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ef.gy
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ef.gy is a personal blog at ef.gy about systems and programming. Since 2013, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “FastCGI is Pointless”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link ef.gy posts on SSH hardening, SSD write endurance, and the argument that FastCGI is pointless. The comments cite these as related reading or support and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- FastCGI is Pointless7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-03-14
- How to Harden SSH with Identities and Certificates (2014)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-08-07
- No, you're not going to wear-out your SSD2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-01
What Hacker News says?
after pushing "over SSH" i see only importing a private key. please note that i am talking about SSH certificate, not SSL certificate. https://ef.gy/hardening-ssh
Comment linking /hardening-ssh
on “Sequel Pro – Open source macOS native MySQL GUI client”Submitted SSD Write Endurance Considered Sufficient as a story · 41 points
HN discussionFor Windows there is CrystalDiskInfo[1] [1] https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/ Also relevant: https://ef.gy/statistics:ssd-write-endurance
Comment linking /statistics:ssd-write-endurance
on “Real world SSD wearout”Submitted How to Harden SSH with Identities and Certificates (2014) as a story · 26 points
HN discussionWhy bother with FastCGI? Why not just use reverse proxy HTTP instead? Why introduce yet another protocol when HTTP works fine? I didn't write this, but I agree with it - https://ef.gy/fastcgi-is-pointless
Comment linking /fastcgi-is-pointless
on “Introducing OpenBSD's new httpd [pdf]”Submitted Markov.sql: Higher Order Markov Chains as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI was referring to the release announcement back in 2014 or so which I'm unfortunately not able to find (there was more than a bit snarkiness towards CGI programming). I'm aware what FastCGI is ;) Btw. if you're interested in native HTTP I'd be looking into nghttp2 rather than FastCGI and OBSD's httpd. Edit: see also https://ef.gy/fastcgi-is-pointless and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9202039 (previous discus…
Comment linking /fastcgi-is-pointless
on “OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite – Web App stack”Submitted Raspberry Pis make for great Tor gateways as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOk, thank you both. Makes a lot of sense. It's not what I need, but that's fine :-) I've not really looked hard at (open)ssh and kerberos before - as far as I can tell, (open)ssh doesn't support kerberos fully - that is - it's not possible to simply use kerberos to authenticate both client and server to each other? > When you say "simply automating the signing of ssh server certs", what differences do you mean from…
Comment linking /hardening-ssh
on “Sharkey: a service for managing certificates for use by OpenSSH”Submitted No, you're not going to wear-out your SSD as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOpenSSH supports server verification via certificates. So one can sign all his installations with common trusted certificate and do not reinvent the wheel. Certificate authentication may be applied both for client and server. Related readings: https://ef.gy/hardening-ssh https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
Comment linking /hardening-ssh
on “Centralized known_hosts for ssh”Submitted FastCGI is Pointless (2014) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted FastCGI is Pointless as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tracking SSH Would-Be Intruders With Google Analytics: A How-To as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Harden SSH with Identities and Certificates as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to query/update/insert into a PostgreSQL database with nginx as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted FastCGI Is Pointless (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted FastCGI is Pointless as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fastcgi is pointless? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fastcgi is pointless as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experiment Tries to Find Source of Unsolicited SSH Accesses; Germany Is 2nd as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Plugins vs. Do-Not-Track Headers; also, doing that in nginx+XSLT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Analysis of Video Game Age Rating and Their Implications for F/OSS as a story · 1 points
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