Mastodawn

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

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

@leyrer i think way too many things are in systemd that should be seperate daemons.

Its the reason why i dislike systemd. Oh also Lennart.

But yeah, not really a lot of choice we have.

@leyrer I mean i am old enough to remember the drama with encrypted wifi.

So i get that part. Systemd has improved that.

I also understand the mounting part of devices that might be unplugged.

ok. Maybe also that has been approved a bit by systemd.

Most that came after that i don't like to be in systemd.

Axel 🚴😷🐧🐪⌨ | #WeAreNatenom 19h ago

@mcfly @leyrer: IMHO we have a lot of choice: There are at least half a dozen other init systems out there and in at least some Linux distributions, you can choose your init system. Plus dozens of container init systems. There also several systemd-free Linux distros. And there are BSD systems.

Neil E. Hodges 19h ago

@mcfly @leyrer Thank goodness for System V init, BSD init, OpenRC, dinit, runit, and so on. :3

@leyrer the last I saw Lennart was onboard in the comments unless it's a different PR

@leyrer oh yes sorry, I misread the op, you did state that Lennart is 100% onboard

Juli Jane 20h ago

@leyrer Poettering, the Thomas Midgley of computer software, strikes again. Not as the primary offender this time, but still as a tool in various meanings of the word.

@leyrer I have ran Gentoo for years, I can start doing that again. How many others can't?

I'm so fucking sick and tired of this bullshit.

Dickenhobelix 13h ago

@Laird_Dave @leyrer at some point in time they will ship some kind of secure/measured boot on all machines, which will only boot into state sanctioned signed images that provide these features. Fuck those fuckers.

@dickenhobelix @leyrer and the so-called "normal" people will gladly clap their hands, not even understanding what they're doing to all of humanity.

Maybe I should stop doing disaster response and let nature sort it out.

Dickenhobelix 12h ago

@Laird_Dave well, it's probably useful to stay in Desaster Recovery and keep your stone cutting and woodworking skills up to date, cause getting rid of this IT shit altogether seems more and more appropriate...

@dickenhobelix @leyrer when Butlerian Jihad?

Dickenhobelix 11h ago

@Laird_Dave @leyrer Fachzug Luddismus vollständig angetreten 🫡

@dickenhobelix @leyrer Unser Fachzug wird auch nach dem Butlerschen Jihad noch vollständig arbeitsfähig sein. Zur Not kann ich den FüLa per Pferdegespann zur Einsatzstelle bringen lassen.

@dickenhobelix @leyrer Stelle mir gerade vor, wie wir dem Wurm nen GKW auf den Rücken schnallen. KF dann mit neuer StAN-Ausstattung "Maker Hook"

Dickenhobelix 11h ago

@Laird_Dave im Einheitenerfassungsbogen: Ausstattung nach StAN: nein, Zusatzausstattung: Brieftauben, Steinwerkzeug für gemeißelte Depeschen 😅

Robert Berger 12h ago

@leyrer
Useful idiot...fits 🤬