2026-03-22 09:11 UTC
Any criticism should be directed primarily at the laws, not the person who suggested adding a birthdate field to the user.json.
Open source is dependent on volunteers contributing their time. The developers at SystemD have been receiving death threats over this. This article includes his name, face, workplace. I know that information is publicly available but the Geoguessr experts aren't the people we need to worry about.
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@pglpm@lemmy.ca 2026-03-22 11:02
He did not just suggest it. He went on and implemented it. *All while the community was telling him "we don't want this", "stop with this"* – look at the comments on GitHub. Yet he neglected all this feedback. As an open-source volunteer, you work for the community, right? If you go ahead while the community is telling you "we don't want this", then whom are you working for?
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@PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-22 17:57
Stop trying to make what he did ok. It is not ok.
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@Shanmugha@lemmy.world 2026-03-22 16:24
So maybe next time when someone sees a pull-request like this, they think before merging it? *provided no one gets hurt. I sympathise with the uproar, but physically hurting the guy is definitely too much