Khrys3d ago

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

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

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.

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.

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Show threadFazal Majid3d ago
@Khrys what do you mean, tried? He succeeded, with the complicity of even bigger idiot Poettering.
Show threadTwo? foxes in a trench coat

@fazalmajid @Khrys You mean the very same Poettering which was responsible for this commit https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/bb19b6104978b5ede792fa3f0cfc74272f20bf9c which was "Found with Claude Code Review" and it broke systemd-boot in one of the release candidates (260 RC3) https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/41098

"Anything LLM-generated will not be committed without a thorough human review" in practice. Yeah.

measure: figure success of measurement correctly · systemd/systemd@bb19b61

Found by Claude Code Review.

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Show threadFazal Majid2d ago
@foxes @Khrys Well, yes. We've known since the days of PulseAudio he is a moron with abysmal judgment and worse code quality, to the point he is regularly called out by Linus Torvalds for it.