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Daniel Pocock
Personal blog · danielpocock.comprogrammingsystems
Daniel Pocock's personal blog at danielpocock.com covers programming and systems. Since 2013, 38 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Android betrays tethering data”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Daniel Pocock's blog for posts on carriers detecting Android tethering, Debian and FSFE governance disputes, and ENUM. Most comments cite it as a source without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software engineer, Free, Open Source Software Consultant, Innovator, Fedora & Debian Developer
Most-linked posts?
- Android betrays tethering data4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-04-29
- Where do all the censored developers go?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-20
- /harassment-decision-victory-for-volunteers-and-fedora-foundations/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-17
- Debian falsified harassment claims in Appelbaum expulsion2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-26
What Hacker News says?
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?
Comment linking /android-betrays-tethering-data/
on “How can phone companies detect tethering?”Submitted Android betrays tethering data as a story · 131 points
HN discussionWill he accept it? I wouldn't. https://danielpocock.com/en/matthias-fsfe-analogous-identity...
Comment linking /en/matthias-fsfe-analogous-identity-fraud/
on “VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025”Submitted Where do all the censored developers go? as a story · 83 points
HN discussionDirect link: http://danielpocock.com/android-betrays-tethering-data
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on “Android betrays tethering data”Submitted Spyware Dolls and Intel's VPro as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI 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
Comment linking /quick-start-blender-video-editing
on “Writing a Screencast Video Editor in Haskell”Submitted SMS logins: an illusion of security as a story · 64 points
HN discussionPocock explains it here: https://danielpocock.com/harassment-decision-victory-for-vol... almost like the shit show at the FSFE and Debian recently.
Comment linking /harassment-decision-victory-for-volunteers-and-fedora-foundations/
on “Decision: Red Hat, Inc. vs. Daniel Pocock / Software Freedom Institute SA”Submitted Where do all the censored developers go? as a story · 22 points
HN discussionRespondent's public reaction on the decision[0]. 0. https://danielpocock.com/harassment-decision-victory-for-vol...
Comment linking /harassment-decision-victory-for-volunteers-and-fedora-foundations/
on “Decision: Red Hat, Inc. vs. Daniel Pocock / Software Freedom Institute SA”Submitted Debian falsified harassment claims in Appelbaum expulsion as a story · 12 points
HN discussionIt is not: https://danielpocock.com/what-does-democracy-mean-in-free-so... 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 makin…
Comment linking /what-does-democracy-mean-in-free-software-communities
on “Leaderless Debian”Submitted Codes of Conduct may have no statistically significant impact as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThere are certainly some who think so: < https://danielpocock.com/blog/ >
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on “The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter”Submitted Calendar and Contact data with free software in the Smartphone era as a story · 6 points
HN discussionpotentially, 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
Comment linking /android-betrays-tethering-data
on “The Cheap Phones Quietly Winning the U.S”Submitted Leaked email: Debian knew Appelbaum first-hand accounts exaggerated, falsified as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI 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/
Comment linking /codes-of-conduct-and-hypocrisy/
on “Where do all the censored developers go?”Submitted Avoiding SMS vendor lock-in with SMPP as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNowadays I guess it's ENUM: https://danielpocock.com/a-quick-look-at-enum/
Comment linking /a-quick-look-at-enum/
on “Japan plans to create 10B 14-digit phone numbers with 5G era approaching”Submitted Best real-time communication softphone on the Linux desktop? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNo, 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 messag…
Comment linking /where-do-censored-developers-go/
on “Justice for Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman”Submitted Using a fully free OS for devices in the home as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI 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/
Comment linking /power9-aarch64-64k-page-sizes/
on “Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux”Submitted A mission statement for free real-time communications as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAndroid's built in tethering absolutely does explicitly tell T-Mobile you're using it. http://danielpocock.com/android-betrays-tethering-data
Comment linking /android-betrays-tethering-data
on “T-Mobile CEO to users hiding their hotspot tethering activities: “It's over.””Submitted Going 4K as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNeat? I would use other words. Fraudsters rely on marketing. https://danielpocock.com/en/matthias-fsfe-analogous-identity...
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on “I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers”Submitted Unpaid work training Google's spam filters as a story · 3 points
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