I think that entire comment is actually incorrect. My understanding is that they did not “remove” any maintainers, but actually rejected patches from Russian citizens (because of their employer), and also removed some Russian names from the maintainers list who already have code in the kernel.

yikes.

That doesn’t invalidate my statement though.

freedom TO vs freedom FROM

I was more referring to mainline specifically, otherwise your chances of having many people actually benefit from your changes without a lot of effort is small IMO.

And here I am looking to move away from Linux after they started rejecting contributions for political reasons.

I still don’t think something so important should be beholden to the whims of one company (Linux Foundation) or their country’s laws (USA).

I would strongly prefer to use an operating system that didn’t have this problem. Do any even exist?

the queen of /g/

Bus 001 Device 059: ID 05ba:000a DigitalPersona, Inc. Fingerprint Reader

It shows up exactly the same for all the revisions though.

Thankfully the Framework Laptop fingerprint reader works.

I use the DigitalPersona 4500 with libfprint. Unfortunately, there are multiple revisions of the device with the same model number and only some of them work properly under Linux (different encryption method I believe). As far as I know this is not actually documented anywhere. Googling just shows a bunch of unresolved bug reports of people having no idea why it doesn’t work.

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For windows I either use a mingw toolchain from mxe.cc or just run the msvc compiler in wine, works great for standard C and C++ at least, even when you use Qt or other third party libraries.

We can see you totally didn’t do that. Also how would you even get the update?

Open Technology Fund

Which is funded by US Congress, and they also funded Signal.

For those do not wish to use privacy-related projects funded by a world government, what is a good (in your opinion) alternative? Both with and without Tor involvement (since US govt funded that too).

Yes I realize encryption, computers and the internet are all also govt-funded, but everyone is free to pick their battles.

technically correct, the best kind of correct

I have. You just don’t hang out in the “right” places

Nobody mentioned number of speakers though

I think you answered your own question :)

It’s also possible the number of people who like it do not outnumber the people who don’t like it