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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

The thing is, there is no way for the US and British to swoop in and declare unlimited military support for the opposing side in exchange for mineral rights and financial predation on its industry and state assets.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, was I the one who brought up the war in Ukraine over Linux? No, that was Reddit brigaders infecting every topic they mentally associate with it, as usual.

Sir, this is a Kernel. This is not the United Nations.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The real challenge facing a kremlin linux fork isn't opposition, it's deciding what to do once they realize there aren't any maternity wards in the kernel they can shoot ballistic missiles at.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Oh first the Russian government is the one responsible for the fork itself, now suddenly they are shooting missiles at it in your mind. The liberal brainpan is a fascinating place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I think you may have misread the message you replied to. The message you replied to was implying the Russians wouldn't know how to deal with the kernel because they can't shoot missiles at it. That's the opposite of what your reply implies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I think you're confusing with israel.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's what I'm saying, associating it with the SMO is just liberal Russiagate brainworms manifesting over every issue related to the country. I wasn't the one to bring it up.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is a thread about a Russian fork of Linux.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, and if Russia is solely defined by the war in Ukraine to you, you don't even understand how their government works. It's pure jingoism. Are these people who decided they are Linux superfans the day that Russian maintainers were kicked out so comfortable with the idea that only Western governments should invest in open source technologies? This kind of thing should become a public utility.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's funny because it's not a realistic expectation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We discussed that "expectation" already, and how hopes of diplomacy with Ukraine evaporated officially with Boris Johnson's visit. Of course, behind the scenes it was already hopeless since 2014. They just took time to prepare for sanctions.

Rather than discussing the prospect of the development of Linux as a public utility by a diverse array of nations and groups, you show up to cheerlead for western tech monopolies and the intellectual apparatus. You jeer. You hoot. You've got your burger in hand.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The joke is since it's a Russian fork of Linux, they think that it'll be complete in only a month.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are you just going to keep repeating this like my first reply wasn't based on acknowledging the meaning of the joke? Are you stupid?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They expect the special operation to take only a month.

This part was the joke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Again if you made it past my first reply without realizing I was referring to the meaning of the joke, you didn't comprehend what I was saying.

This is getting pathetic in a very different way since you have four times now asked me to laugh at your joke instead of pointing out why you made it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You should go do stand up at the Republican National Convention, they love jingoism and Western tech supremacy. I guess you've got to live your life after being heckled now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A fork of Linux definitely won't be done in only a month.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They certainly don't expect it to. The three days claim is apochryphal, and my point is that whatever expectations they have for development can't be screwed with by something analogous to the US and allies sending weapons. Because this is the result of the aggression by US national security. This is the result of US shooting itself in the foot. They don't have more screws to twist, the clock can't be turned back to before R&D spending on this became worthwhile. "Wacky Russians cannot into technologies!!!!" has really not benefitted anyone outside or Wall St. and its political enclaves, it certainly hasn't benefitted Ukrainians to tell them Russian weapons production is flagging.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Every accusation is a confession, as per standard procedure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Like many things in Russia, the appearance is more important than the truth. If there were anything substantial made, I’m sure there will one or more soy agencies helping to pad a developer’s savings.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry is there anything in your brain other than slop from Google News? You see the word Russia and you start writing fanfiction!