Putin couldn’t care less about the support from some random programmers. Be realistic, what do you expect them to do? Take up arms? Protest and get imprisoned? Vote in the sham elections?
Targeting random civilians in hopes of political change is the strategy of terrorists.
So then you agree that there is no reason to be “glad” about this?
And how exactly is banning these contributors supposed to stop the invasion? These people have no control or culpability.
Is this a threat?
Such is the fate of hypercentralized spaces. The fediverse fixes this.
I don’t see how this is so difficult. Given the choice between a narcissistic billionaire or an independent, accountable government commission that’s bound by the rule of law, I’ll choose the latter every time.
I don’t have an opinion on the matter being discussed
You know it’s an option to just… keep scrolling right? This isn’t high school, you aren’t obliged to leave a comment.
With this approach you would lose the subvolume structure and deduplication if I’m not mistaken.
The Google Play Store has long been the bastion for safe and worry-free app downloads
It’s nice that the article starts with this blatent lie, so that you know everything that follows is just regurgitating Google’s marketing.
Even ignoring that most of the apps in the play store are unreviewed proprietary spyware sending all their data back to Google, there have been many instances of obvious malware being distributed through the play store. It seems like they are trying to sweep that under the rug.
Even if you computer is not exposed to the internet: are you certain that every other device on the network is safe (even on public wifi)? Would you immediately raise the alarm if you saw a second printer in the list with the same name, or something like “Print to file”? I think I personally could fall for that under the right circumstances.