K. Ryabitsev
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We're learning more about the serious threat that Musk poses to U.S. national security.
He's completely wired into America's security apparatus, and has been one of Putin's phone pals.
Democrats need to recognize that much of this got going under Obama, whose administration was simply reckless in trusting this guy.
Great reporting by the WSJ:
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tante@tldr.nettime.orgWhat's going on over at Bluesky?
Oh they fundraised and got a whole bunch of money from a blockchain investor who has money in basically ever fucked up scam you have heard of.
Great.
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@multisn8 I'm referring to the general experience. On the one hand it's a needed relief, but on the other you're now wearing the results.
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@puppygirlhornypost2 Nothing really to do with LF directly, because LF doesn't do commerce with sanctioned companies. However, large US corporations working on the kernel are in a legally tough situation when some maintainer is working for a sanctioned company. Any changes that touch those subsystems could be qualified as "performing actions that benefit sanctioned companies."
That's my understanding. IANAL, never been, not speaking for LF.
That's my understanding. IANAL, never been, not speaking for LF.
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@tusooa I'm not having a philosophical debate today. I know very little about the extremely complex situation happening in Palestine, and I don't discuss things I don't understand.
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@tusooa Heh, you're trying to convince a "Russian identified person" in one of the senior positions in the Linux Foundation that the Linux Foundation is being unfair towards "Russian identified people." It's pretty hilarious.
I'm not a lawyer and I don't speak for the LF, so I won't give you any kind of "official comment." But here's my view of it.
The people removed from maintainer positions were identified as employed by companies on the US and EU sanctions list. These companies are directly involved in the Russian military complex and therefore are directly complicit in war crimes being committed daily in Ukraine. If these maintainers want to think that they are "just techies helping improve the Linux kernel," or that "they are outside of politics," then they are fucking wrong. If they work for companies that develop weaponry or logistics used by the Russian military, they are complicit in Russia's war crimes, and I hold them responsible at a very personal level -- and that's my official comment on the situation.
I'm not a lawyer and I don't speak for the LF, so I won't give you any kind of "official comment." But here's my view of it.
The people removed from maintainer positions were identified as employed by companies on the US and EU sanctions list. These companies are directly involved in the Russian military complex and therefore are directly complicit in war crimes being committed daily in Ukraine. If these maintainers want to think that they are "just techies helping improve the Linux kernel," or that "they are outside of politics," then they are fucking wrong. If they work for companies that develop weaponry or logistics used by the Russian military, they are complicit in Russia's war crimes, and I hold them responsible at a very personal level -- and that's my official comment on the situation.
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@tusooa You seem to be a troll. Explain how this is racist, or I will ban you.
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@tusooa "If you work for companies under direct US or EU sanctions, you are going to have a bad time."
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And when some crooked US politicians start saying "Why do we keep supporting Ukraine?" remind them that they fucking put their name on the legal document where the U.S. guaranteed the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine.
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Periodic reminder of a few facts:
1. Ukraine was a nuclear power after the dissolution of the USSR. It had nuclear weapons under its full control.
2. The USA convinced Ukraine to transfer their nuclear weapons to Russia. In exchange, the USA signed a treaty *guaranteeing* Ukraine's territorial sovereignty if Ukraine gives up its nuclear weapons.
3. In 2014, when Russia invaded and illegally annexed Crimea, the US under Barack Obama defaulted on their guarantee.
4. We cannot seriously discuss any other treaties with Russia if we continue to ignore the fact, that such treaties were repeatedly broken by Russia, with the powerful nations offering security guarantees looking the other way.
1. Ukraine was a nuclear power after the dissolution of the USSR. It had nuclear weapons under its full control.
2. The USA convinced Ukraine to transfer their nuclear weapons to Russia. In exchange, the USA signed a treaty *guaranteeing* Ukraine's territorial sovereignty if Ukraine gives up its nuclear weapons.
3. In 2014, when Russia invaded and illegally annexed Crimea, the US under Barack Obama defaulted on their guarantee.
4. We cannot seriously discuss any other treaties with Russia if we continue to ignore the fact, that such treaties were repeatedly broken by Russia, with the powerful nations offering security guarantees looking the other way.
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It's insane to me that we now have reports of North Korea intervening in Russia's invasion of #Ukraine and the response is so timid.
That's now two — or three, if you count Iran — autocratic states engaged in military conquest to quell a burgeoning liberal-democracy, with the rest of the world too paralysed by fear to prevent it.
This is a glimpse of how future decades are going to look. It's the great moral and liberal issue of our time. We'll be judged harshly for our failures now.
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My registrar just reminded me that I own fauxpas.guru, which I registered just for the purpose of having a social.fauxpas.guru fedi instance. But I never actually set that up, because sometimes a joke doesn't actually seem that funny the next day. :)
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Potato ENTHUSIAST
Br3nda@cloudisland.nzA SOY VANILLA LATTE IS ACTUALLY A TYPE OF THREE BEAN SOUP
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@mpdesouza Nenhum plano concreto. :) I'm just a language nerd and Brazilian Portuguese sounds good to my ear.
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@major it gets better the more frequently you do it, so stay the course. :)
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