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Russell Coker
Personal blog · etbe.coker.com.ausystemspolitics
Russell Coker's personal blog at etbe.coker.com.au covers systems and politics. Since 2008, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 59 times, most often “Sandboxing Phone Apps”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Russell Coker's blog covers Linux filesystems such as ZFS and Btrfs, Unix pipes, and Ubuntu packaging, often with hands-on reports from his own systems. Commenters mostly cite it as evidence.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- Says the post has "many good points", and one commenter largely agrees with it on monitors for developers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Linux, politics, and other interesting things
Most-linked posts?
- Sandboxing Phone Apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-08
- SE Linux in Debian/Stretch2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-06
- SSD Endurance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-17
- Computer Advances in the Last Decade2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-10
- Considering Convergence2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-29
- 4k Monitors2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-17
What Hacker News says?
> Can you insert [X] into a running pipeline? Yes [0]. It needs a bit of tooling to be more user friendly, but even the gdb stuff is pretty self-explanatory. [0]: http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/02/27/redirecting-output-from-...
Comment linking /2008/02/27/redirecting-output-from-a-running-process/
on “The patented IBM multi-pipe: the evolution of Unix pipes”Submitted DisplayPort and 4K as a story · 150 points
HN discussionBryan, what's your opinion re: the stability of the LLNL port of ZFS on Linux? The 0.6.0 release is apparently just around the corner and several high-profile people in the community, Russell Coker for one [1], have started using this on production systems. I'd love to make the move to ZFS as well but am still afraid of data loss. I started using XFS on Linux in 2002 and my gut feeling is that ZFS on Linux is now at…
Comment linking /2012/07/31/zfs-debian-wheezy/
on “How ZFS continues to be better than Btrfs.”Submitted Photograph Your Work as a story · 79 points
HN discussionRussell Coker's reports of his experiences with BTRFS give me the screaming heebie-jeebies, no matter how up-beat and positive he stays about it: http://etbe.coker.com.au/tag/btrfs/
Comment linking /tag/btrfs/
on “Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 (2007)”Submitted SSD Endurance as a story · 69 points
HN discussionIt's almost like they're slowly increasing the friction for other packaging formats (flatpak, deb) other than snaps. Bubblewrap, the sandboxing tool for Flatpak, is broken out of the box on 24.04: https://etbe.coker.com.au/2024/04/24/ubuntu-24-04-bubblewrap...
Comment linking /2024/04/24/ubuntu-24-04-bubblewrap/
on “I am So Disappointed with Ubuntu 24.04”Submitted What Is a Workstation? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionWhen Google was struggling with various people being locked out of email and not being able to get back in (without an alternate channel its really hard to verify you are who you are without a bad actor in the loop) I proposed a project for creating an identity token. I was playing with the Yubikey [1] as a possible approach. I certainly think something like that has the basic concepts, physical possession of the de…
Comment linking /2010/03/15/security-tokens/
on “With passwords "broken," US rolls out Internet identity plan”Submitted DDC as a KVM Switch as a story · 8 points
HN discussionMany good points, and I largely agree. But for developers and designers working on user-facing software: I recommend keeping at least one poor to profoundly shitty monitor in your setup. Both resolution and color rendering accuracy matter here. If you have everyone on fancy MacBooks and excellent high end monitors, you will tend to miss defects in your design that will affect your customers - things like poor color…
Comment linking /2019/11/18/4k-monitors/
on “Monitors for Work”Submitted Awful Computers for Kids as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted A “Well Rounded” CV as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Power Supplies and Wires (2013) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Secure Boot worth using? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted LicheePi 4A (RISC-V) First Look as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Desktop PCs Need as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted RISC-V and QEMU as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted SE Linux in Debian/Stretch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monitors for Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Systemd Linger as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of Twitter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silly Job Titles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computer Advances in the Last Decade as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sandboxing Phone Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Feedburner Seems to Be Dying as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hangouts Replacement as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SSD Endurance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weather and Boinc as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 4k Monitors as a story · 2 points
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