I’ve only absorbed bits and pieces of the story, but allegedly there’s an age verification push happening on Linux? What’s the full story here?

  • Great Blue Heron@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Do you believe Microslop funds and maintains systemd because Lennart Poettering works there, or is there more to it than that?

    If it’s just that Poettering works there, you may be interested to know that he left in January this year.

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      Lennart Poettering left Microsoft, not systemd

      And they left for PR reasons, to literally appear not evil and to “build trust”

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        18 hours ago

        I’ve never followed the people or the politics - I just started using systemd when it appeared in whatever disto I was using at the time and liked it. I’m trying to catch up now because I have reservations about using projects that incorporate AI (and I’m learning this may be impossible to avoid) and I most certainly won’t use anything that implements age verification. (The irony of typing this on a device that has age verification via my credit card hurts)

        I accept that Microsoft had significant influence over systemd when Poettering worked there, but I don’t understand how they do now.

        I also understand that Poettering likes Windows, and wants to make Linux more like Windows. That’s not the same as Microsoft controlling systemd.

        Are you saying that Amutable is just a front for Microsoft?

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          16 hours ago

          I don’t know, I barely follow it, I just see pattern and point it out. Systemd is a systemic risk and a ripe target for sabotage/compromise of all distros