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Welcome to my personal website. There's not very much here, and this place isn't very conscientiously maintained, so you can safely assume anything here is either out of date or about to become so.

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Why I dislike systemd

As a Linux sysadmin in the 2010s, it's hard not to have an opinion on systemd. But what I find baffling about it is how divisive it is; nearly everyone (or at least the most vocal crowd) seems to either love it or hate it. When I tell people that systemd was the catalyst for my defection to OpenBSD last year, their…