User talk:Sethrice

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Happy editing! Royal Autumn Crest (talk) 17:48, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

March 2022
Hello, I'm HouseOfChange. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Putin khuylo! have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Until/unless reliable sources talk about the new software feature, it does not belong in a Wikipedia article. HouseOfChange (talk) 20:16, 17 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Sorry, took me a while to figure out how to message with you.
 * Feel free to edit, rewrite it how you wish, or leave it off all together as you already have. I certainly don't want to change the direction of this page from its intent.
 * Sorry it sounded promotional or soapboxy, that wasn't the intent. I have no relation to Terraform, other than i've used it at my last 3 jobs. It's just a tool that allows us to stand up any number of servers, or cloud resources with little effort. Which if you are a Russian bot farm, you might also use it to bring all your systems back online after a government entity takes you down. Which is why it's so brilliant. They are guaranteed to see it.
 * I think it's a historical noteworthy example of how war has evolved. That random folks who maintain code of various projects on github, are using their own products to bypass Putins wishes. I doubt it'll stay there for long, and I haven't seen any other projects do this just yet. If I had seen other projects doing something like this, I would have mentioned it. It's bonkers to me, that this conflict would be included in the software codebase of anything so otherwise unrelated. Though i'm sure some developers have family directly affected.
 * Anyways, if schools, banks, home lab users, troll farms, malware campaigns, companies, and governments all use something like this. Why not drop some news in there, that Russian users wouldn't get otherwise from state media. For a company to walk away from a product like this, is a huge lift. Wether its puppet, terraform, kubernetes, docker, chef, any of them. Speaking personally as someone who's been an admin and engineer for several different companies and countless environments close to 20 years now. Changing how you build, maintain, and control your environments is not an overnight thing, like shutting down a news broadcaster (apparently). So it's not like those using it in Russia can stop using a critical tool like that cold turkey. To think it came in on an updated release of the code. Brilliant! More projects should be doing this.
 * Anyways, I've never edited on here before, just setup my account today so I could update this page, where I landed after looking at release notes for a tool at work. I wanted to show how the message has spread with a little creativity via some github code edits, and screenshot on the registry, and from where I first saw your page's link. I wouldn't have landed here otherwise. I'd probably be done by now with that thing my boss asked me to do, lol. Sethrice (talk) 20:54, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your civil reply, and welcome to a great project! The problem with posting information about a great new development is that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. We summarize material already published in reliable sources; we don't break exciting new stories. So my advice to you is to put your news into blogs and tweets and send it to tech-friendly journalists until somebody "official" publishes news about it. After that happens, by all means bring it back to Wikipedia, cited to that published work. HouseOfChange (talk) 22:39, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thought you might be interested: Recent article talks about anti-Russia Github hacks, described as bad for Github in general tho: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/21/1047489/activists-are-targeting-russians-with-open-source-protestware/ HouseOfChange (talk) 00:20, 22 March 2022 (UTC)