Not to mention that they locked the unpopular pull request from reactions.

    • infeeeee@lemmy.zip
      1321·
      4 days ago

      Ok, who decides which law is clown and which isn’t? You? Or Sam Altman? I guess he has a different idea what laws he wants to follow. See, it’s a slippery slope you recommend.

      Change your clown laws, and don’t bully projects who just wants linux to become viable alternative to common people. Don’t make perfect enemy of good.

      • Sunshine@piefed.caOPEnglish
        231·
        4 days ago

        False equivalence as privacy is a human right. Article 12 of the UN declaration of human rights.

        People have the right to switch projects and criticize the actions of the developers.

        • infeeeee@lemmy.zip
          714·
          4 days ago

          So it’s the legistlation’s fault again, why aren’t you mad at them, why only systemd? In other jurisdictions you don’t have to use this field. And I don’t see anything in the PR about the verifability of the date. It’s just an optional number it stores in a db, offline.

          Programmers have to become lawyers now?

          Also a lot other projects has a birthday field, e.g. last time I worked with was LDAP: https://ldapwiki.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Birthdate I guess it’s there since the 90s.

          • logging_strict@programming.dev
            1·
            3 days ago

            Why aren’t coders the only people allowed to be lawyers instead of these political activist clowns?

            The only people who are remotely qualified to be my peers, to have the honour of being in the same room as me, are published package authors.

            So yes, coders are more qualified to be lawyers than lawyers.

          • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            112·
            4 days ago

            The hell are you on about? People can, and are, upset about both. That said, changing a piece of software is monumentally easier than changing laws when you’re up against an entire industry lobbying against your interests.

            That’s why you see the focus on the software.

            Systemd refusing and telling CA to figure it the fuck out would have been one of the strongest counters to this bullshit currently available, and that option was just thrown in the fucking garbage. Of course people are going to be mad at systemd.