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René Mayrhofer
Personal blog · mayrhofer.eu.org/postsecurityprogramming
René Mayrhofer's personal blog at mayrhofer.eu.org covers security and programming. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on sandboxing Zoom's Flatpak build, which one commenter followed to fix window sharing, and a post explaining the author's departure from Google. Most comments are bare links.
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.
Personal web page of René Mayrhofer
Most-linked posts?
- Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-06-11
- Sandboxing Zoom2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-17
What Hacker News says?
I run Zoom from flatpak, which runs it in a container, and sandboxes it to some extent [1] This probably explains why, when i try to screenshare a single application window, not every application shows up! I can share my browser, file manager, and various other things, but not windows for games started by Steam. [1] I followed these instructions https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/zoom-flatpak-sandboxing/
Comment linking /post/zoom-flatpak-sandboxing/
on “Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?”Submitted A personal Dropbox replacement based on Git as a story · 109 points
HN discussionLinux Mint still doesn't support expert install,[1] which is a basic requirement of mine. (I think it should be renamed to intermediate install.) One reason why I prefer expert install is because the last time I tried the standard install, it didn't seem to allow /home to be encrypted with dm-crypt, only eCryptfs. I encrypt /home with dm-crypt because when I last searched for comparisons of eCryptfs and dm-crypt per…
Comment linking /ssd-linux-benchmark
on “LinuxMint 15 delivers smooth alternative to Ubuntu”Submitted DVCS-Autosync: A personal Dropbox replacement based on Git as a story · 46 points
HN discussionBecause it was intended for colleagues and not the wider public. https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/leaving-google/
Comment linking /post/leaving-google/
on “Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass”Submitted Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass as a story · 19 points
HN discussionHe has not been responsible for Android Security since 2019. https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/leaving-google/
Comment linking /post/leaving-google/
on “Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass”Submitted Sandboxing Zoom as a story · 11 points
HN discussionWhy post a Google docs copy of the original article? https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/leaving-google/
Comment linking /post/leaving-google/
on “Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass”Submitted Android private space: How to install apps from other sources as a story · 1 points
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