammingsecurity
Danny van Heumen writes Timelessness, a personal blog at dannyvanheumen.nl about programming and security. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers setting up Secure Boot to use your own keys instead of Microsoft's, on Fedora. Commenters cite it as a practical workaround in discussions of Windows 11 and locked-down hardware.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
FWIW, you can setup your machine to boot using your keys rather than Microsoft keys: https://www.dannyvanheumen.nl/post/secure-boot-in-fedora/
Comment linking /post/secure-boot-in-fedora/
on “Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot”Submitted A simple, (as-of-yet unidentified) asymmetric Authenticated Key Exchange as a story · 49 points
HN discussion> I can't get it why people would prefer to add "?" to everything instead of just having exceptions which automate that behavior. Good question... Maybe... Because with exceptions it's easy to end up with missing cases or unhelpful catch-all exceptions. Typically with optional values I find that this is not the case for some reason. Other interesting links I've yet to consume that may help us get closer to an answer…
Comment linking /post/why-i-prefer-error-values-over-exceptions/
on “I love building a startup in Rust. I wouldn't pick it again”> The further problem if you can turn off secure boot is that these pieces of hardware often can’t then be turned back on with a different secure boot chain – say, one based on open source software. Is your statement meant to be inclusive of, say, all laptops? I was under the impression that one can setup a machine to boot using personal keys rather than Microsoft keys: https://www.dannyvanheumen.nl/post/secure-boot…
Comment linking /post/secure-boot-in-fedora/
on “The War on General Purpose Computing”