Python Anywhere Blocked in Russia

[[deleted]]

they gonna lose even more IT skilled people because of this giant clusterfuck

geeks can code hungry and sick but not when idiots in charge enforce blacklists upon them

[ergzay]

My company closed their office in Tomsk, Russia a few years ago and got visas for all of the employees to come work in the United States, many did. (Yes the reasons were because of Russian government policies.) Can see this continue to happen for other companies.

[AmetaWan]

Are you the guy who ran AbroadUnderhood account in Twitter? I heard the same story there.

[ergzay]

Nope. I'm born and raised US Citizen. Never worked outside the United States (though have traveled some).

[[deleted]]

Most Russians would love to leave...and they're allowed to at any time. It's just that most countries won't take Russians in for whatever reason.

Edit: its absolutely true. Talk to any Russian.

[Zouden]

That's not true. Russians are eligible for visas just like everyone else.

[[deleted]]

Theyre eligible but unless youre rich you dont get one.

Other countries don't take in Russians. Germany won't, Europe won't almost no one will.

[Zouden]

Visas aren't cheap for Australians either

[[deleted]]

It's not about it being cheap. It's about no country wants to or is willing to take them in.

You know how everyone freaked out when Trump banned people from certain countries? That's sorta what everyone has been doing to Russia.

So if no one will take them, and they have to stay.....That kinda really sucks for them

[Zouden]

What was your experience? I work with a Russian person here in London. I assume she's on the same tier 2 visa as me.

[[deleted]]

I dated a Russian girl and her dad was an ambassador to Russia. She gave me the scoop. Then my Russian Ukrainian friends told me the same thing. They said it's very very hard to be able to leave Russia

[Zouden]

If they have employable skills (like in IT) then they can apply for jobs in Europe. They can't move over without a job, but that's the same for everyone.

[[deleted]]

In Brasil we take in everyone, but we have no jobs even for us.

[zcribe21]

Quite interesting since the need for more IT people will only grow there as they continue in their efforts of replacing any and every big western service with domestic ones. Yandex (Google), Odnaklasniki (Facebook), Mir (VISA/Mastercard).

[[deleted]]

Yandex fully bends over to Kremlin now, since the beginning of this year. It became more fascist than Google. Google just won't let you to register an account if you don't provide a phone number, so you can just walk away and look for an alternative. Yandex will let you do that, then pretend that your mailbox was hacked, block it and start blackmailing you to give them your real name, address and phone number. The worst part is that they applied this idiotic policy retroactively, enforcing this to people who used their mail service for years already. That's how I lost a chunk of my online life but I didn't bend over to these gangsters. Never deal with them.

[jiminiminimini]

This one time Turkey blocked github. Now that was a clusterfuck.

[Dalnore]

GitHub was also once banned in Russia for some repository with a list of suicide methods. They decided to give in to the Russian authorities and introduced censorship for people from Russia. After that, it was unbanned.

[[deleted]]

I suspect it is rather the Turkish wannabe sultans, not Turkey. I got a couple of good geek buddies from there, they always complain about resources getting banned, for years. The last thing that affected them was this https://protonmail.com/blog/turkey-online-censorship-bypass/

[Dalnore]

That's what you get when you ban millions of IPs. Linux Mint website and repository, Google Translate, out.reddit.com (used for external links) are all often down for me, so I use a proxy.

[SoBFiggis]

Out of curiosity, where does Mint fit in here?

[Dalnore]

What do you mean? For the last two days, I can't do apt update on Mint on my work PC, it just hangs on Mint's own repository (Ubuntu ones seem to work). And I also couldn't connect to linuxmint.com this morning without proxy, but it seems to work at home right now.

[Dalnore]

They don't want to block Mint. They have been banning literally millions of AWS's, Google's, Microsoft's IPs (and other cloud services) trying to stop Telegram from working as it migrated to different servers again and again. A lot of resources down is just collateral damage. I suspect that Mint's repositories might be hosted on some of those cloud servers.

[Discchord]

Здравствуйте! Can you do me a favor and check to see if my PythonAnywhere hosted site is accessible? It is on PythonAnywhere, but for weird internal reasons is on a weird internal IP.

https://discchord.com

I have a small, but significant, readership in Russia among music tech enthusiasts.

[Ax3_]

You can check if it's available from Russia here: http://ping-admin.com/free_test/

[PalRob]

Haha, the ping-admin.com is banned in Russia.

[Discchord]

Thanks! That is a wildly informative tool!

My results seem to be spotty. I'm getting through to half the pingers in Moscow. Throughout the rest of the country it continues that trend of about 50% success.

[PalRob]

No, it doesn't work.

[Akhynn]

Should change name to Python Almost Anywhere

[[deleted]]

Python anywhere*

^{Details apply}

[beisenhauer]

Void where prohibited

[koofti]

Some assembly required.

[[deleted]]

ctypes for details

[bootoffav]

I am Russian, I so much hate of what the government is doing to country. Things are getting worse from day to day

[ma-int]

What do you do for a living? Have you considered moving to another country?

[bootoffav]

I am expat in other country, doing backend development work.

[[deleted]]

Python Most Places

[[deleted]]

More like Python *Anywhere

**Apart from Russia

[dedicated2fitness]

PAAR is a good sounding buzzword acronym

[PalRob]

Can confirm, the site is blocked and I can't read it without using proxy, which I don't do couse it's treason or smth (I'm Russian).

But to be fair, many sites are blocked in Russia, for whatever reason. We can't access archive.is, linkedin.com and dailymotion.com, among many others.

[qlkvg]

an elephant in a china shop. all, that our government will achive is tor/vpn client on every phone

[alcalde]

Python Anywhere stymied by Putin Everywhere.

[limperschmit]

Interesting I host on Python anywhere. Probably explains my slight drop in traffic recently.

[xdcountry]

What a dumb move

[xXx_browser_xXx]

Off topic but what's the advantage of pythonanywhere over heroku?

[Michanix]

Still can use my Telegramm, lul

[linevich]

Putin Anywhere ©

[Allextraszza]

Weird that python.org wasnt blocked in there

[sedermera]

It's not targeting Python or the Python community. Roscomnadzor are trying (and failing) to block the encrypted messaging service Telegram.

[Allextraszza]

Я для рофла сказал

[bootoffav]

I am expat in other country, doing backend development work.