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Software engineer, Debian developer, and recognized Free/Open Source Software innovator Daniel Pocock scratches the surface on the 2016 explusion of journalist, security researcher, and hacker Jacob Appelbaum from Debian. He asserts that the leadership in Debian at the time falsified evidence and hid conflicts of interest when dealing with the allegations against Appelbaum.
In 2016, there was an enormous amount of noise about Jacob Appelbaum from the Tor Project and winner of the Henri Nannen Prize for journalism.
An anonymous web site had been set up with allegations of harassment, abuse and rape. Unlike the #MeToo movement, which came later, nobody identified themselves and nobody filed a police complaint. It appears that the site was run by people who live in another country and have no daily contact with Appelbaum. Therefore, many people feel this wasn't about justice or immediate threats to their safety.
Long discussions took place in the private mailing lists of many free software communities, including Debian. Personally, as a I focus on my employer, clients and family and as there are so many long email discussions in Debian, I don't follow most of these things. I've come to regret that as it is now clear that at least some claims may have been falsified, a serious injustice has transpired and this could have been easily detected.
I don't wish to discount the experiences of anybody who has been a victim of a crime. However, in the correspondence that was circulated within Debian, the only person who has technically been harassed is Jacob Appelbaum himself. If Appelbaum does have a case to answer then organizations muddying the waters, inventing additional victims, may undermine the stories of real victims.
He then goes on to provide supporting evidence — including what was falsified and how the falsifications were used by the press — and then, from there, used against Appelbaum.
Previously:
(2016) Jacob Appelbaum Leaves the Tor Project
(2014) Hackers Replicate NSA's Leaked Bugging Devices
(Score: 5, Interesting) by boltronics on Friday August 28 2020, @01:01AM (6 children)
Time to give GNU Guix another shot, me thinks.
I tried it back when Debian's systemd was a big issue, but Guix was too immature back then - this was well before the 1.0 release - and an upgrade broke my machine to a point where I was told I should just reinstall. I ended up going back to Debian instead.
Now that GNU Guix is up to 1.1.0, I expect it would be stable. The list of supported packages has massively increased in size, and it looks like there is unofficial support for things like AMDGPU microcode too (so I can actually use acceleration with my graphics card). Should make for a fun weekend activity.
It's GNU/Linux dammit!
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday August 28 2020, @04:38AM (2 children)
Does guix install alongside another Linux system with the usual dual boot?
-- hendrik
(Score: 1) by Wong McGregor on Friday August 28 2020, @05:08AM
Apart from forming the basis for a distro, Guix is a package manager that can, like Nix, be installed on top of other distros.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Friday August 28 2020, @08:57AM
I never tried the graphical installer but the manual installation procedure [gnu.org] works fine for dual booting according to this: https://www.hubert-lombard.website/GuixSD/html/GuixSD-0.16_en-Dual-Boot-avec-Debian-Testing.html [www.hubert-lombard.website]
compiling...
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday August 28 2020, @04:07PM (2 children)
PCLinuxOS. No systemd. No assholes. Good update support (rolling). Available as barebones or kitchen sink in several desktops. The most "just works" of the many distros I've tried, and the only one that became a permanent everyday OS in my house.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:01PM (1 child)
afaic pclinuxos has a stellar (user satisfaction)/exposure factor, I never see it on the web, but users do seem very satisfied.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:08PM
Yeah... it's a one-man-band plus some help on the edges and a couple folks who do community spins, and it really doesn't get much exposure. But those of us using it are a happy bunch.
Was actually thinking about that a while back... why do I prefer it? why don't better-known distros manage to steal me away? and concluded it boils down to good choices by the management.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.