RIP Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar)

[Posted November 11, 2024 by jake]

Longtime Debian and Tor developer, Jérémy Bobbio—perhaps better known as "Lunar"—died on November 8. Lunar was one of the founders of the reproducible builds movement and more recently had been working with Software Heritage. More information and tributes in French can be found at this site. They will be missed.

LinuxFR

Posted Nov 11, 2024 14:52 UTC (Mon) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

LinuxFR has some more links:

https://linuxfr.org/news/deces-de-lunar-un-hacktiviste-pe...

Condolences

Posted Nov 11, 2024 16:56 UTC (Mon) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link]

The Tor Project has been a light in an otherwise dark world of censorship and suppression of speech, digital communication and the press. I'm happy to say that I've had a non-exiting Tor Relay running for over 16 years now. I didn't know him, but my condolences to Jérémy Bobbio and his family, and to the Tor community for their loss.

RIP Lunar

Posted Nov 11, 2024 19:36 UTC (Mon) by neverpanic (subscriber, #99747) [Link]

Met them at the Reproducible Builds summits in Athens and Berlin a few years ago.
Very sad news indeed. Rest in peace, Lunar.

RIP Lunar

Posted Nov 12, 2024 12:52 UTC (Tue) by dkg (subscriber, #55359) [Link]

Lunar was an incredible person, and i miss them deeply, despite getting to see them only every now and then. Creative, thoughtful, smart, and kind but not indiscriminately so. Prickly when prickliness was called for, but also willing to extend a hand or grace as needed. I'll miss their sharp wit, incisive observations, and provocations to be a better person.

The people who work on free software and adjacent projects form a better community for having had Lunar among us. I continue to try to live up to the standards Lunar set.

RIP Lunar

Posted Nov 12, 2024 17:59 UTC (Tue) by atnot (guest, #124910) [Link] (1 responses)

A great loss. I'm very sorry to hear this.

I don't quite know how to tactfully bring this up, but I was somewhat surprised to read their government name here, given they seemed to avoid it in recent years. I do not personally know Lunar's wishes, but I think given that the name seems to be very consciously omitted from the obituaries written by their friends, it would be generally be respectful to follow their example.

RIP Lunar

Posted Nov 13, 2024 2:43 UTC (Wed) by cypherpunks2 (guest, #152408) [Link]

Since this is a news site and not an obituary written by a friend, I think it makes more sense to use their name.

Canonical location for tributes

Posted Nov 14, 2024 7:17 UTC (Thu) by intrigeri (subscriber, #82634) [Link]

Tributes in any language are welcome on https://lunar.anargeek.net/temoignages/. This is where Lunar's family and close friends will see them. Thanks you all for the kind words!

Reproducible Builds

Posted Nov 14, 2024 16:35 UTC (Thu) by lamby (subscriber, #42621) [Link]

https://reproducible-builds.org/news/2024/11/14/reproducible-builds-mourns-the-passing-of-lunar/

zack

Posted Nov 15, 2024 0:09 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2024/11/In_memory_of_L...

SWH

Posted Nov 16, 2024 10:17 UTC (Sat) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

https://www.softwareheritage.org/2024/11/15/remembering-l...

Debian

Posted Nov 20, 2024 1:26 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20241119
https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2024/msg00009.html