Programmers break their own open source code to create "protestware"

[mylesillidge]

Programmers breaking their own code to make political statements

In March 2022, the author of node-ipc, a software library with over a million weekly downloads, deliberately broke their code. If the code discovers it is running within Russia or Belarus, it attempts to replace the contents of every file on the user’s computer with a heart emoji.

A software library is a collection of code other programmers can use for their purposes. The library node-ipc is used by Vue.js, a framework that powers millions of websites for businesses such as Google, Facebook, and Netflix.

 

[rvZA]

Stupids. Stay away from open source and pay what you get for.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Stupids. Stay away from open source and pay what you get for.

No Linux, firewalls, switches, cloud, IoT,, etc, for you then.

Even the software used for this forum itself. Y'all stupids. Stay away so that us open source intellectuals are left to our own devices.

 

[2525252525]

Elon Musk made a comment about this kind of issue, when asked if he would block RT from broadcasting across Starlink networks, he made it very clear that his service would be absolutely neutral, that was also at the height of the RU/Ukraine conflict's online fervor, it was pretty bipartisan too (don't see that every day on the internet, lol), so it was a moerse hot issue. Have to respect that.

Though he did provide the service to Ukraine for military action, lol, but hey, Russia can broadcast RT on Starlink, so everyone's a winner, they not allowed to complain! LOL.

I can see though how some people wouldn't want their hard work benefiting persons and groups on grounds of racism, human trafficking, terrorism etc.

 

[Vorastra]

Fck any programmer who does this.
Like how a bunch of games and programs did this sht for that scum George Floyd and BLM.
They stopped that pretty quickly though.

 

[Thor]

This is stupid.

 

[adrianx]

My git master branches are still called "master"!

Edit: Hmm, maybe I should rename them to "slave-master" Stupid Woke retard %#$ !@#%^...!

 

[ubercal]

No Linux, firewalls, switches, cloud, IoT,, etc, for you then.

Even the software used for this forum itself. Y'all stupids. Stay away so that us open source intellectuals are left to our own devices.

thats fine i will just use Windows RRAS for my routing , and the built in windows firewall.

Backup option will be to use windows internet connection sharing

 

[r00igev@@r]

thats fine i will just use Windows RRAS for my routing , and the built in windows firewall.

Backup option will be to use windows internet connection sharing

And a US Robotics modem?

 

[Genisys]

Stupids. Stay away from open source and pay what you get for.

So, what Web browser do you use these days?

 

[shadow_man]

6 months late and you're cottoning on to this. No cutting edge journalism here then...

 

[ubercal]

And a US Robotics modem?

ya yebo!net in a can

 

[ubercal]

 

[r00igev@@r]

Wait, what does this have to do with open source?

Because the commies pay for everything.

 

[rvZA]

So, what Web browser do you use these days?

Microsoft edge. Comes with my paid Windows 11 OS. I will not have this issue with Microsoft products.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Microsoft edge. Comes with my paid Windows 11 OS. I will not have this issue with Microsoft products.

Yes comrade. You are safe.

Joining Apple and others, Microsoft stops sales in Russia amid invasion: 'We stand with Ukraine'

Microsoft announced it suspended new sales in Russia in order to further aid Ukraine in the war. Apple, Nike and other companies have cut ties also.

www.usatoday.com

 

[rvZA]

Yes comrade. You are safe.

Joining Apple and others, Microsoft stops sales in Russia amid invasion: 'We stand with Ukraine'

Microsoft announced it suspended new sales in Russia in order to further aid Ukraine in the war. Apple, Nike and other companies have cut ties also.

www.usatoday.com

That is about the only time you will get cut off. Get involved in terrorism. Get involved with communism. Do EWC and real soon you may not have access to any of these services. Naturally. But pansies not feeling happy and cutting everyone off? No.

 

[adrianx]

Microsoft edge. Comes with my paid Windows 11 OS. I will not have this issue with Microsoft products.

Don't be so sure about that...

Microsoft suspends new sales in Russia - Microsoft On the Issues

We are announcing today that we will suspend all new sales of Microsoft products and services in Russia. In addition, we are coordinating closely with the US, the EU and the UK, and we are stopping many aspects of our business in Russia in compliance with governmental sanction decisions.

blogs.microsoft.com

 

[rvZA]

Don't be so sure about that...

Microsoft suspends new sales in Russia - Microsoft On the Issues

We are announcing today that we will suspend all new sales of Microsoft products and services in Russia. In addition, we are coordinating closely with the US, the EU and the UK, and we are stopping many aspects of our business in Russia in compliance with governmental sanction decisions.

blogs.microsoft.com

Well, like I said above, if your government involve itself with illegal things like warfare or EWC and get sanctioned, then naturally you will get cut off.

 

[r00igev@@r]

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Well, like I said above, if your government involve itself with illegal things like warfare or EWC and get sanctioned, then naturally you will get cut off.

Which is exactly what the programmer did about whose software this thread is about.