This is clearly not “a russian wondering what’s wrong”, this is “a russian living in russia who doesn’t want to die in prison”. This would be a fair criticism if there wasn’t a law criminalizing pacifism together with many laws making it easy to deanonymize internet users.
Silence does not fix things.
Neither does grandstanding on Lemmy. It especially wouldn’t fix anything if a person in Russia trying to build international relations would go to prison for it.
This is about as useful as suggesting to an average USian/brit/german that they violently overthrow their oppressive governments and install socialism. The punishment for trying (at least in UK/germany) is about the same as it would be for a russian wearing an anti-war T-shirt, the benefits for the humanity would be greater than they would be for overthrowing Putin’s dictatorship, and yet I don’t see people yapping about it any time someone from those countries posts an open-source project.
There’s almost no civil society of any kind left in Russia, so it’s impossible to say if a nation overall supports or opposes the warfare. People with an active pro-war or anti-war stance are minorities, somewhere in the 10-20% range, and neither are allowed to speak up (interestingly, quite a lot of pro-war social media influencers are in prison right now for daring to speak up against corruption in the army or similar). The vast majority of people are just going about their days. Does that technically help with the war? Yes, I guess, it drives the economy, people pay taxes etc, but then the same can be said about an average american, brit or german right now - I don’t see them blowing up munitions factories (that directly supply the ongoing genocide).
There is a complex sociopolitical history as to why it’s likely Russians aren’t as vocal about these sorts of things
There’s also a very simple reason: Russian Criminal Code article 280.3, which criminalizes pacifism with up to 7 years’ imprisonment.
I don’t think there’s a law in the US that criminalizes pacifism [yet] (with actual prison time as punishment)
It’s easy to blame russians for not resisting the war when you don’t have the prospect of spending 7 years in a russian prison
The basis of trust has been breached by whole nation, so it has to be earned by every single member of that nation.
Nah, actually, in a typical company the lower down the ranks you are the less likely you are to be fired, statistically speaking (to a point, of course you’re more likely to be fired while on probation or something).
GitLab: a lot of cool features, well-integrated, polished. Downsides: resource hog, open-core model (some features locked behind a paid license when self-hosting)
Forgejo (the thing that powers codeberg): it’s federated & lighter on resources usage. Downsides: some features still missing/in development
Well shit. I will still self-host sourcehut because it’s so cool from a technical standpoint, but now with disgust for its author
Yes, it’s not linear. The progress of GenAI in the past 2 years is logarithmic at best, if you compare it with the boom that was 2019-2023 (from GPT2 to GPT4 in text, DALL-E 1 to 3 in images). The big companies trained their networks on all of the internet and ran out of training data, if you compare GPT4 to GPT5 it’s pretty obvious. Unless there’s a significant algorithmic breakthrough (which is looking less and less likely), at least text-based AI is not going to have another order-of-magniture improvement for a long time. Sure, it can already replace like 10% of devs who are doing boring JS stuff, but replacing at least half of the dev workforce is a pipe dream of the C-suite for now.
It’s categorically the same as printing out a PNG onto a sheet of paper. I can see how you might call that “storing”, even if it’s a lossy process.
Honestly, yes. I have days when I want to code something new and experiment, and days when I just want to drudge through existing code and carefully refactor/clean up so that it still works (or even works better in some cases).
It’s easy to write, easy to build, produces lightweight and fast executables, and the type system is great. Why not rust?
This is precisely the problem that deploy-rs solves!
Actually, that would make it non-free (a.k.a source-available) software by FSF’s definition. You can do something like Qt (copyleft license for free, permissive license for a fee), but this doesn’t really work for a lot of software.