Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert. Unpaid compliance simp.
  • chloroken@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4710·
    7 months ago

    Developers are not a protected class. They do not get special social protections when they do ignorant things.

      • stravanasu@lemmy.ca
        173·
        7 months ago

        He did not just suggest it. He went on and implemented it. All while the community was telling him “we don’t want this”, “stop with this” – look at the comments on GitHub. Yet he neglected all this feedback.

        As an open-source volunteer, you work for the community, right? If you go ahead while the community is telling you “we don’t want this”, then whom are you working for?

          • stravanasu@lemmy.ca
            112·
            7 months ago

            Of course there are no obligations and he’s’free to do as he pleases. Likewise, the community or I are under no obligations of not criticizing him for what he chose to do.

            • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
              74·
              7 months ago

              This isn’t criticism.

              Taking a person, photoshopping their picture to look like a dossier on a criminal and writing a hit piece which includes all of their publicly available information is doxxing for the purpose of harassment.

              Lemmy is a small community, read some of the comments in this post and you’ll see people using violent language, calling him a traitor, etc.

              I didn’t even have to go far to find an example, literally the comment under my reply:

              https://lemmy.world/post/44550728/22802099

              A mistake without regret must be punished. They are not kids acting silly. I don’t feel comfortable with a foot on my neck, even when that foot isn’t pressing very hard.

              Expand that to the tens or hundreds of thousands of people on Reddit (where this exact article is also posted) and the chances of some crazy person going out and doing harm to this man increases.

              This is why public doxxing is wrong and anyone participating in this is morally corrupt.

      • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
        83·
        7 months ago

        So maybe next time when someone sees a pull-request like this, they think before merging it?

        *provided no one gets hurt. I sympathise with the uproar, but physically hurting the guy is definitely too much

    • biggeoff@sh.itjust.works
      133·
      7 months ago

      The key phrase is Personal Attack.

      If the law was the only thing stopping you doing that, it reflects on you.