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This is bullshit doxxing of an opensource contributor to demonize him for an innocuous contribution. It’s not right and Lobste.rs removed it for good reason.
How is it doxxing if his profile is fucking public?
Do you even know what that word means?
If they did, I do get the rationale behind a Community as Lobsters, who try to express their tolerance and some kind of understanding. Who do not want to associate themselves with stance against Microsoft and certain Linux maintainers. It's understood.
Meanwhile, I do not agree this being "bulls*it", sorry. The person who tries to affect a substantial number of people, or likely the third of Earth's environments, a person who does indeed implement a feature that decreases the privacy of numerous people, where their very operating system tells everyone their birth date (as if "doxxing" indeed)... should have asked the very world prior changes, and considered the magnitude of impact, or a backfire from people who believe in fair and personal life where you control your machines in your environment, and not vice-versa.
Those who don't use Systemd, probably won't bother, but even Valve's Steam Deck has it.
If you did consider only people names, which were already public, please do consider the information and effort of the article author once more.
The article doesn't include just a few already public personal details, but also important historical events, comparisons of accountability of people involved, great presentation of issues accumulated within a scoped time event, and not to mention warnings for the future or "good reason".
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