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it always gives me pause to see well known kernel maintainers take such seemingly knee jerk reactions.
when a someone like a script kiddie does it, it doesn't matter; but I wonder when a kernel maintainer does it and i think i'm afraid to learn that the impetus and the thought process for both are the same.
Something i have learned in life, much to my own dismay, is that a lot of people that are very smart, and very good at specific things are really insanely reactionary. I think it comes from them spending so much time on that one thing that they just kind of dont even put any brain power towards politics or the state of the world and just catch some CNN here and there and go ok ya thats 100% true time to get back to arguing about boot loaders or whatever.
Like i bet the people who made this decision are rn thinking to themselves "Wait im confused the news said Russia was bad and my close circle of lib friends thought this was a good idea why is everyone mad?"
This has been 100% my experience as well. Most of the really good coders I've met are the types that also do it as a hobby outside work and also are reactionary/turbolib empire bootlickers. Literally regurgitating MSM slop and thinking they understand societal problems because they've read an op-ed in Bloomberg about why we need AI to fix the economy rather or something like that.
I think it comes from them spending so much time on that one thing that they just kind of dont even put any brain power towards politics or the state of the world
I'd also add to that the fact that this one thing they focus on has often been put on a pedestal (like coding for instance), which gets to many of them and makes them overestimate their abilities in other areas ("society says coders are smart, I'm a coder, I make good money, maybe I really am better than others, even at other things too" - an attitude I've encountered quite a few times).
100% agreed. Most software engineers are awful in this respect.
I've heard one fun thing is being a software engineer with multiple jobs at the same time, barely doing any work, and mostly just studying political theory and using the extra funds to fund local projects organized by their local communist party. A ... um ... friend of mine does something like that.
Interesting. I need to learn more about this from this friend of yours, for academic reasons
So you have to maintain separate resumes once you split into two or more simultaneous roles. You probably want to do this once you've reached software engineer or senior software engineer level and are feeling very comfortable.
Sometimes you'll have two meetings at the same time which can be kind of a pain. A 3.5mm audio mixer can enable you to mix the audio outputs from two or more computers so you can listen to both at the same time. As software engineer, you probably only have to talk occasionally.
This can probably apply to other jobs where you can easily exaggerate the amount of time tasks are taking. Most people in the software engineering industry seem to have no idea how long a given task should take.
I heard this can be risky with two jobs in the same industry due to limits of one account per person. This was from a tiktok video though so I don't have any other details.
Unless you luck out, it would probably be difficult to accomplish this with one or more of the jobs being FAANG employers, but I'd be rooting for anyone who tried.
Any other particular questions?
I admit I didn't expect you to go into the specifics of it but this is some next level shit that never crossed my mind!
Tbh I'd chicken out trying to do that now, but I've definitely been in a few jobs where it felt like I could get away with it. Makes me miss even more the days when you could easily work fully remotely. Maybe one day...
Ah yeah, they definitely have to be remote roles for it to be feasible. Good luck to you!
One sane voice amongst the madness:
I'm pretty sure everyone from Israel is still allowed. Double moral of the west, once again.
I'm worried. Israel has a history of compromising public goods to be used as weapons of war yet they are not banned. Let us hope that other nations of merit (such as China) can audit the code committed to the kernel for their own goods and for ours.
McCarthy would be proud to see his legacy alive and well.
I can't say I am surprised, but a bit disappointed.
I saw that earlier and was going to post it here when I got back to my computer. Absolutely depressing. But if the comments at Phoronix were anything to go by, this isn't going over well. Hopefully sanity will prevail.
As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it’s not just lack of real news, it’s lack of history knowledge too."
does this mean he is proud that they sided with nazi germany?
Possibly not openly proud, but I would guess that yes.
...Fuck...
Learning BSD jumped to high priority on my to do list. I get the feeling that as a tech savvy comrade, my life right now is going to be focusing on developing tech skills for the sole purpose of fighting against the Empire, along with helping PSL more. Anti-imperialist tech is a must, and any ties to the Empire cannot be trusted.
I'm probably going to attempt to run Free/OpenBSD and virtualize Linux like I do with Windows now. Maybe more work will be done on BSD and Gentoo BSD projects will be resurrected and supported.
When chinese maintainers will get removed?
This is because of western sanctions. Chinese contributors are much more numerous and more important than any Russians ever were; and they're also not a sanctioned country, so I highly doubt it
EDIT: As an Iranian, however, there is not much time left before us Iranians in the FOSS world are going to be banned from everywhere, although some measure against us has already been taken (Microsoft banned the shit out of Iranians when they took over GitHub)
For example, one of the most widely used libraries in the world is written by an Iranian who works (worked?) at Google by the name of Behdad Espahbod (HarfBuzz glyph processor library)