Comment Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

Hello,

I read your article interviewing Dylan M. Taylor. First, I’d like to clarify that I personally support him and am against all forms of violence, both real and digital. However, as a developer, I’m against him, as he’s clearly not acting in good faith, but is deliberately trying to corrupt the world of free and open source software (FOSS).

Note that the same developer, has made commits to various projects:

  • Systemd accepted github dot com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954. The community made a revert github dot com/systemd/systemd/pull/41179 that was not accepted by another compromised developer Lennart Poettering.

  • Archlinux on hold github dot com/archlinux/archinstall/pull/4290.

  • Ubuntu rejected github dot com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1338 and github dot com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1339

  • Calamares rejected codeberg dot org/Calamares/calamares/pulls/2499.

  • Freedesktop rejected gitlab dot freedesktop dot org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_requests/113

A fork has been created for systemd, although still experimental (github dot com/Jeffrey-Sardina/systemd).

Note: this project lists the distributions that are currently implementing age verification. Much depends on the adoption of systemd, which appears to be compromised.

Note 2: this repository contains data on this and other potentially compromised developers, all of whom were involved in this action (directed by who?).

P.S. Sorry for the links, I have a strict limit as a new user.

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It would seem it is too easy for a rogue programmer to submit problematic code changes and for them to be accidentally accepted, by some unthinking distros.

I hope non-systemd init systems are more strict in what mods they accept. I do not think this could happen in the kernel… it is strongly monitored.

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One clue is a clue, two clues are a coincidence, but three clues make a case…

Cui bono? Who is moving the pieces?

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