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tonymon··on Lenin's Body Improves with Age
>Second, Russia has a long tradition of creating a PR-pumped image of healthy, almost immortal leaders.

Well, North Korea probably yes. But I haven't noticed such tradition in Russia.

tonymon··on Switch your default search engine to Google
Actually they are both the same company:

https://startpage.com/eng/company.html (also look at the logo here)

https://www.ixquick.de/eng/company.html

And both introducing new redesign

tonymon··on Once Celebrated in Russia, Programmer Pavel Durov Chooses Exile
But how you can be sure about that if WhatsApp code is not opensourced? Telegram has at least iOS and Android code opensourced.
tonymon··on Terror laws clear Australian Senate, enabling entire web to be monitored
So is time to switch from Fastmail now?
tonymon··on Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
Links to zip archive with plain email list (without passwords):

https://mega.co.nz/#!ewU1wCKA!P52rdL5tMcugRxi8ALyZlGnfE_KSB4...

Alternative: http://rghost.net/57937836

The thing is that this site mentions other site where in comments section you can find links to 7zip archive with emails

tonymon··on Germany turns up pressure in suspected US spy case
The thing is that Russia and China are not heavily spying on Germany, despite the fact, that they don't even have such close relationships as US and Germany [before]
tonymon··on Russia Moves To Ban Online Services That Don’t Store Personal Data In Russia
1) Yes, there is. For example Selectel: http://selectel.com/services/cloud-storage/ based on OpenStack API, very easy to integrate.

>Data storage ~0.088$ for 1GB per month or ~0.131$ for 1 TB per hour

>Network (outgoing traffic) ~0.023$ per 1GB

>Network (incoming traffic) free-of-charge

They also recently announced CDN option with Akamai partnership at no additional cost

tonymon··on Twitter stops using Helevetica Neue in favour of Gotham
Well, now it seems like they totally screwed up with non-latin characters.