A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.
This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.
In case anyone is unclear, since I hear he's also campaigning against this Linux age-gating trash:
Bryan Lunduke is a fascist hatemonger. He represents the absolute worst in free software and I believe he should be ostracized from any and all parts of our community. He wants software freedom for himself and in the abstract but despises individuals expressing their freedom. He believes in a software freedom that is hollowed out and missing love.
@wwahammy unless people have ample proof on what he believes in I suggest that they moderate their tone. This looks like a hate campaign to me.
Some people only wanna implement/support laws they like. That's not how laws work.
The cyberspace is not independent.
How about targeting with revolts politicians and not opensource developers?
@rriemann
Why not both? Complicity needs to be socially costly.
@dzwiedziu @markotway @wwahammy
These developers write code. That's an act of free speech. If you don't like their code, don't use it. Many opensource projects are do-cracies. Write your own fork if you like. Join a party. Create a party. But don't harass opensource developers.
@rriemann
“Free speech” isn't freedom from consequences and critique isn't harassment.
“Fork your own” is a fallacy. Not many people can code enough or have the resources to fork anything, not to mention the project big enough to develop a megalomania of thinking it's the OS.
@rriemann
That's a stupid statement.
If somebody puts up posters that promote fascism and restrict the rights of others, you could claim "these printers just make posters".
If you're writing code that furthers the goals of fascism, then you deserve to be harassed.
And "don't use their code" isn't a great statement if these people are shoehorning this crap into every open source OS, then options to not use it become limited.
It's a bit like saying "if you don't like fascist countries don't live in them". It's a privileged and small-minded attitude.
@rriemann @dzwiedziu @markotway @wwahammy
Agree with @dzwiedziu , systemd is used in a lot of distro, we have the possibility to discuss, we don't need birth date at any time. So for me this type of PR cannot be opt-in for future user, there are too much privacy in game for users that don't have super admin right on their system, and they're are lot in entreprise. And Free Speech need to protect the actual minority, even if it's 100 people in our actual fucking world of technopolice and surveillance, in any case IMHO. In short, this is a bad move.
@rriemann @dzwiedziu @markotway @wwahammy Speaking as an open source developer, hard disagree. "Write your own fork" is a very bad take.
Protest it at every level, including social consequences for the developer.
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