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.

  • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    423·
    2 days ago

    Parental controls on linux are a good thing. This is a fine privacy respecting implementation. People are overreacting.

    • ExoticCherryPigeon@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      Parental controls already exist in linux, they are entirely optional to those who want them, we do not need those controls to be rolled out to every user!

      Not to mention

      • My router, an Asus one has parental controls settings already
      • My ISP router, bog standard one has parental controls settings already
      • My ISP account has parental controls settings already at account level, if Ia m not technical enough, I can call them and ask them to set it up
      • My phone provider has parental controls
      • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        this is entirely optional. Just because they exist doesnt mean they can be improved. The ones currently available do not cover this usecase. The use case being a locally installed application wants to check if the user is 18 before showing them something.

        • ExoticCherryPigeon@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          13 hours ago

          You do realise you can easily restrict who can run what applications (or terminal commands) by using guid? So you can easily restrict a child account being able to execute applications or games already? And you know what, this method does not rely on application developer implementing any kind of age gatekeeping using DOB field… Its generic to all distributions even ones that don’t use systemd. This is why this change is dumb and not needed.

          You can even use it to restrict access to terminal commands such as curl so children cannot download something they shouldn’t…