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Neil's blog
Personal blog · neilzone.co.ukprogrammingsecurityproductivity
Neil's blog is a personal blog at neilzone.co.uk about programming, security and productivity. Since 2020, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 54 times, most often “Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Neil Brown's blog on UK internet law and tech policy, including the Online Safety Act and other legislation. HN readers link it for legal analysis of poorly drafted laws, from a tech lawyer.
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?
- Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-16
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-12
What Hacker News says?
The browser with built-in ads lol? Reminder: https://neilzone.co.uk/2021/11/brave-browser-less-privacy-re... i.e. the browser redirecting you to affiliate links without permission? https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-browser-brave-busted-f...
Comment linking /2021/11/brave-browser-less-privacy-respectful-than-i-was-expecting
on “Ask HN: Alternatives to DuckDuckGo and Firefox?”Submitted What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world? as a story · 674 points
HN discussionAnother well written article from Neil about some terribly written legislation. His personal blog is also pretty good - https://neilzone.co.uk/
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on “A proposed amendment to ban under 16s in the UK from common online services”Submitted Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header as a story · 436 points
HN discussionThough explicitly stating "Nothing on this site is legal advice. Use it at your own risk" , the information on this site is compiled by a lawyer. Neil Brown [0] specialises in English Internet, telecoms, and as tech lawyer at decoded.legal [1]. [0] https://neilzone.co.uk/ [1] https://decoded.legal/
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on “Information about the UK's Online Safety Act 2023”Submitted Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car as a story · 399 points
HN discussion> While good luck doing that on a laptop that is only ever used to establish an SSH session. [...] > Set that up about ten months ago now (don't remember exactly). It's working flawlessly. Not a single issue. So now your laptop hasn't had security updates for 10 months? Things like this are part of the reason I did the research in https://dgl.cx/2023/09/ansi-terminal-security . It also funny that you've reinvented b…
Comment linking /2022/11/using-a-yubikey-or-other-security-key-for-sudo-via-pam/
on “Sudo without a setuid binary or SSH over a Unix socket”Submitted What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox as a story · 154 points
HN discussionSubmitted A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023) as a story · 137 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header (2024) as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSubmitted It is fine not to like a piece of free software as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted Am I (still?) in Mozilla's target audience? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted 'Self-host it' is not the answer (2022) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using LibreOffice and other Free software for documents as a lawyer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using (only) a Linux terminal for my personal computing in 2024 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's the best laptop I could get for no more than £50? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Initial Thoughts on the Social Media Platforms (Ofcom Licensing) Bill as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Calibre, AI, and one size not fitting all as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perhaps I just stop reading the news? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on running PostmarketOS on a OnePlus 6 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Initial thoughts on a £18 Colmi R09 smart ring and Gadgetbridge as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What do you mean 'You don't use Spotify'? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A week of not using a search engine as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why are there no good tablets at the moment? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three months of not reading the news as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting up my federated fleamarket with flohmarkt as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running vdirsyncer automatically using a systemd timer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing PostmarketOS with full disk encryption on a OnePlus 6 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on Six Years in the Fediverse as a story · 3 points
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