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.
  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Lots of disingenuous comments in this thread regarding the change being “just json” considering they’re already on a warpath of implementing id verification. They are testing the water to see what they can get away with.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

    Argue against what is happening, not fictitious and hypothetical scenarios that are not happening.

    Furthermore, the Linux community has always been against shit like this (see: systemd outrage, open bios, gnu etc).

    We’ve had fields for storing way more personal information (like real name, home telephone number, location, etc) since 1962. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecos_field

    There is nothing that a birthdate will tell about a person that their real name and location will not.

    The criticism here needs to be aimed at the laws and politicians. This article is whipping up a lynch mob against a volunteer developer using a clickbait article for the purposes of ad revenue.