Avoiding systemd is getting harder and harder though.
That’s exactly why it should be avoided. The vision of the FOSS operating system was that parts were interchangeable, and you aren’t locked into any one thing.
People raised the alarm bells on systemd years ago and unfortunately it seems they were correct all along.
Eh. I’m not really on the systemd hate train that a lot of people are. I think having a unified interface is good actually. Plus it’s modular enough that you can absolutely add/remove components in your distro.
I also really don’t think that this is a sign that they were correct, the whole point of my comment was to point out how ridiculously small this change is and it has no visible path towards becoming anything more.
systemd’s whole thing is being the glue, so it makes sense for them to expand their API when changes are being proposed. Doing that ahead of time saves them headache later since people will splinter into other workarounds.
If the “age verification” stuff ends up centralizing on a systemd module, that’s good actually since it means you’re less likely to see people implementing it themselves in ways that are harder to see or disable.
If all of that flows through systemd, you can just turn it off on the API layer and anyone who uses it (which at this point, will probably be a lot of people since they’re ahead of the game) hands off that control to a thing you as a sysadmin have easy control over.
'm not really on the systemd hate train that a lot of people are.
Systemd went out of it’s way to preemptively grovel in front of the US Empire before it was even asked to - that’s reason enough to hate it.
it has no visible path towards becoming anything more
The path is visible to anyway paying attention. I fear this is like climate change, all the warning signs are there, but Westerners find it way more comfortable to ignore the problem and bury themselves in treats and online media and kick the can down the road until it grows exponentially worse.
Maybe? Time will tell, but I don’t see anything like this being mainstreamed without forks and pushback. This isn’t Microsoft doing something behind closed doors.
Avoiding systemd is getting harder and harder though. Some sort of script or plugin would probably be best.
That’s exactly why it should be avoided. The vision of the FOSS operating system was that parts were interchangeable, and you aren’t locked into any one thing.
People raised the alarm bells on systemd years ago and unfortunately it seems they were correct all along.
Eh. I’m not really on the systemd hate train that a lot of people are. I think having a unified interface is good actually. Plus it’s modular enough that you can absolutely add/remove components in your distro.
I also really don’t think that this is a sign that they were correct, the whole point of my comment was to point out how ridiculously small this change is and it has no visible path towards becoming anything more.
systemd’s whole thing is being the glue, so it makes sense for them to expand their API when changes are being proposed. Doing that ahead of time saves them headache later since people will splinter into other workarounds.
If the “age verification” stuff ends up centralizing on a systemd module, that’s good actually since it means you’re less likely to see people implementing it themselves in ways that are harder to see or disable.
If all of that flows through systemd, you can just turn it off on the API layer and anyone who uses it (which at this point, will probably be a lot of people since they’re ahead of the game) hands off that control to a thing you as a sysadmin have easy control over.
Systemd went out of it’s way to preemptively grovel in front of the US Empire before it was even asked to - that’s reason enough to hate it.
The path is visible to anyway paying attention. I fear this is like climate change, all the warning signs are there, but Westerners find it way more comfortable to ignore the problem and bury themselves in treats and online media and kick the can down the road until it grows exponentially worse.
Maybe? Time will tell, but I don’t see anything like this being mainstreamed without forks and pushback. This isn’t Microsoft doing something behind closed doors.