Im going to report ycombinator to the Russian authorities. This thread has people advocating and planning terrorist attacks against Russia and it's being condoned by the moderators. This thread wouldn't survive for a minute if the target was the US.
Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
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#4821: Small website with simple JS to ddos a list of russian gov and propaganda websites. Works anywhere where those are not blocked (e.g. Ukraine). Link - https://stop-russian-desinformation.near.page/ 2. Console tool for unplanned load testing Link - https://github.com/codesenberg/bombardier/releases/tag/v1.2.... Example usage - ./bombardier-linux-amd64 --duration=240h --connections=1000 --latencies https://lenta.ru U…
"The "official" news in russian federation are all fake and we believe it is better to shut them down!" Now the people are the censors? In the fog of war, how can we judge information if we have no access to the information? Is it fake news that the U.S. said that they would not let N.A.T.O. into Ukraine? As with all technologies, they come with responsibility. Acting as self censors is just as bad as letting the gov…
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#483Just like nobody would even talk about Nord Stream 1, or EU didn't want to cancel Swift, and EU leader is literally talking about a 'pretty lit up building' in 'support of Ukraine' - while Ukraine is begging for weapons ... I'm wary that this is a little too late. If you want to help, call your Senator and demand that they supply Ukraine with as many Javelins and Stingers as they can, unlimited small arms, equipment…
You need to evaluate the situation. Supplying weapons might feel good as a sign of defiance, but it will only prolong the conflict and lead to more dead. Nobody wins if you die a martyr in this conflict. The political capital is on the Ukrainians side, so any situation aside from a direct war is preferable. There are direct conflicts, but they are also involved in a proxy war. And no, I would not enjoy suggesting sur…
One of the most sane comment imo. Ukraine simply can’t win this by continuing to fight. It will just end up getting more people killed and same end result. And there’s no appetite for sending US and other troops in to fight as that would create an even bigger war with far dangerous consequences.
I think the best solution would be for Ukraine to see the writing on the wall - declare itself neutral and not be part of NATO.
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#484Earlier quoted context omitted.
Russian visitors of my foss project ( https://www.filestash.app/ ) now see the message of peace address to them by president Zelenskyy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwzb_JX7u04
Frankly, I think that's a much wiser approach than escalating the situation further with DDos attacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolence
spammer, can anyone delete this message?
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#485Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really, how much defensive value does this have for Ukraine? DDOSing Russian news websites just allows them to cry victim - “look, they don’t want you to hear the truth!”. Disrupting the Russian internet in general also harms any anti-war protesters trying to organize.
Russian 'news' is claiming Ukrainian Nazis are massacring ethnic Russians. They don't need a legitimate excuse. Anyway, most Russians probably thought this was all bluster by the West and Russia wasn't going in. They need to know they're engaged in an actual war.
this. Not sure why this comment is downvoted. For anyone not speaking Russian, just head to Google News (with Chrome), pick the Russian news and translate into English and read the headlines (or if you're too lazy open this URL under Chrome https://news.google.com/topstories?hl=ru&gl=RU&ceid=RU:ru).
The comment above is a pretty accurate picture: protecting Ukrainian civilians, soldiers defecting to Russian side without even a fight, military generals telling success stories of their daily peace keeping operations and other face palming tales such as indeed a repeated idea that they fight against nazis to protect motherland under threat from evil NATO and the Americans.
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#486Earlier quoted context omitted.
Russian visitors of my foss project ( https://www.filestash.app/ ) now see the message of peace address to them by president Zelenskyy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwzb_JX7u04
Frankly, I think that's a much wiser approach than escalating the situation further with DDos attacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolence
Delusional bot, there's invasion out there.
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> No NATO state will enter into this conflict, Putin has been pretty openly threatening with nuclear annihilation This basically means 2 things: 1. NATO is dead. 2. Putin is free to do whatever he wants wherever he chooses.
Neither of those points follow from the premise. NATO's mission has always been mutual defense of members. Ukraine is not a member. The threat of Russian nuclear weapons has been more poignant in the past than today. Neither of your conclusions was true before.
"Ukraine made the decision to completely denuclearize. In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia would guarantee Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum." [0]
We can see this security guarantee in action right now. Same will happen with NATO's mutual defense guarantee.
[0] https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082124528/ukraine-russia-put...
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All good points. I am ashamed for both some of the things that happened and that way too few has been held responsible. Please forgive those of us who where tricked into it, too young to vote etc. I'll try to do my part to prevent more of it. Edit: as for the phrase "the free world", read it to mean "freer to those inside it" if that helps.
> Please forgive those of us who where tricked into it, too young to vote etc. Then you blame the voters of America when their government started an illegal war based on falsehoods.
Yes, UK and US foreign policy has been, and in many places around the world, is currently, ethically, morally questionable.
As a UK citizen, of voting age for 20 years now, I'm guilty as charged. I voted for Blair before the Iraq war, but like many others protested on our streets in the build up (and I haven't voted for them since).
Doesn't make us wrong about Putin though.
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He could get a Nansen passport. But i don't see which country would take him, so it's torture/jail in the US or silence.
Sure I get the silence but there was no need to blame the US media in the first place. Silence in the first place would have been fine for the Kremlin.
Maybe it's his honest opinion?
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The phrase "the free world" rubs me the wrong way. I'm obviously against what Russia is doing, any sane man would be. But as a middle eastern, the US to us has been 10x worse than Russia: They killed a million Iraqis, they killed Syrian civilians by bombing hospitals and schools. They overthrew a functional government in Libya, and they supported Syrian/Iraqi separatists (Kurds). They forcefully tried to build a mili…
Yes but at least the US had probable cause to go into Iraq. The world was pretty much behind that decision. We were attacked, civilians were attacked directly, none of that conflict would have occurred if Iraq or neighboring countries stopped their terrorism.
The world was not 100% behind the US invasion of Iraq, or even 20%. The US had the world's support, after 9/11, to go into Afghanistan. The US was emboldened by that and attacked Iraq with very little global support, for reasons unrelated to the 9/11 attack.