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But… basically every email provider or hosting service is legally obliged to give the information they collect to the government. It’s not like this is exclusive to Proton in any way whatsoever. If anything, subpoenas are evidence Proton tell the truth and do at least stop themselves from having most of the important data so they can’t give it away.

If there’s a serious security bug, like Heartbleed, you should totally update and reboot the service. That is basically the only “must” for staying atop things. The rest is mostly personal preference.

In my job I maintain publically exposed Linux servers, and many of them don’t get rebooted for years. I think our record is about five years.

Yes, if you want your server to be theoretically the rootinest tootinest securest setup ever, you should update about every 6 hours, but even then you’re just more vulnerable to repo attacks (which have happened a few times lately). Apt upgrade every month or three is probably good practice to keep on top of bugs.

So really, how frequently do you need to reboot? Eh. So long as it works, there are no critical kernel vulnerabilities, and updates are available, I really would argue you should never “have” to.

Servers are horses for courses, if you’re being heavily targeted by hackers, obviously stay on top of updates, but if your server is pootling along without harassment and doesn’t contain life-altering stuff if it got leaked, then don’t worry too much. A standard, barely-changing, ‘stable’ build is usually a very secure one.

So long as the foundation and the official “owners” of the kernel are US based, then the real answer is “because it’s the law”. Despite the fact the kernel is maintained and used throughout the globe, other countries’ laws are entirely irrelevant, but people who employed in a country are typically held to its laws.

The real mistake was having a registered company in the US that they’re unable to realistically move abroad.

In a world with sense, someone vaguely accountable in a new country will fork the kernel, that just becomes the de facto new kernel, doesn’t seem likely. We can only wait and see.

From that same mail thread:

Moreover, we have to remove any maintainers who come from the following countries or regions, as they are listed in Countries of Particular Concern and are subject to impending sanctions:

• Burma, People’s Republic of China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.
• Algeria, Azerbaijan, the Central African Republic, Comoros, and Vietnam.

For People’s Republic of China, there are about 500 entities that are on the U.S. OFAC SDN / non-SDN lists, especially HUAWEI

Some patches are linked where it looks like they’re trying to remove vast swathes of Chinese maintainers as well. If they insist with being a US lapdog like this then Linux kernel (as maintained by the Foundation/Torvalds etc) is fucking dead, no contest.

It’s interesting reading. Seems a lot of sole maintainers have been removed, so lots of important parts will start breaking. There’s also a lot of acknowledgement in the comments that chinese developers are an essential part of Linux development nowadays. And the US just gave China a very good reason to not collaborate on their projects, and there’ll be plenty rightly pissed off Russian developers who’ll be looking for something else to work on…

Just as the US is losing economic dominance, I wonder if this is the beginning of similarly losing its dominance in software development.

Honestly nobody should ever really be shaming for forking. It is the basis of all open software and all successful software development in history. Linux itself is obviously just a fork of Minix with GNU. And it is the traditional means of open-source and forking with which communities can and should quickly move away from bullshit like this to prevent corporate/government monopolization of it.

The previous poll being compared was January 2020, i.e. predating global pandemic (or at least knowledge thereof).

Given a small allocation can take only a few hundred cycles, and this would take at minimum a few seconds, it’s probably between a billion and a trillion times slower.

I mean, in fairness, conscription by threat of deadly violence is a thing that can and has been enforced throughout history (eg Ukraine right now). There’s no reason to think it applies here, but it’s not an impossible thing to happen.

That is the name for what I’m describing, no? Transubstantiation is the summoning of Christ’s blood and flesh by means of bread, wine and ritual. It’s a fancy word for a specific type of summoning.

I just can’t enjoy this. I recognise it’s a technological feat, but giving an ounce of positive praise to these first steps to privatized solar-system destroying shit just hurts. Society would be better off if it had exploded.

100%. Reusable rockets in this fashion were even envisioned and designed by NASA many decades ago, they just never had the funding to do it.

The official teaching is that it is not symbolic. They claim to be quite actually eating the flesh of Christ. Communion is a summoning ritual.

Real life.

Is not.

A fucking.

Trolley problem.

You are actually allowed to break the car and turn off the power.

Or more to the point, this could never have happened, because the workers wouldn’t be staying there under threat of poverty.

Militaristic world superpower has more firearms, tech, and manpower than relatively small country??? Who knew

Yep, Russian news is basically censored across the continent, and travel sanctions effectively mean you can’t meet any Russians in person either.

Just in case we see them as actual human beings or something.

I’d bet life savings the same way. Without a signficant newsworthy breakthrough that we’d already heard about, there’s not a chance in hell this company is making energy from nuclear fusion in 4 years.

Germany never knew how to handle the DDR correctly.

Thanks, guess that makes sense, kinda.