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ex coder, probably jobless by the time you're reading this
Most Buddhists are not vegetarians. There's a huge gap between Wikipedia stats and real life, as it is the case everywhere.
Using "Knowing the region pretty well" to be confident about a country you've never set foot in is like me assuming alligators are roaming free in corn fields in Iowa because I've been to a few states in US and have seen Florida through youtube.
Did you manage to emulate the traffic jam in Nugegoda and Rajagiriya?
Good stuff by the way. Awesome to see this kind of thing happening.
and I'll bet most of them are like "TotallyJoeMcNuggets" with .ru emails and <10 repositories that are either scraping or CTF tasks or anti-malware tools.
It's not that complex, unless you want it to be.
Russian geological access or businesses with strong ties to Russia or suspected strong ties to Russia. Every other detail is to be decided by the governing body of the project, which in this case has happened.
Not a lawyer, but isn't this under the same guidelines as decided by the TSC? no Russian use or access?
Again heavy emphasis on "TSC" as the role.
I'm an outsider (not a contributor or related to parties in the suspected "political" origins, and had not created an HN account until now) but it was pretty easy to find the reason behind the change. Scroll down and there's the unanimous decision to block Russian access from registry due to sanctions.
https://github.com/opentofu/registry/pull/817#issuecomment-2...
https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/blob/main/TSC_SUMMARY.m...
Sanctions Russia vs registry access > Add note to README during PR documenting this discussion in TSC_SUMMARY Block Russian IP Blocks from accessing our registry in Cloudflare > Decision Vote: unanimous yes
Now if you want to blow this out of proportion you certainly can. Turn on the conspiracy tap of "trying to slid this in under the cover of darkness" but the fact of the matter is the Technical Steering Committee decided on something and acted on it, as their role grants them the power to do so. Anything else is just assumption.