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.
  • chloroken@lemmy.mlEnglish
    245·
    6 hours ago

    Developers are not a protected class. They do not get special social protections when they do ignorant things.

    • biggeoff@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      3 hours ago

      The key phrase is Personal Attack.

      If the law was the only thing stopping you doing that, it reflects on you.

    • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
      71·
      5 hours ago

      Any criticism should be directed primarily at the laws, not the person who suggested adding a birthdate field to the user.json.

      Open source is dependent on volunteers contributing their time. The developers at SystemD have been receiving death threats over this. This article includes his name, face, workplace. I know that information is publicly available but the Geoguessr experts aren’t the people we need to worry about.

      • stravanasu@lemmy.ca
        61·
        3 hours ago

        He did not just suggest it. He went on and implemented it. All while the community was telling him “we don’t want this”, “stop with this” – look at the comments on GitHub. Yet he neglected all this feedback.

        As an open-source volunteer, you work for the community, right? If you go ahead while the community is telling you “we don’t want this”, then whom are you working for?

        • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
          21·
          3 hours ago

          As an open-source volunteer, you work for the community, right?

          1. They don’t work for anyone.
          2. Even if they did, it sure as hell wouldn’t be for you.
          3. Even if they did work for you, they are under no obligation to even think about breaking the law for you.
          • stravanasu@lemmy.ca
            2·
            2 hours ago

            Of course there are no obligations and he’s’free to do as he pleases. Likewise, the community or I are under no obligations of not criticizing him for what he chose to do.

            • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
              2·
              53 minutes ago

              This isn’t criticism.

              Taking a person, photoshopping their picture to look like a dossier on a criminal and writing a hit piece which includes all of their publicly available information is doxxing for the purpose of harassment.

              Lemmy is a small community, read some of the comments in this post and you’ll see people using violent language, calling him a traitor, etc.

              I didn’t even have to go far to find an example, literally the comment under my reply:

              https://lemmy.world/post/44550728/22802099

              A mistake without regret must be punished. They are not kids acting silly. I don’t feel comfortable with a foot on my neck, even when that foot isn’t pressing very hard.

              Expand that to the tens or hundreds of thousands of people on Reddit (where this exact article is also posted) and the chances of some crazy person going out and doing harm to this man increases.

              This is why public doxxing is wrong and anyone participating in this is morally corrupt.