Of course FSB has a backdoor to *data* collected by Yandex, but the code itself (as well as coders) have nothing to do with any three-letter-agency within Russia.
citation needed
The FSB likely has a lot of crimes to atone for. Still, suppose one of their specialists publishes something on data management or how to manage hundreds of sock-puppet social media accounts. In that case, I’d be tempted to listen and learn from a likely expert—unless you suspect that they think this article is not sincere and meant as a distraction from actual good practices.
Similarly, the CIA has done very problematic things, but the people who worked in the disguise department have a creative take on changing your appearance. I’m unsure when I would have to do that, but I’m always curious about how data is stored efficiently. And yes, like the FSB, the NSA has opinions about that, and those are typically well-informed.
Was their practice constitutional? Seemingly not, IANAL. But do they have good insights into caching video files at scale? Definitely.
source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
When USA does things, it is for the good of society, democracy. When Russia does things, it is hurting people, bad for society.
Come on buddy, time to wake up and understand every country does things for its own good and whatever your media is telling about Russia is bad, it is because they're applying 3 letter agency brainwashing methods on to you.
Code is open source if you read code you will not get under Russian propoganda.
I try not to put myself in the hands of any spy agency.
"Other team bad so my team good" is reasoning barely worthy of the human mind.
imperialism is imperialism. it should be denounced
if you dont think there is a US imperialist element involved in Ukraine you need to inform yourself a bit more. you can start with reading about North Stream 2
before the war in Ukraine i used to think that, in comparison the US, at least Russia bombs countries without calling it freedom [1]. When Russia started its "special operation" against Ukraine i now think that at best Putin is trolling the US, and at worst he is trying to be the US
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom
Also, it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political/national/ideological battle, and that's another (distinct) line at which we ban accounts—regardless of what you're battling for or against. Past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Yes, we look at everyone's record. Both records.
it's always whataboutism when it doesn't fit the narrative, why haven't you asked same question to the parent comment when they tried to politicise technical product discussion?
Secret services in a democratic country being better / worse than their communist counterparts aside, "democracy" is a bit of stretch when describing Russia.
Only a complete idiot would think that.