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   popey (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 16:13:10 JST popey

   🍿 https://aux.computer/

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     popey (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 16:13:08 JST popey

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     • buonhobo

     @buonhobo
     As I understand it some people in the #nixos community disagree with the way the project is run. So as is common in open source, someone has started a fork. 🤷

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     buonhobo (buonhobo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 16:13:10 JST buonhobo

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     @popey why is this a thing? Did something happen with nix?

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     Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen (angryant@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 16:13:17 JST Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen

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     • buonhobo

     @buonhobo @popey Over-simplified, nix & nixos has had very little explicit power structure since inception. That has resulted in lots of implicit power being passed around - such as that held by the benevolent dictator who habitually stops by to throw a wrench in procceses, relitegate, protect problematic community members, etc. - with most of their time spent at their heavily related business venture, stacked with undisclosed conflicts of interest.

     Has been building for years, now overflows.

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     Sam Weston (cablespaghetti@southampton.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 16:13:25 JST Sam Weston

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     • buonhobo

     @popey @buonhobo If you enjoy lots of reading: https://save-nix-together.org/

     TL;DR, the BDFL isn’t very benevolent.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 16:13:29 JST clacke

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     • Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen
     • buonhobo
     @AngryAnt @buonhobo @popey No matter how Aux turns out, I hope people are also aware of Guix, which shares a past, has largely overlapping goals, and has explicit governance and a contributor covenant.
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     popey (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 16:13:32 JST popey

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     • clacke
     • Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen
     • buonhobo

     @clacke @AngryAnt @buonhobo If people aren't aware of Guix by now, that seems like a Guix problem :)

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 16:13:33 JST clacke

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     • Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen
     • buonhobo

     @popey Fair! 😅

     Honestly, I know core people are very much aware of Guix and collaborate on things, but I don't know how the average Nixer fairs, I'm out of touch for years.

     My main point is that GNU has had leadership issues and therefore Guix has actively disentangled itself from that years ago and got things right. I haven't looked at how Aux governance looks.

     @AngryAnt @buonhobo