Though I've seen, plenty of times, smaller places have a "public" wifi with a password, and the password is just written on a piece of paper somewhere. That must technically violate that law. But you know, laws in Russia...

I heard something similar about Russia after recent changes actually, it could as well be impossible for non-residents so tourists just stick with international roaming and public wifi. IIRC there's a catch-22 situation where you need a Gosuslugi (online government services portal) account to buy a sim, but you need a Russian phone number to sign up for one. As a citizen, you just need your ID (internal passport).

Even EU countries seem to require an ID now. When I traveled to France and Belgium in 2024, I bought a French tourist sim card, and the carrier kept sending me some rather insistent messages that my line would get disconnected if I don't upload my passport in 30 days.

It's not "VHS footage" though, but it can generate all kinds of analog video signals, some of which my decoder can decode.

Though in my case the purpose was to digitize my video tapes and teach myself about DSP.

So do you mean that even camera lenses now ship unfinished?

I've been using email through a client for decades. My primary email is Gmail, but I have no idea what Gmail is like on the web these days. Save for providers like hey.com, whose entire selling point is their unique web UX, I never understood why would someone use email in their web browser.

Though the fact that the author uses AI is kinda meh.

    #включить <стдвв.з>
    
    цел главная() {
        печататьф("Привет, мир!\н");
        вернуть 0;
    }