@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

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

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 review
looks like the complete US corporate capture of linux is showing itself

apparently in minecraft strafe+forward while sneaking is faster by sqrt(2) (but not regular movement)

anyway now that britain gave up its indian ocean territories can france do too. incidentally one of them is also claimed by mauritius lol

!! the UK is actually going to return chagos to mauritius
the base is staying though from what i understand