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thomask.sdf.org
Personal blog · thomask.sdf.org/blogprogrammingsystemssecurity
thomask.sdf.org is a personal blog at thomask.sdf.org about programming, systems and security. Since 2018, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “From GNU social to Mastodon”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on decentralised social networks and how Riot's push notifications work, plus a post on GNU social groups. One commenter calls the Riot post a great explanation of how it works.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- From GNU social to Mastodon2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-26
- Rust Without Crates.io2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-14
- A mystery of unnecessary Rust crate recompilation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-05
- /blog/2016/12/11/riots-magical-push-notifications-in-ios.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-09
What Hacker News says?
s0ix is fine so long as it actually activates. The problem is that in some default configurations it doesn't and you end up using a poorer sleep. On my 9305 it was a matter of changing a storage setting in the BIOS and afterwards it was perfectly fine. (If you'll pardon linking my own blog, I wrote about this particular issue a little while ago: https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2021/08/15/debian-11-bullseye-o... )
Comment linking /blog/2021/08/15/debian-11-bullseye-on-the-dell-xps-13-9305.html
on “Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?”Submitted Apple’s crackdown on multicast as a story · 576 points
HN discussionWhy would you want to automatically resolve the latest semver compatible version from git if you care about security? That's worse than cargo.io where tags are stable, whereas git allows tags to be edited. > No only is it _easier_ to use cargo with crates.io, it's harder to use with anything else because of missing or incomplete features. You're saying the same thing twice here: yes it's easier to use cargo with cra…
Comment linking /blog/2023/11/14/rust-without-crates-io.html
on “Build It Yourself”Submitted Take care editing bash scripts (2019) as a story · 405 points
HN discussionhttps://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2018/08/19/from-gnu-social-to-m... "There was a cool feature in GNU social called groups that has never existed on Twitter or on Mastodon. A user can register a group on their server—for example there was one about gardening called “!grow”. If you subscribe to the group and then put “!grow” in one of your messages, all the other subscribers see it in their home timeline. It’s similar to…
Comment linking /blog/2018/08/19/from-gnu-social-to-mastodon.html
on “Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system”Submitted Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub as a story · 399 points
HN discussion> If Twitter/Facebook start forcing people to install their third-party store to access their app, then there's a massive opportunity to make a better app that's distributed through the App Store. Wouldn’t Twitter, Facebook etc in turn demand that those third-party apps be taken down from the App Store? And even if they didn’t, how is any third party going to keep up with Twitter/Facebook/etc API changes. And what a…
Comment linking /blog/2016/12/11/riots-magical-push-notifications-in-ios.html
on “On iPhone sideloading: it’s ok, I’m changing my mind”Submitted From GNU social to Mastodon as a story · 186 points
HN discussionhttps://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2016/12/11/riots-magical-push-n... is a great blog (back when Element was called Riot) explaining how it works :)
Comment linking /blog/2016/12/11/riots-magical-push-notifications-in-ios.html
on “Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix”Submitted Local area network push notifications as a story · 95 points
HN discussionhttps://thomask.sdf.org/ - a random assortment of programming (mostly Rust recently), technical quirks, and reflections on technology. I've given up on being consistent enough to stick to a theme.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Rust Without Crates.io as a story · 37 points
HN discussionStolen Focus is an interesting book and worth your time, but it's absolutely set on making the case that governments need to intervene on social media and I don't think it did it very well. I wrote a longish review digging into why back in June but it will probably only make complete sense if you've read the book. https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2023/06/08/book-review-stolen-f...
Comment linking /blog/2023/06/08/book-review-stolen-focus.html
on “Attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (2022)”Submitted Memories from Old LAN Parties as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft Edge Secure Network hands all browsing activity to Cloudflare as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted A mystery of unnecessary Rust crate recompilation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Private Web Browsing in 2022 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted If I was Meta and wanted to make fedi implode as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A taxonomy of hosting options, for personal data security as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A mystery of unnecessary crate recompilation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trusting Everybody as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bash -funroll-Loops as a story · 1 points
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