Some of you need to watch this video, and hang your head in shame.

Dylan Taylor has been receiving constant harassment, including threats to his life and safety, for actions done collectively by SystemD. The article by Sam Bent was explictly mentioned as part of the harassment campaign, and rightfully so.

I don’t think enough people realize that this is catastrophically bad. It’ll discourage people from becoming open source developers, it’ll discourage people from using Linux, and it’ll discourage legislators from taking the Linux community seriously.

If you ever wished ill upon another human being for complying with a relatively inconsequential law, you are better off never touching a computer again. The Linux community has collectively gone so far beyond what is acceptable here.

  • jokeyrhyme@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    8 hours ago

    it would be very interesting to see that attempt

    but Poettering has already said that functionality doesn’t belong in systemd so I’m not sure where anyone would raise such a PR

    seems like an Ubuntu/RedHat level distribution design to pull in a brand new age-verification / mass-surveillance component, or maybe modify an existing telemetry component

    the birth date field only made it into systemd because it’s user metadata that is consistent with what is already stored there, whereas surveillance does not

    for now, at least

    again, I’d be very interested to see what happens with follow-up PRs

    • ExoticCherryPigeon@piefed.socialEnglish
      21·
      7 hours ago

      Poettering closed the pr that was reverting this age field. What happens is adding more and more control in the future to conform to whatever idiotic laws someone might make. Should we then also implement a filter for what you type online to conform with Russian law about calling their war “SVO”? Its their law after all, so why not make the rest of the world conform? Its already years older then this age verification?

      • jokeyrhyme@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        5 hours ago

        rejecting the revert is completely separate from accepting additional age-check / mass-surveillance PRs, you know this and you are being willfully ignorant

        I would be very upset and very surprised if hypothetical follow-up PRs were merged into systemd, and I’m betting they will be rejected

        • ExoticCherryPigeon@piefed.socialEnglish
          11·
          4 hours ago

          How is it different? The ready acceptance of additional fields specifically for age verification is clearly proof enough that any further bullshit will be accepted just as quickly. PR description clearly outlines it is for the sole purpose of age verification…