Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians
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I read earlier that Pornhub blocked Russian IPs completely and is showing a message but total blocking comes with its own downsides.
Or maybe you think that if enough websites block them, people will think "well, maybe jail ain't so bad, so that i could access www.belltacospersonalsite.com"
EDIT: throttled, so reply to below comment by nope96 about calling in sick:
Call in sick -> no money -> your kids starve. Once again. It is easy to be sitting here and theorizing. Life is a lot more harsh in the former USSR.
Would you sacrifice your life to save 10 people you've never heard of in a faraway place?
If you claim yes (a lie), sign your donor card and eat a bottle of aspirin. If you are truthful and you answer no, you know how Russians currently feel. They do not support this war, but the only thing they can do has no payoff and a high cost to each of them
It may well come to that if this isn't dealt with inside Russia, that's the real trade-off.
> They do not support this war, but the only thing they can do has no payoff and a high cost to each of them
Not as high as the cost to Ukrainians. And that is what matters right now.
To do nothing is to effectively support the war, it may sound crude but that's how it is right now and only Russia can change that without further bloodshed, any other way forward will be far worse in the longer term. To put it bluntly: Russia never really properly got rid of their past, and now more than ever is the moment to consider that, do you want to continue to be on the wrong side of history or do you clean house? Both of these have extremely high price tags attached, the time for easy choices has run out, and some of our possible futures are no future at all.
Some words for contemplation:
"The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing"
The meaning is clear I think (even if the attribution is not), sometimes inaction is also an action.
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
It means that the monarchy is above the parliament.
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/OCorwQTLZXE https://youtu.be/N7DrIUH64yI https://youtu.be/NhlMCPb4ZM8
The advancing crowd on the video been shot at by 5 RPGs, hail of sniper, and machinegun fire just few minutes prior, and they still routed the government special forces with just sticks, and rocks.
That's beyond insane. I can see Putin doing something like that but NATO not in a lifetime.
> If Moscow will suffer a nuclear strike by NATO to decapitate the Russian government, these people will have no kids to care about.
https://t.me/istorijaoruzija/35675
>Pornhub blocked Russian IPs completely
well, as the "replacement of imported goods and services with domestic equivalents" which Russia usually tries to do in response to sanctions, i guess Russia will have to dump the anti-gay laws and legalize same-sex marriage :) (the original joke is by Zelensky back in 2014 in response to Russian forces in Crimea - in Russian https://youtu.be/_zMEO6IiokU?t=185 )
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.
1) 45,000,000 people are not in bomb shelters.
2) Reading the very short post in the link, you can see that this is more about not deleting the data of Ukrainians that is already on tarsnap if they aren't able to provide payment because of the war.
> The last thing I want to do is delete what may be someone's last copy of important data because they can't pay a bill while running for their lives.
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. But I get a weird sense that this is like some kind of phishing-for-valuable-(meta)data expedition.
RTFA. This isn’t a sales pitch, he’s forgiving payments for those who have more important things to worry about than checking the expiry date on their CC.
To attempt to explain - although it could be an excuse: I interpreted this situation as one that could lead to potentially less-familiar users onboarding at a risky and dangerous point-in-time, and that that could lead to the introduction of additional hazards.
The nature of the service as a highly privacy-preserving and technical one, I feel, could mean that practice and care are required (ideally, during a less risky time) in order for users to learn the nature of the system and how to use it appropriately in their own environment(s).