cm00026d ago

Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

https://europe.pub/post/10762385

Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism - Europe Pub

>Dylan M. Taylor is not a household name in the Linux world. At least, he wasn’t until recently. > >The software engineer and longtime open source contributor has quietly built a respectable track record over the years: writing Python code for the Arch Linux installer, maintaining packages for NixOS, and contributing CI/CD pipelines to various FOSS projects. > >But a recent change he made to systemd has pushed him into the spotlight, along with a wave of intense debate. > >At the center of the controversy is a seemingly simple addition Dylan made: an optional birthDate field in systemd’s user database.

Show threadIrateAnteater6d ago

I was expecting civil discourse and a level-headed response.

He may have been hoping for that, but surely he didn’t truely expect it. The FOSS community can barely have a civil discussion about filesystems.

Show threadOverspark6d ago
That’s a rather negative view. There’s a big difference between people who actually contribute to FOSS (in any way, not just code) and random keyboard warriors in the contents. Sure, there’s always some drama somewhere, but that’s not exclusive to FOSS.
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There’s also a massive difference when ine participates in destroying linux users’ freedom, one of the pillars of foss
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