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...
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@be I guess you saw the Claude thing
Startups are bad, mmkay. Kids, don't do startups.
In case you missed systemd complying in advance with fascism... https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954
Hackers in the 1990s:
We will write code so powerful that no government will be able to stop it! They can't outlaw code if it's printed in a book!
Hackers in 2026:
Some fascists in some parts of the world are making moves towards maybe threatening us, though nobody knows how their laws are supposed to work, anyway let's bend over backwards to comply in advance and lock threads so we don't have to be held accountable for our cowardice.
Kudos to System76 for seemingly being the only responsible ones trying to change the laws instead of complying in advance.
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2026-March/014797.html
