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.

  • StizzahEnglish
    277·
    13 小时前

    Common right wing pattern:

    1. I do a fascist thing
    2. people call me a piece of shit
    3. I feel threatened
      • StizzahEnglish
        1410·
        12 小时前

        it’s easy to solve the problem: don’t be a piece of shit.

        • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          89·
          12 小时前

          You are already failing at that. Suggesting that he deserves the death threats because he did something you don’t agree with.

          • StizzahEnglish
            112·
            9 小时前

            Nope, you are making that up, I never suggested that. I simply recognized the pattern: that dude is a nobody that did a rage-bait to get his 15 minutes of fame. And people like you are just helping, nobody is going to kill that idiot for this thing.

            • Faux@lemmy.ml
              11·
              6 小时前

              I seriously wonder if the death threats aren’t a false flag. Someone really wants to put more attention to this guy instead of people who have agency in actual decisions. Even the maintainers of repos that accepted his PRs should receive more attention than him.