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Something feels fishy... The user who made this pull request has more than doubled his contributions to various repositories since January (from 20–400 to more than 1100), and this is his first pull request in the systemd repo.
Fishy how? As in a state-level backdooring like was the case with XZ and Jia Tan or are you weary of something else?
They bought a second computer so they can ask Claude for twice as much code.