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I went to Russia during the war multiple times, lived with Russians in their homes, ate their food, talked to them - and obviously committed my code and worked
by lionkor 3y ago
I went to Russia during the war multiple times, lived with Russians in their homes, ate their food, talked to them - and obviously committed my code and worked on my projects with their internet.
I used their delivery service(s), their taxi service, use their music streaming service, and so on.
Not ONCE have I had any negative experience, invasion of my privacy, with any russian product.
The only negativity I experienced was caused by services I pay for (as a German) being blocked because I was in Russia.
I strongly urge people to reconsider that the Russian people are not evil, and that Russian intelligence services do not give a fuck about random people using services in Russia. Now consider that Nginx is not in Russia, its open source, and quickly it becomes clear that this whole discussion is motivated only by a boogie-man type fearmongering and nothing else.
You should be much more afraid of any tech that isnt open source, that you use, than this.
Apologies for the tone - I am just very sick and tired of this kind of talk, and as a German it reminds me of what we read in our own history books about inducing fear based on where one is from.