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slaptijack
Personal blog · slaptijack.comprogrammingsystems
slaptijack is a personal blog at slaptijack.com about programming and systems. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link slaptijack's technical how-to posts on IPv6 privacy addresses on macOS and on multiuser GNU Screen sessions, as practical references for networking and sysadmin tasks.
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?
Yes, there is a standard since about 10 years ago. It's not dependent on your router firmware, in accordance with IP's end-to-end design philosophy (keep the network dumb, and hosts smart). Here's some links to get you started: https://slaptijack.com/networking/osx-disable-ipv6-address-p... http://andatche.com/blog/2012/02/disabling-rfc4941-ipv6-priv... As for link-local IPv6 addresses, those aren't even accepted by…
Comment linking /networking/osx-disable-ipv6-address-privacy.html
on “IPFS is the Distributed Web”Submitted Using Redis for PHP Session Storage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThank you guys for the CTL+] and CTL+\ excape sequences... I had been struggling with CTL+A, I tend to like "go to the beginning of the command line" a lot so this was my main beef with the default sequence. One of the major uses of screen for me has been teaching. You can have multiple users attach to the same screen -- just follow this guide: http://slaptijack.com/system-administration/multiuser-gnu-sc... Imagine…
Comment linking /system-administration/multiuser-gnu-screen-long-distance-teaching-tool/
on “A guide to GNU Screen”