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by SXX 3y ago
That's true, but majority of Yandex business was always inside Russia. Also Kremlin's Sberbank held golden share in Yandex since 2019 to veto any changes in company they dont like. For game development companies like Gajin it was
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by SXX 3y ago
Yeah, I specifically editorialized the title because few people on HN possibly know Gajin Entertainment and no one know what "Dagor Engine" is. I pretty certain that even people who play the game have no clue how their internal te
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by SXX 3y ago
No they are not. Otherwise their apps wouldn't be on Google Play and App Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vkontakte.... https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vk-socia
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by SXX 3y ago
I honestly have no insight in their motivation here, but I shared my guesses. From legal standpoint 99.9% of game development companies originated from Russia never held any IP within the country legal framework to begin with. It was a rule
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by SXX 3y ago
Russia is not cut off from SWIFT. There are multiple banks that doing USD / EUR payments in and out, but with minimal amount of 20,000 EUR and some 200-500 EUR fee. And you can also transfer bunch of other currencies much much cheaper.
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by SXX 3y ago
None of the companies are actually under any sanctions, but obviously having any licensing deals or IP transfers with companies located in Russia is legal hazard.
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by SXX 3y ago
Their possible motivation for releasing code as open source is to allow some other Russian companies like VK Group to build their IP on it without having any deals with them directly. Just now VK Group announced their in-home game engine wi
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Dagor Engine and Tools source code from Gaijin Games KFT(github.com)
226 points by SXX 3y ago|98 comments
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by SXX 3y ago
For those who wondering: best practical use of I2P is to tunnel SSH access to obscure devices behind NAT where you can't or dont want to use something like Tailscale. Or imagine you have that torrent box you using for seeding obscure b
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by SXX 3y ago
The only reason why attack works on all browsers is because Apple force all browsers on their platform to use Webkit. This is why it's Apple problem.
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by SXX 3y ago
Because game development is what's called "successful product industry" which means sometimes you have to make 10 failed games to finally release 1 successful. Majority of game studios don't make it and competition is ve
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by SXX 3y ago
Except everyone who going for a job in games industry knows about it. It's not like people going for those 40 hours and unknowingly getting into modern slavery in a basement with their documents taken away. There just too many people
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by SXX 3y ago
> 1. Payment processors know everything because they process the payment They know all the information you given, but in practice they can't even verify "name on the card" that you entered in most of countries. In some cou
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by SXX 3y ago
Yes you can block everything, but with every specific service blocked you limit your ability to accept new users. There also legitimate banks that let you have 5-10 virtual cards or generate unique card each time you pay. Spammers do have l
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by SXX 3y ago
If X or Twitter or whatever accept payments via Apple Pay or Google Pay then there is absolutely no way to track anything. It's those services simply dont provide any information back to ex-Twitter. Also there is number of services lik
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by SXX 3y ago
Yeah they'll get even more money. Unlike small businesses or startups their payment processor not going to get rid of them for those refunds.
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by SXX 3y ago
Bot farm owners are the only ones who dont care about either $1 a year or $5 a month because they are the only ones on platform who know their ROI very well.
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by SXX 3y ago
This app we discussing is no free or open source. No reason to help them with legal defence. Or to donate to them.
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by SXX 3y ago
Too bad to see Louis Rossmann of all people selling this source available software as open source. He spend years proving to his audience how Apple bullshiting their users by not providing hardware documentation for "user security&quo
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by SXX 3y ago
Hope your problem will be resolved soon. For our company AML-check was usually done within a week and caused by fact that our game publisher that money come from was based in Dubai. But if for some reason it take more than 2 weeks to unfree
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by SXX 3y ago
Is crypto is excellent for that? Might be. Is it actually used at the moment? I doubt it. How many people been charged for bypassing sanctions? How many companies been sued for or fined for this? 100? 200? EU companies still helping Russia
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by SXX 3y ago
Cryptocurrency is too expensive and too much hassle to use when you can just come to Turkey or Dubai with $1,000,000 in a bag and put it on your bank account with no questions asked. No need for cryptocurrency when there is HSBC.
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by SXX 3y ago
Come on. Painting crypto like some way to bypass sanctions is just laughtable when neither EU nor US have a balls to sanction enough people and enforce any of sanctions. No one of substance is on sanction lists yet and those who are don&#x2
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by SXX 3y ago
It's not considered bot or anything. It's just Valve forbids any software signed or unsigned to mess with game executable, data or memory without being specifically whitelisted. Why? Because even if software doing this is legitima
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by SXX 3y ago
In this particular case anything hooking itself into game code is considered cheating.
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by SXX 3y ago
Singapore is one of few countries where population aging not gonna be a problem anytime soon due to how many immigrants are working, live there or just want to move there to live.
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Fakesperts: Who spreads pro-Kremlin disinfo in the West(theins.ru)
4 points by SXX 3y ago|0 comments
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by SXX 3y ago
Looking into source code of a program is offensive and AI abuse! Do you usually look into insides of your human friends? /s
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by SXX 3y ago
I think we need some LLM that is trained with CCP censorship that suggest you how great leader Xi is and how you suppose to work for glory of The Country and tell you how many social credits you lost or earned on each request. Might be then
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by SXX 3y ago
OMG I completely missed they killing Google Podcasts. Just terrible since I dont want to deal with anything YouTube.

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