Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

"The lasting damage was knowing it could happen at all: that a single contributor with no stated organizational backing could submit compliance infrastructure for surveillance law directly into the software that boots your computer, get it merged by two Microsoft employees, and have the creator of systemd personally block the removal."

Sheesh.

https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/

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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

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.

Sam Bent
Mar 21 at 4:35amWeb
Show threadTokyo Outsider (337ppm)Mar 21
The blog post is good but seems to accept Taylor's effort as well intended. I take the point—that something people think is well intended can serve the interests of those who are not—but to me this whole situation seems anything but.
Show threadPossum PeteMar 23

@tokyo_0
Thanks for posting this.

The quiz at the end of the blog post was actually useful !

Artix / devuan / Guix and others remain on the side of light.

(and of course lenny works for the biege side :)