The whole Grad is seething I’m loving it.
Save your sanity and do Settings -> Blocks -> Block instance -> lemmy.ml
Also perhaps block me if you strongly disagree with the above.
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Linus in 2012: Nvidia fuck you
Linus in 2024: Russia fuck you
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Do China next
And Israel
And the US
No changes until China decides to invade Taiwan and the sanctions that Russia currently has begin.
Yeah, China are being “generic assholes” right now, but not crossing the lines into “serious villain shit” yet, at least for people who aren’t in China.
But if they touch Taiwan, oh hell yeah.
They round up their own people and either brainwash or straight up murder them. Their government is as corrupt and evil as any other.
Yes, but it’s their people they’re butchering, so it’s less our problem just yet.
I know, bullshit rules, but still.
Oh yeah, let’s wait until they start murdering people to maybe take some action.
Yes.
And when they start murdering people we bring down the wrath of God on them.
That’s the problem with Russia, you have to be nice, up to the point they cross the line, then you turn the doom music on.
We needed to start crushing their balls with a hydraulic press when they took Crimea, this is on us.
I mean, it probably would’ve been ideal then but as usual, America was recovering from/embroiled in the last Conservative disasters (financial crisis, Afghanistan/Iraq.) And Obama had just burned a lot of political capital giving people healthcare.
W annihilated our foreign policy, destroyed it completely.
And yeah, Obama burned everything on the aca and recovering the economy while fox News had mustard gate and tan suit gate and saluting a guy with a coffee cup gate.
His foreign policy was a mess, but at least he started the pivot away from the middle east back to meaningful places, but we really needed to deal with Russia then.
who is this “we” who can “bring down the wrath of god”?
If they try for Taiwan, the whole west, you know, the people who depend on Tsmc chips for literally everything.
We went to war over oil you better believe we’d mobilize to fuck for literally all our tech.
over oil against Iraq. And that’s a shame. Even back then “the whole west” wasn’t united behind that lie.
China isn’t Iraq.
Iran neither. Iraq was an artificial state. Iran is there in some form for more than 2 millennia. 3?
Russia is in Ukraine. Israel is, with the help of U.S. trying to start a war in “middle east”. Let’s say that China “try for Taiwan”, do you really think that the U.S. can “mobilize” effectively on all these fronts. And would Europe follow U.S.?
Another question would be, let’s say that Trump is the next president: What would that change about your world war 3 fantasies?
I mean there are chinese spies in europe, which suppress, bully and sometimes even kill chinese journalists who have fleed (?) to europe. And thats not even a conspiracy theory, there were investigative journalists who have uncovered this in several countries. So I’d say that china is reeealy close to that villain line
Yeah, I think thats still really brushing the line.
This is a carrot and stick thing, by making Russia an extreme example we can steer them back from the edge.
But we do need to have other sanctions, they’re just being dickholes.
SELinux from NSA is evil. Got it.
Absolutely based as fuck as usual.
I’m surprised how many people treat GPL to ignore borders. The IP law still operates only by the rules your country decides.
I can understand the desire for information to be free, but unless Open source movement becomes it’s own country the discussion should end there.
Linus is from Finland. Finns barely tolerate Russians under usual circumstances. These are not usual circumstances.
It is genuine xenophobia. I like in Poland, and its like you’re either a homophobe, or a xenophobe- with pretty limited inbetween. (And there are plenty of people who are both)
I think given the current political situation this is the right call. No one knows what the Russian government might compel otherwise innocent devs to do.
That said, we (and I mean society, not any particular individual) should be mindful that we don’t slip into bigotry.
I thought it said expulsion of Russian Mountaineers so that was pretty confusing
It’s really such a shame that the mountaineers always take so much credit when the Linux sherpas do so much of the work.
You have to be arguing in bad faith if you’re trying to say “citizens of nation shouldn’t be responsible for their nation”
The open source benefit is not that they can directly impact it, it’s that their government can’t
Absolutely idiotic take that endangers not only Linux but fractures the concept of open source itself.
Go look at the principles of open-source or free software as defined either by the OSI and the FSF and then come back when you find the one that says that Linus needs to violate US sanctions to keep employees of Russian companies in trusted roles within his project.
Was worth it just to see you morons fume
I think it’s a great change. But then again I’m not a lemmy.ml user.
Thinking this endangers Linux is pretty hilarious. Linux will be fine without a handful of Russian maintainers lol.
Does anybody really believe that the whole Linux project will fall apart because of this?
Don’t know the whole story but :
If you banned them because they are promoting the Russia, it’s okay. But it’s not if you banned them ONLY because they’re Russians. But maybe you could like said to them to do like in the sports, and operate as a “no-country” people, but surely not ban them for their nationality
