Vertex 🔞systemd is genuinely really cool, i don’t understand all the hate it supposedly gets from so called “purists”. the unified kernel image and pcrlock stuff that got added recently is awesome, alongside systemd-boot
korin 🔜 kodi@livingshredder i didn't really mind until they instantly buckled to age verification legislation and pivoted towards AI use
@livingshredder ok so apparently age verification is optional but still sucks they complied anyway, but there's this:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/AGENTS.md
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/41085
Fox@livingshredder @korin Yes. The biggest, most valid argument against systemd was that it was becoming too big and too centralized a point of control. The other stuff was mostly taste differences.
Their response to this situation demonstrates how prescient the centralization concern was. They immediately rolled over and made it easy for governments to require this now that it's in the user profiles on every major distro.
They can say 'it's optional' all they want, but they didn't even do the minimum required to resist here.