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tuxdiary.com is a personal blog at tuxdiary.com about systems and programming. Since 2014, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “CPP Man”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link tuxdiary for short Linux how-tos and tool write-ups, such as uBlock Origin, the dsdownload and TCPTuner utilities, Firefox screenshots, touchpad tweaks and Intel power saving.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2015/06/14/ublock-origin/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-02
- CPP Man2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-30
- Indian Government Adopts Open Source2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-02
What Hacker News says?
> Contribute to uBlock and bring no-ads to everyone instead. Contribute to uBlock Origin [0]. uBlock was also stolen for profit [1] and takes money to whitelist ads. [0] https://ublockorigin.com/ [1] http://tuxdiary.com/2015/06/14/ublock-origin/
Comment linking /2015/06/14/ublock-origin/
on “Brave Browser leaks your Tor / Onion service requests through DNS”Submitted Whiteout: end to end encrypted mails as a story · 9 points
HN discussionToo late http://tuxdiary.com/2015/06/14/ublock-origin/
Comment linking /2015/06/14/ublock-origin/
on “Adblock Sold to Mystery Company”Submitted YavIDE (vim setup for C/C++) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttp://tuxdiary.com/2016/01/28/dsdownload/ is also good
Comment linking /2016/01/28/dsdownload/
on “Aria2: CLI downloader for HTTP, FTP, torrents, metalinks”Submitted Vim as an encrypted cloud note manager as a story · 4 points
HN discussionUnlike some other fortunate users who reached the editor, I never did: http://tuxdiary.com/2014/10/28/polarr/
Comment linking /2014/10/28/polarr/
on “Show HN: Polarr.co, a WebGL photo editor”Submitted Indian Government Adopts Open Source as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHow about fossil? http://tuxdiary.com/2013/09/20/fossil/
Comment linking /2013/09/20/fossil/
on “Simple Revision Control”Submitted France votes for open source as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Here is a better article Thank you. URL changed to that from http://tuxdiary.com/2015/11/02/indian-govt-adopts-open-sourc... .
Comment linking /2015/11/02/indian-govt-adopts-open-source/
on “Indian Government adopts an open source policy”Submitted Truecaller, here’s a feature request as a story · 2 points
HN discussionShared it here: http://tuxdiary.com/2014/10/17/maim-slop/ Can anyone please share the compiled binaries on 32-bit Ubuntu 14.04?
Comment linking /2014/10/17/maim-slop/
on “Show HN: Maim – A simple screenshot utility for Linux”Submitted Tutanota: encrypted DANE based mails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTCPTuner: congestion control utility https://tuxdiary.com/2016/05/14/tcptuner/
Comment linking /2016/05/14/tcptuner/
on “Multiplexing on top of TCP (2011)”Submitted PoGoMap: locate all nearby Pokémons from desktop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionInterestingly enough, disabling cursor blinks on the intel 950 iGPUs resulted in increased powersaving: https://lwn.net/Articles/317922/ and http://tuxdiary.com/2015/09/29/save-battery-intel-linux/ A few years later, I checked that with powertop when I was using my thinkpad in uni and it was true and measurable! I'm not sure if it's still the case, but it's funny how UI features can tax the power budget in unsuspect…
Comment linking /2015/09/29/save-battery-intel-linux/
on “Blinking Cursor Turns 54”Submitted CPP Man as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNice project! How about an option to text chat? Or did I miss it? Shared it: http://tuxdiary.com/2014/09/23/pairjam/
Comment linking /2014/09/23/pairjam/
on “Show HN: Pairjam – pair programming in your browser”Submitted Cppman: C++ 98/11/14 manpages as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's possible using Firefox, without any additional s/w: http://tuxdiary.com/2015/03/23/firefox-full-webpage-screensh...
Comment linking /2015/03/23/firefox-full-webpage-screenshots/
on “Show HN: Tool to grab screenshots of a list of webpages on Linux”Submitted Sometimes an alias is better than a settings file as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf like me you have struggled with your big hands's palms getting the cursor to jump around for no reason, what worked for me me was programmatically reducing the area of the touchpad like this : http://tuxdiary.com/2014/12/16/reduce-effective-area-touchpa... Another thing you may not be aware is some touchpads have a scroll function that works with only one finger on the right edge of the touchpad and it is not alw…
Comment linking /2014/12/16/reduce-effective-area-touchpad-linux/
on “Linux Touchpad like MacBook Update: 2022 progress and new poll”Submitted India top blocker of FB content, is that shocking? as a story · 1 points
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