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Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

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Post by kasthack »

acqq wrote: post #6
austerity wrote: post #5

Interesting... Google Translate did a very decent job on the article, but the comments are all kinds of hilarious. Looks like informal speech is much harder to translate correctly. Although on the second thought it's not surprising.

I guess some Russian reader hand corrected the translation of the article. Otherwise, Google translate is very poor for Russian text. the best example is the translated sentence from the text that caused the ban: "Skopostnye train DURING topmozhenii ppohod more about kilometpa" (...) (The sentence makes advice where the person doing suicide is best to do it, related to trains. Don't correct it and please don't post i…

>"Skopostnye train DURING topmozhenii ppohod more about kilometpa"

Looks like message author has replaced cyrillic 'р' with latin 'p' in original text.

Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

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Post by znowi »

What a nice attack vector. Deliver a "suicidal" payload to a website, report to Russian authorities and watch it go offline in Russia.

It might as well be SO or any other site with user content.

Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

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Post by egeozcan »

hal9000xp wrote: post #20

I live in Russia (Moscow) and I'm working for leading russian internet company. I'm very annoyed by current political and economical situation. I was so upset by events happening last months that I simply stopped reading russian news at all. And I spent all the time in places like GitHub, Topcoder, English Wikipedia, Hacker News etc. Yesterday, I've tried to make yet another commit to my private repository and sudden…

Had the same situation in Turkey. Half of the country supports a (for me obviously) corrupt party for reasons I can observe (religion, dreaming of becoming the glorious Ottoman Empire once again and so on), but can't make sense of. I have been living in Germany for the last 5 years - never been happier, even though I earn less. I try not to read any Turkish news (very depressing) with moderate success because of the common "{Yet Another Social Network} blocked in Turkey" posts on HN & others.

Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

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Post by aleksi »

pluma wrote: post #23

Why are there text files describing methods of suicide on GitHub anyway? From what I can tell they show up in seemingly unrelated repos. Are these just bandwagoning in protest or am I missing something?

They were committed by protestor or just troll.

Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

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Post by kasthack »

gear54rus wrote: post #25
toxik wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not? It might be inconvenient to read, but it is an article about the censoring of that exact information. Celebrate freedom by translating it properly!

Willing to translate it, but the piece posted here is not comprehensible. Post a direct link and I'll do it. Also, original: http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=41171 Edit: it does not look like sth about suicide. Words in order: High-speed (adj), Train, Customs (on the border), Passage, More, About, (of) kilometer.

>Words in order: >High-speed (adj), Train, Customs (on the border), Passage, More, About, (of) kilometer.

Higher-speed rail passes at least kilometer while slowing down.

>it does not look like sth about suicide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_methods#Rail

Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

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Post by acqq »

kasthack wrote: post #35
gear54rus wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Willing to translate it, but the piece posted here is not comprehensible. Post a direct link and I'll do it. Also, original: http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=41171 Edit: it does not look like sth about suicide. Words in order: High-speed (adj), Train, Customs (on the border), Passage, More, About, (of) kilometer.

>Words in order: >High-speed (adj), Train, Customs (on the border), Passage, More, About, (of) kilometer. Higher-speed rail passes at least kilometer while slowing down. >it does not look like sth about suicide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_methods#Rail

Thanks for the Wikipedia link, now we know what the basis for the text was. Obviously the author started from there and added his "funny" options like "start the third world war."

Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

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Post by sergiosgc »

gear54rus wrote: post #27
ommunist wrote: post #2

Holy shmoly! Is wordpress.org the next?

These two can't be compared. I wouldn't mind much them blocking wordpress.org (I rarely visit it and when I do, I can circumvent). GitHub, or, for the matter SO, will be a big hit.

Note the domain. Wordpress.org, not wordpress.com.

Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

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Post by realusername »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #19
BonoboBoner wrote: post #11

What next, also StackOverflow blocked? Next headline would be Russian software development comes to a sudden halt Edit: downvoted again. My mind is just not made for this hateful community here.

It probably won't, but it'll evolve in a different direction, and knowledge from abroad (and from inside Russia) won't be distributed as much as before.

Indeed, I believe that is going to happen this way.

But in the same time, it's a strong signal to avoid to do software related business in Russia. The blocking works both ways. Just look at what happened in China, they do have their own tools and networks but almost nobody is outsourcing work to China compared to other countries.

Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

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Post by eps »

codeshaman wrote: post #13

Official reason for blocking: the site hosts texts describing methods of suicide. Because Github uses HTTPS only, it's impossible to block only the offending pages, so the whole IP range is blocked. Github ignored their requests to remove the offending content, so the site remains blocked. I hope Russian citizens get a big fat boost of morality from blocking Github. Really, it's not the alcoholism, injustice, corrupt…

> now economic collapse

Don't take what a TV box tells you this literally. The currency exchange rate going up is not an economic collapse. I lived through Perestroika years - that was nasty, but current situation is even less of a "collapse" as what the US economy had during the mortgage crisis.

Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

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Post by c1sc0 »

hal9000xp wrote: post #20

I live in Russia (Moscow) and I'm working for leading russian internet company. I'm very annoyed by current political and economical situation. I was so upset by events happening last months that I simply stopped reading russian news at all. And I spent all the time in places like GitHub, Topcoder, English Wikipedia, Hacker News etc. Yesterday, I've tried to make yet another commit to my private repository and sudden…

"it's a vast majority of russian people who voted for Putin and his party and totally support current regime" ... this is why when you win a war, even a cold one ... you rebuild the country at your own expense ...
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