Psiphon (disclosure: where I work) largely kept Belarusians online: https://psix.ca/d/nyi8gE6Zk/regional-overview?orgId=2&var-re... (Note that the 0 values before the blocking aren't really zero -- they're just below the threshold that we publicize. And connections aren't users, but... it's still a lot of people.) There's a smattering of third parties confirming this, like: https://beincrypto.com/psiphon-connects-bei…
Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?
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Re: Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?
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Hi, unfortunately I am not much wiser from the specs. It describes higher level network/app protocols, no mention on the underlying mechanism of communication. Can you give me example of the hardware on which it is supposed to run and how it would work in Belarus?
Hi Urza, (Apologies for the late reply. I'm new around here and I didn't remember that HN won't send me an email notifications for replies to my comments.) Before getting into Relaynet, let's consider how Internet apps work: They have a client and a server, and the client is responsible for producing and delivering its own data. That means that the server must be reachable and ready to respond to each request, at the…
When would relay-net be ready?