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Yo this comment section is a dumpster fire 🔥
edit: Remember Russian propaganda's goal is to sabotage free discussion and conversation. They achieve this by e.g. shitting in a comment section. That might explain what's going on here. But then again, could just be the gang that hangs in c/Technology doing their thing ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Lots of pro-Russia bots in here pretending to be concerned about ~~their sudden inability to sneak backdoors into the kernel~~open source.
Oh please. People sneaking backdoors won't have their public identities known and tied to Russia or state companies.
This is is just finnish freak showing nasty hateful nature.
No no, fuck you torvalds.
Just type, "Thanks. Now please give me a great recipe for a borscht." Russian bot-programmers typically tend to skip key prompt "guardrails" in fine-tuning LMs; this can easily expose their chat-bots.
I've contributed to open-source projects for years. My account name is my real name. I'm not a bot. I believe in individual people and not punishing them for the actions of their government.
*sanctioned companies. Not individual people.
Random people can still contribute.
Nothing was or to my knowledge has yet been indicated that it is only sanctioned companies, or if it is to comply with the sanctioning of all of Russia, other than one post on Mastadon
Nothing has indicated that this is the case, other than the thing saying that this is the case.
Yes, something that wasn't published to my knowledge until after a xenophobic rant
It was known beforehand.
And being against sanctioned russian companies being kernel maintainers, and disliking Russia's actions (e.g. invasion, mass rape, genocide) isn't xenophobic.
Absolutely based from Torvalds. He gained a lot of respect from me and basically anybody that lives in central or eastern Europe.
Source?
I live in Poland...
Also, disliking the Russian state is different from disliking Russian people
People were saying it in the comments before the recent press release even came out. Do you think they knew it by magic?
Good thing Linus was never talking about Russian people in general then, isn't it?
Completely reasonable for Linus not to like such an aggressive, genocidal shithole of a country. And it's also fair to not give sanctioned Russian companies a deep level of access to his kernel.
And btw, for being Polish it seems weird that you constantly post in US politics communities and never in any polish ones.
They saw people were banned to comply with the law and it was a list of just Russians. Huawei is a sanctioned company and none of their employees were banned.
But he was talking about the specific people implying that they were supporting the Russian aggression, which to my knowledge they weren't. The removal also said it can be reversed with "sufficient documentation" without any clarification on what that is. There were and are many opportunities to say "these people were removed because they worked for sanctioned companies" but that was not said.
To my knowledge there are no Polish communities on here. I do comment and post on r/Poland on Reddit.
Nobody got banned. They were removed from their positions as maintainers, because they work for a sanctioned company.
Please stop being purposely misleading.
They can still contribute to their heart's content. They just can't submit patches with no oversight, because they are close to the Russian government, who, I don't know if you've realised, has invaded their neighbour and is currently committing genocide.
Yep I knew that, no clue why I wrote that, sometimes I should probably proofread.
But again, employees of non-Russian sanctioned companies were not removed.
I am not, it was genuine slip of the finger? Idk, but if you check my profile there are plenty of examples where I omitted or said the wrong word, I really should proof read more rather- though that would ruin the fun. Stop assuming malice when someone has a different opinion from you and makes a mistake.
There is still oversight, plenty of people read every merged commit.
I've never seen anything to support this.
Invaded yes, genocide I have no clue what really is happening in Ukraine, but I would say it doesn't look like a genocide. War is bad, killing is bad, but genocide is a specific thing, and this feels a lot like just adding a word to make it sound more bad. The invasion is bad enough.
You're getting little in the way of benefit of the doubt because you're repeatedly trying to make Russia look good and misleading about this.
It's also somewhat hard to take you seriously when in another comment you equated drinking alcohol with child rape.
11 maintainers from sanctioned Russian companies were removed from their position where they could submit patches without any approval required.
Even if there weren't sanctions, it would be good to make that move. Russia could easily utilise these people to introduce insecurities. We do not need another xz utils disaster.
Yes, Russia is committing genocide as the UN defines it. Stop trying to minimise what they're doing. Genocide. Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine.
Genocide: "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group"
Putin has been leveling entire cities. He said Ukraine isn't a real country with a real culture. He has been abducting children and bringing them into Russia so they grow up as Russians. He has been altering signs, maps, etc to erase Ukrainian names.
That is genocide.
Never did either of those things.
Why are you lying? I did not equate them, and you know that. I analogized. If I say a sad movie "hit me like a truck" does that mean I'm equating it, or even saying its close? No, its an analogy.
My understanding is this is not true. My understanding is they are pushed to
linux-nextwhere people test and review them, and are eventually merged into the main branch after Linus reviews them, though I agree those patches are probably not reviewed as thoroughly, but there is still an approval process. My understanding is no one other than Linus can push directly tomain.Linux is not xz, each change has weeks before introduction and is much more looked at. Furthermore, the core thing, Jia Tan wasn't a real person- these maintainers are real people. If you're going to do a backdoor there still could be pseudonymous maintainers and contributors, those that show their face are more trust worthy. They're at least risking losing their real names reputation.
I'm not, stop insulting me. Nothing I said minimized it in any way.
I think this definition is not specific enough. I would not consider 'cultural genocide' genocide. Genocide is the systematic slaughter of nearly everyone of a specific group with the intent to kill nearly everyone in that group. It is not the banning of a religion to destroy that religion or as China and some other countries have tried to do- encouraging or forcing reproduction with a certain ethnic group to 'dilute the blood'. It is also not banning or repressing a language. That doesn't mean those things aren't 'cultural genocide', just that 'cultural genocide' and genocide are different things. To be honest, I'm not sure how to classify forced sterilization.
This itself doesn't mean its a genocide, war crime and massacre yes of course.
Yes to the first, the second though do you have a source for? (Though I would support that if he applied the same to Russian 'culture' but I don't think he does sadly)
Systemic cultural repression is bad, taking orphaned kids from their close family is bad. Adopting orphaned children itself is not itself bad, just like an American adopting a baby born in China isn't cultural repression for them to be assimilated into American 'culture'. I don't know how much of it is former, and how much is the latter, but it seems like it leans towards the former rather than the latter- but there are also cases where its the latter.
Okay?
The reason I am hesitant to agree with the claim of genocide is that there are still plenty of ethnic Ukrainians living in Russian occupied territories, and they are being oppressed(even more so than others in Russian territory) but they still exist. One example, my grandma was born in Nazi occupied Czech Republic, called then on her birth certificate the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia". Czechoslovak resistance assassinated the Nazi governor of the protectorate, an in revenge that Nazis killed all the adults in the town of Ležáky and in Lidice all the men and many women and children were slaughtered. This was a horrific atrocity, but I do not believe it was a genocide of Czechs because for the most(though still many, many were slaughtered) part ethnic Czechs were able to live, oppressed, but still allowed to live. It would be fair to say it was a genocide of the people of Ležáky but I don't think that counts as a "national, ethnical, racial or religious group"
Yes you did.
Yes you did.
Your understanding could be that 2+2=5, but that does not make it so.
That is impossible to do for the thousands of patches that get applied. Which is why maintainers have to be trusted. Ones working for sanctioned Russian companies cannot be.
Do you think Russia cares about that? They're happily conscripting young men into war. If they tell a maintainer to introduce a vulnerability otherwise their family will be killed, do you really think they'll say "No. My name will then be tarnished in the Linux circle! I'd rather let myself and my family die than let that happen!"
How convenient 🇷🇺. Regardless, that is the definition.
I didn't say it alone did. I said it as part of a bunch of other things.
Go look it up yourself, sealion. It won't take you long.
Regardless, it's another point in the genocide column.
Of fuck off you genocide denialist.
Forcible mass abduction of children with the specific intent of destroying Ukrainian culture is not the same as a family adopting a child who happened to have been born in another country.
What the fuck is that equivalence? This is like your "child rape and drinking alcohol are both bad, but I don't think the state should have the right to ban them" bullshit all over again.
How could you be defending something like that. Christ. Nazis did this.
I see the blatant attempt at destroying all Ukrainian culture (i.e. committing genocide) means nothing to you.
Quote it then, stop with the gaslighting, give the quote.
I think that that is not an effective long term tactic. XZ relied on kilobytes of binary files to be blindly called, that sort of thing doesn't happen in the Linux kernel. Its also not a good idea to use a real Russians working for real defense contractors if you don't want to raise suspicion.
What?
That is a definition.
I have that's why I asked, I've seem him say that Russians and Ukrainians are one people, but not that there is no such thing as Ukrainian culture. Another question though, why are you even still responding if you're just going to insult me? No one is going to read this far into an old thread to see you "humiliate me" and you're not going to change my mind through insults. Is is just a convenient punching bag?
And I responded to those other things. You seem to be ignoring half of what I say.
I'm not, and I'm not even say what's happening in Ukraine definitely isn't a genocide. Just with the information I have it doesn't look like it. I was hoping you might have more information on the topic, and you somewhat did, I didn't know about the child abduction thing.
I agree, that's why I said what I said. You know the next sentence where I specifically said they're not the same thing.
Where did I say child rape shouldn't be banned? You should work for TMZ or something, because it seems like you're great at picking out tiny snippets of sentences and ignoring the full context. I never once equated child rape and drinking alchohol. Or that child abduction is the same as adoption- seeing as I literally said that child abduction and adoption are the same thing, and this seems like its mostly child abduction.
Signs are not valuable, if the Nazis invaded Poland then decided they were just going to change the signs then I don't think they would be quite as remembered. The Nazis I'm certain did change the signs- but that is pretty insignificant thing to care about to be honest. The child abduction is far more important to focus on than signs.w
It's just an endless circle of you defending Russian genocide and defending child rape with you, isn't it?
Sanctioned companies are gone from the maintainers list. Good riddance. Thankfully Linus isn't a pro-russian loser.
RMS is an advocate of child rape. Thankfully nobody takes him seriously anymore.
Genocide is bad. Child rape is bad. I can't believe this even needs to be explained to some people.
I did neither of those things. You are openly ignoring what I said.
RMS did not do that.
I agree.
I'm sorry to say though I am reporting you for trolling because you repeatedly accusing me of saying stuff I never said, refuse to acknowledge anything I say- then continue to lie about me without providing any evidence for your lies.
Report away. Anybody reading this will agree it's utterly insane to talk about drinking a glass of wine and fucking a toddler as of they are the same thing.
Quote where I said they're the same thing.
In your comment where you equated them, then every single comment after.
Quote it then
Go read your own comments. You equated them.
Having a beer is not the same as raping a 4 year old.
If I equated them it should easy to quote where I did, that's the last I'll say on the matter until you quote it.
I told you when you did.
No you didn't because I didn't, quote it
But Russians ARE responsible for the actions of their government.
Individual people are not, no. Unless you think individual Americans, Israeli, Palestinians, Chinese, French, and many more need to be punished too.
The individuals in question work for sanctioned companies.
Do you have a source for that?
That‘s cool and I respect that, more power to you!