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My Blog
Personal blog · patrakov.blogspot.comsystemsprogramming
My Blog is a personal blog at patrakov.blogspot.com about systems and programming. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on auditing VPN providers against their own privacy policies, and on JPEG quality settings being an unreliable basis for comparing encoders (a 2008 post).
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?
Well, I have a blog post regarding audits: https://patrakov.blogspot.com/2020/01/vpn-privacy-policies-a... In short: auditors audit providers against their own privacy policies. If there is a loophole, the result, with some auditors, might still be a legitimate "pass" - e.g. because exfiltration is not logging, and the privacy policy says only "we don't log". P.S. Mullvad's privacy policy falls into the same bucket:…
Comment linking /2020/01/vpn-privacy-policies-and-privacy-threats.html
on “WireGuard Servers Running from RAM”Submitted A bad job with a good description as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe benchmark doesn't make sense at all. The encoders under the test were set to the same JPEG quality numbers, but this is a completely meaningless metric, and JPEG quantization matrices were not even examined to ensure that the quality is objectively comparable. See my blog post from 2008 regarding this very issue: https://patrakov.blogspot.com/2008/12/jpeg-quality-is-meanin...
Comment linking /2008/12/jpeg-quality-is-meaningless-number.html
on “Guetzli vs. MozJPEG”Submitted Writing systemd service files as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't believe rrdtool as a story · 1 points
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