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According to Microsoft, It's Not a Code of Conduct Violation to Troll Your Victims Whose Files You Are Purging

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 23, 2024,
updated Jun 23, 2024

Cry Bullies: Protecting yourself against social muggers and victimhood aggression

The group of vandals from Microsoft think it's "funny" (and for a "nominal fee") to troll Microsoft critics:

Luca Boccassi

Another Jo Shields?

"Remember to quote Luca Boccassi's inappropriate response to the error," a reader said in relation to this latest scandal. "It's not in the commit messages but somewhere else."

"Boccassi is the idiot who boasted "42% less Unix philosophy" the other day:

Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'

He is "also [a] Microsoft employee, working against Debian," in conjunction with Microsoft's Lennart Poettering:

Inappropriate response, see 'bluca' from June 14: (as covered here)

So an option that is literally documented as saying 'all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d/ entry will be deleted', that you knew nothing about, sounded like a 'good idea'? Did you even go and look what tmpfiles.d entries you had beforehand? Maybe don't just run random commands that you know nothing about, while ignoring what the documentation tells you? Just a thought eh

Also see this discussion:

Luca Boccassi definitely puts the 'micro' in Microshaft. This makes me appreciate even more the hardwork that maintainers put in to keep their distribution systemd free.

He's trying to deny the issue exists, in a very Microsoft spirit (blame-shifting, typically blaming the victim). For example: "It's not important information at all, and no defaults are changed. If you manually run some tools you don't know anything about, then you should read its documentation and the configuration files that come with it beforehand, that's just common sense. Nothing happens if you don't run it, so you don't have anything to worry about. As clearly explained in the documentation, these subvolumes are only created if the directories are missing, which happens only on firstboot with a read-only rootfs subvolume." See "systemd 256.1: Now Slightly Less Likely to Delete /home" (for now, until the next major bug, aside from the many security holes which the media casually attributes to "Linux").

More gaslighting by Microsoft: "tmpfiles footgun, apply directly to the forehead"

They used to say systemd is an unit system and now it is breaching buffers, causing chaos all over the place and pushing TPMs for Microsoft. Maybe "init" was short for initialisation of Microsoft infiltration rather than the system. Start small, growing like a "cancerd".

Then they argue that merely talking about this will jeopardise social cohesion. Look at the attitude above. Rude, patronising, dishonest.

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