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only code is pure is a personal blog at euer.krebsco.de about security and programming. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-11, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's post on building a software KVM switch with an ESP32 microcontroller, as a cheap alternative to hardware KVM switches. The linked post is cited as a pointer, not judged.

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?

  1. You can also throw together a cheap software KVM switch[0] using an ESP32 or similar. [0] https://euer.krebsco.de/a-software-kvm-switch.html

    Comment linking /a-software-kvm-switch.html

    on “Using a laptop as an HDMI monitor for an SBC”
  2. Submitted Finding the eBay Kleinanzeigen Application Password (2019) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. The points why freelan is better regarding security are no real issues, but tradeoffs in terms of performance which just copy-pasted from the tinc-vpn security faq[1]. I have been using tinc for quite a long time and it feels pretty stable, but the configuration of new nodes is quite a PITA. For that reason a lot of bootstrapping scripts have been built around this [2]. Also, i love the possibility to easily dump th…

    Comment linking /graphs/retiolum/retiolum_1.svg

    on “Freelan - an open-source, multi-platform, peer-to-peer VPN software”

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