Hacker News: eniac111

New comment by eniac111 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

eniac111 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:41:45 +0000

I'm mostly working on Bor in my free time. Bor is a policy manager for the Linux desktop: https://getbor.dev/

New comment by eniac111 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

eniac111 — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:09:49 +0000

Bor - Linux Desktop policy management ( https://getbor.dev/ ).

In short, it unifies the configuration of different desktop components as policies ( dconf, Kconfig, polkit, Chrome, Firefox, etc.. . It's LGPL.

You can check my slides for the upcoming Tuxconf conference this Friday: https://getbor.dev/publications/tuxcon2026/

Cheers! Blago :)

New comment by eniac111 in "Show HN: Bor – Policy management for Linux desktops"

eniac111 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:58:10 +0000

@dreamglider,

I've always missed something like this in the industry, when I was trying to integrate Linux desktops in different organizations. There are tools like Ansible and Foreman, but they are not "out of the box" structured like simple policies. For example, it would be more difficult to run an arbitrary code with Bor, compared to Ansible. It's important for the enterprise compliance and we we never had anything like GPOs in the Linux world.

The current target are the desktop machines. That's why the currently implemented features are the most essential ones - desktop environments (KDE, Gnome), browsers ( Firefox, Chrome), security - Polkit.

Unfortunately, it doesn't manage certificates at the current stage of development. There are no webhooks, but thee audit logs may be exported to a syslog server.

New comment by eniac111 in "Show HN: Mushroam – Turn any URL into a promo video"

eniac111 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:44:06 +0000

Your internal API to POE is not working :/

Show HN: Bor – Policy management for Linux desktops

eniac111 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:46:39 +0000

Article URL: https://getbor.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764358

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by eniac111 in "Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once"

eniac111 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:25:41 +0000

It would be good to mention which government in the title :)

New comment by eniac111 in "Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network"

eniac111 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +0000

Heh, I've found this post while installing Gotosocial :D

Thaura – AI from Syria

eniac111 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:02:23 +0000

Article URL: https://thaura.ai/story

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051541

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by eniac111 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

eniac111 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:05:37 +0000

https://petrovs.info

New comment by eniac111 in "I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset"

eniac111 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:07:39 +0000

https://petrovs.info/post/2023-01-12-shaiba/ This is my USB rotary dial. It's always fun with the young people when I bring it to IT conferences.

New comment by eniac111 in "Writerdeck.org"

eniac111 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:49:09 +0000

Writing without AI agent assistance? How is that possible?

New comment by eniac111 in "Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages"

eniac111 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:07:56 +0000

Cool! It would be even better if it was able to create simple web pages for vintage browsers.

New comment by eniac111 in "Show HN: Kleks – declarative documents with live preview (in Rust+WASM)"

eniac111 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:04:56 +0000

Awesome!

New comment by eniac111 in "VMOS – Virtual Android on Android"

eniac111 — Tue, 06 May 2025 09:10:23 +0000

From the GitHub README:

"If you use the VMOS Pro Android 5.1 ROM for internal use, commercial profit or uploading to the app market without authorization, we will collect evidence and report to the police (copyright infringement) or prosecute. Anyone who reports unauthorized or illegal use of VMOS Pro Android 5.1 ROM code to develop products will be rewarded upon verification. We will keep the identity of the whistleblower confidential!"

New comment by eniac111 in "Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor"

eniac111 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:37:16 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts

New comment by eniac111 in "Open source and self hostable/private file converter"

eniac111 — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:48:39 +0000

Really nice! I had this idea since years. A simple open source tool that may replace the random websites for file conversions in small and middle companies. The traffic from the search engine results may be redirected to an internsl tool with a proxy for example.

New comment by eniac111 in "Google announces agreement to acquire Wiz"

eniac111 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:30:19 +0000

Unfortunately, Google have the tendency to kill their cloud products.

Fixing Line Endings and Permissions in Git: A Guide for Cross-Platform Devs

eniac111 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 23:00:04 +0000

Article URL: https://petrovs.info/post/2024-03-12-conquering-carriage-returns--ensuring-consistent-line-endings-in-a-cross-platform-git-project/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43338036

Points: 1