Looking into systemd complying in advance with fascism ("age verification"), I was curious who is employing Lennart Poettering these days.
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@be this is word for word the EFF line about regulations as monopoly protections. in some cases this can be true but i recall they always mention it regarding stuff that affects facebook, which results in the EFF claiming facebook regs actually help facebook.
@be oh neat facebook involvement https://floss.social/@be/116259428771089394
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@Ember @be think your instincts are spot-on; i recalled a previous instance of propaganda laundering https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/116261919716350723
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@Ember and embarassingly, they're handling this better than real distros 🥴
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WARNING: This operating system contains GAY known to the State of California to trans the kids.
I am starting to seriously consider switching distros to one that does not use systemd based on these recent events... maybe I should try Guix. Looks like it has KDE packaged now, unlike the last time I looked at it.
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I am starting to seriously consider switching distros to one that does not use systemd based on these recent events... maybe I should try Guix. Looks like it has KDE packaged now, unlike the last time I looked at it.
@be What's the systemd connection? I've been watching the age discussion from the sidelines but not closely enough to know how that's related.
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Looking into systemd complying in advance with fascism ("age verification"), I was curious who is employing Lennart Poettering these days. Turns out he and some other systemd developers recently made a startup...
@be he was microsoft for a long time iirc
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I am starting to seriously consider switching distros to one that does not use systemd based on these recent events... maybe I should try Guix. Looks like it has KDE packaged now, unlike the last time I looked at it.
@be not sure kde and gnome are all white in this. I may be uselessly suspicious.
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In case you missed systemd complying in advance with fascism... https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954
@be Ah, one more reason to dislike systemd. Guess Devuan or something then.. Or all the way back to my bsd days..
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@be What's the systemd connection? I've been watching the age discussion from the sidelines but not closely enough to know how that's related.
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@be not sure kde and gnome are all white in this. I may be uselessly suspicious.
@f4grx They're not. The XDG Desktop Portal PR was made by a KDE developer. https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922
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@be he was microsoft for a long time iirc
@f4grx yep I am aware
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