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it's not criminal law, yandex can hire a lawyer in the US
But could they find a judge/jury sympathetic to any Russian concerns?
courts decide much more based on law than sympathies, seriously
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#73A better thing to do is to reach out to their support team or whichever "Contact Us" emails they've got publicly available and let them know
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#74What are the short-term and long-term implications of this? I assume a drastically increased attack surface and potentially a boon for open-source development? Anything else?
They are still the most popular search engine in Russia, they have the best brand, etc. Intangible stuff like that is hard to copy. Running a search engine on the scale of Yandex is very expensive so I don't think that they are going to be replaced by some startup that copies their code and adds a few features. Probably a bunch of bugs will be found but that's not the end of the world. Apparently they handle images p…
I use Yandex when DDG and bing censor real results.
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#75A better thing to do is to reach out to their support team or whichever "Contact Us" emails they've got publicly available and let them know
I think they know at this point
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#76What programming languages are they using mostly?
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#77Yandex reverse image search is very good. I use it more than tineye, bing, or goog. It either gives you the exact matches if it can find them, or else it can infer what is desired and show many similar matches.
Their Street View product is also very good, however their coverage is mostly for ex Soviet Union countries
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#78Yandex reverse image search is very good. I use it more than tineye, bing, or goog. It either gives you the exact matches if it can find them, or else it can infer what is desired and show many similar matches.
I wonder if that's a function of their technology or their database. Google's image search used to be good, but regulations have forced them to cripple it in some ways, and they might have chosen not to surface results in some contexts.
Not only regulations, Chrome's builtin image search uses Google Lens to find products to sell you instead of simple reverse searches. It has become useless.
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>This generation seems very sensitive to the prospect of computer crime. You're right. I remember a time, maybe 20 years ago, when stuff like this would be generally appreciated by any community of hackers.
I think the problem is people are entering a matured industry, all they know is the professional buttoned up culture we have today. People have no further curiosity beyond working and making money in tech. They do not have memories of a time when people tinkered around doing all kinds of crazy and possibly illegal stuff, just for fun, just to see if the could. Sad really.
The punishments are now somewhat known. I used to tinker with things that were questionable but after seeing what happened to swartz and others i stopped. It’s not worth it.
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#80Seems like the main repository ("arcadia") isn't there.
Looked around and it seems like arcadia is a sort of VCS on top of git/a build system?