Mastodawn

✰ Alice D. ✰May 19

The systemd project has announced that to comply with Canada's proposed Bill C-22, systemd will incorporate a mechanism to automatically install the government's public key into the `authorized_keys` configuration of every sshd server.

"It's not about politics in software, it's about ensuring the safety of our children," said Lennart Poettering's Claude agent. "Complying in advance is something we must do, as it allows us to get ahead of You have reached the monthly limit of your Max 20x plan. Click here to purchase more usage credits."

Woozle Hypertwin May 19

@AmyZenunim Can't find a source for this, but... ye gods, "think of the children" rears its ugly head yet again. 🔥

✰ Alice D. ✰May 19

@woozle full disclosure: this is satire

however, it is true that Poettering has invoked "think of the children" and complied in advance with unjust laws, and is a prolific claude abuser

Woozle Hypertwin

@AmyZenunim Whew! 😅

✰ Alice D. ✰May 19

@woozle don't get comfortable. this may soon come to pass

Woozle Hypertwin May 19

@AmyZenunim Yeah. -.-

Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂May 19

@woozle @AmyZenunim

while we're all here, what distros are systemD-free, I only know of Peppermint OS, and its latest version is still in development.

@Sassinake @woozle @AmyZenunim Guix and Alpine are the only 2 I've used. Alpine is great for lightweight servers, Guix is unlike anything else (except Nix). I'm strongly considering switching back to Guix

Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂May 19

@tarix29 @woozle @AmyZenunim

I found there's a full distro called Devuan.
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=devuan

Might give it a shot, once I figure out Boxes properly

DistroWatch.com: Devuan GNU+Linux

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

@Sassinake @woozle @AmyZenunim just a warning, Devuan has been praised by Brian Lunduke for being "anti-woke." I can't seem to find any political statements from Devuan maintainers but it's a huge red flag for me. You might be interested in AntiX, which is also Debian-based but explicitly anti-fascist

Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂May 19

@tarix29 @woozle @AmyZenunim

Yikes! Thanks for the warning!

Woozle Hypertwin May 19

@Sassinake @tarix29 @AmyZenunim

AntifaOS when.

Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂May 19

@woozle @tarix29 @AmyZenunim

One thing about the current cyberwars is that those Techbros could get Trump to 'endorse' any tech they don't like and poison the well that way.

Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂May 19

@woozle @tarix29 @AmyZenunim

or 'fund' some good tech that desperately needs it (like, was it GIMP?), and have half the community instantly hate it.

Woozle Hypertwin May 19

Indeed. Of course, there are often legit reasons for that hate, e.g. leadership or roadmap changes implemented at the behest of the donor.

@tarix29 @AmyZenunim

@Sassinake @woozle @tarix29 @AmyZenunim It waw Blender, but they've since "un-accepted" the sponsorship after the community backlash.

Hurgotron ✔May 20

@tarix29 @Sassinake @woozle @AmyZenunim I'm hanging out in Devuan channels, and mentioning Lunduke there gets you a warning, and a ban eventually. Unfortunately you can't do much against Lunduke talking nonsense in the first place. - About Devuan, it's a Debian shim, Debian minus systemd, with 99.x% of the packages identical to Debian. So not a big jump if you are familiar with Debian.

Philippe May 19

@tarix29 @Sassinake @woozle @AmyZenunim
I use Alpine on my laptop as main distro with plasma desktop, it's not only for servers.

@Sassinake @woozle @AmyZenunim https://nosystemd.org/#alternatives

No systemd - Resources against systemd and alternatives

A collection of resources pointing out reasons against systemd and what alternatives are available. Find Linux distributions without systemd.

zyxhere💭May 20

@bryanredeagle @Sassinake @woozle @AmyZenunim they really have OpenWRT there too, brb going to install it on my laptop now!

@Sassinake @woozle @AmyZenunim
Slackware

The_Decryptor May 20

@Sassinake @woozle @AmyZenunim Gentoo uses OpenRC