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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux (www.sambent.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] -5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

There's a massive difference between criticizing bad decisions and articles like the one in the OP who's painting the developer as a target.

There's plenty of ways for the open source community to handle this. This isn't one of them.

Brigading and harassing volunteer developer is way out of bounds.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    No, the community should hold people accountable that fuck them over.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The people that you're looking for are politicians and companies like Meta who spend tens of millions of dollars to push these laws.

    Not the random developer who created a PR to add an optional JSON field.

    The ironic thing here is that this isn't even the guy that accepted the merge request... that's the person who actually added the code to the project. Anybody can submit a PR.

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