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Comment #46633760
> Re software and landfill.. true to some extent but there are still ramifications as you pointed out electricity demand and hardware infrastructure to support it. Also in the 80's…
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Comment #46633464
But in the context of softwares, the landfill argument doesn't fit exactly well (well, sure someone can argue that storage on say, github might take more drives but the scale would…
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Comment #46548340
Some people are praising the monarchy chants or similar which doesn't feel really good I genuinely hope that this dictatorship ends and instead of monarchy, pure form of democracy …
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Comment #46548099
briar leaks some metadata from what I've heard (unconfirmed). Meshtastic seems a better alternative
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Comment #46548064
I created a comment in here but does this mean that you cant do something like dns tunneling in iran?
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Comment #46548062
Why was it flagged? What the fuck? Mods this is not okay. Don't abuse your power flagging posts about maps of protests. This is not okay.
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Comment #46548021
> Social media is a new thing, but protests are old. People protested in despotic regimes prior to social media, and the triggering factors were basically the same as what is happe…
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Comment #46548006
Kashmir has such a bloody history with its kashmiri pandits and wars and even recent events that really shock its nation. Kashmir has been the most unstable part of India and Artic…
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Comment #46547926
Iran comes from the word rougly translating to the word noble, and noble in sanskrit translates to the word Arya Aryans aren't necessarily white or black especially in the sanskrit…
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Comment #46547915
My ex was iranian and we frequently talked about iran and you are so wrong. She had frequent black outs with complete electricity downage for many hours a day and she was in a majo…
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Comment #46547784
yes, my ex gf from iran also used Psiphon, I didn't trust psiphon that much but it seems that its decently well In the end I had suggested her protonvpn as psiphon had some issues.…
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Comment #46545485
IPv4 is sanctioned/heavily restricted in iran as well, I mean very high filtering The reason they didn't do this for ipv6 is because ipv6 obviously has a lot more addresses and so …
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Comment #46545383
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Comment #46545327
Quick question but would tor work in this case? Is this the first country which genuinely effectively is able to ban tor? Because even in China, tor can work through bridges or som…
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Comment #46545309
> Consequently, the actual means of blocking tends to be on an ISP basis: some will simply drop packets, some will have left certain endpoints open, some will leave international D…
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Comment #46545231
I hate the guy but I will genuinely let it pass if this means that we outside people can know what the fuck is actually happening at ground level in Iran and starlink adds even a 0…
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Comment #46545186
If black market's the only reason that activism/journalism/outside contact is even possible in the country It doesn't seem much of a plan (very sadly, I wish there was) which could…
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Comment #46545135
Iran is kind of like russia thinking about it. Russia's trying to censor some shit too by having outside ipv4 or something (dont know what its called) blocked and basically made a …
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Comment #46544985
How are there so many users, see my other comment but i will ask here as well but starlink's american company and sanctioned iran so how do the details really work? And how do star…
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Comment #46544962
They must be smuggled inside the country and the dictatorship can say anything they want and charge if they get caught so they must be very few in numbers I don't know too much abo…
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Comment #46544915
marcosdumay's comment of here explained situation (giving it more attention) they can censor IPv4 when they want, but they don't know how to censor IPv6. So they block it entirely.…
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Comment #46544785
Thanks this really explains the situation.