The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

https://lemmy.ml/post/44810447

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux - Lemmy

Lemmy

I disagree with age verification as well, but attacking a person like this is gross.

This article is all but brigading people into harassing this guy.

A spade’s a spade. This is malicious compliance. The law might be the problem here but it’s on us to resist and try to make a change. Every last one of us. After all, the surveillance state workers in China and Russia are all just doing their jobs right?

Why the heck would we ever want a DoB field in systemd, optional or otherwise?

Why the heck would we ever want a DoB field in systemd, optional or otherwise?

There is a field for your REAL NAME and LOCATION also. Who would ever want that?

Both of these fields contain way more identifying information about a user than birthDate. Do you feel the same way about them? Because they’ve been in systemd since the beginning.

and the GECOS field (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecos_field) containing fields for your real name, work address, which room in the building you work in, your home and office telephone numbers and external e-mail have been in UNIX/LINUX since 1962

This is manufactured outrage, the article is doxxing a person and painting a literal target on their head by photoshopping their picture to look like a mugshot in order to drive traffic for ad revenue.

It’s one thing to be against the laws, I’m against the laws. It’s another thing to personally attack a developer, that’s way beyond anything that is acceptable.

Gecos field - Wikipedia

Words of a collaborator. Your words betray you, revealing what kind of person you are and what your goal is. The kind who would send ICE to your neighbour, the kind we don’t let baby sit, the office backstabber, the licker of boots to fascist regimes. Or a troll.