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Fighting the System
Personal blog · brashear.me/blogprogrammingsecuritysystems
Fighting the System is a personal blog at brashear.me about programming, security and systems. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the author's posts on Linux distribution usage, including results of a 2015 survey asking which distribution people prefer. The comments only cite these posts as sources and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Looking it up, I think the more accurate term is actually "partner repacks." [1] They're versions of Firefox shipped with different default settings and/or an extension included by default at install time, IIUC. Though reading this rather opaque page [2] it doesn't seem to explicitly preclude patches to the compiled code, though it seems like they would forbid that. The key config file is distribution.ini. [3] [1] h…
Comment linking /blog/2017/12/07/how-to-deploy-firefox-with-bookmarks-and-addons/
on “Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox”Submitted Results of the 2014 /r/Linux Distribution Survey as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor my site, I created a Pelican theme which is HTML-only. There's no JS at all! I plan on publishing the theme eventually, once I'm a bit happier with it. You can see it at https://brashear.me . I'm very happy with how quickly it loads. I mentioned to one of my friends that it feels like upgrading to DSL back in the dial-up days. If you very badly want to rip off the theme, it's stealable from my GitHub copy of my…
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on “I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked”I use Pelican and host on NearlyFreeSpeech.net behind Cloudflare. I really like using Pelican. I'm hardly a front-end dev and I found it easy to create a custom minimalistic theme that I'm quite happy with. No JS required! Fire up your network monitor and head to https://brashear.me/blog/2017/07/30/migration-from-octopress... It's pretty easy to see <500ms load times. Octopress was getting to be a pain in my butt du…
Comment linking /blog/2017/07/30/migration-from-octopress-to-pelican/
on “Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours”Really, basically every server I see is either Ubuntu or Centos. Very few Debian. With containers is different, who packaged the container for a given service wins. Example: Elastic uses Debian for their docker images on docker hub. See also the results of this survey https://brashear.me/blog/2015/08/24/results-of-the-2015-slas... It begins to be old but this section is telling "Which Linux distribution do you prima…
Comment linking /blog/2015/08/24/results-of-the-2015-slash-r-slash-linux-distribution-survey/
on “Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10”I love Pelican. It was relatively easy for me to migrate from Octopress (which seems pretty much dead at this point). With pelican it was pretty easy for me to write by own extremely lightweight theme: https://brashear.me/blog/2017/07/30/migration-from-octopress...
Comment linking /blog/2017/07/30/migration-from-octopress-to-pelican/
on “Top Open-Source Static Site Generators”I left Octopress (a flavor jekyll) for those reasons[1]. Pelican[2] is what I use now. It takes a dir of markdown files and makes a decent website. It was even easy for me to write a no-nonsense theme without being good at python. [1] https://brashear.me/blog/2017/07/30/migration-from-octopress... [2] https://blog.getpelican.com/
Comment linking /blog/2017/07/30/migration-from-octopress-to-pelican/
on “0xF Rules”This is doing it the hard way. Make the image a loop device: losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/your/image.img Now you can use /dev/loop0 like it's a normal disk. If you're not seeing your partitions (/dev/loop0p1, etc.): partprobe /dev/loop0 When you're done, detach the loop device: losetup -d /dev/loop0 I use this trick to transparently compress ddrescue images with brtfs: https://brashear.me/blog/2017/11/14/how-to-creat…
Comment linking /blog/2017/11/14/how-to-create-a-compressed-ddrescue-image/
on “Mounting partitions from a dd image”> My goal is to make my browser as private as possible with minimal damage to my usual browsing experience. Not very long ago I wrote a guide documenting my specific configuration which has precisely this goal in mind [1]. The short version: disable third-party cookies, enable tracking protection (Firefox only), use uBlock Origin with some extra filters, use HTTPS everywhere, Enforce Click-to-Play and Disable Unnece…
Comment linking /blog/2015/08/11/hardening-firefox-to-protect-privacy/
on “Ask HN: What's the best ad-blocking, privacy-enhancing extension set up?”