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.
Deserves, the change is garbage, it affects so few people and now the rest of us have this option to be forced to use it at a later date. garbage human. Most of linux users will not be touched by any of this garbage law. i am rather militant over this
I’m not suggesting anything specific. But the point of rushing to implement your way into software A to prevent each software having their own implementation does not make sense to me. This is not a proper way to standardise. There are many months left to make a proposal that works for everyone.
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.
Deserves, the change is garbage, it affects so few people and now the rest of us have this option to be forced to use it at a later date. garbage human. Most of linux users will not be touched by any of this garbage law. i am rather militant over this
Yes, the dev deserves to be harassed and receive literal death threats because checks notes he added a completely optional field.
Grow the fuck up.
Sure he has a point there, but putting it in systemd means there will need to be at least one other implementation for systems that don’t use systemd…
Are you suggesting that we should put this field in the kernel instead.
I’m not suggesting anything specific. But the point of rushing to implement your way into software A to prevent each software having their own implementation does not make sense to me. This is not a proper way to standardise. There are many months left to make a proposal that works for everyone.