Post #855615

2026-03-30 22:06 UTC

Dylan "I read the law and I'm here to implement it" M. Tylor gets up in the morning and decides to write age verification code that he himself calls "hilariously pointless and ineffective", within a week strikes 4 repos of his list, and i bet the Linux Kernel is going to be next (I'm joking... mostly) It's worth noting that the first people who approved the PR on systemd repo are big tech employees - Mircoslop and Redhat/IBM (why I'm i not surprised!!), someone then opened a revert PR, Lennart Poettering (systemd creator) closed it.. thus blocking the removal And this is why you now have Liberated Systemd, a fork of systemd without Age verification.. which IS 'hilariously pointless and ineffective' at saving children when engineers starts reading the law like a specification, this is what you get.. useful idiots. #ageverification #authoritarianism #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren #epstein #surveillance #bigtech #government #privacy #anonymity #humanrights #FreeSoftware #freespeech #ubuntu #linux #fedora #arch #archlinux #agelesslinux #artix #whonix #tails #systemd #opensource #openknowledge #openaccess #cyberlaw #infosec

Replies (8)

@DoomHammerNG@mastodon.social 2026-03-30 22:09

@levi its unbelievable

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@acut3@infosec.exchange 2026-03-30 22:31

@levi 1) No "age verification" has been added to systemd 2) Liberated systemd exists for the sole purpose of making a statement. It isn't being maintained and is already 75 commits being systemd.

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@devil@mastodon.uno 2026-03-30 22:32

@levi oh my god I can't stand his face anymore. He's ruining everything and he's the useful ***** of big tech.

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@felipeB@hachyderm.io 2026-03-30 23:28

@levi yeah but age verification on linux is not happening any time soon

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@2rad0@defcon.social 2026-03-31 07:20

@levi "liberated systemd" is the biggest oxymoron I've seen from 2026 so far. We tried for years and years to warn big distro dwellers of the trap. Then we were laughed at for warning about IBM takeover of redhat (same company that fronted money to hitler for the tabulation machines used in genocide). It wasn't enough that microslop effectively owns the project now, they still refuse to admit to being caught in a trap and are beyond saving at this point.

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@keithduthie@mastodon.nz 2026-03-31 21:36

@levi Age attestation would be a nice to have, as long as it was under the control of the user. I for one would really like to be able to tell random websites that I'm a minor. All these companies wanting to push liability onto others should have this used against them instead.

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@adamsaidsomething@mastodon.social 2026-03-31 22:43

More alt text The 4 doors with the logos from freedesktop.org, systemd, ubuntu, and arch linux are open with blood which oozes from them into the hallway while the grim reaper labeled "useful idiot" with the likeness of Dylan M. Taylor knocks on the 5th door with a penguin on it called "Linux kernel"

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@zaire@fedi.absturztau.be 2026-04-01 15:12

@levi tell me more about that liberated systemd

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