this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2025
2255 points (99.2% liked)

Technology

68674 readers
3595 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
2255
Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. (programming.dev)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
294 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I have nothing against Russian developers. But I do think they should be completely isolated and blocked from the outside world. That's the whole point of sanctions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That makes sense when it harms business being done in that country, people’s opportunity to find jobs and stuff like that.

But blocking people from working for free on open source projects where there’s nothing to be gained is harming progress, not individuals or countries. That’s not what sanctions were made for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

If we would have taken the same line on say biology or mathematics we and the Russian people both would have been worse off.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

By your logic developers in the US shouldn't be allowed to contribute to free software either, after all the US is committing genocides and threatening to invade other countries

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

yes, we are free to block US developers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

If some country will sanction US that is hosting FOSS, absolutely. That's not mutually exclusive with this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, yeah. That's literally the point of sanctions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The point is to protect national interests, not reject free contributions from normal people for non-security critical but useful software projects which is just idiotic