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I Spoke To The Developer Of The Systemd Birth Date PR - YouTube (www.youtube.com)
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Some of you need to watch this video, and hang your head in shame.

Dylan Taylor has been receiving constant harassment, including threats to his life and safety, for actions done collectively by SystemD. The article by Sam Bent was explictly mentioned as part of the harassment campaign, and rightfully so.

I don't think enough people realize that this is catastrophically bad. It'll discourage people from becoming open source developers, it'll discourage people from using Linux, and it'll discourage legislators from taking the Linux community seriously.

If you ever wished ill upon another human being for complying with a relatively inconsequential law, you are better off never touching a computer again. The Linux community has collectively gone so far beyond what is acceptable here.

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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

The law says an OS needs to have a way of entering a birth date.
Not the correct birth date, it doesn't need to allow checking it. Just any date.

That's inconsequential relative to basically everything else.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    The law says an OS needs to have a way of entering a birth date. Not the correct birth date, it doesn’t need to allow checking it. Just any date.

    Two problems:

    1. For how long the check will not be needed
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    2. what about every place outside California ?
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