alt Hacker NewsGenuine 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!
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It could be this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/russian-internet-users-are-unabl...
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.
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.
It is your ISP. (don't ask me how I know but please research this before posting)
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.
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.