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.
What HN saysHN links it for his accounts of his own community disputes and decisions, and for technical posts such as ARM64 on Fedora.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Android betrays tethering data5 people · 131 points · first shared 2014 · 103 comments on HN
- 2Where do all the censored developers go?3 people · 105 points · first shared 2019 · 23 comments on HN
- 3Debian falsified harassment claims in Appelbaum expulsion2 people · 17 points · first shared 2020 · 4 comments on HN
- 4Harassment decision victory for volunteers and fedora foundations2 people · first shared 2022
- 5Spyware Dolls and Intel's VPro1 people · 78 points · first shared 2017 · 13 comments on HN
- 6SMS logins: an illusion of security1 people · 64 points · first shared 2014 · 17 comments on HN
- 7Codes of Conduct may have no statistically significant impact1 people · 6 points · first shared 2021 · 2 comments on HN
- 8Calendar and Contact data with free software in the Smartphone era1 people · 6 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 9Avoiding SMS vendor lock-in with SMPP1 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Best real-time communication softphone on the Linux desktop?1 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · 3 comments on HN
- 11Building existing autotools C/C++ projects on Android1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12Understanding the WebRTC architecture from a free software perspective1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 13Going 4K1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 14Using reSIProcate to connect Asterisk with WebRTC1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 15A mission statement for free real-time communications1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
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panny · 2019-10-28
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/
rurban · 2026-02-15
Neat? I would use other words. Fraudsters rely on marketing.
https://danielpocock.com/en/matthias-fsfe-analogous-identity-fraud/
teddyh · 2025-02-05
There are certainly some who think so: <https://danielpocock.com/blog/>
worthless-trash · 2023-03-21
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/
snvzz · 2022-03-17
Respondent's public reaction on the decision[0].
0. https://danielpocock.com/harassment-decision-victory-for-volunteers-an…
twic · 2019-10-20
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/
est · 2019-07-18
Reading the related https://danielpocock.com/android-betrays-tethering-data/
I am a little confused, this creates a new interface named `rndis0` how does the carrier know it's tethered? Because of the new MAC address?
Boulth · 2019-05-15
Nowadays I guess it's ENUM: https://danielpocock.com/a-quick-look-at-enum/
altfredd · 2019-03-12
It is not: https://danielpocock.com/what-does-democracy-mean-in-free-software-com…
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".
jazzyjackson · 2018-10-30
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
dharma1 · 2015-09-04
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
ryan-c · 2015-08-31
Android's built in tethering absolutely does explicitly tell T-Mobile you're using it. http://danielpocock.com/android-betrays-tethering-data
blueskin_ · 2014-04-29