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    • vole@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      A developer submitted a PR code change for systemd userdb.

      My proposals (that’s really what PRs are) are to implement a solution that meets the regulatory requirements in several jurisdictions by providing a way to store a self-reported birthdate locally on the machine. These laws also require that this date is collected during account creation (hence why I made PRs against installers) and you can enter any value here, even January 1st, 1900. There is no proof required, no ID scanning, and no external tracking. Nor do I have any desire for that to ever change.

      Apparently the developer is confirmed to be just a regular guy. He thinks it’d be worse if every desktop environment implements their own solution to comply with these laws. He’s against the various laws related to this incident.

      As a fallout for submitting this pull request, he has been extensively harassed. His personal information being repeatedly posted online; his information used to sign up to a lot of sites, groups, churches, car dealerships, ordering food for him; threats of murder; regular textual harassment.

    • Tarambor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      29 days ago

      A bunch of arseholes who watched Linus Tech Tips and Pewdiepie videos and have recently jumped on the Linux hype train and who now consider themselves 7eeT hAx0Rz because they figured out how to apt-get in a terminal have been piling hate on the dev even to the point of death threats. They don’t actually understand what the change has been and in fact probably still don’t have a clue what systemd is or even if they’re using it on their Linux install.

  • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
    01·
    1 month ago

    This shit is really getting out of hand. But that was always a given considering the uneducated and hyperbolic panic being stirred up around this. Brodie of course I think has a solid response. This should served as a constant reminder how easy it is for anyone to be manipulated.

    • Mauve@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      On one hand I completely agree that people are overreacting to adding a field that anything actually implementing age verification could potentially make use of.

      But on the other hand I think people are not overreacting enough (in ways other than pointlessly harassing the names on a pull request) because this is a ‘foot in the door’ and basically the only way to prevent these vaguely worded laws from fully rooting everywhere would be massive blowback that actually has consequences for the corporations and governments pushing the laws.

      But on the third hand, every Linux distribution collectively refusing to abide by the law and blocking California, Brazil, ect. IPs probably wouldn’t have much overall impact so time would probably be better spent trying to get the average random person to care… and the average random person definitely does not care about systemd fields…