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Martin Pitt
Personal blog · piware.desystemsprogramming
Martin Pitt's personal blog at piware.de covers systems and programming. Since 2013, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Fatrace: Report system wide file access events”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Martin Pitt's posts on Linux file-access tracing with fatrace and on de-Googling an Android phone. The posts are cited as background for tools and phone privacy discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Fatrace: Report system wide file access events3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-03
- De-Googling my phone2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-03
What Hacker News says?
"De-Googling my phone" by Martin Pitt was also a pretty interesting related read: https://piware.de/post/2018-05-01-android-degoogle/
Comment linking /post/2018-05-01-android-degoogle/
on “How to Android without Google”Submitted De-Googling my phone as a story · 481 points
HN discussionThis looks very similar to fatrace , which is already in the standard ubuntu and fedora repos. edit: fatrace is system-wide, whereas the current tools monitors a specific process http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/fatrace.1.ht... https://piware.de/2012/02/fatrace-report-system-wide-file-ac...
Comment linking /2012/02/fatrace-report-system-wide-file-access-events/
on “Show HN: Watch what files any Linux process accesses”Submitted Testing sourcery.ai and GitHub Copilot for cockpit PR reviews as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat description of how Ubuntu deals with repositories is factually wrong. There are two repositories (in essense), Main and Universe [0]. For packages in Main a core developer (could be Canonical or someone else) has to be assigned to look after it and the Ubuntu security team has to allow it into the repository on the basis of it having a good security record and being maintainable [1]: it is _true_ that the Ubunt…
Comment linking /tag/debian/
on “Ubuntu LTS: many vulnerabilities despite long-term support”Submitted Umockdev 0.3: record and replay of tty devices as a story · 3 points
HN discussionfatrace https://piware.de/2012/02/fatrace-report-system-wide-file-ac...
Comment linking /2012/02/fatrace-report-system-wide-file-access-events/
on “Ask HN: Which Linux filesystem “produce” less wear and tear on SSD NAND?”Submitted Cockpit Web management interface for servers now in Debian as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fatrace: Report system wide file access events as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Booting Ubuntu with systemd: Test packages available as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Umockdev: record and mock hardware for debugging and testing as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
