https://lore.kernel.org/all/2024101835-tiptop-blip-09ed@gregkh/bunch of russian maintainers removed from linux, no reason other than "various compliance requirements", also got merged without comment or reviewlooks like the complete US corporate captur...

[eri@mk.moth.zone]

@[email protected] it's not corporate, individuals have to follow the sanctions too

[chjara@akko.wtf]

@eri on random individuals contributing to a free software project?

[eri@mk.moth.zone]

@[email protected] fuck if i know maybe

[chjara@akko.wtf]

@eri as far as i know even the most drastic sanctions the US imposes do not apply to just, communication with non-designated citizens, which is what this is about
but i don't doubt this is redhat telling the core team to kick out anyone vaguely russian to cover their ass/western brainworms, seeing linus's response

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@chjara @eri Well https://social.kernel.org/objects/860ef93c-229b-4070-8ee6-cb80d1f51337 points at them being employed by russian military industrial complex, which you entirely could publicly justify.
But then seeing Linus response… the hell.

[tusooa@kazv.moe]

@lanodan @chjara @eri Still, there is a distinction between "we don't welcome people who do bad things" and "we don't welcome people who [insert some government] does not like, who also happen to do bad things."

[tusooa@kazv.moe]

@lanodan @chjara @eri

With regard to this, https://github.com/Cryolitia just told me that "only one of the removed people" can be verified to be employed by a company with connections to the Russian army, but all people with a .ru email are removed. Which leads to people thinking whether the admin of social.kernel.org is misinforming the public.

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@tusooa @chjara @eri Made me check and msu.ru is an university: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@tusooa @chjara @eri At least omp.ru and netup.ru are corporations so yeah they could be sanctioned.
Although netup.ru seems to be just a seller of set-top boxes, at least usually mil-tech usually boasts about it on their site.

[tusooa@kazv.moe]

@lanodan @chjara @eri mail.ru, which appeared multiple times in the patch, apparently is a generic mailing service.

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@tusooa @chjara @eri @lanodan yeah mail.ru is huge its like gmail for a good chunk of the world. when I was in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan thats what everyone had as email addresses

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@liaizon @tusooa @chjara @eri Huh didn't even expect it to be used outside of Russia.

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@lanodan @chjara @tusooa @eri was mostly Vk and Yandex and OK everywhere when I was there. seemed almost more common then google services. Google maps didnt really work there too so less things to lock you into the google ecosystem. also I think all the phones people had came preinstalled with Yandex and and the like.