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[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 6 points 10 hours ago

Coming soon to the us of a

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Still so many Russians in cs2 and dota. Explain??

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Alternate payment methods. As far as I know, only PayPal and credit cards don't work. Russians have their own methods, even by just buying gift cards from a marketplace (edit:removed url)

[–] leriotdelac@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hate everything that's being done. A large part of my family lives there, and just getting them on a call is now not an easy task.

(I mean, I hate Putin and his government for many other things too. Restricted Internet perhaps is the least of their crimes, but this least is getting longer and longer and longer...)

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Obtain a Kasachstan or Byelorus sim card, install it on a burner phone with the Max messenger for minimal overall pain.

[–] leriotdelac@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I won't use Max under any circumstances and won't recommend it to my family. Testing out SimpleX for now.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 3 points 23 hours ago

I have no interest nor trust in Max, but as long as the Cheburnet Wars continue it will be the easiest way for nontechnical people to make voice calls.

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

The whole torrent industry bouta take a huge hit

[–] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I feel a bit bad for the normal people still stuck in that shithole.

[–] PumpUpTheJam@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Russia or the USA?

Something something same photo.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Maybe I can try playing CS2 again.

The irony of losing your job as a paid troll to AI.

[–] tio_bira@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (15 children)

In another news 90% of the world online scammers and hackers suddenly have gone...

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

Counter-Strike 2 suddenly playable.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

90% of the world online scammers and hackers

It's crazy how these major tent poles of the modern internet - Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft - are all centered in the United States, but never bare any responsibility for the malicious traffic on their networks.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The craziest part to me is that instead of dealing with bot traffic so they can tell advertisers actual people are seeing their ads, they're just adding age verification.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Age verification that will, itself, be quickly subverted and spoofed. And which they won't bother to manage internally, because that's hard

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 21 points 2 days ago

But the article isn't about India

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago

"AI warfare" or, "AI is stealing all the jobs of our army of international scammers, that we allow to operate freely as long as they don't target Russians!"

[–] atropa@piefed.social 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is terrible advice. They can and will track you down. Only way this might be viable is if everyone turns off their transmissions and the transmitter changes location constantly or is deployed via drone sporadically.

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