Late 1999, I’d smash all the voting machines in Florida.

FOSS developers have the right to ignore people who are making demands that are unreasonable or not in line with their vision.

The path to privacy is to log off.

Are we not living through the same timeline where the US has fallen under the control of a fascist regime that is being eagerly assisted by Meta, Apple, Microsoft and a ton of other massive corporations?

Because the real fight is not on the internet or computers.

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A good response. Informative, mature, and well thought out.

I don’t wish Dylan harm, and I’m not doing anything to him. I also believe nobody here is sending threats.

True, but publicly wishing ill upon someone for something as trivial as this (i.e. something with zero basis in the real world) is extremely toxic. The odds are slim he’d ever be seen on Lemmy, saying the kinds of things some people here have been saying publicly demonstrates a tremendous lack of empathy and maturity. And that this community is so accepting of those kinds of words is a real problem.

There’s also the Sam Bent article, that was posted here on Lemmy. That’s probably the most directly harmful thing someone’s done. By sharing that article it’s possible someone here was inspired to harass him, and even though nobody probably did the risk is non-zero.

Excellent. Just having his face out there will discourage him for good, once he gets the backlash.

There is a special guillotine for this wannabe parasite.

A mistake without regret must be punished. They are not kids acting silly. I don’t feel comfortable with a foot on my neck, even when that foot isn’t pressing very hard.

What you are really asking is how far will people go to defend freedom? Look at history, my friend.

He didn’t have to do this. If he wants to do his part to make everyone else’s life worse, then he will have to face the consequences for it.

Nah useful idiots like this deserve the shit they’ll get.

Needless to say, I ain’t watched it so I don’t know or care what points was made in it.

cali ain’t the world, which by and large ain’t got no such idiocy on the books. and if it did, I wouldn’t bootlick my way to submitting a patch to incorporate it; I would, in fact, oppose it any way I could. that clown of a “contributor” has a history of simping for the backwardest ideas, antithetical to FOSS and I don’t care one bit what he has to say on any one topic.

If you refuse to listen to the experience of the person the Linux community has been harassing, then don’t comment.

what OP is doing in OP and his bonehead comments is purposefully pushing … and all the other logical fallacies … if you’re anti this bullshit “law” then you are also pro physically harming poor FOSS “contributors”.

Many Lemmy users have explicitly called for violence against Dylan Taylor, and many more have brought forwards implied calls to violence. The Lemmy community is broadly 50:50 on their support for said calls for the violence.

You are already failing at that. Suggesting that he deserves the death threats because he did something you don’t agree with.

The majority of users do not care, and even if they did it’s still not the user’s place to demand the FOSS developers listen to them. That aside, this is an issue of personal attacks and harassment directed at an individual developer, the project is another matter.

Harassment of an individual developer, or anyone really, is grossly immoral, counterproductive, and reflects poorly on the Linux and Lemmy community.

He feels threatened because people are explicitly threatening him.

Death threats.

Also, basically anything the Trump administration has done.

Any conflict of interest in the source needs to be considered, including the degree to which the source is permitted to criticize it’s home nation’s government or it’s allies.

Maybe give cars a second pair of axles, to keep them aligned with the overhead power on the highway and to reduce the tire wear. Maybe join them together too so each individual car doesn’t have to worry about braking and the driver can basically just sleep.

This isn’t me sarcastically reinventing trains. I see why people would rather spend their commute in a private car than in a public train carriage. These features just seem genuinely useful.

What I have sarcastically reinvented is basically just self-driving cars.

I thought that by now we would’ve commercialized at scale alternative battery technologies. We’re still using lithium ion even for grid storage and EV’s.

Also, I expected we would have put a man on the moon by now.

Not like we have anyone better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation

It is a corporation. Just not publicly traded.

EDIT: I looked it up some more because it says Valve is a company and there’s no citation for it being a corporation other than that Valve calls itself one. But a company is a type of corporation.

Valve.

AMD also gets a free pass just for not being Nvidia or Intel. Other than that, if it’s Chinese and I know the name of it then it probably gets a free pass.