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Cake day: April 13th, 2026

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  • It’s possible in theory, hard in practice. You can, for example, look if they have any repo with their fork (if they forked) or mirror (if just mirrored for one reason or another). Well, that’s the easy part. But even if so, you could think that you can’t know if the code in the repo is the same as the running one. But that’s not always true, as for example if the code has reproducibility guarantees; just like in F-Droid, or in Nix, or in Guix. There are projects that make it more localized, at the application level, publishing everything from the compilation recipes along with their scripts and DBOM, to their default configurations. If they claim that the program they are running follows just those structures but you cannot reproduce it when compiling or self-hosting, you may become suspicious. Of course, divergence adds another problem here, and the method is not perfect either since it depends on there being a certain initial assertion to test against your evidence, but it is much better than nothing. And I don’t know in any case why you would join an instance that claims to be reproducible but does not give access to its code or one that gives access to non-reproducible code.




  • Yes, and it’s not like I was saying anything false, Xi Jing Ping is known for being very egomaniacal and having a brutal image cult around him, and the reason he banned it (Winnie the Pooh) was because he was constantly compared to poor Pooh (who did nothing to deserve such a comparison) and he saw it as a direct affront to his authority. 1984 literally. Just like my country, which is an ideological and political ally of yours (or was, I don’t know now that Delcys and Trump started playing at being little friends).

    On top of that, it’s not like I’m saying “the Chinese should die”, and in fact on the contrary, I feel genuinely outraged by how they live, because it reminds me a lot of how we live in my country. But for them it is seen that anything that does not support their fantasy of a Chinese utopia is too dangerous.

    A real shame.