Tinidril

Every general election is that way. We've had alternatives.

If Harris loses the fault will be with every Democrat that voted Biden over Sanders in 2020. That was the window we had to transform the Democrats into a party that would absolutely crush the MAGA movement. We missed it and we may not see another in this lifetime.

Extracting that statement is perfectly fine because it's the one point that Harris supporters can't get through their thick skulls. It is actually possible to make the case to vote for Harris without directing preachy paternalistic bullshit at people who have lost the lives of friends and family to this administration.

I realize fully the threat Trump is, and I'm reluctantly voting Harris myself. I want Harris to win, and I see you preachy morons driving other potential Harris voters away and it's maddening. You self-righteous assholes need to get a fucking clue. Please go do something useful like read a book on the art of persuasion until this election is over because you're not helping.

Pot, kettle, etc

-signed a reluctant Harris voter

You left out "Russian invasion, Russian ethnic cleansing, and Russian war crimes."

So, in your world, the US government is responsible to provide you with a detailed justification for the specific sanctions being applied against a foreign adversary? Keep waiting.

I really don't think you understand what's going on in the Russian economy right now. Russia has unwittingly gotten themselves embroiled in an existential conflict. (Less existential for the country than for the warlords running it.) Every expenditure or resources, natural, human, financial, etc, is being weighed against it's benefits to the war. Even basic things like their ability to feed their population are only valued because the war can't be fought without them. That's what a war economy is.

Despite all the failures of the Russian military, it took well over a year for Putin to fire his top general. The reason it took so long was that Putin trusted his general to remain loyal and not initiate a coup. Removing him was a drastic move, but the more interesting part is who replaced him. The new Russian defense minister got the job with absolutely no military training, background, or experience. His only qualification was that he is an extremely capable economist who is largely credited with helping Russia transition to a war economy and blunt the impact of western sanctions. That should tell you all you need to know about how important Russia thinks economics are to the war.

our work should exist for all mankind and to the betterment of society as a whole

That's nice and all, but totally unrealistic. The vast majority of kernel development is done because the developers (or their sponsors) benefit from the work they do and from having that work integrated with the rest of the kernel. I don't see that as a bad thing.

Ban work on Russian firmware or Linux compatibility with Russian hardware.

There is no such thing as "Russian hardware" when it comes to computing. Russia has it's own standards for a lot of technologies, but creating a proprietary set of computing standards that's disconnected from the ecosystem of western hardware makes no sense. They manufacture some of their own computing hardware, but it's all based on the same standards that are used everywhere else.

I would be absolutely amazed if the Russian government is somehow on the bleeding edge of linux development and actively deploying head branch builds of linux with the latest available firmware.

Why? Anyone contributing to the Linux kernel is, almost by definition, at the "bleeding edge of Linux development". It may not be the bleeding edge pushing the boundaries of computer science, but it doesn't have to be. A whole lot of kernel development is pretty basic stuff aimed to satisfy particular needs or requirements. Drones benefit greatly from highly specialized power management, real time data collection, flexible networking, etc. Most are built from off the shelf hardware and consumer electronics.

their almost certainly backporting to a stable linux release and that means this kinda ban if it follows you’re reason isn’t going to have an impact

The issue of drift exists with both older and newer kernels. If a particular kernel is so stable that drift isn't an issue, then it isn't a kernel that will be adding a bunch of new Russian commits anyways. If they are simply back-porting it themselves, then their inability to commit to the main Linux branches is irrelevant. In the scenario, the whole discussion is moot.

I'm not going to take that hill because the generals haven't proven to me that it's necessary to win the war.

This isn't an isolated thing. It's a small part of the biggest sanctions effort in history. Every single sanction, can be nit-picked in just the same way. There is very little in the way of technology that can't be dual purposed into warfare, and those that can't be are still relevant to the economic pressures being applied.

I have no idea why you are so sure that the development in question isn't already connected to military drones, but it's a really weird assumption. What exactly do you think is the number one priority for Russia right now in the area of technical development? What operating system do you think powers most drones, military or otherwise?

Most of these developers do work for companies that are paying them to make contributions so, it stands to reason that the kernel additions or changes are of particular use to those companies. Nothing is stopping them from continuing to make changes on their own fork for their own benefit, but that means drifting away from the mainline kernel. That adds extra work and overhead, which is the point.

I've seen nothing to suggest this has been identified as a concern, but modern warfare systems do often run on Linux. Some of these developers might already be contributing directly to the war. Also, economics are just as much a part of warfare as bullets and bombs. In this case particularly, economic factors are almost certainly going to be critical to ending the conflict.

I keep breathing yet the world hasn't changed. I guess I should stop breathing. That's some fantastic logic.

What exactly are you planning to do differently? Voting third party has an even worse track record at changing things. The same is true for sitting out the vote. Electing Democrats has been the only strategy that has achieved anything at all. So, what's your brand new plan to save democracy?

I feel bad about the Russian conscripts who are being thrown at the front line in meat wave attacks to soak up bullets. I also support the Ukrainians firing those bullets because I recognize that there is a damn war going on.

I don't have to feel ethnic or any other kind of hatred for Russian Linux developers to recognize that this is war and hobbling Russia's technology sector is a necessary part of that. Every bit of lubricant for the Russian economy ultimately equates to more death in Ukraine.

There are bidet attachments for standard toilets that take up almost no space at all.

There definitely are good reasons why Ethernet won out over token ring, but there are scenarios where token ring was better. Before modern bridges, Ethernet could struggle with collisions if a network were too highly utilized - especially if nodes were physically spread out.

As for the diagrams, it can sometimes be confusing when it's not made clear what is being represented. Physical and logical topologies can be mixed star and bus and matched in different ways, and diagrams don't always make clear to which they refer.