Torvalds is a Finn. Finns are on a perpetual “pretending not to be a Nazi but actually being the reborn spirit of Goebells” mode, so it was a matter of time

This is because of western sanctions. Chinese contributors are much more numerous and more important than any Russians ever were; and they’re also not a sanctioned country, so I highly doubt it

EDIT: As an Iranian, however, there is not much time left before us Iranians in the FOSS world are going to be banned from everywhere, although some measure against us has already been taken (Microsoft banned the shit out of Iranians when they took over GitHub)

For example, one of the most widely used libraries in the world is written by an Iranian who works (worked?) at Google by the name of Behdad Espahbod (HarfBuzz glyph processor library)

hmmm fuck Every day we’re close to war

Yes

He was just a political front man for his party. I would be genuinely shocked if any of Iran’s policies came from him.

You want to know where Iran’s policies come from? Their party, the generals, Khamenei and the Sepah (IRGC).

Raisi dying is a nothingburger. If Rouhani had died, that would be huge news. If Khamenei dies, we will have a huge upheaval.

This won’t achieve anything, but people generally disliked him and so are happy he’s gone

I’m personally happy I don’t have to endure the rest of his term and a possible second term (although very unlikely), he was useless at best and had bad policy at worst

The crowd? You mean the conservative basijis? Literally everyone I have been interacting with has been happy

Or some people are mourning the other dudes that died, because it wasn’t just Raisi, the councilman of east Azerbaijan province also died amongst others

He didn’t do jack. He was a machine politician sock puppet, anything Iran did came from others, like generals, the political party, and Khamenei

I’m Iranian and I’m celebrating this

He was a useless sack of shit conservative who nobody really cared about, even the hardcore right wingers weren’t too fond of him

Raisi was one of the people who executed leftists en masse during the leftist crackdown fiasco. Hardly anyone you should give a fuck about