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.
People normally don’t want to record video of themselves while actively being lynched. The ones that do are the exception, not the norm. Hell, most people don’t even want to do that as part of a job application.
And in the first place, there’s no reason to suspect this is a bot. There’s nothing abnormal about any of this, with laws mandating age indication and someone suggesting adding an age field alongside the user’s full name and email address to the user.json.
Yeah both are good points actually you’re probably right