pfp: ah_to_hk separatist Hong Kong political cartoon that ironically made Olympic gold medalist Vivian Kong look very based. (src)
He only removed the maintainers from the list with “.ru” domain names in their emails. So yeah, a eebil Ruzzian spy can still intentionally introduce malware in the kernel they just need to use an all american gmail account.
Absolute plonkers, I think it would be hilarious if they thought they could sneak this through people as if Torvalds himself didn’t design git to make it impossible to hide.
This in itself isn’t surprising, nor does it really hurt Russia in any material way since all this means is that Russian hardware and contributions aren’t allowed in Torvalds’ git tree.
What was disheartening was to hear Torvalds spit out the most racist shit imaginable while his co-maintainers try to do damage control. A person sent a revert patch and he went “Well did you know the Russian orcs are the natural enemy of Finns?”
RMS is a creep and Torvalds is a Nazi/Finnish, never meet your heroes I guess.
“No one knows how our retaliation and revenge will be completed,” she said.
A true role model 
. Also worth to note for the umpteenth’ time the oozing ideology of the article. Kim Yo Jung is only referred to as Kim Jong Un’s sister even though she holds a high ranking role in the publicity wing of the government, it’s literally her job to be this badass.
Both Debian and Ubuntu come with nonfree firmware blobs by default. Nonfree drivers such as the Nvidia proprietary driver can be installed graphically in Ubuntu if you open the drivers app.
Debian instructions are here and involves adding the non-free contrib repos to your /etc/apt/sources.list and then installing the nvidia-driver package
hyprland
A wayland compositor and tiling window manager. The lead developer of the project is a Polish transphobic workaholic.
why do ppl use the CLI for things like making and moving files? i find the GUI easier and faster as well as less prone to mistakes
If you understand how shell scripting works you can easily automate menial tasks. CLI is also an interface shared by all operating systems so if you know how to work around in a shell you’re not bound to any particular workflow/desktop GUI. Keep using GUIs though, they exist for a reason.
what is wayland and xorg, and why does everyone argue about them
Both are display protocols that are in charge of displaying graphics to your screen. Xorg is over 30 years old while wayland is only about 15 years old. The polemic about xorg was that the codebase was unmanageable and the design architecture of the program was inherently flawed (example: screenlocker getting access to your entire screen including apps and desktop, making writing malware for x11 a 3 line python script). X11 was designed during a time when people were using actual real life terminals and mainframes. Wayland is much more modern and akin to how modern graphics APIs are handled (for the most part)
Wayland at its core has and always will be design by committee so a lot of the arguing is necessary (though sometimes long-winded) to make sure to not repeat xorg’s mistakes. Protocols take months if not years to be merged into wayland and those protocols have to be implemented by wayland compositors themselves rather than sharing 1 program altogether like with xorg.
Watch this video for more information, explains it much better and is from an actual wayland board member.
Why YOU should write a Wayland compositor – Victoria Brekenfeld – HiP22 Berlin
matrix math acceleration hardware?
Can’t speak on that but if you want to get news about recent kernel developments (as well as hardware development) you should check out Phoronix.
It has always been racism which makes my liberal peers snap when I say it. Though they do become more radicalized in the end (or just stop saying lib shit)