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[–] expatriado 65 points 1 month ago

with blackjack and hookers

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month 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...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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).

[–] jaybone 23 points 1 month 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 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

you can't know that

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The possibilities for naming their distro are endless...

[–] OwlPaste 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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 3 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

They already have a dozen, they all suck.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Exactly I fully expect Russia to continue cutting edge early 2000s os development

[–] JusticeForPorygon 4 points 1 month ago

Good for them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Gl with thst vro

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a pretty average day in the Linux community