KhrysMar 21

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/

The lasting damage was knowing it could happen at all: that a single contributor with no stated organizational backing could submit compliance infrastructure for surveillance law directly into the software that boots your computer, get it merged by two Microsoft employees, and have the creator of systemd personally block the removal.

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

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.

Sam Bent
Show threadjoschiMar 21

@Khrys @nblr @doingfedtime What kind of bullshit hit piece is this?

We’re now blaming developers for contributing to FOSS projects?

Great job everyone, you can be really proud of yourselves! 👏 /s

Show thread~n
@joschi @Khrys @doingfedtime
"Contributing"
Mar 21 at 1:47pmWeb
Show threadjoschiMar 21

@nblr @Khrys @doingfedtime Save the nitpicking. It is a contribution, just one you don’t like.

I’m not saying I’m thrilled about it either, but writing and promoting this hit piece is low. Very low…

Show thread~nMar 21
@joschi
The article is as much about the multi-layer organisational failure as it is about the "contribution" - which indeed is not just one "I don't like". Please take your framing and go elsewhere. Thank you.
Show threadjoschiMar 21

@nblr @Khrys @doingfedtime Yes, it's absolutely a well-founded article debating organizational failures in a complete impartial way.

That's why there's a fake image of the developer in which looks like he's getting a mugshot. 👏

Show thread~nMar 21
@joschi The style is debatable and it tastes a bit like someone drank a bit much of the generative kool-aid, but content-wise it does a good job in condensing the "why this is bad", how the chain is forged, from good intentions, in very understandable words.
Show threadSam BentMar 25

@joschi @nblr @Khrys

Image was sourced from his github. :)

Show threadVictor VolleMar 22

@nblr @joschi

The title focuses on ‘the engineer’, the top level sentence calls him out by name and calls him an ‘idiot’
There are later some thoughts on organisational failures. But to me it mostly reads as a personal attack.
You can read it anyway you want, frame it anyway you want. But please give others the same courtesy.

Show thread~nMar 22
@kontrafiktion @joschi Not sure if you are familiar with the term “useful idiot” - probably not.
Show threadSam BentMar 25

@joschi @nblr @Khrys

Citing a public PR isn't a 'hit piece'.
Attach all the emotional triggers you want.

You haven't disprove any FACTS.