[s1110]

Genuine question: the website doesn't work in Russia. Did you restrict the access or is it my ISP doing that? Someone tries to prevent me from studying of very niche info on ancient Intel CPUs. Thanks! P.S. Big fan of your work!

[kkaske]

I did find that, while running a financial startup, I was able to significantly reduce attacks on the server by disabling access from Russia and China. Not saying that's happening here, just my experience. That was a while ago so I'm sure things have changed since then.

[red75prime]

That is it was more financially effective to block an entire country, than analyzing attack patterns and blocking by ASNs or IP-ranges. Correct?

[s1110]

Thanks for your reply! I hope this is the real reason of blocking. If that's not the case, that's at least not effective. Less effective than idk placing a banner in the header or whatever.

I mean I eventually read the article. Sorry for that. But we're at "Hacker News", sporting hackers ethics, aren't we?

[tgv]

It could be this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/russian-internet-users-are-unabl...

[vodkadin]

Some smaller sites ban ips from countries that continually try to hack into your server or just make a ton of requests, it happens to be that traffic is often from Russia and China. Could just be that.

[tjwebbnorfolk]

I block Russia, China, and Iran from my sites. They represent 0% of the revenue, and 99% of the login attempts.

[grishka]

Probably your ISP, or more precisely, the ТСПУ box they were required to install. You can use this tool to test your connectivity to these hosting providers that the government dislikes: https://hyperion-cs.github.io/dpi-checkers/ru/tcp-16-20/

Ken himself did block access to his website from Russia for a while after 24/02/2022, but right now it loads for me after a CF captcha.

[userbinator]

One word: VPN

[danparsonson]

That's three words

[userbinator]

I'm against war but it just says nothing more than stupid virtue-signaling when you do stuff like this.

What's ironic is that the ones doing this crap are usually the first to cry about internet censorship.

[orbital-decay]

It's a kneejerk reaction and a dumb way to oppose anything. People couldn't care less about some site becoming unavailable. What really happens when the site goes down in a way like that is it removes its own presence from the minds. Doing that is basically blocking yourself, instead of blocking "them". One less voice to hear.

[Mountain_Skies]

Collective punishment is considered abhorrent in much of the world. It's acceptable in places that you'd probably not want to live or to change our societies into.

[orbital-decay]

It is your ISP. (don't ask me how I know but please research this before posting)

[justsomehnguy]

Because the author is the opportunistic racist:

> kens on April 10, 2022

> Are you trying to access from Russia? Russia is currently blocked.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30974444

> kens on Dec 3, 2022

> Unfortunately there are also many people in Ukraine who didn't personally do anything to deserve what's happening. Consider the country filter a small reminder of the ongoing war and a suggestion that you might find better opportunities outside Russia.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33846782

Yet he doesn't consider to 'find better opportunities outside of the USA' despite the actions of the USA government in the last 30 years.