Re: [PULL 0/6] Miscellaneous patches for 2026-03-05

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 at 14:05, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> The following changes since commit 3fb456e9a0e9eef6a71d9b49bfff596a0f0046e9:
>>
>>   Merge tag 'pull-request-2026-03-02' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu into staging (2026-03-02 14:01:46 +0000)
>>
>> are available in the Git repository at:
>>
>>   https://repo.or.cz/qemu/armbru.git tags/pull-misc-2026-03-05
>
> fetching from remote https://repo.or.cz/qemu/armbru.git
> tags/pull-misc-2026-03-05
> fatal: https://repo.or.cz/qemu/armbru.git/info/refs not valid: is this
> a git repository?
>
> Looking at it in a web browser:
>
>> The repo.or.cz site is no longer available in the UK.

https://repo.or.cz/uk-blocked.html

    repo.or.cz / site guide / UK geoblocking

    The repo.or.cz site is no longer available in the UK.

    We hate it as much as you do, but starting 25 July 2025, UK's Online
    Safety Act 2023 would require us to do a prohibitively complicated
    risk assessment for our service. We're talking reading through
    thousands of pages of legal guidelines.

    We're a volunteer operation and would likely be held responsible as
    individuals. There is talk of fines up to 18 million GBP which would
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    Our impression is that this law is deliberately vague, deliberately
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    If we could afford to just hope for the best, we'd love to. After
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    Our most sincere apologies to our UK-based users.

    For more details, see:

        https://howto.geoblockthe.uk/
        OnlineSafetyAct.co.uk (unofficial page)

To vary the famous motto of the Society for German–Soviet Friendship:
"Von der Volksrepublik China lernen heißt siegen lernen."

> If you want your pullreqs applied you'll need to find a different
> place to host them, I'm afraid.

Looks like it.