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Solène
Personal blog · dataswamp.orgsystemshardwaresecurity
Solène's personal blog at dataswamp.org covers systems, hardware and security. Since 2018, 62 different Hacker News readers have linked it 142 times, most often “I Stopped Using OpenBSD”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
OpenBSD based shell account system.
Most-linked posts?
- I Stopped Using OpenBSD5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-11-20
- The Old Computer Challenge4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-07-07
- Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-17
- Expose only share links of a private service with caddy3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-21
- The SNESticle Liberation Project3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-10
- Solene'%: Fair Internet bandwidth management on a network using OpenBSD3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-30
- The Old Computer Challenge V32 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-04
- Introduction to GrapheneOS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-10
- Dear Open Source Developers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-09
- Daily Life with the Offline Laptop2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-23
What Hacker News says?
God, I've been complaining about this for so many years now. The hardest part about duplicating the Web 1.0 aesthetic (well) has been finding the primary locations where the tile/image/iconsets originated and mirroring them for modern consumption — I'm still working on that. http://dataswamp.org/~john/
Comment linking /~john/
on “Make front end shit again”Submitted Self hosting is important as a story · 566 points
HN discussioneGPU-s work on Linux. https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-12-05-nixos-egpu.html
Comment linking /~solene/2021-12-05-nixos-egpu.html
on “Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests”Submitted Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell as a story · 319 points
HN discussionSo many people make websites that basically look like they are from the 90's (though without all the animated GIFs haha), and use basic features without any strictly-modern stuff. These are just a few off the top of my head: https://cblgh.org/ https://technomancy.us/list https://alexschroeder.ch/ http://100r.co/site/about_us.html https://dataswamp.org/~solene/ https://rgz.ee/ https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/ https://co…
Comment linking /~solene/
on “Make Front End Shit Again (2018)”Submitted How and why I attempt to use Links as main browser as a story · 289 points
HN discussionHere's some crazyness: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2019-08-26-minimal-markdown.ht... I suppose it is not much hard to translate this into PHP...
Comment linking /~solene/2019-08-26-minimal-markdown.html
on “Next Gen Static Blogging”Submitted The SNESticle Liberation Project as a story · 275 points
HN discussionI really enjoyed participating in Solene%'s Old Computer Challenge 2022: < https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-07-01-oldcomputerchalleng... > I adjusted my rules a bit to make them fit into my setup (WFH, Homekit lights, etc), the main challenge being that rather than accounting for time spent online and trying to limit it to 1h, I just wouldn't go online at all (unless for work). It was a wonderful week, and even on…
Comment linking /~solene/2022-07-01-oldcomputerchallenge-v2-rtc.html
on “My experiment in phonelessness was a failure, and it also changed my life”Submitted Linux NILFS file system: automatic continuous snapshots as a story · 242 points
HN discussionhttps://dataswamp.org/~john/
Comment linking /~john/
on “Welcome to Hell, Elon”Submitted Introduction to GrapheneOS as a story · 236 points
HN discussionHow come every ssh connection goes via a proxy user? Isn't that masking the accounting? Or am I misreading it? https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-12-31-hardened-openbsd-wo... edit: oh, it's for outbound ssh, but I'm still none the wiser in terms of auditing (or what that would do to git clones without some modification)
Comment linking /~solene/2023-12-31-hardened-openbsd-workstation.html
on “OpenBSD Workstation Hardening”Submitted Why is the OpenBSD documentation so good? as a story · 213 points
HN discussionif you like extreme minimalism : https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2019-08-26-minimal-markdown.ht... unfortunately i don't see any license for that awk script, but still, just look at it!
Comment linking /~solene/2019-08-26-minimal-markdown.html
on “Show HN: Blades – fast static site generator written in Rust”Submitted Some OpenBSD features that aren't widely known as a story · 165 points
HN discussionAt the bottom of the article he did mention a list of negatives. Sure it is non-comprehensive, but so is his list of positives. https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-06-22-openbsd-selling-arg...
Comment linking /~solene/2022-06-22-openbsd-selling-arguments.html
on “How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson”Submitted OpenBSD Workstation Hardening as a story · 149 points
HN discussionHere's the original markdown, hosted as a Gist. The original markdown came from thier RSS feed which seems to contain the original markdown instead of HTML. Gist of the contents: https://gist.github.com/lelandbatey/0d699715405d9f1b61991f09... RSS feed which contained the Markdown of the original: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/rss.xml
Comment linking /~solene/rss.xml
on “I ended up liking GNOME with the loss of one hand”Submitted How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson as a story · 145 points
HN discussionI am not sure what is meant by this. It certainly seems to have QoS in the form of the queue directive. It works for me for limiting buffer bloat on my VDSL model upstream. The defaults work well for my VOIP stuff so that all I have is this in my pf.conf: queue outq on re1 flows 1024 bandwidth 3000K max 3000K qlimit 1024 default I think the magic is in the "flows" part. Added: Relevant articles: * https://dataswamp.…
Comment linking /~solene/2021-08-30-openbsd-qos-lan.html
on “What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3: That packet filter”Submitted I ended up liking GNOME with the loss of one hand as a story · 143 points
HN discussionGood article. I did not see this mentioned: Doesn't one of nix or guix have a mode to operate as a guest or overlay on an existing OS? I find this[1] in the area of Nix as and OpenBSD guest, but I've barely glanced at it for applicability. [1] https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-05-08-openbsd-vmm-nixos.h... I see some reference to Ubuntu with a nix package manager installed on it.
Comment linking /~solene/2021-05-08-openbsd-vmm-nixos.html
on “Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs. NixOS”Submitted Explaining modern server monitoring stacks for self-hosting as a story · 118 points
HN discussionSome of the bloat is institutional, or maybe we should say, "civilisational"? Supporting TLS, modern hardware, media codecs, and so on - this puts a lower bound on the size of a "full" desktop OS, before you even consider a web browser. The next question is what kind of software do you need to get useful work done - not everyone writes code; if you want to edit audio, video, photos, do CAD, etc sometimes you simply…
Comment linking /~solene/2021-07-07-old-computer-challenge.html
on “Allwinner D1s/F133 RISC-V Processor Integrates 64MB DDR2”Submitted What security does a default OpenBSD installation offer? as a story · 116 points
HN discussionAnsible makes mutable changes to the OS, task by task. Nix is immutable . A new change is made entirely new, and only after the build is successful, all packages are "symlinked" to the current system. Fedora Silverblue is based on ostree [1]. It works similarly like git, but on your root tree. But it requires you to reboot the whole system for the changes to take effect. Since Nix is just symlinked packages, you don…
Comment linking /~solene/2023-07-12-intro-to-immutable-os.html
on “NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt”Submitted Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs. NixOS as a story · 115 points
HN discussionJust use a Tor hidden service. https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2018-10-11-tor-hidden-service.... Replace the SSH port with the MUD one.
Comment linking /~solene/2018-10-11-tor-hidden-service.html
on “Still Love Telnet”Submitted Introduction to Security Good Practices as a story · 94 points
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