My phrase of the day: “Unpaid compliance simp”.
https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/
Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert. Unpaid compliance simp.
Do we have a GUI for systemd-cryptenroll allowing people to change enrolled passphrases to unlock their LUKS partition ?
Better yet something which is capable of enrolling the tpm2 module and a fido2 key.
#linux #systemd #systemd-cryptenroll #python #gtk #yubikey #fido2 #tpm2 #security #debian #gui #desktop
#Systemd has many cool and useful features. But it has on massive problem that irritates me to my core.
It does too much. When it works, it's great, but if something bad happens it taints too much of your system. While the age verification saga is optional right now, and seems harmless, it will grow like a cancerous tumour, and eventually, we end up in a situation that we have to decide whether to remove a massive part of our OS or just accept that privacy is a joke these days.
It saddenss me that people jump to implement infrastructure to support age verification in central parts of the Linux system.
It is just a field, they say.
Yes, but the field and the timing clearly points to a political agenda. The developers pushing these changed are either supporting this agenda or cowards.
Not sure what is worse.
But no matter you stand-point, be aware: This is political!
How often does Ubuntu and Debian compress packages with XZ Utils? #server #ssh #systemd #bugreporting
how did systemd load liblzma? #packagemanagement #systemd #bugreporting #sharedlibrary
Year 2026. I'm looking at a digital GULAG PR (systemd birthDate) via AI slop UI (GitHub which breaks its layout daily)
@jwz excellent read. I especially love this part:
"a unit for Florida will ban all packages with “trans” in the name”
for the longest time we as a community have been largely turning a blind eye to the icky bits of systemd; the centralized interdependent kitchen sink design that makes it a convenient yet very hard to drop dependency, the way developers have been telling each other to “just use systemd” instead of establishing implementation-agnostic standards for wanted features, etc
now that theyve come out as fashware, by embracing slop generators and voluntarily laying the groundwork for age verification (while ignoring all objections to it as “spam”, lol) i think it is a good time to stop overlooking those things; in retrospect, its design does feel like an intentionally engineered way for fashbros to have a chokehold on the ecosystem (being a microslop backdoor into it, as someone put it earlier)
there are now all the reasons for “fuck systemd” to be promoted to being the reasonable mainstream position
so by all means boycott slopstemd if youre able to. it is a shitstain on the linux desktop
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