Comment by dormento

(tldr; war unequivocally evil; not all russians unequivocally evil; pure science itself never unequivocally evil)

Wish harm on the person, no the tech /s

But seriously, as much as I strongy disapprove of this whole russian invasion fiasco (and the humanitarian impact of a senseless conflict), I think that there's still merit on the technology itself. Its not like Viacheslav is bombing ukrainian civilians in order to squeeze some performance inprovements out of the storage media. For the same reason, I won't stop running nginx on my boxes.

Many famous inventors were bastards in real life. Take for example the guy who invented the machine gun, allowing killing and maiming on a whole new level. Many Nobel Prize winners, who worked out the basis of whole new research areas were eugenics proponents. Hell, Schrödinger was probably a kid diddler; John Lennon, a wife beater; the corn flakes guy was a nut; disgusting bastards, the whole lot of them. But that's because they were people. Its not like Kevin Spacey became a bad actor once the sexual abuse allegations were made public, or Chuck Berry's music became bad when people realized he was a pervert. Likewise, all those people contributed to their fields in ways that still influence how we live today.

And to be completely fair, ReiserFS has been deprecated not because of the infamous murder case (of which Hans should prob be finishing his sentence soon), but because many of its contributions were superceded by new tech present in modern, well-supported alternatives. Also the reliance on kernel locks. And it inspired some of these following improvements.