I feel deeply depressed just thinking about what happening there and what happened in China in 1989.
The world and ourselves seem to forget. The party and government simply waits for those who experienced the event to get old and die. After that, no one seems to care about it. And they can pretend this never happens.
I once almost managed to get back on the release train. I was tasked with adding new features to a piece of software originally developed years ago for internal use at a university. It was running PHP 5 on Debian Jessie. The first hurdle was that no Docker image existed for the production environment (PHP 5). After patching all the code and getting it to run on PHP 8, another issue surfaced: the MSSQL server it needed to communicate with only supported TLS 1.0, which had been removed from the OpenSSL version included in Debian 12—the base image for my PHP 8 setup.
In the end, I decided to implement a lightweight PHP 5 relay to translate SQL requests so the MSSQL server could still be accessed. The university stuffs were quite satisfied with my work. But I really felt guilty for the next guy who will touch this setup. So I still didn’t quite make it back onto the release train… as that PHP 5 relay counts.