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I am literally saying the opposite: I am saying that it's not clear that this applies to all Russians, or just ones that are sanctioned.

No, I'm saying that if the banned people are only banned because they're associated with the Russian government (/employed by sanctioned companies), then I'm not going to get outraged over the kernel maintainers. I do not expect them to break the law just to die on this hill.

I would get it if he would have simply stated that the Linux Foundation needs to abide by the sanctions

I mean, that's basically what he said:

If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day.

Doesn't sound like they banned Russians in general, just people employed by sanctioned companies.

Anyone who thinks they know what needs to happen for Firefox to regain market share, needs to consider what would happen if someone forks Firefox and makes that happen.

There's no way that CSS theming is it. And in general, "not doing something" isn't going to be it, either.

Honestly I wish that was a principle that the internet embraced more. We're so trigger-happy to be outraged.

I don't see what this has to do with my comment. I see no indication that all Russians are blanket-banned.

I don't know much about WebGL and WebRTC specifically, but sometimes it's just inherent to the feature, and it's literally impossible to implement it without allowing fingerprinting the user.

For example, your screen resolution/viewport size can also be used to fingerprint you. It is impossible to allow adjusting a website to different viewport sizes without leaking those viewport sizes - the only way to restrict fingerprinting is to not offer the feature of using arbitrary viewport sizes (which is what Tor browser does, for example).

Not by themselves, but they're generally indicative of a wider movement, i.e. for every person who came out to demonstrate, there are a few that agree, but not enough to actually go out there. And as the sibling comment mentions, moving closer to the EU also has wide support with a large part of the population according to polls. Is it just something that people disagree on with Georgian Dream, but not enough to not vote for them?

What I don't get is how so many Georgians have turned up repeatedly to protest the moves away from the EU by the government, and yet Georgian Dream still get voted on by so many. Any Georgians around who can provide some context? Yet another instance of rural vs. urban populace?

Exhibit #17837 why Firefox isn't "just more hardened by default".

It's also not necessarily just because Google wants more of your data (which they do); they may also just use a feature that can also be used to fingerprint you. But since it's also just useful in general, it's not disabled by default by regular Firefox.

I'm not necessarily worried about actually packing one, but I do feel nervous about saying the word out loud accidentally.