I’m not going to cry hard about stealing from one of the scummiest industries on the planet, and a good hack is a good hack, but man, what a wasted opportunity to disconnect! I guess OP is a kid and gets the FOMO itch from being offline. I feel we as a society are not good at helping people grow out of that.
Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170
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Re: Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but anyone on a cruise is almost certainly wealthy by global standards; it's not like there are poor people there to feel bad about for not having faster internet
Workers maybe?
Well fair, but the above commenter seemed to be suggesting there may be people who couldn't afford better internet packages, and my assumption was that workers would get access to the internet as part of their employment, but perhaps I'm assuming wrong.
Re: Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but port 53 wasn't blocked, so a commercial VPN resulted in unlimited internet The VPN would have to accept a connection over 53 though, right? This also seems like a great way to possibly bypass VPN blocking via DPI, which I've been hit with before on airlines when going over 443.
Yeah, but it doesn't cost much to accept connections on all ports (AIM did it in the 90s). DPI should be able to easily detect and block non-DNS traffic on port 53, as well as IP over DNS. Just a matter of configuration effort; but lots of networks lack configuration effort, so it's worth a try.
5190 continued well into the 2000s.
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#105Internet on any ship is expensive as soon as you're out in maritime area - where data transfer is done via satellite services. So it is not necessarily because a captive market, where the cruise liners can fleece you. They pay crazy prices to the telecom/ISPs. So if you're getting free internet out at seas, it is really at the cost of the ones actually paying the bills - or in this case, the cruise liner.
I'm assuming these large cruise corps can get a decent bulk/business discount though.
Pre starlink I looked at getting sat internet for 3 years around Africa. For even a few GB per month the cost was more per month than all other costs of the expedition combined.
I just got local sims, worked great
Re: Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170
#106FWIW: to "repeat a command until it succeeds" the right way is to do `until $command; do $some_back_off; done`.
Re: Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170
#107The picture you (or OP) provided has an on-board restaurant in the background that reveals the cruise line they tried to redact.
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#108One of the fringe benefits of going on a cruise is that you can disconnect from the Internet for a week. Hit up the bar, make love to your wife, gamble a bit. All without your phone constantly buzzing in your pocket. If you go on a cruise to immediately open your laptop it seems like a waste of time and money.
What if you're a teenager, traveling with your family, and the internet is your lifeblood ? You can't gamble or go to the bar and you have no wife, so this sort of activity is respectable.
To be fair, I was trying to be humorous with that phrasing.
Re: Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170
#109One of the fringe benefits of going on a cruise is that you can disconnect from the Internet for a week. Hit up the bar, make love to your wife, gamble a bit. All without your phone constantly buzzing in your pocket. If you go on a cruise to immediately open your laptop it seems like a waste of time and money.
> All without your phone constantly buzzing in your pocket
Actually, the benefit is not having her phone not constantly buzzing.
Re: Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just want to clarify that my intent was not to say that internet is essential. However, I do need internet access for my job and in general, it's nice to be able to keep in touch with friends.
If you need to still be accessible to your job while on a cruise there's something wrong somewhere. I mean I guess said job must pay well, but still
My job is mostly just working on open source software, which I enjoy and would be doing anyway. I actually haven't worked on it yet on the cruise, but thought it would be nice to sit by a window and code. Even my development database requires internet access, so offline coding really isn't an option.