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Zipline - upload your images with a direct link

  11/14/25 03:28 pm, by , Categories: immigration

Recently I started a microblog to replace the nasty Telegram

I chose a ready self-hosted application Writefreely

There’s also a separate community post about running it in Docker https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/1038

In general everything is ok, BUT I ran into the problem of hosting images...

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Russian Cheburnet: How to chat under very restrictive conditions

  09/23/25 05:52 pm, by , Categories: immigration

Hello everyone!

Maybe not everyone knows, but in Russia, in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO), they have already launched a full-fledged Cheburnet

It is currently being tested in this region, where there are few cities, and it may later spread to other parts of the country.

For now, it’s only in mobile internet, but still. A list of about 20 websites opens.

In this situation, my friends and I decided to test a messenger that allows communication even when VPN won’t help anymore. Maybe this information will help someone, or if you know someone who could benefit from it.

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Driving in North America

  05/08/25 02:58 pm, by , Categories: thoughts

I recently started learning to drive in Canada and wanted to share some thoughts about American standards — specifically road signs.

Canada and the USA use the same signs and standards, which, by the way, are no longer used anywhere else in the world.

Let’s compare. This is what a highway looks like in the EU:

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Rental housing culture in Canada

  02/11/25 01:06 am, by , Categories: thoughts

After living in Canada for some time, you inevitably encounter rental housing, and in this regard, there are quite a few differences from the familiar post-Soviet real estate market.

The first major difference is rental buildings. Unlike the usual setup where individuals own apartments in a building and some rent out one or two units, which also exists here (called a condominium or condo in Canada), there are entire buildings where all units are owned by a rental company.

In Canada, as well as in the U.S., they construct entire apartment buildings where private ownership of units is not expected—every apartment belongs to the landlord company.

Many of these are 2-4 story buildings made from inexpensive materials:

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AWS Exams: How to Pass Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect - Associate

  10/04/24 04:49 am, by , Categories: study

Recently, I took two AWS exams.

Here, I would like to share my experience of preparing for and successfully passing the exams on the first try.

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