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Good on the team for not aiding the genocidal American MIC.

Good thing Linux distros can be forked, so devs who might have a target on their backs can theoretically fork NixOS and run away with that.

I'm not familiar with NixOS

However, short reminder that the internet was largely funded by the US military. It's not uncommon that the US military brings significant developments for the internet. This is nothing new. The latest outcry is solely because the US is sliding into fascism, not because of the involvement with the US military.

Can we avoid calling taking action against valid moral objections "drama"? It only serves to make the people doing the right thing sound like they're being immature, even when they're obviously right.

Objecting to a fascist government's influence over very powerful build infrastructure used around the world is the right thing to do.

I've been saying this for years: Just switch to Guix.

• An official GNU project;
• Herd instead of systemd;
• Uses Linux Libre and only 100% free software;
• Big, friendly, helpful community;
• Regular meetups, unconferences and other events;
• Config is done in an established language (Scheme) instead of an idiosyncratic DSL.

The most ridiculous thing in the conversations I read was someone arguing that the fact that Anduril has a member at SC (Steering Committee) weakens their position. The mental gymnastic is so insane to me because it completely naively expect people who have a conflict of interest to do the right thing. What if they don't ?

There is real smart fascists out there. they won't kindly "recuse themselves" and weaken Anduril positions. Very suspicious that someone would argue that Anduril gets weaker at SC by having people there.

Steering Committee works for Military Company

It's only one SC member, and they switched jobs after being elected last year. I think the Nix community is generally very much against US MIC, and unlikely to actually elect someone working for them. Although it was well-known that tomberek (and johnringer) are US-military-aligned.

After reading a bit more into the modteam situation, I have to say I'm on the mod team's side here.

First things first: a simple search for "anduril nixos" shows that NixOS and Anduril Industries (defense technology) have been entangled for years.
So, pretty sure there's plenty history & dissent here, but I never dived into it.

In detail this looks like just another community drama, but when you zoom out a different picture emerges: commercial interest, a will to silence dissent (and I will give them the benefit of the doubt that it isn't for ideological reasons but simple worry about money). The Enshittification of a distro. With a military/fascist twist.

Here's an interesting detail:

Unfortunately, the Constitution does not provide a meaningful recourse to SC overreach

So they have a flawed "constitution" which - judging by its name - should supersede the steering committee. It's not like it's really a constitution though, with all that would entail. It sounds more like, hm, "communitywashing" to me. Still, I wonder if they're willing to take that colorful terminology one step further and make an amendment to said constitution.

So yeah, political bias and unilateral decisions.

I've always been leery of NixOS, and I mean since they started pushing it over a decade ago, always claiming it's revolutionary better than $STANDARD_LINUX_DISTRO.

From the last incident, there was Aux that wanted to create an alternative for the Nix ecosystem, but it died before it even started. Right now what we do have is Lix (what I'm currently using) and Tvix as an alternative for the Nix program, and Guix as an alternative ecosystem that's nowhere near as complete.

Again???
Didn't this exact situation, for this same exact reason happen last year already?