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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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    1. It came from a corporation so was designed by 1 guy not a committee and some people will never forgive it for that.
    2. The systemd suite is far more than an init system and keeps getting bigger, I genuinely think it’s just a matter of time until it has a mail retrieval service built into it.
    3. It offers clear benefits so even distros resisitent to depending on a tool when there are alternatives have adopted it
    4. It doesn’t pander to slacktivist on stuff like including an optional DoB field

    That’s about it, I find it kind of annoying sometimes as it messes with stuff I knew how to do (harden per-user-tmp partitions), but overall the benefits to distro maintenance must be worth it so I don’t worry about it too much.

    Much like the DoB stuff I find the pushback to it far more annoying than the actual inconvenience of sometimes not being able to configure a tweak how I’d like.





  • Copyright law only has teeth when it’s owned by corporations, but the cleanroom reimplementing technique does still seem to create a derivative product which in this layman’s opinion would still violate licenses like the GPL, but IANAL.

    In particular any open source software where it’s authors are making a living from donations or public support.

    The “good” news is this is pretty rare these days.

    Honestly the best defense is probably just writing maintainable software though, AI slop is going to be hard to maintain.