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Objectively speaking, Russia is one of the most creative and innovative societies of all time. Literature, science, music, sporting, mathematics, computing, you name it, a Russian has innovated in it.

What would be some of these innovations and contributions in the last 20 years?

nginx (2004, ok, 22 years), ClickHouse (2016)

I don't get the "its from [country] so I don't use it". Unless this is somehow funding e.g. a war, what did the maintainers do to deserve such backlash?

Edit: just read what ties ClickHouse has, nevermind.

But in this case you would be supporting one of the good things (science & technology) they've done, right? A database connection pooler is not necessarily military technology.

Believe what you do, it's more useful for war-mongering nation states when you see things in so black and white manner.

except for perhaps… a scalable pg bouncer? And good nuclear reactors [1]?

Not to say I support many Russian political moves, but I think discrediting an entire people and their outputs on Russian politics is brusque - particularly open source ones.

[1]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-08/russia-nuclear-power-...

Neither pg bouncer nor nuclear reactors are unique inventions in and of themselves - these are just iterations on what has existed previously. Of course russia can take an existing thing and iterate on it (computers, rockets, AK-47, etc.) but that wasn't my point.

Was a flight to space an iteration?

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