Hi, I'm hexa (from the mentioned page), and this so-called context is irrelevant in this matter. This is also hosted on an unofficial community wiki, if anyone wonders.

Instead, the moderation team is complaining about undue interference in their work by the elected governance body of the NixOS community.

And a member of the steering committee explained in the discussion thread that “undue interference” really means that the Moderation Team is completely autonomous and unaccountable, and not moderating the community according to the official Code of Conduct but rather their own political whims.

> I'm hexa (from the mentioned page)

That,

> and this so-called context is irrelevant in this matter.

is exactly why you are not in a position to tell us this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest). Notwithstanding srid's point about sourcing, of course. Which is to say:

> Instead, the moderation team is complaining about undue interference

The entire point is that you (the NixOS moderators collectively — past and present, given your selection process) do not get to decide unilaterally for everyone else what interference is due. We can all judge for ourselves whether the Steering Committee had good reason to intervene on the basis of political bias, by looking at the apparent politics behind your actions.

Hi Hexa,

You were also the moderator at the time I was banned <https://srid.ca/nixos-mod> for political reasons. While you are here, would you care to be transparent[^1] as to why you got me and https://nixos.asia banned from Lobste.rs?

https://x.com/sridca/status/1751586241110519837

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[^1]: As Robert, a SC member from OP, notes:

> The SC has tried to work with the moderation team to understand moderation decisions and steer towards more objective moderation behavior, with the goal of making moderation fair and respectable, which feeds back into making moderation work easier. Nonetheless, we have continued to observe moderation not based on the Code of Conduct, but opinions and interpersonal tradeoffs (to put it nicely).

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statement-from-members-of-th...

Oh okay, it’s the first thing that popped up when I searched based on the blog post.

Hi Hexa,

Since you were a moderator at the time of my ban, would care to expand as to why I was banned, and what you meant by "purge the Nazis?"

What is “their work” exactly?

Distros are backporting security patches into their releases, so no harm done. If you rely on the python.org releases and don't build from source, then yes, that is a bit sad.

Case in point: The Debian security tracker, see their notes section referencing each commit.

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3177

The python:3.8 and python:3.9 container images if used to build web services such as Django with GIS extensions may have an RCE until Python.org sources are updated.

Why can't the base image receive those patches as well?

Those images pull from python.org sources, see:

https://github.com/docker-library/python/blob/master/3.8/bus...

Those come from a WHOIS daemon that is reachable in the network as whois.dn42. There's also an authoritative DNS system for the .dn42 TLD with anycasted resolvers

    % dig whois.dn42 @resolver.nic.dn42 any +short
    172.22.0.43
    fd42:d42:d42:43::

as well as some ACME implementation with a CA that is constrained to the .dn42 domain and the allocated IP space.

   % openssl x509 -in /etc/ssl/certs/dn42_Root_Authority_CA.pem -noout -text
    [...]
                X509v3 Name Constraints:
                    Permitted:
                      DNS:.dn42
                      IP:172.20.0.0/255.252.0.0
                      IP:FD42:0:0:0:0:0:0:0/FFFF:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
    [...]

So there's quite some stuff to do and learn about.

DN42 is very easy to get into, if you have some networking knowledge. If you're familiar with Linux I'd recommend Bird as a BGP speaker and using Wireguard for L3 tunneling.

Either way, get started here: https://dn42.net/howto/Getting-started

Thanks for that pointer, definitely looks like a good entry point. I want to play with announcing BGP routes across to Azure VNets.

This looks nice. Any chance this is going to be open source?

Thanks, I might open source the prototype/early version here, but not the whole project (I intend to add a lot more stuff and make it gaming-oriented)

There already exists a mirror list at https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/mirrors.html.en. Of course this is hard to come by, when the whole torproject website is being censored.

People can just look at the cached version of this page on Google over SSL, I doubt they will ban Google...

> In February 2006, Google made a significant concession to the Great Firewall of China, in exchange for equipment installation on Chinese soil, by blocking websites which the Chinese government deemed illegal.

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

So I think they would ban Google Search over this if they had to, but it sounds like Google would just hide it on Google.cn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_Ch... is another interesting read, the first 6 URLs are Google products.

> the first 6 URLs are Google products

One of which is Google+, every cloud has a silver lining.