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cengizIOon Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

This is exactly what I needed right now. Somehow, it made me cry out of disgust, anger, anguish, and acceptance all at once. Sneaky Bastard is now my default Obsidian font.

cengizIOon Btrfs disk errors to fall asleep to

Here's some context on it: https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2026/02/15/btrfs/

cengizIOon 50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know (Second Edition)

Ditto. I was asked to write a Rust for Linux book back in 2020. Rust was (and still is) not actually driving any part of the Linux kernel so I kindly refused. They very clearly stated that they are only interested in being the first publisher with a book on this supposedly green field.

cengizIOon Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine

Right now, using curl, [ķ]eepass.info redirects to xn--eepass-vbb.info and consequently that redirects to official domain keepass.info.

cengizIOon Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

Very clever. For those wondering, this won't gunzip since it's compressed using zlib. you must do a chain like this: URL Decode -> Base64 Decode -> Zlib Inflate.

cengizIOon Webamp – Winamp 2 in the Browser

Amazing that N,U,L,Esc,L,Esc,S,O,F,T still works. Kudos!

cengizIOon Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones

This is unbelievable. Some of the sensitive information like phone numbers are censored by drawing a box on top, rather than replacing certain digits by * or something else.

Reader can get the digits by simply copying them underneath.

How can someone miss this?

cengizIOon K-9 Mail is back

Sadly, there are 0 (ZERO) iOS e-mail clients that support monospace font rendering. (Having plain-text is not enough for LKML). It would really be a game changer if there was a K-9 port for iOS (or iPadOS).

cengizIOon K-9 Mail is back

Whenever I see a limitation on plain-text (and monospace fonts), I tend to avoid that client. K-9 is not one of them. Plain-text works OK with LKML and patches are very readable.

cengizIOon Bootlin at the XDC 2018 Conference

Keep up the good work! All Bootlin team members are totally worth following if you're interested in kernel development.

(I'm not affiliated with them in any way but I wish to join them someday)

cengizIOon How MySQL is able to scale to 200M QPS – MySQL Cluster

I'm sorry but MySQL Cluster is pure refined salty horse shit. Nothing more. We're currently at the office trying to recover our production data from its filthy hands.

cengizIOon Show HN: MCServer – A FOSS Minecraft server in C++, with Lua plugins

They should pick a working donation medium though. Gratipay seems broken beyond recognition and I'm desperately throwing my cc to my monitor for the last twenty minutes.

cengizIOon Show HN: Steady – Shoot Cinematic Videos

App is buyable from iPad and checked as compatible with it, however your description paragraph says otherwise.