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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers (www.theregister.com)
submitted 3 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 132 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

"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."

fuck yes. fuck russia. fuck russians.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 hour ago

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."

Man, it's like you spend centuries brutalizing all your neighbors, if not outright conquering them and enforcing holocausts, and this is the thanks you get!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

I thought it said expulsion of Russian Mountaineers so that was pretty confusing

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

To directly quote Linus:

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Linus really pouring on that "white death" energy.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 hours ago

Absolutely based as fuck as usual.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Good cleanup on the security vulnerabilities!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 hours ago

Honestly, that's the main thing I was thinking.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Do China next

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No changes until China decides to invade Taiwan and the sanctions that Russia currently has begin.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 minutes ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, let's wait until they start murdering people to maybe take some action.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 50 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 44 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 32 minutes ago

And Israel

[–] [email protected] -1 points 13 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

It's really awesome to expel by nationality, even of people who've long moved out and immigrated years ago and don't support the invasion and war waged on Ukraine /s

Honestly fuck Russia ofc, but this goes a bit too far into the grey area between hawkish-reasonable and discriminatory, and on the latter side I'm not sure who and/or what this is meant to help, not does it seem particularly fair to those individual contributors to keep their code yet remove attribution and mailing list entries.

EDIT: holy shit the bloodlust in the comments here is actually unreal, even on arr slash neoliberal and the politics communities here on lemmy the comments are way more sane.