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マリウス
Personal blog · xn--gckvb8fzb.comprogrammingsystems
マリウス is a personal blog at xn--gckvb8fzb.com about programming and systems. Since 2020, 67 different Hacker News readers have linked it 90 times, most often “A Word on Omarchy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (26) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its critiques of Omarchy and Matrix/Element, plus its personal projects, including CLI/TUI tools, a Usenet-style clone, and an overview of privacy-focused messengers.
- Recommended for · 3 comments
- Matrix critique called a good summary; site design and CLI/TUI tools loved; privacy messenger overview suggested.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 26 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The journal of マリウス
Most-linked posts?
- A Word on Omarchy5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2025-10-22
- Never click on a link that looks like that4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-09-28
- Hold on to Your Hardware4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-02-19
- Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-07-19
- /js/kill.js3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-27
- The Day WhatsApp Goes Dark3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-14
- The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-02
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-25
- Njalla Has Silently Changed: A Word of Caution2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-14
- A few thoughts on the idea that domains should be everyone's "internet handles"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-10
What Hacker News says?
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/
Comment linking /a-word-on-omarchy/
on “Tcl/Tk 9.1”Submitted Thoughts on Cloudflare as a story · 216 points
HN discussion> 99% of the energy going into the distro While not commenting on the rest, I just want to point out that Omarchy is not a distro (yet?). Source: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/?:~:text=Wikiped...
Comment linking /a-word-on-omarchy/?:~:text=Wikipedia%20page%20of%20author%20mistakenly%20calling%20Omarchy%20a%20distro
on “Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues”Submitted Superhighway84 – a Usenet-inspired decentralized internet discussion system as a story · 175 points
HN discussionThe same kind as a similar recent post [1] where a person pointed out a bunch of problems with Omarchy's shell scripts as examples of it being terrible. Open a pull request. That's how this is supposed to work. Wisdom of the crowd and what not. 1. https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/
Comment linking /a-word-on-omarchy/
on “Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues”Submitted Running an Open Source Home Area Network as a story · 170 points
HN discussionhttps://getaether.net/ is an attempt at a modern usenet, i.e. decentralised discussion. However it doesn’t have many users or third party clients. https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/superhighway84/ is a more directly nostalgia inspired clone of usenet.
Comment linking /superhighway84/
on “Ask HN: I miss Usenet. Are there any modern equivalents?”Submitted Gemini is Solutionism as a story · 148 points
HN discussionThe author has a post about this; https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/never-click-on-a-link-that-looks-l...
Comment linking /never-click-on-a-link-that-looks-like-that/
on “Thoughts on Cloudflare”Submitted A Word on Omarchy as a story · 139 points
HN discussionFYI: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/njalla-has-silently-changed-a-word...
Comment linking /njalla-has-silently-changed-a-word-of-caution/
on “PureVPN IPv6 Leak”Submitted Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org as a story · 115 points
HN discussionI once built a firmware for the Pimoroni Keybow with it: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/projects/kiwi/
Comment linking /projects/kiwi/
on “To Nerves from Elixir”Submitted The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious as a story · 113 points
HN discussion> a domain containing Katakana, something most English keyboards would not be able to type What browser are you using? Mine (Vivaldi) displays the domain as its standard Punycode ASCII representation: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com
Comment linking /
on “Gemini is Solutionism”Submitted Linux on the Desktop: Part Two as a story · 99 points
HN discussionhttps://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/giving-up-on-element-and-matrixorg... For example.
Comment linking /giving-up-on-element-and-matrixorg/
on “New Element Web and Desktop apps”Submitted IRC Server as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD as a story · 93 points
HN discussionI have no hope for matrix. Good summary of what's wrong: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/giving-up-on-element-and-matrixorg...
Comment linking /giving-up-on-element-and-matrixorg/
on “New Element Web and Desktop apps”Submitted Reclaiming Mobile Privacy with GrapheneOS as a story · 70 points
HN discussionStock Fedora or nearly all the other Linux distributions are a thousand times more stable and secure than Omarachy is. https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/
Comment linking /a-word-on-omarchy/
on “Omakase Computing”Submitted The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News as a story · 63 points
HN discussionIf you click to another tab, the site changes its title and favicon to a random webpage like: - Pick up lines suggestions – ChatGPT - Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up - Youtube - Amazon.com: waifu pillow When you go back to it there's an overlay chastising you for allowing JS on an untrusted website. I thought it was pretty funny. You can see the list of fake pages in the source (which has the sketchiest URL ev…
Comment linking /js/kill.js
on “I Regret Migrating to Codeberg”Submitted The Cables That Connect the World as a story · 59 points
HN discussionAs a tangent, this site will overwrite its <title> and favicon if your browser changes tab to one of many random options, as well as showing an overlay highlighting the risk of keeping javascript enabled for once you're back. I dug around and found them listed within the `kill.js` file[0]. It uses the visibilitychange[1] API and swaps it to one of the following: Official Church of Scientology: Difficulties on the Jo…
Comment linking /js/kill.js
on “I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden”Submitted You Don't Need a Terminal Multiplexer on Your Desktop as a story · 40 points
HN discussionlist of tab titles from https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/js/kill.js for entertainment: { "Official Church of Scientology: Difficulties on the Job - Online Course", "Ask HN: How could I safely contact drug cartels?", "The internet used to be fun", "am I boring - Google Search", "what is punycode - Google Search", "arguments for HN comment - Google Search", "how to hack coworker's phone - Google Search", "censorship on hacke…
Comment linking /js/kill.js
on “Hold on to Your Hardware”Submitted I Regret Migrating to Codeberg as a story · 39 points
HN discussionOh man, I've come across this person's blog before and I love it, not just because of the personalization/personality they've put into the site's design, but because of all of the random CLI/TUI-based tools they've developed. Examples: - https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/projects/ Their github repos: - https://github.com/mrusme They even built a BBS-style reader client that supports Hacker News: https://github.com/mrusme/ne…
Comment linking /projects/
on “Hold on to Your Hardware”Submitted I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden as a story · 39 points
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