Mastodawn

Amazing how fast Linux went from being the first and last name in digital counterculture to now being full of compliance bros seeking online clout.

This guy and his one-man mission to implement bad faith age verification at all costs is a warning for the open computing community.

"Nobody paid him to do this. He's a cloud engineer who read the law and decided someone needed to implement it."

This assertion might be belied by Dylan's connection to Khosla Ventures, and the oddly supporting behavior of Poettering.

Nobody knows incremental takeover like Poettering, and age verification in SystemD could work hand-in-hand with Poettering's new startup, Amutable.

Is it profit-driven corruption of the open source kernel by bad-faith pull requests? Smells like it.