[kistaro]

Because there is an obligation to stop the war by any means available. Since Putin will not stop voluntarily, he must be rendered unable to continue. Every possible tool to drain the resources and undermine the tenuous stability of Russia is necessary and appropriate.

War sucks for civilians. It sucks less for the civilians who get some files deleted than for the civilians who get their houses shelled by Russian and Belarusian artillery.

Does the NPM project have a general duty of good stewardship? Of course. Does the NPM project have a duty to interfere with a developer who chooses to increase the misery and pressure applied to a nation that has been committed to a path of an unjust war of aggression, which is deliberately bombing civilians? Fuck no.

[SpicyLemonZest]

I don't agree with the premise that every tool is appropriate and I struggle to believe you do either. If your boss told you that you need to work unpaid until further notice because they're donating everyone's salary to Ukraine, you wouldn't object to that? You wouldn't have concerns if you came home one day to find your stuff on the curb because your landlord wanted to make room for refugees? A lot of tools are appropriate that wouldn't be appropriate for most international disputes, but when you're fortunate enough to not be in the warzone, you can't go crazy and start smashing random people's root directories.

[ensan]

"Since Putin will not stop voluntarily, he must be rendered unable to continue."

Regardless of one's positions on the Ukraine war, I don't see how manipulating node packages could, for example, stop a Russian hypersonic missile or fortify Ukrainian barracks.

By the way, if you look at the damage to Ukraine's infrastructure and human capital, it has already lost the war. Also evident by repeated calls from Zelensky to resume negotiations. He badly miscalculated from the start...