On Thu, 2024-10-24 at 07:27 +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> Hello Linux-kernel community,
>
> I am sure you have already heard the news caused by the recent Greg’
> commit 6e90b675cf942e (“MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to
> various compliance requirements.”). As you may have noticed the
> change concerned some of the Ru-related developers removal from the
> list of the official kernel maintainers, including me.
>
> The community members rightly noted that the quite short commit log
> contained very vague terms with no explicit change justification. No
> matter how hard I tried to get more details about the reason, alas
> the senior maintainer I was discussing the matter with haven’t given
> an explanation to what compliance requirements that was.

Please accept all of our apologies for the way this was handled. A summary of the legal advice the kernel is operating under is

If your company is on the U.S. OFAC SDN lists, subject to an OFAC sanctions program, or owned/controlled by a company on the list, our ability to collaborate with you will be subject to restrictions, and you cannot be in the MAINTAINERS file.

Anyone who wishes to can query the list here:

https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/

In your specific case, the problem is your employer is on that list. If there’s been a mistake and your employer isn’t on the list, that’s the documentation Greg is looking for.

I would also like to thank you for all your past contributions and if you (or anyone else) would like an entry in the credit file, I’m happy to shepherd it for you if you send me what you’d like.

Again, we’re really sorry it’s come to this, but all of the Linux infrastructure and a lot of its maintainers are in the US and we can’t ignore the requirements of US law. We are hoping that this action alone will be sufficient to satisfy the US Treasury department in charge of sanctions and we won’t also have to remove any existing patches.

Regards,

James Bottomley

Very cool feat of technology and engineering for the time period. Though, can it really be classified as a computer? It’s more like a “calculator” but doesn’t in principle do anything more than a lookup table can do. The lookup table is basically encoded in the gear ratios. Maybe I’m being too uncharitable. But this is like calling a watch a computer that calculates seconds since midnight.

I assume this also affects mobile Firefox like Firefox/Fennec for Android? The version of Fennec on F-Droid is like 2 months old.

First one to pop in mind: Wind (3:49)

Activism related, this trailer for the Japanese movie Death By Hanging left a mark on me for its pacing and sense of urgency.

Which lever machine do you have? I used to use a La Pavoni but it started giving these metal flakes and I got weirded out that the copper was leeching out of the boiler. I also have a hand grinder because it will last way longer than an electric grinder motor.

I’ve seen this one in person! Couldn’t figure out exactly what the building was for, something related to space I guess

The address for the US embassy in Moscow is 1 Square of the Donetsk People’s Republic

Doctor Octavius

All these budget cuts across the board with the new Finnish government just so it can be redirected to NATO and military expenditures.

I’m not a Linux beginner but I like gnome because it’s polished and the opinionated defaults work ok for me. I don’t really want to spend much time thinking about my DE. I understand why people like KDE or tiling WMs, I just don’t want to dedicate much time tweaking settings. Although I’m mainly a laptop user and just use the WM to open a web browser, so simple gesture navigation and workspaces is enough.

I remember walking through Den Røde Plads, fun vibe with the big red star and skating area. It needs a Palestine Square nearby.

“We exist as dialectical opposites; my opponent is defined in his relation to me, and I at the same time am his enemy.”

What is Jeff?

In 2025 it will be 7 euros for an ETIAS travel authorization to enter 30 European countries, for Americans and some other nationalities. I suppose it’s the same thing as in the UK

“I think the twin towers of America are Democracy and Capitalism”

Very apt point to make on 9/11

He also voice re-enacted the Paul Robeson HUAC testimony

Europe should try yoga or get into making sourdough

I code it all without running it and then pray it works on the first shot

The Soviets liberated Finland even earlier than WW2 in 1918. Unfortunately, the result of the Finnish Civil War ended with the annihilation of the Finnish Reds and the victory of the Whites. And IMO this fact fed directly into the main causes of the 1939 Winter War, since the White-led government was unwilling to negotiate or compromise with the Soviets. I don’t want to say that the outcome of the Finnish Civil War would change everything, but I do sometimes wonder how WW2 could have gone differently if the Finns became Reds.

It’s quite a shame considering that Lenin and the Bolsheviks are an important part of Finnish independence.