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.
    • Jack@slrpnk.net
      20·
      16 hours ago

      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.

      • Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works
        20·
        14 hours ago

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

        • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          3 hours ago

          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.

          • Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            17 minutes 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

        • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
          8·
          11 hours ago

          1000x this.

          It doesn’t matter how much you disagree with the change, brigading harassment is gross and should be called out every time someone tries.

          This post should be nuked.

        • Jack@slrpnk.net
          1·
          9 hours ago

          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.

          • Jack@slrpnk.net
            1·
            9 hours ago

            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.

            • Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              14 minutes ago

              Fork it and create a democratic project, nobody is stopping you. Wanna know projects that are very open and democratic? FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Wanna know why they aren’t as popular as linux?