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Siosm's blog
Personal blog · tim.siosm.fr/blogsystemssecurity
Siosm's blog is a personal blog at tim.siosm.fr about systems and security. Since 2014, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “How do we keep apps maintained on Flathub?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Siosm's blog as a reference on Linux topics: SSH over Unix sockets, the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS upgrade debate, and the Ubuntu cloud PRNG seed issue. Comments cite it as a resource, without judging it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Some thoughts from a systemd, Rust and security aficionado.
Most-linked posts?
- How do we keep apps maintained on Flathub?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-24
- What's New for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 412 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-30
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: Why you should not use it, at all2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-29
- Development on Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-03
What Hacker News says?
Indeed, there was a blog by a redhat engineer doing that: https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2023/12/19/ssh-over-unix-socket
Comment linking /blog/2023/12/19/ssh-over-unix-socket
on “Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced”Submitted Systemd and the crashing tweet as a story · 60 points
HN discussionIt's funny that just today, before I found out about the glibc vulnerability, I reconsidered if I really want to upgrade my Ubuntu 10.04 mail and web servers to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I was triggered after reading some bad things about 14.04 [1]. I've looked at the M:Tier binpatches and package upgrades for OpenBSD, looked at FreeBSD, Debian with it's experimental LTS, but eventually I'm still in favor of the 5-year supp…
Comment linking /blog/2014/04/25/why-not-ubuntu-14.04-lts/
on “Long term support considered harmful”Submitted Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: Why you should not use it, at all as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI was curious so I decided to post some of the Google links about this: * man page: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/pollinate.1.... * Q&A style blog post: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2014/02/random-seeds-in-ubunt... * A "why this is scary" blog post: https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2014/04/25/why-not-ubuntu-14.04-lt...
Comment linking /blog/2014/04/25/why-not-ubuntu-14.04-lts/
on “Ubuntu Cloud PRNG seed”Submitted What's New for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 41 as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted How do we keep apps maintained on Flathub? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Development on Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's New for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 41 – Siosm's Blog as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gaming only on Linux, one year in as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sudo without a setuid binary or SSH over a Unix socket as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How do we keep apps maintained on Flathub? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How do we keep apps maintained on Flathub? (or building a more respectful App S as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing Fedora CoreOS on a VPS in OVHcloud (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenSSH client side key management for better privacy and security as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Encrypt, automated, but please not as root as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Development on Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite as a story · 1 points
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