[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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Show threadMorten Linderud
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Everything written in this is either extremely misleading or just factually wrong.
Mar 26 at 4:36pmWeb
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@Foxboron k bro

like, what is anyone supposed to do with this? “oh some FOSS asshole said it was misleading and wrong and didn’t give any other details, never seen that one before” come the fuck off it. I gave enough of a shit to write my points in full and you think this hacker news false authority crap is gonna fly with anybody?