Linus comment on the subject is the corn in the shit:
"Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about.
It’s entirely clear why the change was done, it’s not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to “grass root” it by Russian troll factories isn’t going to change anything.
And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren’t troll farm accounts - the “various compliance requirements” are not just a US thing.
If you haven’t heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by “news”, I don’t mean Russian state-sponsored spam.
As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it’s not just lack of real news, it’s lack of history knowledge too."
Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted
What was the big crime of this maintainers? Being from Russia.
Meanwhile, Torvalds and the Linux Foundation are madly boot-licking and cock-sucking the Mossad and the IDF.
the “various compliance requirements” are not just a US thing.
True, is just a NATO thing.
From the comments:
Linus reports to IBM/RedHat and their requirements are now Linux/Linus requirements. As a result today we can officially stop calling the Linux kernel “open”.
And a large part of the open stack as well, including g-libraries, gnome, wayland and everything hosted on freedesktop.org.
It’s obvious that Linux is now under RedHat control, who themselves are controlled by the US govt. BSD’s popularity is about to go up. I hope these Russian kernel maintainers switch to BSD, god knows BSD needs the drivers.
I don’t like the BSD license very much, I am more in hope that GNU Hurd finally kicks off, but I doubt any of the two happens.
I don’t like the BSD license very much
Why? Linux kernel is GPL, doesn’t protect it from stuff like this. At least you can be certain that Theo de Raadt isn’t going to kick people who contribute to BSD off the project based on their location. Contributors to tech projects should be chosen on merit, not ethnicity or citizenship (or any other characteristic that is irrelevant to the project).
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Learning BSD jumped to high priority on my to do list. I get the feeling that as a tech savvy comrade, my life right now is going to be focusing on developing tech skills for the sole purpose of fighting against the Empire, along with helping PSL more. Anti-imperialist tech is a must, and any ties to the Empire cannot be trusted.
I’m probably going to attempt to run Free/OpenBSD and virtualize Linux like I do with Windows now. Maybe more work will be done on BSD and Gentoo BSD projects will be resurrected and supported.
When chinese maintainers will get removed?
This is because of western sanctions. Chinese contributors are much more numerous and more important than any Russians ever were; and they’re also not a sanctioned country, so I highly doubt it
EDIT: As an Iranian, however, there is not much time left before us Iranians in the FOSS world are going to be banned from everywhere, although some measure against us has already been taken (Microsoft banned the shit out of Iranians when they took over GitHub)
For example, one of the most widely used libraries in the world is written by an Iranian who works (worked?) at Google by the name of Behdad Espahbod (HarfBuzz glyph processor library)
But it’s fine that Red Hat/IBM is literally a US defense contractor that knowingly participates in crimes against humanity.
Plus the other thousand examples of how Linux, or any western tech, are the product of empire.
One sane voice amongst the madness:
I’m pretty sure everyone from Israel is still allowed. Double moral of the west, once again.
I’m worried. Israel has a history of compromising public goods to be used as weapons of war yet they are not banned. Let us hope that other nations of merit (such as China) can audit the code committed to the kernel for their own goods and for ours.
Like, is the reason for this just the fact that they’re Russian? If so, what exactly does this accomplish? Is it just
It accomplishes people moving out of Linux to open and anti-imperialist software.
Does anyone know of alternatives or if the people going out, and others, intend to fork it?
What does this comment mean
Linux is used/developed by NATO, DoD, intel/Israel, Mossad, Google and other imperialist entities. There’s most likely NSA/CIA/Mossad backdoors in the kernel. They’re probably not collecting data from every Linux user, but I am sure that if they wanted to, they could gain access to a Linux/android box.
This is why you shouldn’t do anything “sensitiv” on your computer. Use full disk encryption if you can, otherwise Tails booted off of a USB stick on public wifi.
What the imperialist entities have put in linux until now, or the vulnerabilities they found but didn’t disclose to anyone, isn’t even as much of a problem as what they will likely do now that they are removing the people most likely to be against allowing linux to be used against its users.
lolwut
Net/Free/OpenBSD are alternatives to Linux if that’s what you mean
I haven’t checked out the state of HURD in a while but possibly that as well
I haven’t checked out the state of HURD in a while but possibly that as well
A couple months ago they released an aarch64 port of GNU Hurd and there seem to be at least a couple people working on it.
McCarthy would be proud to see his legacy alive and well.
I can’t say I am surprised, but a bit disappointed.
it always gives me pause to see well known kernel maintainers take such seemingly knee jerk reactions.
when a someone like a script kiddie does it, it doesn’t matter; but I wonder when a kernel maintainer does it and i think i’m afraid to learn that the impetus and the thought process for both are the same.
Torvalds is a Finn. Finns are on a perpetual “pretending not to be a Nazi but actually being the reborn spirit of Goebells” mode, so it was a matter of time
One good thing about the last 3 years is that it has made me stop putting people on a pedestal and imagining them as more “advanced”.
At the end of the day we’re all just slophogs
Yeah, we need to stop doing that. I’m so sick of coders that act like they’re big brain geniuses because society put their profession on a pedestal for the last decade or so
Something i have learned in life, much to my own dismay, is that a lot of people that are very smart, and very good at specific things are really insanely reactionary. I think it comes from them spending so much time on that one thing that they just kind of dont even put any brain power towards politics or the state of the world and just catch some CNN here and there and go ok ya thats 100% true time to get back to arguing about boot loaders or whatever.
Like i bet the people who made this decision are rn thinking to themselves “Wait im confused the news said Russia was bad and my close circle of lib friends thought this was a good idea why is everyone mad?”
This has been 100% my experience as well. Most of the really good coders I’ve met are the types that also do it as a hobby outside work and also are reactionary/turbolib empire bootlickers. Literally regurgitating MSM slop and thinking they understand societal problems because they’ve read an op-ed in Bloomberg about why we need AI to fix the economy rather or something like that.
I think it comes from them spending so much time on that one thing that they just kind of dont even put any brain power towards politics or the state of the world
I’d also add to that the fact that this one thing they focus on has often been put on a pedestal (like coding for instance), which gets to many of them and makes them overestimate their abilities in other areas (“society says coders are smart, I’m a coder, I make good money, maybe I really am better than others, even at other things too” - an attitude I’ve encountered quite a few times).
100% agreed. Most software engineers are awful in this respect.
I’ve heard one fun thing is being a software engineer with multiple jobs at the same time, barely doing any work, and mostly just studying political theory and using the extra funds to fund local projects organized by their local communist party. A … um … friend of mine does something like that.
Interesting. I need to learn more about this from this friend of yours, for academic reasons
So you have to maintain separate resumes once you split into two or more simultaneous roles. You probably want to do this once you’ve reached software engineer or senior software engineer level and are feeling very comfortable.
Sometimes you’ll have two meetings at the same time which can be kind of a pain. A 3.5mm audio mixer can enable you to mix the audio outputs from two or more computers so you can listen to both at the same time. As software engineer, you probably only have to talk occasionally.
This can probably apply to other jobs where you can easily exaggerate the amount of time tasks are taking. Most people in the software engineering industry seem to have no idea how long a given task should take.
I heard this can be risky with two jobs in the same industry due to limits of one account per person. This was from a tiktok video though so I don’t have any other details.
Unless you luck out, it would probably be difficult to accomplish this with one or more of the jobs being FAANG employers, but I’d be rooting for anyone who tried.
Any other particular questions?
Programmers, the senior ones who can court good money with relative ease at least, are gonna tend to be pretty well off, which I’m sure is part of it. For them, the concept of “skills gud, pay gud too, something something meritocracy vibes” pretty much applies (even if the reasons it works for them are probably not what they think) and afaik they don’t even have to fight for it with unions much of the time because the demand is high enough and the number of people at their skill level low enough. Entry level seems to be a much different story, having become saturated with all the bootcamp code stuff and “learn to code” rhetoric and such. But like, there’s stuff where it runs on some old programming language that virtually nobody learns or actively uses anymore, so knowing it could give you a lot of leverage.
The moment these types of people were faced with hardship in employment and wages, I’m confident many of them would start questioning a lot of things they never thought much about before. But as long as they are a relatively comfy class in high demand, much of the class struggle can fly under the radar for them and through that, much of the rhetoric that might persuade them to think about imperialism as well.
Yup. It’s haute labor aristocracy. Or was, maybe it’s down a peg nowadays. And usually all STEM, no humanities. No class consciousness. Petit bourgeois stock options aspirations.
By all rights I should be an insufferable turbolib.
The treats are eroding nowadays, though, so they’re likely to get angrier. Maybe a few will develop class consciousness.
Maybe a few will develop class consciousness.
Most of these types I interact with are blaming the poor or some specific government “bad apples”. A few do seem to almost “get it”, but still have way too many liberal brainworms and draw some milquetoast or outright reactionary conclusions
It’s an uphill battle trying to instill any sort of class consciousness in these people, as expected due to their material conditions
By all rights I should be an insufferable turbolib.
Well I’m very glad that you’re not. :D
when a someone like a script kiddie does it, it doesn’t matter; but I wonder when a kernel maintainer does it
The platonic ideal of lemmy.ml content
I saw that earlier and was going to post it here when I got back to my computer. Absolutely depressing. But if the comments at Phoronix were anything to go by, this isn’t going over well. Hopefully sanity will prevail.
