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[–] abacabadabacaba 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"For personal or political reasons" means as a form of boycott or similar. Not to stop hacking or other abuse, not for legal or cost reasons, but just because of personal animosity towards a country.

[–] abacabadabacaba 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

This makes sense for a website for a commercial service. This question is more about personal blogs, FLOSS project websites, or other similar websites that could be equally useful to people from all countries.

 

There are a few countries out there that people love to hate. Sometimes they choose to block all visitors from those countries to their websites. What is your opinion on the practice? Note that I am not talking about blocking for legal or copyright reasons, or about blocking done by the countries' authorities or ISPs, only by the websites themselves.

Does your opinion change depending on whether the website in question is a personal website or blog, versus a website for a free/libre/open-source software project, versus a public service (e.g. a Fediverse instance)? Would you stop using your Lemmy instance if you learn that it is blocking visitors from certain countries?

[–] abacabadabacaba 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

European government officials and institutions (on all levels) should at least stop using Twitter to communicate with people.

[–] abacabadabacaba 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not if an app uses Play Integrity. The entire purpose of Play Integrity is to not work on anything that is not a Google-certified OS.

[–] abacabadabacaba 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

It's not just cards. Many banks today require using a mobile app for online banking, and those apps require an Apple- or Google-certified device and an Apple or Google account. While it is possible to open those accounts under a false name (the apps are free so you don't need to enter payment info), this is still an absurd amount of leverage the US has on everyday people's activities in other countries.

[–] abacabadabacaba 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] abacabadabacaba 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Can anyone recommend an app for finding routes using public transport? I am currently using Google Maps, but I'd like to find an alternative, preferably not US/big tech. Tried mapy.com, it didn't work.

[–] abacabadabacaba 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Most of the world doesn't observe DST. Living without DST is absolutely fine.

[–] abacabadabacaba 42 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's about time.

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Some images are broken (self.infosecpub)
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Some images from other instances are broken when viewing through infosec.pub, e.g. https://infosec.pub/post/31437828. It is also not trivial to get the original image URL.

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