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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux (www.sambent.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 30 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Yeah and against the massive outcry in the form of comments, the discussion was locked, and the general opinion was ignored in favor of 2 maintainers and a tool of a dev.

The person who has the most blame here is the lead dev of the project imo.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Why do you think this was locked? This fucking thread is a mugshot of a dev contributing to an open source project.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    So they knew it was against the community and went right ahead?

    There wouldn't be "this" thread if they had taken the community into consideration.

    This isn't the gotcha you think it is. That "engineer" is contributing bullhorning this bullshit on multiple Linux based repositories.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    The community is not against compliance, a loud minority is. The implementation is not where discussion needs to happen, as any software dev that had to implement shit they did not agree on, it rarely has a positive effect at this level

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    The thread was discussing age verification from what I read, but I read it when it was already locked. I do not think harassment of the dev is appropriate and the article and this post is also needles drama imo. But the issue of age verification itself I think should be discussed by the community and not just accepted by one dictator.

    Edit: I misread that you were talking about the GH thread. Yeah this thread is kinda shit, but discussion on how and if age verification should be done is important imo.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    discussion on how and if age verification should be done is important imo.

    I completely agree.

    I'm very against these age verification laws... but I focus my efforts on the politicians and companies like Meta who are actually trying to implement them.

    This thread is a doxxing and harrasment campaign and should have been deleted in the first hour.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    The problem is that Poettering is all in on attestation which is the underpinnings of age verification and remote attestation.

    See amutable.com

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Poettering has always been a piece of shit.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    POS or not this is a reoccurring problem with open source. The benevolent dictator for life. Hopefully we can grow past it in the coming years.

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