@navi Even ‘Poettering himself denied the push’ is the failure of systemd in a nutshell. Large scale system design should be with an understanding that it’s always going to invoke Conway’s Law. The choices made in systemd result in a single person having veto power. A better result would have been, ‘The community largely rejected inclusion of this plugin’. But that’s not a thing that was ever a consideration, from the start.

@erincandescent The key complaint with systemd is that everyone warned it was in danger of assimilating a weird rewritten version of every daemon, because it was architecturally a monolithic source of truth, and then it blundered its way, very predictably, into exactly that. Even this is another example: it’s a choice to assimilate this too, when there are so many other ways. Like, UUID of user maps to age bracket. Independent service.

@erincandescent If there were in fact 30 interconnected packages, which were fully disentangled, optional, and independent, I think you’d address the central issue everyone has with it. And this age verification nonsense would be an independent thing (or part of one of the above, which could easily be forked) and there would have been zero controversy.

@erincandescent @seachaint The fact that this surfaces whatsoever in systemd, and not some other fully independent subsystem, is damning of the architectural choices in systemd.

@scott I got a couple of concern-trolls in my mentions for my post. As if I was sticking up for a rapist, apparently. The difference is, a) I have never liked cities named after mostly men who are mostly horrific people, and b) once they erase Cesar Chavez they will 100% coincidentally lose interest in following up with all the white names.

You know I can see right through your mask, when you attempt to portray this joke as support for sexual assault.

And yes, I am in favor of renaming the vast majority of streets. Not catching me out, there. Cities are named after a few dozen rich dudes who either owned people and/or committed atrocities.