@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-03-13 07:28:42
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-03-13 07:28:42
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-03-08 21:42:02
from my link log —
Understanding systemd-resolved, split DNS, and VPN configuration.
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2020/12/17/understanding-systemd-resolved-split-dns-and-vpn-configuration/
saved 2020-1…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-03-14 08:48:42
How much do you think someone would have to pay redhat and canonical to introduce a no-slop policy including all upstream projects (llvm, systemd, kernel, etc)?
Like if you offered them $100M to permanently ban all of their devs from using LLMs, not merge any LLM generated upstream commits, etc. would they do it? $200M?
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-04-12 13:59:28
My WireGuard -> systemd script has grown quite a bit since I first wrote it. It now auto-converts all files in the input directory, writes files to the output directory, and sets appropriate permissions (all configurable). It also now has an optional argument to define a certain interface as 'default' (meaning it will have ActivationPolicy = up). I used it to setup Proton VPN on my Framework laptop and it worked seamlessly.
@emy2k@social.linux.pizza2026-04-13 18:53:36
Teniendo en cuenta que #systemd estš en vías de convertirse en el Panopticón de #gnu_linux pues he decidido pasarme de #Archlinux a
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de2026-03-12 19:20:35
Content warning: tech, linux, networking, firewall
For a few weeks I had some strange errors with my self-hosted webmail, Snappymail. After working for some time it complained that it couldn't connect to tcp://mydomain.tld:143. My email clients worked, though. The situation got worse a few days ago when I updated the server and rebooted it.
My webmail is hosted in a systemd-nspawn system container. I use such containers for a lot of different services.
For debugging purposes I tried some telnet and openssl s_client stuff toda…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-03-21 20:52:19
FloofyWolf for DPL! #Debian Project Leader)
@thoralf@soc.umrath.net2026-02-26 13:53:57
"Process 118 (systemd-journal) of user 0 terminated abnormally without generating a coredump."
Ich hasse diesen systemd-Scheiß!
Ich habe damit nur Probleme und Null Vorteile.
Wer auch immer der Meinung war, dass das jetzt die Lösung aller Probleme wäre: Möge der Blitz dich beim Scheißen treffen!
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social2026-03-07 17:08:20
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-04-04 19:57:10
lol a conversation I just had w/ a friend
[here's that MR: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/268 ]
![T: "I turned off apt instaling recommends and also let it autoremove T: recommends I didn't ask for"
T: "kinda painful, but I want to explicitly know"
T: "anyway then upgraded server to [debian 13] and all sorts of stuff broken"
T: "#1 have to install systemd-cryptdisks"](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/116/348/199/128/793/510/original/cfd8993e27602138.png)
![Me: "I got hit with the systemd-cryptdisks thing"
Me: "as a matter of fact, i filed a bug!"
T: "libvirt is also all sorts of broken, still figuring that out"
Me: [link to a merge request in debian]
T: "it is in the release notes at least" [link to debian's release notes]
Me: "yeah, i'm why it's in the release notes 🙂"
T: "oh because of you!"
T: "nice"
T: "thanks"
Me: "np"](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/116/348/199/142/378/180/original/a970801dc1ba1942.png)
@flberger@nerdculture.de2026-03-21 08:25:06
Recent #systemd developments:
- Remove support for SysV scripts in rc-local
- Pave the way for lying code replication machines ("AI") to auto-review pull requests
- Introduce user surveillance by collecting personal data, starting with birthDate
I say at this point, if you are running public-facing systemd-based
@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.info2026-03-19 20:28:56
#Systemd hat jetzt Altersverifikationssupport. In Teilen per KI. What could possibly go wrong.
https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/116255862979155448
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-03-23 16:55:09
The anti-choice people really, really want your Linux image to be something only they can control (for your safety and protection) https://www.phoronix.com/news/Amutable
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-03-28 16:12:00
@shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizza2026-03-21 17:12:39
Hey @… with the recent birthdate field being introduced into systemd and the lead developer being obnoxiously stupid about it, Plasma desktop relying more on systemd feels wrong.
Given the circumstances, I urge you to please reconsider systemd dependency on KDE platform and if possible, please think of alternatives.
When you said X11 is getting axed from the cod…
@lepire@social.linux.pizza2026-04-11 22:03:42
Been trying to cook up a systemd-sysext for crowdsec crowdsec firewall bouncer to extend the base flatcar container linux image. Surprisingly straightforward with the sysext bakery.
However, crowdsec needs a mutable folder where it can write stuff (e.g logs etc.). This defaults to /var/crowdsec/data. I can create the /var/crowdsec/data folder but when crowdsec attempts to create and write to the logs folder below this I see a permission error.
Am I missing something obvious? A…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-03-04 01:03:12
Found and fixed a few configs and learned more about systemd units than I wanted.
But now I have two virtual nodes in the CI SLURM cluster and can submit jobs to both of them, which spawn the corresponding VMs.
So I think the next step is probably going to be to figure out how to set up a "github app" so I can accept CI job requests from github to actually spawn the build jobs.
@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social2026-03-27 01:41:58
if systemd is so good where's systeme
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-01-27 09:40:19
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/115966332467269898
The "boo systemd" pitchfork crowd is already yelling again... x)
Sorry mates. Moving on.
Edit, for ref, the roadmap announcement and reasoning from 10 months earlier:
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@marcus@hachyderm.io2026-02-01 21:22:59
Back home on the sofa and watching final episode of Night Manager after another fantastic #fosdem. Was great to see old friends and also some great talks. Guess I’ll be watching recordings of all the stuff I missed for weeks. :) Specially enjoyed @… ‘s talk about spiffe/spire and the systemd vm talk by @…
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-01-30 00:22:36
The markets have reacted to the news that
systemd maintainer Lennart Poettering has left Microsoft.
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-03-21 20:00:46
It is Saturday and systemd and network manager still suck.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-22 20:37:36
The discussion around "age verification" in systemd/XDG has been largely focused against the California law. But honestly, there's a much deeper problem there.
Firstly, the data collected. The question initially asked is "are you at least 18 years old?" However, that's not the data collected. In fact, the data collected is not even the age — it's the full birth date. It's a perfect example of collecting more data than you need, and a sensitive information too, and sharing it with any application that asks.
Secondly, the extended goal of "parental controls" used as a justification to collect more data. When you think about it, you realize how bad this is: it isn't the case of asking the user about their birth date (with the assumption that a kid will enter a fake date to workaround the limitations). It is effectively a tool for *parents* to impose restrictions on their children, which means that they are more likely to enter the real date to ensure that these restrictions work. And given how popular sharenting is today, do you really think they'd come up with a fake birth date that happens to roughly match their child's age?
This is simply irresponsible.
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922
@marcel@waldvogel.family2026-03-21 12:21:47
"The surveillance state runs on volunteers: people who do the implementation work for free, out of genuine conviction, with no paper trail connecting them to the money that wrote the laws."
https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-ag…
@crell@phpc.social2026-03-21 14:45:45
RE: https://furry.engineer/@ret/116261128430565318
So, who is sufficiently skilled to maintain a fork of systemd?
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2026-03-29 03:04:28
You hear no one ever talking about the atrocious kwallet software. Preventing me from connecting to wifi networks, where all other installs do connect easily. On Alpine everything works fine, with T2 it's preventing me from connecting at install. Why T2 couldn't include networkmanager and nmtui (they use systemd anyway) in their 4.3 Gb iso is beyond me anyway. Hopsakee, in da trash!
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-03-29 17:33:50
I had a little mini-project to convert WireGuard configs to native systemd units (.netdev, .network). After a bunch of troubleshooting, some help from kind folks on here, and digging into wg-quick...I did it! It's probably still rusty around the edges and _absolutely_ still experimental, but it works for my use-case.
https://
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nl2026-04-03 21:52:10
I just set up a hardware watchdog on YunoHost to monitor my connectivity using the watchdog systemd service. If I can't ping 8.8.8.8 for 30 minutes, it'll trigger a reboot.
I've been having issues where my RPi4 server suddenly lost the internet connection... I disabled EEE, which hopefully fixed that, but having some extra security like this probably won't hurt.
#YunoHost #SelfHosted #Linux #RaspberryPi #SystemD
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizza2026-03-23 00:09:13
What I don't understand with all this age verification stuff in systemd and other places is, if I want to know how old a person is on my software/website, why would I ask the OS?
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-01-31 11:06:04
@… I'll make this point:
― if a person likes GNOME without systemd, then the person does not really like GNOME.
Need to be realistic about the paths chosen by developers; about consensus.
When Apple took paths that I could not tolerate, I stopped using Mac OS X. And so on.
@…
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-03-31 00:35:33
I'm trying to figure out how I can support the scripting options of wg-quick within my tool. Obviously we can't do it within .network and .netdev files, but I also don't see a way to trigger a unit based on a specific interface becoming routable and configured. Perhaps there is a way using systemd.path magic?
#AskFedi
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-01-24 09:42:03
from my link log —
Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk.
https://jyn.dev/remotely-unlocking-an-encrypted-hard-disk/
saved 2026-01-23 h…
@flberger@nerdculture.de2026-03-21 08:25:06
Recent #systemd developments:
- Remove support for SysV scripts in rc-local
- Pave the way for lying code replication machines ("AI") to auto-review pull requests
- Introduce user surveillance by collecting personal data, starting with birthDate
I say at this point, if you are running public-facing systemd-based
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de2026-01-29 07:57:40
Another day, another IPv6 question. I'm on a Hetzner cloud VM. I have a static IPv6 /64 subnet / prefix¹. The system uses systemd-networkd for network management.
My eth0 does not seem to receive any RA at all but I'd like to delegate the prefix downstream to a bridge interface br0 on the same host. I have an IPv6Prefix section on eth0 with the Prefix=…, Assign=yes and Token=static:::1. It works, eth0 gets the ::1 address for this prefix.
Is there a way for br0 to get thi…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2026-03-29 03:04:28
You hear no one ever talking about the atrocious kwallet software. Preventing me from connecting to wifi networks, where all other installs do connect easily. On Alpine everything works fine, with T2 it's preventing me from connecting at install. Why T2 couldn't include networkmanager and nmtui (they use systemd anyway) in their 4.3 Gb iso is beyond me anyway. Hopsakee, in da trash!
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-01-30 04:37:29
@… frankly: the tidal wave of irrational arguments, over the years, successfully increased my confidence that systemd is a good thing.
https://redd.it/96pm7w
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-04-03 01:27:56
I know systemd hate is in vogue right now (and I'm concerned about LLM integration), but having declarative configs is _really_ useful. For example, wg-quick sets up routing rules and a firewall which is invisible in the WireGuard config file. The equivalent .netdev and .network files incorporate the routing rules _in the config file_, meaning it's clear at a glance what will happen.
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-02-21 14:46:27
I don't know who needs to see this, but I've had some issues with a pre-26.04 Ubuntu, which were (apparently) fixed with the following:
echo "@{run}/systemd/journal/dev-log wm," > /etc/apparmor.d/local/unix-chkpwd
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-03-19 01:06:13
Today's horrifying realization: the Debian and NixOS logos are vaguely butthole shaped. Even CentOS if you squint enough.
And Ubuntu is practically 3-handed goatse.
No wonder systemd is ensloppifying.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-02-20 18:55:06
Whoever runs their account does more harm than good to their brand.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-03-22 10:17:24
When I'm not busy making unoriginal memes about operating system talking points, I'm busy forgetting creation of unpopular words for totally unoriginal popular knee-jerk commentary about systemd.
adnauseamd
For a small additional fee you can hire me to knock drinks over at your techno-party, whilst slurring "I've heard it all before …".
#SilentNauseumday
@flberger@nerdculture.de2026-03-21 08:28:35