this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
824 points (96.9% liked)

Technology

58860 readers
7053 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 content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  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, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
824
Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers (www.theregister.com)
submitted 21 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
385 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 32 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I don't understand the benefit in doing this.

Security. Torvalds did this for security.

Is it really that hard to parse?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

And I'll say the same here as I did above. If it was for security, their code is tainted too. It's an arbitrary reaction that is not complete as a solution to anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

You can't untaint code if the tainters (lol that sounds funny) can still edit the code.

If Torvalds is correct (he is), patching can now take place for vulnerabilities.

Good point!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago

They can check existing code. You have to be able to trust people who are contributing.

They can check new code by these risky people as it comes in, but it why risk it?