kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@gerald_leppert @vcrkhl@mastodon.social

I think there's a bit of confusion around #webrtc leaks.

Either you are having a video call where you want best connection quality and shortest path to your peers, in which case you want to communicate directly, obviously revealing your IP just as you reveal it to the the server.

Or you want to hide your IP for anonymity, but then you're using Tor and definitely not having video calls with people and don't care about shortest path.

Different usage scenarios...

Classics 😂🤦‍♂️

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Also I agree that in Msk or Spb you can't really see much difference to London (except for amount of road cops probably) and LTE works much better, this is not really an excuse for considering all the other regions as non-existent. Majority of people in Russia still live outside of Msk/Spb.

And I'm not singling Russia out here, I'm just equally pissed off by Wales being treated as some kind of blackhole in UK, with GPRS barely working...

@Catsandcatsandcats libgen.is?

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So if you go into a business dispute in Poland it's between you and them. They may have more money for lawyers, but that's it - for the court you are just two independent businesses.

In Russia if you go against some random business, you've got much larger chances it belongs to some state-controlled enterprise simply because they have larger share. And since courts are state-controlled too, it's now between you and state.

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Tell me about it, there are whole districts in towns as big as Krasnodar where people have no sewage and a toiled is essentially a hole in the ground :)

But I'm talking about something else: share of large, state-owned companies in Russian economy is much larger than say in UK or even Poland. These large companies have smaller subsidiaries, they have even smaller etc.

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As one of my friends in Russia explained to me, if majority of the money is going through state-controlled companies, proportional share of business disputes are quite unexpectedly becoming "political" :)

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So among many similarities between PL and RU this is one huge difference - PL (still) has pretty independent judiciary system and pretty free land market.

This is why 38m PL is able to export food and trains to RU, rather than other way around.

Note that main Russian industries that went international are Internet-related, like Nginx. That's because they were able to operate unhindered by the corruption... until recently, when Yandex tried that copyright trick :)

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Because court system very much dependent on politicians, which was the very core of Putin's "power vertical" from the very beginning.

And without an independent court system you can't really have small and medium business growing, because they will be always busted by their competitors who may be dumber, but have friends in the administration.

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> It's just globalization

Oh no, I don't really mean top-to-bottom orchestrated industrialization. Globalization is great.

But I know a lot of farmers and SMB in Russia. They *want* to produce food and there's plenty of land available, millions of hectares of black earth.

But you can't buy it, you can only rent it, and you can be kicked out of it by some official's son at any moment because he wants his dacha there. And even if you buy, you can be still kicked :)

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> those people ate a lot of swiss brie before 2014

Not brie, more likely a "cheese" made from milk mixed with chalk to beat the price. The point is that prices of all food went up.

I can't remember exact prices out of top of my head now but everyone was complaining about this independently in Nalchik and Krasnodar repeatedly over the last few years.

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> because of chemicals for agro-industry

And *this* is the key point I wanted to highlight - again, dependency on imports in all sectors of the economy, not only food. Which is again not "enforced" by EU or US, but caused by 100% systemic issues in Russia, like lack of land reform, corruption etc.

> Swiss brie is around 5 EUR for 100g

Ok but this is already bloody expensive if you earn 20k roubel per month and spend half for rent, as most people in the south do.

@dump_stack I don't think it's something to be really proud of 😂 There's plenty of Polish (or Russian for that matter) people out the there I'm actually proud of... and the paradox is that when someone has something clever to say on some subject nationality suddenly no longer plays such a great role in their identity.

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> ruble fell down twice

But it fell on... exchange rate to dollar, EUR so only impacting imported goods again.

> you can buy almost all banned EU

Sure you can! But it's twice as expensive as with any "contraband" goods.