I’m not in a place I can watch this now so anyone got TLDR if they recommended any good ones ( and feedback if this video itself is scammy or just shilling for some company)

It made me smile and reminded me that Trump is scum.

Aye he was notoriously an asshole prick; kind of had some atonement reawakening in the end though apparently. I liked him as an actor, though, was awesome.

Some yoga / back stretching, highly advise for folks getting older.

Password managers, MFA, social engineering awareness, updating software, data and software mimization. Use your computer and internet for a day and note everything you purposefully do and don’t do and why and it’ll help you retrace the basics.

Stay - great acting by Ewan Mcgreger, Ryan Gosling and Naomi watts. Super trippy, hard to understand completely in first tries and a great watch.

I believe China can stop any kind of access at any time, they just choose to allow a certain percentage of folks to get through above a certain bar of sophistication and need.

This looks great, nothing to check it out.

Mmm love a good space watch. Personal grail for me would be an Omega Skywalker X-33.

Oh my god that’s hilarious.

Yes I buy and use VPS outside of China and use that and test with it and stuff, but that kind of doesn’t matter if they detect the protocol and block it anyway, regardless of IP address, you need the obfuscated service. My group has tested building our own and had mixed success but the free that work well with better.

What’s really the best is to use what local IT guys use, really local and esoteric stuff, and is what I’m using now on desktop because the otherwise best western ones (Mullvad, Astrill) having issues.

I’ve used Tor here, but don’t need it enough to know much about it and it’s been a while.

Also you gotta know here that the VPNs you do get to work might have been hacked out actually operated by the government, my devices out traffic surely accessible to them.

It’s a blacklist censoring stuff, so if the domain you want to access is obscure and not mainstream you might get it. If it’s at all political in nature though, or an open discussion forum, or a news site it’s most probably blocked.

Anyone who needs the global internet needs a VPN. The govt is so powerful with their filtering and knowledge they can block any vpn at any time, basically. You might be able to guarantee a way through if you have a very dialed in and obscure configuration, otherwise you’re just getting lucky on borrowed time.

Only a small handful of commercial VPNs from the west work, and they are only ones that are very purposefully made with stealth and obfuscation modes. Those modes blend traffic and go to great lengths to hide the fact that it’s a VPN tunnel occurring. To punctuate that, off the shelf Wireguard or OpenVPN are immediately detected and blocked with no chance to get through at all.

Also it varies by region, if you’re at a fancy hotel in Shanghai you might have an easier time if you’re in the countryside. Also you have an easier time on mobile networks.

About Lemmy, it’s obscure enough I think you don’t need a vpn to browse it a little depending on the instance. But a lot of stuff in the view coming from global URLs dues get blocked, so the general experience is broken so need a VPN on.

Generally, I need so much global internet that’s blocked all the time for work and stuff that I need multiple VPN solutions and provider accounts active at any time in case any goes down (this is very much the case recently, my usual ones not working and have to use backup ones) and am always testing out new ways. On average I have to spend 10% of my working time every just trying to get a good connection online.

I don’t know you got downvoted, you provided lots of useful info here thank you.

Thank you for the post and insights. I’m a very happy paying Kagi user, for me it’s so worth it to never see ads and enjoy better privacy. The results are always great as far as I know (I’m not a pro at comparing them with Google but they seem just as good or better)

I especially like the AI summaries (even though I’m a skeptic about over using AI generally) because many sites block my IP because of being in China and using weird VPNs and proxies, so the summaries let me know the info without having to open the page up.

Hot damn that looks amazing, will get one for my kid.

Failing, not failed. Don’t give up! Things could get a lot worse, we’re nowhere near the bottom. They could also get better.

You can move out of America, try. I’m an American living abroad for decades now, and left with nearly zero cash and made a great life abroad.

Plot twist though, everywhere still has problems, just different ones, and the US’ bullcrap affects everyone everywhere including you no matter where you are. (Have why I still care and pay attention to it).

On the subject of this post, I live in a super walkable city, Shanghai, and do everything by bike (amazing, world class bike lanes), walking, subway, taxi, bus etc. and don’t have or need a car, it’s awesome.

It shifts your thinking from whether or not to get the phone, to which color of the phone to get.

Tried it, seems great, thanks for the share!

I prefer no avatars, cleaner reading experience.