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fun memory violations
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fun memory violations is a personal blog at spacekookie.de about programming and culture. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in HN threads on GPG on macOS with YubiKey and a distributed PGP keyserver. The comments cite its material on public key discovery and keyserver trust, not the writing's quality.
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?
> Optional: verify public key on Keybase. For organizations publishing employee keys via Web Key Directory can also be an additional signal that the key is trustworthy. It's also quite simple: for example exporting the key 5C090ED7318B6C1E (binary, not armored) and putting it on this exact URL: https://datadoghq.com/.well-known/openpgpkey/hu/964aj6q73iat... is enough to discover the key using e-mail address. This po…
Comment linking /blog/usable-gpg-with-wkd/
on “Show HN: GPG on macOS and YubiKey”Submitted Rust, Or: How to Run a Community as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> No one wants to look at their entries from 2005 from when they screwed up while learning about subkeys Yeah, it's interesting that even platforms such as Keybase that allow changing or removing data timestamp them in irremovable ways sometimes (e.g. following someone snapshots their profile in the follower's sigchain). > In any case, a keyservers job is not even to be some kind of source of trust, so all that real…
Comment linking /blog/usable-gpg-with-wkd/
on “Show HN: Dat-keyserver: a distributed PGP keyserver based on the Dat protocol”Submitted Why Rust is probably the best programming language ever created as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted That's the Wrong Abstraction Layer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust, Or: How to Run a Community as a story · 1 points
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