makingrain

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So are Signal's serverside components.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

WhatsApp is e2e encrypted. It uses the same tech as Signal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ah ok. Well, as I said I lived there for years and i'm telling you they can and do block VPN traffic (not all, another commenter mentioned Astrill) quite well. To say zero success is incorrect.

Location (and peering) might be a factor, so if you/your friends lived somewhere different to I your experience may differ.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I spent years living in China. Do you really mean zero success?

OpenVPN stopped working in 2017. Deep packet inspection prevents the initial handshake. I hosted my own SS for a number of years before switching to wireguard, with more success.. however, they IP ban a majority of VPS IP ranges, so the providers Linode/DigitalOcean were messed up.

And everyone experiences VPN slow down during CPC conferences.

It can only be worse now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Used it as my primary hiking tool recently (i know, I know - I had a compass and a map) and it worked a treat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

AOL even made its way to the UK. Free CDs all over the place, even accompanying paid coputing mags.

I'm glad it went away.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Vice City made me appreciate 80s music at a young age. I really appreciate the thought that went into selecting abd producing the sound track. I have the full OST release on CD - not sure if it is a bootleg or not, I don't really care.