[NTLUG:Discuss] [Discuss] age verification in systemd

[Everett B. Fulton]

What's this "systemd" garbage I've been hearing about?  I've been a 
Slackware user since before the turn of the century.  Doesn't seem to be 
available even in the alternative package repos.
There are alternatives to avoid such crapware: 
https://www.without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Main_Page/

'systemd-resolvd' is an abomination.  One of the many violations of the 
"do one thing, and do it well" principle.  K.I.S.S. is the way.
Resolvers are hard to get right,  Run a real resolver: 
https://www.isc.org/bind/ - It's been in your distro's repo for far 
longer than 'systemd' and its tires are regularly kicked.
Many of the BIND devs are the ones whose names are on the (many) DNS RFCs.

About the only thing Poettering and his crew of sycophants got right, 
was 'pulseaudio' - It "just works" for most use cases.  For all else 
(e.g.:  JACK), they do provide the 'pasuspender' utility.

-- Some guy who was signed up on this list at a hamfest, and I find it 
generally entertaining.  :)

On 3/24/26 12:06 PM, Cornelius Keck via Discuss wrote:
> Isn't that the Microslime-affiliated dude who came up with that piece 
> of useless unwanted junk to begin with?
>
> Why am I not surprised. Have to dig this up, but IIRC I've seen a FB 
> post where somebody forked that junk to remove that "feature".
>
> This is what one gets if one lets induhvidials with little technical 
> understanding pass laws with dumb excuses.