Why do they need so much help when the Gates, Soros, Rockerfellers, Schwabs, every bank, every global corporation, and every western government are giving them billions of dollars?
One developer modified his npm package to delete files and directories if the software it was included in thought it had an IP address in Russia or Belarus.
Then he figured out he was in serious trouble when it wiped out a bunch of non-profits and changed it to writing a 'WITH-LOVE-FROM-AMERICA.txt' file and denied everything. I've seen a few virtue signal messages when updating python packages too.
It's making us look into setting up our own curated repositories where we put audited versions of packages up and block updates from anywhere else.
Bloody nuisance. When this shit starts hitting essential services, utilities and medical equipment things are going to get real interesting. Hopefully the DOD has more sense but they're probably going to be fucked as well.
The open source community spent 25 years trying to argue that open source could be as professionally maintained and depended on as proprietary software, and now these jackasses are pissing away all the goodwill that's been built up.
It's going to open up a business opportunity. We'd probably throw a thousand or so a year for a unified, curated and audited repository for open source libraries. Python, javascript, R and maybe a few others.
Otherwise we're going to have to do it ourselves and live with not being on the latest and greatest.
I've had similar discussions with IRL colleagues. And for regulated industries, provide a validation suite they can run through to ensure that the audited versions of software are working as expected. The validation suite being where the real money is.
I've forked one project already for this. I'll do it again. Turns out its real fuckin easy to rehost your MIT licensed code without the retarded TOS that demands all users denounce Russia to download it. Activism in OSS is a poison.
7zip. Free, open source, support for linux, mac and windows, and is capable of handling a wide variety of formats.
Another vote for 7zip. Been using since the mid 2000s. Probably one of the most handy free apps you can have on your system.
Hell yeah, plus they don’t try to guilt you for not paying like WinRAR does.
PeaZip is another option.
Do you have approximately 45 minutes to get lectured about slava ukraini
Why does Ukraine need so much help if they're winning so effortlessly and easily?
Why do they need so much help when the Gates, Soros, Rockerfellers, Schwabs, every bank, every global corporation, and every western government are giving them billions of dollars?
Kiev*
Keeeeev*
Kevin
Lots of dev houses there, cheap labour, a lot of rich people and companies invested heavily in Ukraine and it’s one of their larger outputs now.
Agreed, if software came form Moscow and asked for donations to "support the troops", I'd still understand it the same way.
try 7zip
Yep. "Protestware" is the new hipster thing.
One developer modified his npm package to delete files and directories if the software it was included in thought it had an IP address in Russia or Belarus.
Then he figured out he was in serious trouble when it wiped out a bunch of non-profits and changed it to writing a 'WITH-LOVE-FROM-AMERICA.txt' file and denied everything. I've seen a few virtue signal messages when updating python packages too.
It's making us look into setting up our own curated repositories where we put audited versions of packages up and block updates from anywhere else.
Bloody nuisance. When this shit starts hitting essential services, utilities and medical equipment things are going to get real interesting. Hopefully the DOD has more sense but they're probably going to be fucked as well.
The open source community spent 25 years trying to argue that open source could be as professionally maintained and depended on as proprietary software, and now these jackasses are pissing away all the goodwill that's been built up.
Though I still like the +NIGGER license
It's going to open up a business opportunity. We'd probably throw a thousand or so a year for a unified, curated and audited repository for open source libraries. Python, javascript, R and maybe a few others.
Otherwise we're going to have to do it ourselves and live with not being on the latest and greatest.
I've had similar discussions with IRL colleagues. And for regulated industries, provide a validation suite they can run through to ensure that the audited versions of software are working as expected. The validation suite being where the real money is.
nationalism is bad
now let me tell you about ukrainian sovereignty
That's basically what Fukuyama said in a recent article. LOL
Francis Fukuyama?
Yes.
I still use winrar.
That should be solved by the file system.
You can't trust developers like this not to spice up their copy-pasted stackoverflow answers with malware.
7-Zip is way better.
Commies are bad. Russian Commies are worse. They are invading our home.
Stand with our Nazis.
Agreed!
heh look, the goblin commiting a warcrime.
but imp gets banned...
for PDF reading try Sumatra
I've forked one project already for this. I'll do it again. Turns out its real fuckin easy to rehost your MIT licensed code without the retarded TOS that demands all users denounce Russia to download it. Activism in OSS is a poison.
Wtf just use 7zip like a sane person.
I love it. Let them out themselves and remove that garbage tier software.
Downvoted by the WinRar developer.