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[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 5 points 12 hours ago

More options is good for everyone

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It’s like exactly what I said they would do after the original news of the bans from the other day. And I got downvoted for it. Lol

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

That's because they're not going to actually do it.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago

you can't know that

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago

It's almost certain that they will be doing it and that Chinese will join in because they're the obvious next target.

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 21 points 19 hours ago

We'll build our own Linux, with blackjack and hookers!

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago

with blackjack and hookers

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They haven’t been removed from the community though — just the maintainers list. Now they need someone else’s review to commit code to the kernel.

Personally, I think even maintainers should be required to have that — you can be the committer for pre-reviewed code from others, but not just be able to check anything you want in, no matter your reputation (even if you’re Linus). That way a security breach is less likely to cause havoc.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I find that difficult. Aside from code reviews, often times your job as a maintainer is:

  • getting a refactor or code cleanup in while everyone's asleep
  • shuffling commits around between branches
  • fixing the CI toolchain
  • rolling back or repairing a broken change
  • unfucking the repo
  • fixing a security vulnerability

A required review slows all of these tasks to a crawl. I do agree that the kernel is important enough that it might be worth the trade-off.
But at the same, I do not feel like I could do my (non-kernel) maintainer job without direct commit access...

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I feel your pain. I have maintainer roles for a few projects where things could be slowed down by a week or more if I didn’t have direct commit access. And I do use that access to make things run faster and smoother, and am able to step in and just get something fixed up and committed while everyone else is asleep. But. For security critical code paths, I’ve come to realize that much like Debian, sometimes slow and secure IS better, even if it doesn’t feel like it in the moment (like when you’re trying to commit and deploy a critical security patch already being exploited in the wild, and NOBODY is around to do the review, or there’s something upstream that needs to be fixed before your job can go out).

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 9 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

The possibilities for naming their distro are endless...

[–] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Will we finally get the "Putinix" distribution that mines cryptocurrency for the regime by default? It will have to be a new coin called "RuOil"

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Especially, because they can chose existing names as there is no Copyright in Russia (afaik, probably a wrong myth but idk)

[–] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

No there was copyright, it was only relatively enforced between 2000-2015 ish. And then probably only in tourist heavy areas. In the olden days you could find any soft on "black markets" in open stalls

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 3 points 18 hours ago

Gl with thst vro

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This joke hasn't aged well. I took it as is and just assumed the Dad put together a micro PC with a PS2 emulator on it, and then I stared at the article for 5 minutes looking for the punchline.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The joke still works fine, just replace PS2 with PS5 in your head.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago
[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

the country doing the most cyber attacks wants to do its own linux forks. what could possibly go wrong

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 21 hours ago

At first I thought you meant it'd be a bad fork, but then I realise you meant it'd be a bad fork.

As long as it's open source and vetted by the public, I don't see how it could go bad tbh

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 hours ago

Wait US is also forking Linux?

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] mihor@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Should be interesting, perhaps the Russian fork will become even more successful than the canonical.

[–] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I wonder which one I'll choose.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago

whichever one NSA tells you to use