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Genuine question: the website doesn't work in Russia. Did you restrict the access or is it my ISP doing that? Someone tries to prevent me from studying of very
by s1110 1y ago
Genuine question: the website doesn't work in Russia. Did you restrict the access or is it my ISP doing that? Someone tries to prevent me from studying of very niche info on ancient Intel CPUs. Thanks! P.S. Big fan of your work!
- vardump 1y ago[flagged]
- userbinator 1y agoI'm against war but it just says nothing more than stupid virtue-signaling when you do stuff like this. What's ironic is that the ones doing this crap are usually the first to cry about internet censorship.
- vardump 1y agoThis has nothing to do with "virtue-signaling". Russia's actions have been extremely evil, so it's only natural it generates dislike, even hate. That's how we humans are. Same happened to the Germans during and after World War II.
- userbinator 1y agoWhat the government and its leadership does is very different from civilians (which may not even have the power to change anything).
- tom_ 1y agoIf the people providing the information want to block you from reading it, that does rather feel like their prerogative.
- xpe 1y ago> ... nothing more than stupid virtue-signaling ... The commenter don't know this with certainty. It is a rather uncharitable assumption. It is hard to know what is inside the head of another person.
- wat10000 1y agoImagine thinking it’s bad to signal virtue. It’s not censorship when the author is the one limiting who can see it. And what’s your basis for saying these people are the first to cry about internet censorship? Have you actually seen the same people doing this or are you just imagining it to be true?
- CogitoCogito 1y ago> What's ironic is that the ones doing this crap are usually the first to cry about internet censorship. I believe most people against internet censorship are against _government_ censorship. I fall into that camp. I don't support government censorship of the internet, but I have no problem if individual website operators decide they don't want to serve a certain country.
- Mountain_Skies 1y agoCollective punishment is considered abhorrent in much of the world. It's acceptable in places that you'd probably not want to live or to change our societies into.
- vardump 1y agoI don't think you can consider a website ban as collective punishment.
- orbital-decay 1y agoIt's a kneejerk reaction and a dumb way to oppose anything. People couldn't care less about some site becoming unavailable. What really happens when the site goes down in a way like that is it removes its own presence from the minds. Doing that is basically blocking yourself, instead of blocking "them". One less voice to hear.
- inferiorhuman 1y agoPeople couldn't care less about some site becoming unavailable. If that were true, why complain about it on HN?
- orbital-decay 1y agoOne person complains. Many more simply forget about your existence.
- userbinator 1y agoOne word: VPN
- danparsonson 1y agoThat's three words
- pyuser583 1y agoI’m upvoting you.
- mannycalavera42 1y agoya'r good boy
- Loughla 1y agoOr is it 5
- vodkadin 1y agoSome smaller sites ban ips from countries that continually try to hack into your server or just make a ton of requests, it happens to be that traffic is often from Russia and China. Could just be that.
- tjwebbnorfolk 1y agoI block Russia, China, and Iran from my sites. They represent 0% of the revenue, and 99% of the login attempts.
- mavamaarten 1y agoYeah. In the same vein I also don't distribute my app in the Play Store in certain countries. I realize it completely sucks for them, but it's purely a business decision. Certain countries are just very vocal in terms of negative reviews, simply swap 5 star and 1 stars due to cultural differences, and also bring in almost zero revenue. The net result of distributing in these countries is literally negative: they hurt my ratings and reviews and don't make up for that in terms of money.
- kkaske 1y agoI did find that, while running a financial startup, I was able to significantly reduce attacks on the server by disabling access from Russia and China. Not saying that's happening here, just my experience. That was a while ago so I'm sure things have changed since then.
- s1110 1y agoThanks for your reply! I hope this is the real reason of blocking. If that's not the case, that's at least not effective. Less effective than idk placing a banner in the header or whatever. I mean I eventually read the article. Sorry for that. But we're at "Hacker News", sporting hackers ethics, aren't we?
- inferiorhuman 1y agoOpposing the invasion of Ukraine and the biggest existential threat Europe's faced in a couple generations seems pretty ethical to me.
- pyuser583 1y agoWe should be jamming American media down Russias throats like we did during the Cold War.
- wood_spirit 1y agoRadio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were one of the very first things that the Trump presidency stopped.
- holoduke 1y ago[flagged]
- drysine 1y agoBy preventing some computer history enthusiast in Russia from reading an article on a processor from 1985? Really?
- orbital-decay 1y agoIt is your ISP. (don't ask me how I know but please research this before posting)
- tgv 1y agoIt could be this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/russian-internet-users-are-unable-to-access-the-open-internet/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/russian-internet-users-are-unabl...
- justsomehnguy 1y agoBecause the author is the opportunistic racist: > kens on April 10, 2022 > Are you trying to access from Russia? Russia is currently blocked. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30974444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30974444 > kens on Dec 3, 2022 > Unfortunately there are also many people in Ukraine who didn't personally do anything to deserve what's happening. Consider the country filter a small reminder of the ongoing war and a suggestion that you might find better opportunities outside Russia. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33846782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33846782 Yet he doesn't consider to 'find better opportunities outside of the USA' despite the actions of the USA government in the last 30 years.
- grishka 1y agoProbably your ISP, or more precisely, the ТСПУ box they were required to install. You can use this tool to test your connectivity to these hosting providers that the government dislikes: https://hyperion-cs.github.io/dpi-checkers/ru/tcp-16-20/ https://hyperion-cs.github.io/dpi-checkers/ru/tcp-16-20/ Ken himself did block access to his website from Russia for a while after 24/02/2022, but right now it loads for me after a CF captcha.