https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

It is very possible that `gyrovague` is not `japatokal` but an impersonator.

Maybe even better: magnolia outperforms archive.is on paywalls

1. Planned obsolescence built into HTTPS: no HTTPS-aware server device from year 1999 would work with 2023 browsers. Just because "too old crypto". Plain HTTP works.

Being on a buy side I am against HTTPS in such devices, but I understand the sell side's position.

Of course, no https, but.. it is not a platform limitation, just an undemanded feature: how would you get a https cert for 192.168.0.1 or a similar intranet address where those device suppose to work? They are just not for cloud datacenters

A 32-bit CPU is very rich

I read that from recent magnolia commits, it falls back to {12,1}ft for some websites (apparently, some techniques cannot be done on client-side, perhaps, they require proxies in particular countries or google network to impersonate googlebot better)

Moreover, many people are in a grey area of the economy, paying no taxes at all: for example software developers making software for the West.

Looking at the ridiculous "sanctions" of recent days, I cannot say who they are directed against. In long run, they benefit Russia, preventing leaking of brains and capital.

I would prefer to work with companies where different nationalities are represented.

90%+ of employees in one country (be it Ukraine, Russia, USA or China) is a geo-risk for clients.

And mind you, Namecheap doesn't ban clients based on their agreement or disagreement with something. It bans pro-Ukrainian dissidents in Russia too.

Racism culture thrives in mono-ethnic companies and this Namecheap case is a good example

Got it.

Even I am Estonian, I move away looking for a more sane company.

So they show that Putin is right, that democracy and liberalism are dead, that Ukrainians are nazi, and rally people around him even more.

That raises a question: how to find a domain registar without a lot of Ukrainian employees ?

According to the recent leak, Epik has them a lot as well.

Could we crowdsource such a list of registrars sorted by nationality of their employees to be prepared to the geo risks?

There is a wellknown paywall-cleaning browser extension and it fails to bypass a lot. Issue list here: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...