A healthy global FOSS culture requires collaborative politics to be the flavour of the day

Bullshit. There’s no reason people with political differences can’t collaborate on the same project, unless those differences are really huge.

“Compliance requirements”? The kernel’s american now?! WTF?

The commonality of all these maintainers being dropped? They appear to all be Russian or associated with Russia. Most of them with .ru email addresses.

Not short-sighted in the least…

Similarly, the driver code remains within the kernel – including for Russian hardware such as around the Baikal CPUs from Russia’s Baikal Electronics.

Not a hypocrite move at all…

Are israeli developers blocked as well? How about all american developers considering how the US foreign policy keeps fucking everyone up all over the place in the name of liberty and freedom… of oil?

Some ThinkPads have killswitches.

As does the Framework laptops i think… the former can be bought second hand fairly easily.

So the same as cmatrix, which is already packaged in popular distros?

If you want the bleeding edge go Sid.

This script written in the C language

C is not a scripting language.

Europa The Just acting unfairly? No way!™

TL;DR: politics… yay…

Stopped reading after “Lunduke”.

Off the top of my head you need to ensure everyone’s using the same OMEMO version; and i don’t think it encrypts metadata.