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by dmantis 2y ago
So you are saying that if 95% of world population, including Chinese, Russians, etc reports American bot farm to American police, somebody would really review that and go after Americans? BTW, how they should report it, if they are a small
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by dmantis 2y ago
> blocking obvious datacenter ASNs You block all VPN users then, and currently many countries have some kind of censorship, please don't do that. I use a personal VPN for over 5 years and that's annoying. I understand the other
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by dmantis 2y ago
When US sells stuff, it's all pro free-market. When US competes, there are tiktok potential bans and whining about workers from other countries. You can only pick one to be fair. You either don't sell your products to the outside
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by dmantis 2y ago
There should be no difference with usual botnet owner/ransomware gangs and such companies. Management should go to prison for good 20-30 years for that and being extradited worldwide. Considering that ransomware gangs are probably less
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by dmantis 2y ago
Sounds pretty logical in a world where banking secrecy doesn't exist and most banks are compliant with a single jurisdiction which doesn't respects other ones. Don't see what's wrong to preserve your property outside of
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by dmantis 2y ago
Because law enforcement must be costly and non-automated to avoid the unbalanced power distribution between an individual and the gov, which only serves the individual and not rules them. A cost to catch a criminal should be a manual and ex
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by dmantis 3y ago
I think the most self-respectful and secure way is to have some encrypted cloud in a jurisdiction which doesn't cooperate with the country you afraid of. Wiping all data from the device and restoring it back after border control. Hidde
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by dmantis 3y ago
That's an espionage company which is openly violating privacy rights of other countries citizens outside of the US jurisdiction. I would agree with you, if all companies and individuals in the world could openly violate right of US cit
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by dmantis 3y ago
I live in a country with fast enough 5MB/s and huge ping (300ms+) internet. There is no problem with installing packages, downloading deps and so on, but realtime remote typing or gaming could be really clunky. Don't forget that y
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by dmantis 3y ago
Yeah, it's more profitable to reside in a low tax jurisdiction as I do, for example, but he asked me to elaborate on the idea and I know that such way of life exist and works perfectly fine for lots of people. Th main idea as that I st
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by dmantis 3y ago
Digital (not strictly connected to real) identity is a not a bad thing in itself. But I honestly don't think that digital identity should be managed by governments or corporations, they already have too much leverage over individuals.
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by dmantis 3y ago
That's true, I also don't understand why some people are "better" by the right of birth and not by things they did in life and pure merit. There is basically no reason for, for example, African young person to be more re
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by dmantis 3y ago
Dodging is illegal, being nobody's (or some low/zero tax country) tax resident and not paying anyone is perfectly fine, nothing wrong with that. Apart from maybe US with their specific global tax residence regulation. You can stay
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by dmantis 3y ago
It's theoretically possible, but for a year of my life, for example, I didn't have a residence and moved around. Lots of people do that to optimize their taxes. Why would you require to be a resident from a person to use an intern
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by dmantis 3y ago
And what if I don't trust and don't want to rely on my citizenship government? Being a Russian passport holder who lives abroad for years, I don't want to be in touch with my gov in any way possible, and moreover depend on it
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by dmantis 3y ago
The literal attempt to censor web usage of Linux and BSD desktops, other FOSS clients, custom Android ROMs, etc with an open reasoning "to sell you ads". They don't even try to masquerade it.
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by dmantis 4y ago
Hope when they are done with US, they will switch to non-OFAC compliant block producers in Ethereum.
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by dmantis 4y ago
If you are interested, me, personally, was partially affiliated with libertarian party and left Russia after first police visit in early 2021 (so a year before the war, even better in your terms). But that's just an ad hominem and does
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by dmantis 4y ago
As well as thousands of Russians outside of Russia got their banks accounts blocked and sanctions restricted our money to be 100_000 EUR max per person. Hundreds of years of liberal ideas of individual rights just crushed below collective r
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by dmantis 4y ago
There is no proof that you bought it, you can save for yourself if you don't want "reimbursement". I know how to use torrents, you know. The point was to support artists, not to get anything. If you change your mind and would
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by dmantis 4y ago
No problem, Send me Eminem, last Cypress Hill album and bitcoin address to pay, I'll pay you in public, put tx hash here and the whole HN will be able to see that. Please also send here the invoice photo with yourself and nickname on h
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by dmantis 4y ago
Not the guy you ask, but for me, I just want convenient digital thing on my laptop I actually own, not rent. I live in 2022 and don't want that physical crap. I would have no problem to pay for DRM-free and location-independent stuff,
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by dmantis 4y ago
I actually like that I see ads in other languages on youtube, based on VPN location. So instead of manipulative junk I receive some funny blahblahblah videos I don't have idea what about and not putting junk in my subconscious.
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by dmantis 4y ago
Good luck safely store your money being Russian or Iranian (or other citizen of any fascist regime who is considered not a human by both his own country and westerns). Not a legitimate case, I suppose.
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by dmantis 4y ago
Hacking people and steal their data is pretty much illegal, especially if done on non-US (or other in case of other spyers) soil. There is no difference between some drug cartel mercenary and CIA agent from both legal and moral perspective
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by dmantis 4y ago
> There’s also Stripe or Square No, there aren't. That's not available for Chinese, Russians, Iranians, Argentinians, Nigerians, Thai, South Africans, which is more than 1/3 of the world population and you can't just
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by dmantis 4y ago
I highly doubt that "most people" would ever change their stock TV or TV dongle OS. So it targets geek and privacy-aware auditory and geek auditory understands what that means.
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by dmantis 4y ago
If you are a company and not an individual, nobody prohibits you to pay bounties to maintainers to focus on your needs instead of paying some try-to-hook-you-up-with-subscriptions company. Moreover, lots of OSS contributors are from China,
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by dmantis 4y ago
I'm a holder of Russian passport, so no, I'm not a theoretician. 1) They block the whole-domain only in case of https which reminds you to turn-on the VPN. In case of http you could just have something like 404 response for partic
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by dmantis 4y ago
That might be very new information, but there are 195 countries in the world (194 apart from yours!) with plenty of them forcing internet censorship or gov espionage. I'm kinda happy that the worst scenario in yours are internet ads, b

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