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ktz.
Personal blog · blog.ktz.mehardwaresystems
ktz. is a personal blog at blog.ktz.me about hardware and systems. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Post about switching from Discord to self-hosted Mattermost. The one comment says Discord does not allow self-hosting and mentions its feedback forum, without judging the post.
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.
Podcaster. Musician. Photographer. Tailscalar.
What Hacker News says?
I wanted a solution I could self host. Discord doesn’t allow self-hosting, and at least according to their feedback forum, they don’t plan to[0]. I remember reading an explanation (an FAQ on their site I think, but can’t find it now). It was to the effect of “Our CI strategy is designed to provide all users with the best experience, so we can’t allow versions to get too far behind…” or something like that. Whatever…
Comment linking /self-hosted-launches-a-discord-server/
on “We Switched to Mattermost”Submitted A USB Fan Controller that now works under Linux as a story · 161 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Perfect Media Server – 2020 Edition as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Proxmox 9 made unprivileged LXCs pointless for QuickSync users as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secret Management with Docker-compose and Ansible Vault as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of the MacBook Pro in 2020 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everyone should have a PiKVM at their desk as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Media Server CPU as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PiKVM – Control up to 4 servers simultaneously as a story · 1 points
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