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Holy shit that got spicy. I was not expecting a Ukrainian and a Serb to start bickering back and forth while stacking racks over the level of support a country gave to the Nazis in WW2 on a kernel mailing list like they were in the comments here on Lemmy.
I get that tensions are high, and for many people the geopolitical reality is their homes being used as cover on an active front line, but like bro your actual fucking name is attached to these messages. At least I keep my most unhinged shit on a semi-anonymous platform. They need to lock it the fuck up.
Edit - jfc, a few messages later somebody comes in with something along the lines of “Taiwan isn’t a country, it’s part of China. When reunification comes sanctions won’t be appropriate against Chinese entities.” Is Lemmy just a front end for this mailing list and I had no idea this entire time?
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Not even Taiwan claims to be a country though. They claim to be the sole legitimate government of China, hence their actual name, The Republic Of China, and not "republic of taiwan" or some other thing.
That's why what Linus said was stupid when he brought WWII into this conversation...
They are not wrong though Taiwan isn’t a country. They have never declared independence their government has never officially given up their claim of being the rightful ruler of China. I have no idea why none of these have not been done.
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I thought you were joking, but yup they actually started quizzing eachother on WW2.
It's not the end of Linux by any means, but that's gonna be hard to work together afterwards
Jeeeeez that was a lot. I get the sense that the kernel has worked as well as it has because people saw it as separate from geopolitics and so didnt discuss them...now that politics has wedged its way in I feel like it may have opened that door permanently.
I'm optimistic, since technical arguments can be pretty heated yet they end like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouTXff7lvq4
You're surprised that the alpha techbros of techbrodom have a lot of people involved that have hot takes on geopolitics?
It's just that the last year or two has made everyone a partisan because everyone has doubled-down on being divisive and killed any social norms around not being a jackass.
If you think kernel maintainers are 'techbros' then you dont really understand that term
does anyone?
if you live in the bay area, youd understand who works in tech, and whose a tech bro, very easily.
Living and working in silicon valley for 20 years and then moving to Austin and then Chicago has shown me the reality of how much of a bubble that the Bay Area is.
Nothing translates and tech bro there has a VERY different meaning outside of it.
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