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.
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.
tl;dw?
A developer submitted a PR code change for systemd userdb.
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.
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.