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Tuxes
Personal blog · b.tuxes.uksystemsprogramming
Tuxes is a personal blog at b.tuxes.uk about systems and programming. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Three Years of Ephemeral NixOS: My Experience Resetting Root on Every Boot”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's how-to post on backing up Android photos with rsync in Termux. One commenter adds a tip on restricting rsync access with rrsync to limit ransomware risk.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /termux-rsync-photos.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-20
- Three Years of Ephemeral NixOS: My Experience Resetting Root on Every Boot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-08
What Hacker News says?
One extra tip is to use rrsync to restrict which folders your rsync client can read/write to: https://b.tuxes.uk/termux-rsync-photos.html This helps mitigate ransomware, and escalation (e.g. reading previously backed up files) attacks.
Comment linking /termux-rsync-photos.html
on “Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?”Submitted Monitoring My Homelab, Simply as a story · 170 points
HN discussionI use Termux/rsync to backup my photos: https://b.tuxes.uk/termux-rsync-photos.html It works great!
Comment linking /termux-rsync-photos.html
on “Termux: Linux Applications on Android”Submitted Avoiding Emacs Bankruptcy as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Years of Ephemeral NixOS: My Experience Resetting Root on Every Boot as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Years of Ephemeral NixOS: My Experience Resetting Root on Every Boot as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sudden Loss of Domain as a story · 2 points
HN discussion