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Personal blog · icyphox.sh/blog · on HN as Icyphoxprogrammingsystems

icyphox.sh is a personal blog at icyphox.sh about programming and systems. Since 2019, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Disinformation Demystified”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

28mentions?
11HN people?
2019–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Only one comment, which does not link the blog, discusses moving a Mastodon account to a new server with the same name and followers. The blog's writing is not discussed.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

Icyphox · 118 karma · member since 2016

i do security things; send mail at x@icyphox.sh https://icyphox.sh

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Disinformation Demystified
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-11
  2. Signal Desktop on OpenBSD via Vmm(4)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-30
  3. Migrating from Mastodon to Pleroma
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. My understanding is in theory yes. But in practice things might be more complicated. Like merely keeping the same name and domain is easy enough. Just shut down the old system, start the new one, create an account with the same name. Of course you would need to refollow everyone. I'm not sure what happens to your followers. Your new server will not know they are followers, so unless this triggers mastodon to try to…

    Comment linking /blog/mastodon-to-pleroma/

    on “Scaling Mastodon in the face of an exodus”
  2. Submitted We can do better than Signal as a story · 175 points

    HN discussion
  3. I write about computers, security and computer security. https://icyphox.sh

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Pitch your personal newsletter/blog with a one-liner”
  4. Submitted Python for Reverse Engineering 1: ELF Binaries as a story · 173 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How I built forlater.email, my first big side project as a story · 130 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Picking the FB50 smart lock as a story · 73 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Setting up a multi-arch Kubernetes cluster at home as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The Zen of Kiss Linux as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Free Software Should Not Censor as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Configuring Neovim Using Lua as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted You Don't Need News as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted The Efficacy of Deepfakes as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted IRC for DMs as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Disinformation Demystified as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Honkin' on the Fly as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Signal Desktop on OpenBSD via Vmm(4) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Configuring Neovim Using Lua as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Disinformation Demystified as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Migrating from Mastodon to Pleroma as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Thoughts on Digital Minimalism as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Setting up my personal mailserver as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Installing OpenBSD on Oracle Cloud as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted The Logitech Ergo M575 Trackball as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Signal Desktop on OpenBSD via Vmm(4) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted The Workman Keyboard Layout as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Mael as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Hacky Scripts as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Return Oriented Programming on ARM (32-Bit) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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