Consulting https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761658, I
am able to hazard a guess at the answer to this question:

> Any idea which... talented person wrote that changeset for the system
> resolver? And how I avoid sharing cities, time zones, preferably
> continents, etc. with him/her? ;->

Quoting the bug header:

Package: systemd

Aha. It's in systemd-resolved. Thereby reducing the discussion to a
previous stupidity. ;-> #include "dumbass-arrogant-destkop-coders.h"