Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert. Unpaid compliance simp.
  • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
    22·
    13 hours ago

    Genuine question, don’t we always say that we can change anything in the system on open source software like Linux and systemd etc? What’s stopping any of us from removing this age verification thing? Apps may break, true, but I’m sure there will be many one line scripts that replace that age verification with something that feeds it fake data?

    • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      IMO the benefit and curse is you could fork it, maintain it, patch it yourself, etc if you wanted, but then its a full time job keeping it up to date with changes. As others have pointed out, this is a decisive change, so a fork probably wouldn’t be a solo project, but the bifurcation in development would be a large impact, slowing development in other fixes and features.

      • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Then what’s stopping you from rallying the contributors to treat the fork as the primary target for development instead?

    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
      9·
      9 hours ago

      You could just put a fake date in at user setup from what I understand. It adds the field to the user database but there isn’t any verification that that date is true

    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
      13·
      10 hours ago

      Tbf simply following the development and criticizing bad design decisions is also one way to change opensource software no?

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
        115·
        10 hours ago

        There’s a massive difference between criticizing bad decisions and articles like the one in the OP who’s painting the developer as a target.

        There’s plenty of ways for the open source community to handle this. This isn’t one of them.

        Brigading and harassing volunteer developer is way out of bounds.

          • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
            17·
            6 hours ago

            Feel free to fork the project if you don’t like the direction it is going.

            Engaging in a harassment campaign is far worse than adding a JSON field, you troglodyte.