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.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
    14·
    7 hours ago

    Some more for the “I haven’t seen any calls to violence” crowd.

    he should have chilled the fuck out over deepthroating boots as soon as he saw them. Fuck around , find out.

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

    I’m glad to hear he’s getting his shit fucked, maybe he’ll roll back the commit.

    EDIT : This fucker is lucky with the amount of hate he’s getting, there’s plenty of people who hate his guts over what he did, and didn’t personally reach out to yell some sense into him