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Re: Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians

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Post by marginalia_nu »

jacquesm wrote: post #27
marginalia_nu wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it particularly realistic, I was responding to this sentence: > If Moscow will suffer a nuclear strike by NATO to decapitate the Russian government, these people will have no kids to care about.

I don't see that happening. If they would do that it would instantly annihilate any support for NATO the world over. First user of nuclear weapons today is going to go down in history - assuming there will be anybody left to write it - as worse than Hitler.

Yeah, I completely agree. It would be the biggest (and quite possibly last) mistake anyone ever made.

Re: Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians

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Post by jka »

jka wrote: post #16

This is charitable of cpervica and tarsnap; that said, for many people, it's probably easier and safer (and you'll receive greater legal protection, long-term) to proceed by uploading your (even pre-encrypted) documents to Google Drive or a similar cloud-based storage system. Don't get me wrong - I like encryption and pushing the envelope for what's possible in terms of keeping content private for the general public.…

(self-replying to note that as of 2022-02-26 00:14 UTC, I'm not aware of tarsnap providing, for example, an onion address for source-obscured content upload)

Re: Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians

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Post by jacquesm »

megous wrote: post #30
jacquesm wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see that happening. If they would do that it would instantly annihilate any support for NATO the world over. First user of nuclear weapons today is going to go down in history - assuming there will be anybody left to write it - as worse than Hitler.

That seemed to have happened to the first user, you know?!

It has in the eyes of some. Me included. That should have never happened and I don't for a second buy all the learned opinions about it, it was mass murder and as far as I am concerned it tainted the USA forever.

Re: Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians

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Post by throwaway111555 »

belltaco wrote: post #2

Has anyone or is anyone working on displaying a HTML header above sites(or kind of an 'accept cookies' type of HTML UI) for Russian geoblocks that says something like "Please consider telling your government to stop the war on Ukraine". I read earlier that Pornhub blocked Russian IPs completely and is showing a message but total blocking comes with its own downsides.

I hate to chime in about it, but PornHub is working fine in Russia ;)

Re: Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians

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Post by cperciva »

I feel bad about all the attention this is getting. It happened because I asked myself "what can I do to help Ukrainians", and frankly it's costing me peanuts -- Tarsnap doesn't have a huge number of Ukrainian users. (As far as I'm aware, at least, hence my emailing the tarsnap-announce list to encourage other Ukrainians to identify themselves to me.) I didn't mean for this to turn into a publicity stunt!

But while I'm writing -- if you're looking for something you can do to help: Please contact your elected representatives and encourage them to allow visa-free travel to Ukrainian citizens. Ireland has already done this (https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/00aef-minister-mcentee-a...) and I wrote to my MP yesterday to encourage Canada to follow suit. This war is going to displace millions of civilians and while Putin's threats of nuclear war may prevent NATO from defending Ukraine, at least we can step up to help the refugees.

Re: Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians

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Post by coryrc »

jacquesm wrote: post #34
megous wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That seemed to have happened to the first user, you know?!

It has in the eyes of some. Me included. That should have never happened and I don't for a second buy all the learned opinions about it, it was mass murder and as far as I am concerned it tainted the USA forever.

I don't think any countries will end up untainted in your view. Maybe Costa Rica?

Re: Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians

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Post by [deleted] »

baybal2 wrote: post #11
dmitrygr wrote: post #4

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Protesting against the government in Russia is a jailable offense. People have families, kids, lives. To most citizens of Russia, this war is pointless and they do not want it. But actually protesting it lands them in jail, possibly their families too. Are you suggesting that they abandon all of that just cause a website tells them that? Or is it your point that collective punishment works (it doesn't)? Or maybe you…

Cynism, and cowardise is a diet of tyrants. Even 1% of Russian male population is a number bigger than Russia's combat troops number, and 10% will overwhelm the full force of the military. If Moscow will suffer a nuclear strike by NATO to decapitate the Russian government, and prevent a coordinated first strike, these people will have no kids to care about. This is what people's power can do: https://youtu.be/OCorwQT…

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Re: Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians

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Post by 56V9qtdGKWy4q8p »

cperciva wrote: post #36

I feel bad about all the attention this is getting. It happened because I asked myself "what can I do to help Ukrainians", and frankly it's costing me peanuts -- Tarsnap doesn't have a huge number of Ukrainian users. (As far as I'm aware, at least, hence my emailing the tarsnap-announce list to encourage other Ukrainians to identify themselves to me.) I didn't mean for this to turn into a publicity stunt! But while I…

You did good. HN is just toxic and full of know-it-alls experts on war topics.

Re: Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

cduzz wrote: post #8
dmitrygr wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Protesting against the government in Russia is a jailable offense. People have families, kids, lives. To most citizens of Russia, this war is pointless and they do not want it. But actually protesting it lands them in jail, possibly their families too. Are you suggesting that they abandon all of that just cause a website tells them that? Or is it your point that collective punishment works (it doesn't)? Or maybe you…

Seems like there's a move afoot to re-litigate the French revolution. Is the government for the people or are the people for the government? If the people exist to glorify the government, and the government exists to glorify a person, what is yours? L'etat se moi / I would rather burn down the world than lose

To be precise, "L'état c'est moi" is an expression attributed to Louis XIV, about 100 years before the French Revolution.

It means that the monarchy is above the parliament.

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