Tobias Fried
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Tobias Fried
@friedtm
12' 0'' ethnically New Jerseyan • Software engineer @livekit • Ex @qatalog • das blinkenlights • Co-creator of @_phosphoricons









Someone developed (and submitted) a “detect-fash” utility for systemd. “A utility to detect problematic software and configurations” It searches Linux systems for installations of the Ladybird Web Browser, Hyprland, or if the system is Omarchy Linux. It also contains code to detect if the user is @DHH (creator of Ruby on Rails & Omarchy). “systemd-detect-fash detects execution in a fascist environment. It identifies the fascist technology and can distinguish full machine fascism from installed fashware. systemd-detect-fash exits with a return value of 0 (success) if a fascism technology is detected, and non-zero (error) otherwise.” The code for “detect-fash” was ultimately rejected. However… Red Hat employee, and systemd developer, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek reviewed the code and had this to say: “This is actually fairly well written and complete. Kudos! But such a tool is not a good fit for systemd.”





























