Is this actually true? It doesn't feel that way to me (American based out of Washington DC area), but maybe I'm naive. Anybody else agree with this statement?
I can't speak for the OP, but what breaks my heart every now and so often is that hate speech against Russians is totally acceptable in the English speaking Internet. It's bad that it happens, that no one seems to bother makes it worse.
I got the sense he was kinda joking, but the US media has been full of reports of Russian hackers for months. One could be forgiven for not taking that as a compliment, and I would fully expect some forum chatter to run with the example our administration and media are setting and paint the situation even more negatively.
It's a more complex issue than one might expect. While in techie areas of US the overt anti-Russian sentiment is rare. However, he said he's doing freelancing in sysadmin area and still lives in Russia.
Most companies that I have interacted with view any vendors outside the G7 with suspicion. Even Poland seemed to raise more security concerns than say France.
In that note, Russia is on a whole different level. It's viewed with the similar level of distrust as China.
Take it for what it is - a personal anecdote. Yet, it's hard to imagine this kind of experience not having an emotional response.
That comment by the author pretty much sums up the World's problems currently. Other people trying to speak for larger aggregates or individuals sucks.
Nobody speaks for my love, not this Russian peep, not you, not HN. Only me.
They are faulting everyone else for their own problems, whatever those are. It's not my problem (or fault) they have problems and I'm sure as shit not going to add to the problems I have by spending extra effort to decode what they mean when they can't say what they really mean.
A lot of Russians are racist, xenophobic and homophobic. (Note how OP complains about "migration crisis" as a reason he doesn't want to move to Europe... yeah.) Moreover, the majority of them support a corrupt dictator who attacks neighboring countries all the time. I understand the hate and I never mention that I'm Russian when I travel abroad.
It's way more complex than you're making it out to be.
Whether or not one can find a job is hugely dependent on the individual's skillset, and very importantly, social abilities. The latter being a thing that laid-off IT people tend to completely discount, IME.
Yes, but "I do not want to relocate due to migration crisis". If made up stories about non-existent terrorist attacks in Sweden deter you from moving to an EU country... well.
I don't think that's what he meant. Many European countries are becoming more hostile to immigrants (Cf. the nastygrams that the British government currently sends to immigrants from other EU countries), so he is hesitant to become one.
Having been impacted by a layoff recently, i can sympathize. but on the upside, LoadAverage's loss seems like a gain for matrix...? (Referring to his comment, "...try to reach me on Matrix (@pztrn:matrix.feder8.ru)...".)
I've been running private instances of both Gnu Social as well as Matrix for my family...and as easy as Gnu Social was to set up...the documentation was always lacking - in my opinion - at least for non-techs. I had to dig up stuff myself, experiment, etc. My wish is for so many more people to set up their own, decentralized/federated/distributed instances of social network-esque systems...Gnu Social made it a little burdensome for non-tech folks...And while matrix is not much easier, there certainly seems like there is plenty more documentation for matrix - even after only being "on the scene" for a short time. Granted I can't say its very easy for non-techs to set up their own matrix instance...but there appears to be so much more attention/popularity with matrix, that already is has lead to more documentation being out there...my hope is that this results in more people - including/especially non-tech people - creating their own instances...which would also lessen burdens for folks like admin of LoadAverage.
One reason could be that they were smaller when they started up, and their "starting up" announcements didn't have the reach or audience that they had when they shut down.
Maybe schadenfreude. More likely, I think you can learn more from a post-mortem article than a startup one. I run a startup, so I'm always keen to lean the lessons other founders are generous enough to share.
It took me a second to connect "GNU social" with what I would assume would be spelled "GNU Social," or something similar. I realize why it might be left uncapitalized, but it scans badly unless you're already reading for it that way.
Is this actually true? It doesn't feel that way to me (American based out of Washington DC area), but maybe I'm naive. Anybody else agree with this statement?