decolo

Conveniently, they track metadata that can easily be associated with people, like license plates, Bluetooth IDs, oh and also they do track people

Wow, he looks happy with how his life is going!

Spaceballs called it

child soldiers it is!

Mitch is looking great lately

Fuck That

break the tools of the oppressors

I am a certified AI and big tech hater but I can’t get too mad at Linus’ statement. It’s pragmatic and maintains human accountability for the code.

https://fedsoc.org/bio/merrick-garland

We hate you please die

Well Merrick is a conservative - he’s a member of the Federalist society. He is certainly not an outright shithead like Alito, but don’t mistake fascist sympathies for cowardice.

Granted he may also be a coward separately.

Myaaah!!

I don’t think it’s a good idea to ascribe any benevolence to Systemd, though.

• they are intentionally suppressing alternatives: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2010-September/000391.html

• They have used their size to force others to work around their idiosyncrasies, causing outages and reducing security of a majority of Linux systems around the world.

I have used systemd extensively for work in huge multi tenant environments, and I am in no way saying it just sucks and has no benefits.

I am saying that accepting it as-is will lead to Linux becoming a locked down, big tech owned slopfest.

If it wasn’t useful for them it wouldn’t make sense to invest money in it. I am not trying to make the argument that this is some kind of single minded hatred playing out.

With that said, how is Linux improved by having a single " init system " effectively steered by the worst of big tech? Systemd is becoming harder to get away from and reducing interest in alternatives.

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Do you think Microsoft ever tried to use a tactic of embracing a competing technology, extending their influence over it, and then using their leverage to extinguish the threat?

If yes, do you think they have stopped doing that currently?

Do you think Google and Microsoft are currently aligned with the technocratic destruction of EU and US legal status quo?

No, you’re misunderstanding me. They aren’t trying to kill Linux.

Rather, they are trying to add a walled garden to it that they can use to drive out hobbyists and privacy enthusiasts.

I am skeptical

since I have only heard of him bottoming

Is he actually gonna do it though?

I don’t see any obvious tells, but why do you ask?

Because Microsoft has back channel influence on systemd development¹

It’s fine now, but the future trajectory is locked into the path Android has followed - extending dominance over all widely used distributions, then gradually using that dominance to choke and extinguish any alternatives.

Additionally, I saw a site around 3 months ago that VIGOROUSLY documented the financial ties from amutable to Microsoft and Google. I have been looking for a good 20 minutes but can’t find it. If this rings a bell for anyone that can remember more details please comment!

1. Lennart Poettering was a Microsoft employee until recently

https://itsfoss.com/news/amutable-linux-security/