Notices by Kabuki Fox & Security Theater (kellerfuchs@vulpine.club)

@nev @cwebber Yeah, that's why I refer to some crypto-techbro software like Signal as “maleware”:
it uses perfectly fine cryptography to hide the contents of your communications, but you can only have one identity, and it's your phone number, so you can't use it with anyone you wouldn't trust with your number :(
Also, anyone who has your number is automatically informed you use Signal.

(I could also complain about it not doing anything about metadata, but that entirely misses the point)

OK, I have no words for this: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237

If your username doesn't match what Poettering expects usernames to be (and doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but `[a-zA-Z]+` is *probably* safe?), then systemd will happily run your user services as root.

Reply: not-a-bug, don't use “invalid usernames”...

Paging @KitRedgrave, @mwlucas and @phessler for hilarity.