From Devuan themselves, as follows:
“Groundbreaking OSINT investigation shows how three decisions by individuals with undisclosed financial interests permanently altered the identity infrastructure of every major GNU/Linux distribution running systemd”
They provide two links:
Anyone here old enough to remember the German (I think) site/blog that used to publish a lot of anti Novell/Suse content because of their ties with Microsoft?
I can’t remember its name, and couldn’t find it with a search.
tis?
That was the end. I vaguely remember a site/blog which was active between the start [1][2] and that end. So it was more circa ~2007.
That period was my first years of full-time GNU/Linux usage, and I only started serious coding years later. In my mind at the time, their content was correct to hate on Microsoft (I always hated it myself, including when they did the bullshit “New Microsoft” rebranding attempt much later). But the site/blog content, I felt, verged into the obsessive and conspiratorial. And I can’t help but wonder how their content aged, and what would my current self think of it.
Wy are these people still on xitter? I simply do not understand it.
thank you. I did not even notice but blocked x.com now so I should not see anyone posting links to it now.
They have zits. They’re not even still teenagers. They just don’t take showers. Ever.
Twitter still more reach any other platform.
To the linux community? Maybe if you want to reach fascists in Linux, but the rest?
Well, it is on-brand: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/650117
(my own post, “It seems Devuan has a Nazi problem”)
Amazing logic:
A fascist that does not work on Devuan, or any of it’s 🌈diverse inits🏳️🌈 gets an offtopic temporary 🧵🔒 for a 🧵 about 🌈DIVERSIFYING Devuan🌈 has a Nazi problem.NoDev, or Sturmabteilung sabotage?
https://fedidb.com/ say ca. 1 million active user. https://the-federation.info/ say ca. 2 million monthly active user.
https://market.us/statistics/social-media/twitter say ca. 611 million monthly active user, let round to 600 million.
https://statcounter.com/ say linux usage ca. 4%. Let assume not all of linux interest or linux community found and say 5%.
I think before musk twitter probably relatively good distribution of user across all group of internet user, so assume twitter was representative user distribution that for statcounter data.
Linux user on twitter without musk would then around 600 * 0.05 = 30 million. With musk let say 70% leave (probably much lower). Still 30 * 0.3 = 9 million. Let say all of twitter now 70% bot. Still 9 * 0.3 = 2.7 million.
Twitter fucking huge. Even just linux twitter probably larger than fediverse. And fediverse not all linux user. And not all reachable on same platform, for example lemmy cannot follow mastodon user. And even if 80% leave and 80% bot would have 600 * 0.05 * 0.2 * 0.2 = 1.2 million. You think fediverse is over 60% linux?
So yes even with horrible damage to linux user count twitter probably more linux user than on entire fediverse.
This is kinda weak IMO. Here’s the “conflict of interest” they point out for Lennart Poettering:
Co-founded Amutable seven months earlier. Amutable’s stated mission is “cryptographically verifiable integrity for Linux workloads.” Every new identity field in systemd strengthens the market case for commercial integrity tooling. Poettering made no disclosure of his commercial interest.
So apparently his eyes turned to Looney Tunes dollar signs when he saw one new identity field? That’s ridicuolous, especially since he can add whatever he wants to systemd, whenever he wants.
Another conflict they point out is that systemd has no community steering committee or voting structure. Everyone knows this, it’s not new, and it’s part of the reason why people dislike systemd. It’s also why the previous conflict doesn’t make sense.
The rest of the article is a dump of random facts and timelines, likely designed to build credibility in the minds of people who are already pissed about the age verification thing, and are looking (uncritically) for anything to make them more pissed. Aka, this is ragebait more than anything substantial.
The only part that I think is actually worth pointing out is that the person who merged the PR is a Microsoft employee, and Microsoft is one of the companies that has lobbied for age verification. Idk if that’s legally actionable, but it sure is useful context I didn’t have before (although I’m sure many people did know that)
Edit: LMAO and I forgot, Devuan is an anti-systemd distro. That’s a conflict of interest they didn’t disclose in this article either
