[object Object]Mar 22

the thing you must understand now is that regardless of their stated views, liars like Bryan Lunduke, Lennart Poettering, and Dylan M Taylor have demonstrated by their actions that they all have the same goal: a fascist software ecosystem that operates against our interests and exploits but does not empower our labor. it is the destruction of FOSS as we know it.

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Show thread[object Object]Mar 22

Bryan Lunduke has always treated FOSS like a right-wing political project. he has also always misrepresented his goals as technical ones. the current moment is very convenient for him: he is using the valid need for an alternative to systemd to funnel people into fascist-controlled software ecosystems like Devuan and Artix. under no circumstances will Lunduke ever acknowledge the many init alternatives and distributions run by marginalized leftists. this is the game he has played for years.

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Show thread[object Object]Mar 22
systemd has always been a lever of power; there’s no other reason to create an ecosystem of its shape. the person who grasps that lever is Lennart Poettering, and it always has been. I don’t need to write much on this; I watched the “oh shit” moment last week when systemd started accepting slop code, and again when an age verification mechanism was imposed on every systemd user and distro on Poettering’s final word. this was always the social structure on offer, enforced by a rigid ecosystem.
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when Dylan M Taylor (the author of the age verification code in systemd, Ubuntu, and Arch, and a defender of Google’s dreadful new restrictions for Android apps) and others in his wake compare his age verification implementation with an age gate on an adult site, they know full well that adult content online is a gray area rapidly verging towards illegal as US states and other repressive regimes implement age verification laws.

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Show threadStephen Foskett
@zzt I hear ya pal. Having a similar discussion on systemd this morning right here.
Mar 22 at 3:09amWeb
Show threadJules 🍺Mar 22
@sfoskett @zzt yes, me to, along the lines of small groups of three make changes to Foss projects all the time like its fixing a bug, also if we had to have a committee for all minor changes nothing would get done.
Its so devisive and misleading, suggest we drop d.conf, I've never liked it, to much like the MS registery
#dropDconf