last week I was looking up how to do some stuff with YT-DLP and found myself on a webpage covered in yellow and blue soliciting donations to the Ukrainian ?state? . (It wasn't YT-DLP itself, but one of the zillions of downstream projects.)
A few months ago I was shopping for a tiny electronics component, a few wires with certain connecting ports on either end. Was having a hard time figuring if it was the right one, so reading the the comments. Every 3rd comment is about this conflict. "FUCK THE RUSSIAN C---TS" I recall it in one comment.
It's so weird, I have never seen any political issue well presented among nerds.
liberalism + a fair amount of ukrainian OSS contributors will do that. The russian OSS contributors don't seem to outweigh them, or have long since self-selected out/been banned from western spaces, not sure which
I seem to recall there having been lots of russians in FLOSS. I think they have a hard time contributing because they are blocked from a lot of platforms lately. I've seen a couple of project pages with notices saying that development is indefinitely suspended because the dev has too much logistical issues. Specifically something about 2FA from ?github not being deliverable to russian phone numbers. But that can't be the whole story because you can easily enough use a TOTP app instead.
last week I was looking up how to do some stuff with YT-DLP and found myself on a webpage covered in yellow and blue soliciting donations to the Ukrainian ?state? . (It wasn't YT-DLP itself, but one of the zillions of downstream projects.)
A few months ago I was shopping for a tiny electronics component, a few wires with certain connecting ports on either end. Was having a hard time figuring if it was the right one, so reading the the comments. Every 3rd comment is about this conflict. "FUCK THE RUSSIAN C---TS" I recall it in one comment.
It's so weird, I have never seen any political issue well presented among nerds.
liberalism + a fair amount of ukrainian OSS contributors will do that. The russian OSS contributors don't seem to outweigh them, or have long since self-selected out/been banned from western spaces, not sure which
I seem to recall there having been lots of russians in FLOSS. I think they have a hard time contributing because they are blocked from a lot of platforms lately. I've seen a couple of project pages with notices saying that development is indefinitely suspended because the dev has too much logistical issues. Specifically something about 2FA from ?github not being deliverable to russian phone numbers. But that can't be the whole story because you can easily enough use a TOTP app instead.