honestly, i'm not even sure i'd blame him. who knows what kind of pressure he's getting behind closed doors

my understanding was that the kernel didn't publicly state any specific reason, but "complying to sanctions" semms like a safe bet to me

in any case, whatever the reason, this removal is unfortunate and uncalled for

YUP

so... maybe nobody should be banned and it sucks that this happened?

there is simply no meaningful response to this

no matter whether you think russia is justified in invading ukraine or not, if russians get banned from the kernel bc russia invaded ukraine, yankees have to get the boot as well

the ubuntu machines at work are nearly unusable bc snaps don't play well with our intranet setup and it just so happens that ubuntu thought it would be a brilliant idea to make firefox, the default browser, a snap

slack is also a snap so the support team had to install it by hand so that we don't get locked out of work meetings while at the office

this sucks so much bc ubuntu is basically the first distro that comes to mind when ppl think "linux", so it shouldn't make us deal with this kind of bullshit. i wish they went back to the days where ubuntu was just a boring repackaged debian

the software was created by marxist-leninists. maybe deal with it?

literally yesterday i saw someone in a linux community on here saying a foss project isn't trustworthy bc it's developed by a chinese citizen

should zelensky's government be afraid of zelensky's government?

rust is a systems/low overhead programming language. really not much of a point comparing js/ts and rust, since js is much higher level. you should be comparing it with c, c++, zig, maybe nim, etc

you also imply it's pointless to have a language geared towards performance because computers are better now, but 1) programs run on more than just personal computers and you wouldn't run js in an embedded system and 2) just because your computer can put up with poor performance and resource waste doesn't mean that it's sensible to do so (hello electron)

also, rust does more than just cosmetic improvements. it adds a layer of statically guaranteed memory safety that no other commercially viable programming language that i know of has. even if its syntax looked like ancient eldritch runes, it would still be an attractive language. the fact that it manages to do more than other languages while still having a decent syntax is amazing

you can dislike rust if you want that's fine but you don't need to try to shit on it just bc it's not your cup of tea

"this week in plasma: core plasma shell rewritten in typescript and electron"

at least this guy recognizes systemd isn't (just) an init system

"it attempts to do more" yeah. that's the point. that's a good thing. a single source of truth for system background services. background systems used to be a fucking mess and then systemd fixed it. this is why it is the de facto pid 1

i wish people just quit whining