the vessel of morganna1d ago
🩷💜 PYNK 💜🩷
fucking Poettering, the gigamoron.
the "we're just building the mechanism, we're not enforcing the harmful policy!!" defense is incredibly hilarious coming from a German engineer.
he really has zero self-reflective capabilities huh? ​​
Mar 24 at 8:49pmWeb
Show threadHannah (With a snake problem 🐍)Mar 24
@pynk He lost a lot of respect after this stunt and his subsequent "explanations" or "defenses" or whatever one wants to call it...

It sucks that so much turns to shit lately... and that so many entities seemingly don't care all that much... ​​
Show thread🩷💜 PYNK 💜🩷Mar 24
@hannah
i call it the "IBM defense" ​​

Lennart "I'm just creating the punch cards" Poettering
Show threadHannah (With a snake problem 🐍)Mar 24
@pynk
Surely that will hold up in a court of law! /s

Or: The case for some mandatory ethics courses for programmers.
Show threadJona Joachim1d ago
@hannah @pynk I don't remember that he ever had any respect, I always read his name in a negative context. I just don't understand why everybody picked up his "tools" leading to enshittification of Linux
Show thread🩷💜 PYNK 💜🩷20h ago
@jaj @hannah
it all started with systemd units, which were marginal improvements over the existing system from user pov (kinda (not really))
and then it attacked the grub nation ​​
Show threadJona Joachim16h ago
@pynk @hannah Yes, I remember those days. Everybody knew it was bad and we went for it anyway. I haven't read a single line of praise for systemd ever
Show threadHannah (With a snake problem 🐍)12h ago
@jaj @pynk
To be quite honest: Heard quite a lot of things over the years. Most of them tended to be neutral... that's why it went the "losing respect" route.
Didn't pay that much attention to all of this to be quite honest... Most complaints always went the "drama route." And back then systemd looked quite neat and got much (undeserved, in its humble opinion) hate for "overreaching" as an init system.
Whole digital crusades were done because people really did not like systemd.

With the maintainers having shown that they only have disregard for concerns... both the age field AND using AI...
let's say many are rightfully disappointed and somewhat fear for the quality/safety of the software they are using.

Did this one respect Lennard in any way? Honestly: Did not even know he maintained systemd until like a year ago.
But the thought that he worked at Microsoft never sat right with this one.

Oh well: Actively looking at other init systems anyways... This just accelerates it.
Show threadLaurent Bercot1d ago
@pynk additionally to the short-sightedness, we all know that systemd has a long and successful history of implementing mechanism and not policy, right? 🤡
Show thread🩷💜 PYNK 💜🩷20h ago
@ska
slow and grinding mechanism creep towards total takeover ​​