Sam Izby

@izby
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• Russian guy from Siberia
• Help with UI localization
• Translation of texts about privacy
• Extensions for Maxthon in the past
• Switched to Linux
Linkshttps://soloist.ai/semenov
GitHubhttps://github.com/NotDevelopper
Telegramhttps://t.me/LehaWhines
Mastodonhttps://social.vivaldi.net/@SemenovSherin
it's fascinating how good AI is at solving problems in domains i don't understand. it's almost as if it was somehow linked to my inability to verify the output.

Artificial intelligence will never give you bad advice. Especially if it's artificial intelligence from the legendary Microsoft!

🔗 • https://reddit.com/r/aiArt/comments/1ta2x4q/

-GitHub access deteriorates in Russia
-Roskomnadzor denies block: https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/05/08/github-access-deteriorates-in-russia-as-internet-regulator-denies-blocking
--Gorelkin hints at 100% errors soon: https://t.me/webstrangler/4775?embed=1&mode=tme

This exact same pattern happened last year before the YouTube and WhatsApp bans.... a GitHub ban is absolutely coming to Russia

GitHub access deteriorates in Russia as internet regulator denies blocking

Access to GitHub, the world’s largest software development platform, has deteriorated in Russia, the independent Russian news outlet Verstka reported, citing data from the internet censorship monitoring service OONI.

Meduza
If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.

It looks like Russian РосКомНадзор (Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media) has blocked the Alternative to, the website where you could search for alternatives to the programs and apps you need.

They were probably trying to block another messenger or VPN, but accidentally broke a harmless service: the pages haven't opened for several weeks, but the page titles still load.

You don't need any alternative when you live in Russia!

For some reason, choosing the optimal operating system for someone else's antiques is a thrill for me, but the thought of having to reinstall the OS on my own antiques makes me shudder. I don't want to!

By the way, these are netbooks from the legendary ASUS Eee series: 900A, 1000HA, and 1005HA. Even back then, they weren't particularly fast, but they weren't particularly expensive either. Classics!

💻️ • https://reddit.com/r/EeePC/comments/1sfifjr/

If you have friends in Russia or other regions where Signal is blocked, remind them that the messenger has built-in censorship bypass features. The hardest part is logging in "through Kazakhstan" and waiting for an SMS with an authorization code. But they still have a chance, and it's still better than the state-owned messenger Max.

The Russian government, whether intentionally or accidentally, blocked access to Vivaldi Social, where I post the same things as here, but in Russian, and suddenly someone needed me.

🔗 • https://mastodon.social/@izby/116459402158172524

Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the East. I shall come across the onion bridge.

NetBlocks monitors local internet blockages and shutdowns around the world, and they have a Telegram channel, where for the past couple of months they've been counting down the days since Iran completely blocked access to the global internet. And someone regularly adds enthusiastic reactions there: at first, everything seems predictable, but ten minutes pass, and bam—for some reason, everyone is happy. Who needs that?

🔗 • https://netblocks.org
📝 • https://t.me/netblocks

From time to time I run Bitchat on my phone, and recently, I met a real person there. And then another one, and another one. They all had the nickname "anon", and then they just disappeared, but... It's hard to believe that someone would voluntarily use a messenger that doesn't work. A police ambush?