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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
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this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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That isn't really the point. All this nonsense happened without community discussion beforehand.
Who are the community employing? Why do they need consulting before code changes are made?
Your comment is nonsense.
I think what ze's saying is https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-maintainers-owe-you-nothing/ . the nature of open source—atl in accord with the hacker ethic—is that everything is just a passion project, there is no responsibility to not make bad decisions, and bad decisions result in decreased adoption and lost trust. after all, open source has always been about making a new alternative because existing solutions are bad.
So we aren't supposed to talk about or react to said bad decisions? Come on.
nah as an anarchist i'd never try to silence you. i'm just saying that in our capitalist society open source maintainers do not in fact have responsibility to the community, only to their market share
Do you want to post your real name and place of work online for everyone to see or do you understand why that kind of action is dangerous and wrong?
What in the fascist fuck are you talking about
This thread isn't a discussion about a bad decision.
Discussions don't start with putting the developer in a mug shot and posting all of his personal details.
You're probably the same kind of user who has a fit when someone looks at their overview too. I'm just going to block you now.
Yeah, that's way easier than actually having a rational opinion.
Discussions happen after the PRs in most projects, because there is no point discussing code that ain't there.
And they usually don't get pushed through when discussion is just starting.