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    Daniel Pocock

    danielpocock.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2013

    Daniel Pocock is a free software developer who writes about Debian, Fedora, Android privacy, and disputes over harassment claims in open source communities.

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    What HN says

    HN links it for his accounts of his own community disputes and decisions, and for technical posts such as ARM64 on Fedora.

    Stats for nerds
    38HN people shared it
    36linked in comments
    460story points
    Feb 2026last shared
    2014people per year2026

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Android betrays tethering data
      5 people · 131 points · first shared 2014 · 103 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Where do all the censored developers go?
      3 people · 105 points · first shared 2019 · 23 comments on HN
    3. 3
      Spyware Dolls and Intel's VPro
      1 person · 78 points · first shared 2017 · 13 comments on HN
    4. 4
      SMS logins: an illusion of security
      1 person · 64 points · first shared 2014 · 17 comments on HN
    5. 5
      Debian falsified harassment claims in Appelbaum expulsion
      2 people · 17 points · first shared 2020 · 4 comments on HN
    6. 6
      Codes of Conduct may have no statistically significant impact
      1 person · 6 points · first shared 2021 · 2 comments on HN
    7. 7
      Calendar and Contact data with free software in the Smartphone era
      1 person · 6 points · first shared 2013 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      Avoiding SMS vendor lock-in with SMPP
      1 person · 5 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
    9. 9
      Best real-time communication softphone on the Linux desktop?
      1 person · 4 points · first shared 2014 · 3 comments on HN
    10. 10
      Using a fully free OS for devices in the home
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • pannyOct 2019

      No, he said,

      >What MIT and the free software community has made clear is that he is not welcome to debate the truth and serve as a representative of MIT and of the free software community.

      I don't remember a great groundswell of anti-RMS statements from the FSF community. In fact, when Ludovic the guix maintainer brought it up on the gnu guix mailing list, Ludovic had to start banning people and removing list messages because so many people in the community loudly disagreed with him.

      The irony is the FSF has a censorship problem, and people who support RMS are among those being censored.

      https://danielpocock.com/where-do-censored-developers-go/

    • altfreddMar 2019

      It is not: https://danielpocock.com/what-does-democracy-mean-in-free-software-communities

      The current Debian "developers" have reached uniform agreed that:

      1) Neither of them will participate in election

      2) People outside of "developer" circle (including major contributors, who do most of actual work on Debian) can't participate in election

      The whole "crisis" is artificially created. Not like that matters, — most of decision making is already done by corporate employees, not some fictitious "community leader".

    • jazzyjacksonOct 2018

      I don't have any advice about it but just wanted to mention that Blender is also a video/audio editor with lots of filters and keyboard shortcuts out the wazoo. After making 3D models for a couple years, it blew my mind to hit the dropdown menu and go from "Default" to "Video Editing" -

      See https://danielpocock.com/quick-start-blender-video-editing

    • twicOct 2019

      I clicked some links and ended up reading [1], and if anything, i understand even less than when i started. Mollamby.

      EDIT: And the author has another piece featuring none other than Debian Grand Champion of Drama, Ian Jackson! [2]

      [1] https://danielpocock.com/assets/mollamby.pdf

      [2] https://danielpocock.com/codes-of-conduct-and-hypocrisy/

    • worthless-trashMar 2023

      I imagine that there will be a lot of work to improve this over the coming years, not just because of asahi, but the cloud ARM systems that are being developed.

      I think that Fedora may be leading the pack here, see https://danielpocock.com/power9-aarch64-64k-page-sizes/

    • dharma1Sep 2015

      potentially, but stock Android tells the carrier it's tethering, and there's no way around it. CM doesn't. http://danielpocock.com/android-betrays-tethering-data

      You can hack around both TTL values and user-agent btw. Deep packet inspection, maybe less so

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