Good thing I'm far away from Burgerland, and I have no reason to follow US sanctions.

A named person with a verifiable location and employment is less likely to turn malicious than an unnamed (ie, fake named) one. And, devs who intend to plant a time/logic bomb (in a sanely distributed piece of software) or a simple rug pull (in node.js or docker) will use a proxy in a less suspect part of the world.

Heck, I myself offered a bunch of Cuban guys at a conference a VPN they could use for Github (which bans Cuba as an "evil" country); in the end, they went with someone else who has better ping to Cuba. So here goes the idea of banning devs based on their country...

Thus, you'd need to accept named Russians and ban everyone else, from any country other than Russia (as they might use a proxy). Oops...

Then you travel into the UK, and whoops. Or you have a plane layover in Ol' Blighty. Or there's a storm at your destination airport and your plane gets rerouted.

Unless that cloud keeps immutable undeletable copies of old documents, all the malware needs to do is to trigger cloud sync.

Sorry, no. While Ukrainian infrastructure is nothing compared to western Europe, the power was reliable, infrastructure was functional, and at least the basics worked. The power was provided in a good part by nuclear power plants, transport relied on railroads (like in all ex-soviet countries) which is the only part of infrastructure that really used to work in the Soviet Union. Where the First World has highways and cars, the Second World has railroads. And they form the backbone of transport for both sides of the war. Just as an American will deem it unthinkable that a road is not fixed promptly, for someone in Ukraine (and Russia) it's unthinkable that the railroad won't work. The railroad network might be not dense enough to serve every village, but it does serve every large industrial plant. With Donbass being mostly mines and heavy industry, this meant all important facilities had a direct railroad link.

And as for an average person's standard of life: Ukraine improved a lot. For example, pretty much everyone had proper toilets, while in Russia that's an uncommon thing outside of Moscow and Petersburg districts.

They're not only not rebuilding Donbass, but even pillaging what was left of the industry there. This is the usual Soviet playbook, but quite stands in opposition to claims that Russia is sure it's going to keep their territorial gains.

A lot of the lands have been annexed by Muscovy over the years, but in 15th century when Muscovy was being formed, their possessions of Russian (as in: Rus') lands was limited to pretty much Novgorod -- which they promptly massacred.

There's a lot of late 19th century and soviet-era propaganda indeed. Like, concepts such as "Greater Rus" and "Lesser Rus". Or even "Muscovy Rus" which is an all-out nonsense. On the other hand, they keep denigrating Ukraine by a campaign to rename Rus to "Kievan Rus", trying to make people believe there were many countries that formed Rus. No entity of that name ever existed, it's a (greatly successful) propaganda campaign.

And you should be sorry to Ukrainians, not us. But Poland, Finland, and pretty much half of Europe, have centuries of stuff to "thank" the bastards for.

Putin puts hundreds of millions of dollars worth into spewing propaganda over all kinds of media. Without people pointing out the lies, the propaganda works.

Heck, today Americans who repeat what they hear keep arguing that Soviets were not guilty for WW2, and that they "liberated" all the central and east Europe -- rather than being an evil horde as bad or worse than the Nazis.

Ukrainian "dialect"??? Comrade, you're not exactly subtle about your allegiance.

Well, Ukraine was named "Rus'" (latin: "Russia") for most of its existence, this means it belongs to the country that stole their name in 1721, right?

How come? The conclusion I draw might be slightly exaggerated, but the facts I listed are true:
* Korolev, Kondratyuk and the vast majority of early space engineers ('50s and '60s) were Ukrainians, I haven't checked later periods
* Gagarin was a peasant-born worker, an ethnic Russian; he wasn't very educated; internal controls had been installed in Vostok-1 but locked with a code that was to be told to Gagarin over radio only in the case of an emergency
* after the fall of Soviet Union (and independence of Ukraine) the Russian space program has been rife with failures
* especially prominent projects like Luna 25
* most of nuclear engineers were Ukrainians
* Dyatlov was an ethnic Russian
* chattel slavery was predominant in Russian parts of the Tsardom, despite current Russian propaganda saying otherwise (see eg. "Dead Souls" by Gogol for an example that's widely known to Western readers)
* railroads were made by German engineers
* there were millions of Volga Germans in Russia
* Germans suffered a number of expulsion events until almost all were gone from Russia

The bits I just listed are those that are trivial to verify. Remaining ones require digging deeper and might rely on sources' opinions. But, that's enough to disprove that I'm spewing bullshit.

Russia doesn't have any real technology of its own. For example, their space program was driven by Sergei Korolev and Yuri Kondratyuk plus their fellow Ukrainians, and when for propaganda purposes the first man in space had to be a Russian of a worker-peasant background, the spaceship was controlled remotely as Gagarin was deemed too unskilled to manage that. It's no surprise that when Ukraine regained independence, the space program stopped, with Russian efforts being about as successful as Luna 25.

Same with nuclear power. It was made by Ukrainian engineers, then when the Party assigned Russian overseers like Dyatlov, they did a whole string of procedures wrong, with a well-known result.

The reason is cultural. For centuries, ethnic Russians had a deep hatred of science and culture, believing that nobles should never touch such endeavors (and serfs were outright slaves, with chattel slavery in core parts of the empire). Whenever there was some technology needed, the tsars instead invited foreigners, such as Dutchmen, Germans, etc. Their engineers were employed for every project such as railroads. Same with culture: even pieces made by ethnic Russians (like Tchaikovsky) were based on German folk tales and written in French, not Russian. By late 19th century there was ~6-8 million foreigners in Russia, a good part of them "Volga Germans", speaking German and following German customs. But whenever the tsar/chairman had a change of mind, there came expulsions: at the end of 19th century to America, in ~1920, in 1941, etc. The role of German engineers was taken by Ukrainians. Then, by 1990, the empire lost Ukraine, and results follow...

Well, in Russia you need a passport to travel domestically, and to go to Moscow you need a visa equivalent.

You'd get to Valinor. :p

I did say it correctly: a straight line in 2D is a piece of a great circle in 3D.

Then that's a primitive tooling issue. You go a scenic way around just to work around a flaw with your "heading" being tied to a coordinate system rather than to the shape of Earth.

Plus, a ship has enough drift/etc to require checking position and updating the heading periodically; even with that coordinate system the straight way doesn't wary "heading" much.

What lying bullshit? Now I'm genuinely confused. Care to point out a bit of untruth I said?

And the way you're slinging insults, I doubt there's a point debating you. First of, I'm not lying (you didn't even say what you accuse me of falsifying). Second, I'm not even a Hamburgerstanian, and my country just elected a far-right fraudster, liar, document forger, pimp and hooligan. I'm not in a love of Trump. But, I'm not in love with any other lying censorship pusher either.