How is it like to be a dev in Iran

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Post by daanavitch » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 9:11 PM UTC

How is it like to be a dev in Iran
shahinsorkh.ir

Re: How is it like to be a dev in Iran

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Post by nixgeek » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 10:31 PM UTC

Seems like it could be dangerous just to blog about these activities if you live in Iran?

Re: How is it like to be a dev in Iran

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Post by fabrika » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 10:39 PM UTC

"Even in US we can find certain domains which are blocked and cannot be accessed like those which contain CP or wild anti-humanism contents."

Is it true? I always assumed US never blocks access to websites. They would rather ask the hosting provider to take down the website or try to arrest the author.

Re: How is it like to be a dev in Iran

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Post by steve19 » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 10:40 PM UTC

"People are dying due to absence of medicines. People are starving. The economy system is falling apart and the politicians and their children are all abroad! None of them have any sense about what is going on the streets."

That is not what we (the West) are hearing in mainstream media.

Edit: I may well be wrong on this as others have pointed out.

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Post by googlesux » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 10:42 PM UTC

>People are dying due to absence of medicines. People are starving. The economy system is falling apart and the politicians and their children are all abroad! None of them have any sense about what is going on the streets.

Seems like you should be rooting against your govt fat cats hoarding all the food not writing a blog

Re: How is it like to be a dev in Iran

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Post by smnrchrds » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 10:45 PM UTC

Dear devs,

Please stop using Google Cloud Platform to host your projects.

GCP blocks Iran, so by hosting any part of the app on GCP, your apps become impossible to access from Iran. Azure and AWS do not do this. This form of blocking is exclusive to GCP.

After the switch to GCP, Iranians lost access to gitlab. Firefox Monitor is blocked in Iran for the same reason. The list goes on and on.

I don't believe Mozilla team for example has consciously decided to block Iran, just that their devs do not know about Google's policy regarding Iran. I hope all devs learn about this fact, so they make informed decisions when choosing cloud platforms.

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Post by nasir » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 10:48 PM UTC

Ten years ago when I still lived in Iran I was a wizard working my way around the "filternet". I had even taught my mom to setup a socks proxy through an SSH tunnel!

Re: How is it like to be a dev in Iran

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Post by xrd » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 10:51 PM UTC

smnrchrds wrote: post #6

Dear devs, Please stop using Google Cloud Platform to host your projects. GCP blocks Iran, so by hosting any part of the app on GCP, your apps become impossible to access from Iran. Azure and AWS do not do this. This form of blocking is exclusive to GCP. After the switch to GCP, Iranians lost access to gitlab. Firefox Monitor is blocked in Iran for the same reason. The list goes on and on. I don't believe Mozilla tea…

This should be spread more widely. I didn't know this.

Re: How is it like to be a dev in Iran

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Post by schpaencoder » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 10:52 PM UTC

I feel for you and I know that normal people are always the victims of sanctions, not the privileged and rich. I hope one day your people will be free. Sincerely.

Re: How is it like to be a dev in Iran

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Post by keithnz » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 10:52 PM UTC

nixgeek wrote: post #2

Seems like it could be dangerous just to blog about these activities if you live in Iran?

That's what I was wondering, it seems like a public admission of breaking the local laws ( as corrupt as those laws are.. ).