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!
That and financial businesses usually don't operate outside their host country anyway. Though you do want your customers to see their accounts when they're traveling.
In all fairness, this isn’t a good use of that technique. But most websites are of no interest outside a handful of countries.
I mean I eventually read the article. Sorry for that. But we're at "Hacker News", sporting hackers ethics, aren't we?
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.
> 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.