I Spoke To The Dev Behind The Systemd Birth Date Change
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Today I spoke with the developer who introduced the PR to Systemd which added in a birth date field to userdb which spawned a massive drama and much worse as...

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.

  • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    620·
    10 hours ago

    Are we not living through the same timeline where the US has fallen under the control of a fascist regime that is being eagerly assisted by Meta, Apple, Microsoft and a ton of other massive corporations?

    Because the real fight is not on the internet or computers.

    • Ravell@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 minutes ago

      But it probably realistically has to be organized on it, since that is the global communication network…

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      16·
      10 hours ago

      It’s one battlefront of many, and a fairly significant one. As we’ve become on online society, computer software has come to encode human rights to expression and privacy. Those rights are worth fighting for.

    • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
      9·
      10 hours ago

      What I’ve learned is that it’s basically impossible to convince people that the only real way to solve this is violent revolution.

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
        23·
        8 hours ago

        Given your lack of history of violent revolution (I’m assuming), I’d guess it’s because you look like a hypocrite for sitting behind a keyboard and telling others to do something you’re not willing to do yourself.

        • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
          4·
          7 hours ago

          I’ve already spent years of my life in activism (the actual kind where you do work and try to build community, inevitably get added to watch lists, etc) trying to motivate others. I’ve helped with Food Not Bombs, etc. I’ve done a decent amount of “walk the walk” but I’ve also got a life to live. The US is deep into a propaganda hole that I’m afraid is gonna take a long time to climb out of and people have goldfish brains. I don’t really care how I come off to folks on the internet.