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Petter Reinholdtsen
people.skolelinux.org · Personal blog · on HN since 2010
Petter Reinholdtsen is a Norwegian Debian and Skolelinux developer who writes about Linux, free software, privacy, and hardware.
What HN saysHN commenters link his posts as practical references, such as staying on sysvinit in Debian Jessie, OpenSnitch in Debian, and the Isenkram hardware tool.
24HN people shared it
5linked it in comments
37stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1The life and death of a laptop battery2 people · 139 points · first shared 2015 · 58 comments on HN
- 2Petter Reinholdtsen: How to talk with your loved ones in private2 people · 4 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 3How to stay with sysvinit in Debian Jessie2 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 4Isenkram, Appstream and udev make life as a Lego builder easier2 people · 1 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 5The cost of ODF and OOXML1 people · 70 points · first shared 2012 · 19 comments on HN
- 6Managing and using ONVIF IP cameras with Linux1 people · 61 points · first shared 2022 · 52 comments on HN
- 7UsingQR – “Electronic” paper invoices using JSON and QR codes1 people · 51 points · first shared 2016 · 27 comments on HN
- 8Norwegian citizens now required by law to give their fingerprint to the police1 people · 7 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 9Terms of use for video produced by Canon IXUS 130 digital camera1 people · 7 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 10A program should be able to open its own files on Linux1 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 11Where did that packet go? – geolocated IP traceroute1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 12Playing and encoding AV1 video in Debian Bullseye1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 13Always download Debian packages using Tor – the simple recipe1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · 3 comments on HN
- 14The new “best” multimedia player in Debian?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 15Coz profiler for multi-threaded software is now in Debian1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
pabs3 · 2023-06-09
Debian 12 now includes opensnitch, but it isn't installed by default:
https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenSnitch_available_in_Debian…
For permission management you want all your apps from outside the distro (like Flathub), or you can manually use bubblewrap or firejail to create custom sandboxes.
vbernat · 2022-10-24
What you describe is the cloud image. You can dd it to your hard drive and it should work as is (initial password will be displayed on first boot).
As for Debian, the slowness comes mostly for fsync calls I think. You should be able to use eatmydata to avoid this. See: https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Quicker_Debian_installations_u…
unhammer · 2018-01-27
does it relate in any way to Isenkram? http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram__Appstream_and_udev_ma…
progman · 2015-04-27
It seems to be possible to stay with sysvinit in Jessie:
http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_stay_with_sysvinit_in_De…
arjie · 2025-09-12
One theory I had was that blogrolls were common previously and allowed for cluster navigation. My friends and I certainly had these pointing to each other because why wouldn't you? The big bloggers on HN I see are tptacek, rachelbythebay, and simonwillison and none of them have a blogroll. General wisdom in website SEO etc. is to keep the user on your page and not send them elsewhere and I thought that perhaps many people were adhering to that. However, I think blogrolls were just not common ever and I was in a bubble that had them and so thought they were.
Here's what I did to find out. I first used an RSS aggregate feed that I recall: Planet Debian. I then picked out a ten year old archive of that feed but not on September 11 itself (well because you know). And the data says that blogrolls were always rare! So it's not that.
Blogroll:
https://www.corsac.net/?rub=blog&post=1576
No Blogroll:
http://blog.alteholz.eu/
http://damog.net/
https://henrich-on-debian.blogspot.com/
http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_paper_version_of_the_Norw…
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/
https://weblog.christoph-egger.org/
https://grep.be/blog/
https://www.preining.info/blog/
http://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/
https://weblog.christoph-egger.org/Systemd_pitfalls.html
Indeterminate:
https://blog.sesse.net/blog (relaunched now, original excluded, can't be…