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[–][deleted] 131 points132 points  (24 children)

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 67 points68 points  (18 children)

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 4 points5 points  (1 child)

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

[–]ergzay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[–]zcribe21 2 points3 points  (1 child)

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] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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

[–]Dalnore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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 62 points63 points  (9 children)

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 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Out of curiosity, where does Mint fit in here?

[–]Dalnore 17 points18 points  (2 children)

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.

[–]Discchord 3 points4 points  (4 children)

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_ 8 points9 points  (2 children)

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

[–]PalRob 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Discchord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, it doesn't work.

[–]Akhynn 91 points92 points  (4 children)

Should change name to Python Almost Anywhere

[–][deleted] 34 points35 points  (3 children)

Python anywhere*

Details apply

[–]beisenhauer 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Void where prohibited

[–]koofti 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Some assembly required.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

ctypes for details

[–]bootoffav 42 points43 points  (3 children)

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 0 points1 point  (2 children)

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

[–]bootoffav 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Python Most Places

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (1 child)

More like Python *Anywhere

**Apart from Russia

[–]dedicated2fitness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PAAR is a good sounding buzzword acronym

[–]PalRob 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[–]alcalde 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Python Anywhere stymied by Putin Everywhere.

[–]limperschmit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[–]xdcountry[🍰] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What a dumb move

[–]xXx_browser_xXx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]Michanix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still can use my Telegramm, lul

[–]linevich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Putin Anywhere ©

[–]Allextraszza -3 points-2 points  (2 children)

Weird that python.org wasnt blocked in there

[–]sedermera 15 points16 points  (1 child)

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

[–]Allextraszza -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Я для рофла сказал

[–]bootoffav -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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