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Petter Reinholdtsen

Personal blog · people.skolelinux.org/pere/blogprogrammingsystemspolitics

Petter Reinholdtsen's personal blog at people.skolelinux.org covers programming, systems and politics. Since 2010, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Petter Reinholdtsen: How to talk with your loved ones in private”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

42mentions?
24HN people?
2010–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 14 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters cite posts on this Debian-related blog about speeding up Debian installs, staying on sysvinit in Jessie, Isenkram hardware support, and OpenSnitch in Debian 12. The comments only cite them as sources.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Petter Reinholdtsen: How to talk with your loved ones in private
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-07
  2. How to stay with sysvinit in Debian Jessie
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-11
  3. Isenkram, Appstream and udev make life as a Lego builder easier
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-08
  4. The life and death of a laptop battery
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. What you describe is the cloud image. You can dd it to your hard drive and it should work as is (initial password will be displayed on first boot). As for Debian, the slowness comes mostly for fsync calls I think. You should be able to use eatmydata to avoid this. See: https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Quicker_Debian_insta...

    Comment linking /pere/blog/Quicker_Debian_installations_using_eatmydata.html

    on “macOS Ventura is now available”
  2. Submitted The life and death of a laptop battery as a story · 81 points

    HN discussion
  3. It seems to be possible to stay with sysvinit in Jessie: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_stay_with_sysv...

    Comment linking /pere/blog/How_to_stay_with_sysvinit_in_Debian_Jessie.html

    on “Today is Debian 8 release day”
  4. Submitted The cost of ODF and OOXML as a story · 70 points

    HN discussion
  5. One theory I had was that blogrolls were common previously and allowed for cluster navigation. My friends and I certainly had these pointing to each other because why wouldn't you? The big bloggers on HN I see are tptacek, rachelbythebay, and simonwillison and none of them have a blogroll. General wisdom in website SEO etc. is to keep the user on your page and not send them elsewhere and I thought that perhaps many…

    Comment linking /pere/blog/First_paper_version_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_heading_my_way.html

    on “The effects of algorithms on the public discourse”
  6. Submitted Managing and using ONVIF IP cameras with Linux as a story · 61 points

    HN discussion
  7. does it relate in any way to Isenkram? http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram__Appstream_a...

    Comment linking /pere/blog/Isenkram__Appstream_and_udev_make_life_as_a_LEGO_builder_easier.html

    on “Linux Driver Management 1.0 Released”
  8. Submitted The life and death of a laptop battery (2015) as a story · 58 points

    HN discussion
  9. Debian 12 now includes opensnitch, but it isn't installed by default: https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenSnitch_available... For permission management you want all your apps from outside the distro (like Flathub), or you can manually use bubblewrap or firejail to create custom sandboxes.

    Comment linking /pere/blog/OpenSnitch_available_in_Debian_Sid_and_Bookworm.html

    on “Manjaro is a free and open source Linux operating system that emphasizes privacy”
  10. Submitted UsingQR – “Electronic” paper invoices using JSON and QR codes as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Norwegian citizens now required by law to give their fingerprint to the police as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Terms of use for video produced by Canon IXUS 130 digital camera as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted A program should be able to open its own files on Linux as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Playing and encoding AV1 video in Debian Bullseye as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Where did that packet go? – geolocated IP traceroute as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Petter Reinholdtsen: How to talk with your loved ones in private as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted The new “best” multimedia player in Debian? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Always download Debian packages using Tor – the simple recipe as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted What did I learn from OpenSnitch this summer? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Opensnitch, application level interactive firewall, heading into Debian as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Peruvian Congressman Edgar Villanueva's Reply to MS Peru's Attack on FOSS (2002) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Automatic LinuxCNC servo PID tuning? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Is the short movie «Empty Socks» from 1927 in the public domain or not? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted A day in court challenging seizure of popcorn-time.no for #domstolkontroll as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Coz profiler for multi-threaded software is now in Debian as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted How to use the Signal app if you only have a land line (ie no mobile phone) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted I want the courts to be involved before a news site DNS domain can he hijacked as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Petter Reinholdtsen: Debian Now with ZFS on Linux Included as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted NUUG contests Norwegian police DNS seizure of popcorn-time.no as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Is Pentagon deciding the Norwegian negotiating position on Internet governance? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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