Comment by tliltocatl
Comment by tliltocatl 5 days ago
Entities other than me being able to control what runs on the device I physically posses is absolutely not acceptable in any way. Screw your clients, screw you shareholders and screw you.
Comment by tliltocatl 5 days ago
Entities other than me being able to control what runs on the device I physically posses is absolutely not acceptable in any way. Screw your clients, screw you shareholders and screw you.
Nah man, yo are FUDing. systemd might have some poor design choices and arrogant maintainers, but at least I can drop it at any time and my bank wouldn't freak out about it. This one… It's a whole another level.
I don't think Mr Pottering was brought by accident, maybe his decade of contribution making sure systemd services can be manipulated by a supervisor (in the case of wsl and ms) is a valuable asset. Systemd don't even need to change much to become the devil itself, it just have to upstream merge changes already consolidated in the past 5 years or so... But logically it's safe because for this to become a problem systemd would have to be adopted by the majority of distributions and its maintainers would have to concede to the pressure of big corps and such...oh, wait
Assuming you're using systemd, you already gave up control over your system. The road to hell was already paved. Now, you would have to go out of your way to retain control.
In the great scheme of things, this period where systemd was intentionally designed and developed and funded to hurt your autonomy but seemed temporarily innocuous will be a rounding error.