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Virtually anyone in China, even the Chinese people, just use a VPN or SSH, or both, and your internet is ok.

idrios 8y ago
But with the crackdowns happening on VPN there still needs to be legitimate options. In my case I was an English teacher, and often we'd need to find resources from the internet for supplementary teaching materials. Can't have VPN on the school computers
- paradoxparalax 8y ago
  Well, then you already want too much, right? VPN will give access to the Kids in the school to Porn and who knows what. So.... China is still a dictatorship, right, It is not the Disneyland. But Even in England you cannot install a VPN at a school's computer......
alecco 8y ago
How many social points do they strike when they find you use a VPN?
- paradoxparalax 8y ago
  I really like your comment, I think is the best comment I have ever read in Hackernews, I mean, I say for the sake of Fun, not for work or science or knowledge,... ...But for Entertainment, for the pure Fun itself, This was the best comment I ever read, And this proves that Hackernews is still not going the way of the Dodo[1] (in this case, the way of Slashdot)... And proves that, sofar, alecco is the smartest (or at least the funniest in a smart way ) guy in Hackernews. There is a reason Professor Moriarty's bits always converge, and the reason was the Pure Fun, off course. I almost forgot to answer the question: The Chinese Cops use VPN's to watch Japanese Porn together with their wives and girlfriends, if they are not married yet, , because the Cops are not machines, so... I think they will let this one pass unpunished... Unless you are using a VPN to scorch the chinese President in public like I do: Xi Jin Pin is a Incompetent War Monger !!! I Want HuJinDao Back !!!!!!! So, in this case, if they catch me using my VPN to do what I am doing here, so I will loose a lot of social points, my friend, and I will... BEI HEXIE LE ( Get Harmonized ). Probably 1 full year in Jail, if they catch me saying what I am saying using a VPN. So I am a Brave guy , Right? 1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo
  - dboon 8y ago
    very strange comment
    - paradoxparalax 8y ago
      Thanks for pointing. I went to read my comment above with Maximum Attention, too see why is strange, or If there is something strange on the my comment. So... Yes, there is something strange, thanks for pointing, dboon. Sounded like I want a Competent War Monger as my ruler. No, just to clarify, I want a Competent Not War Monger. Thanks.
cltsang 8y ago
This is mostly true. However, there are also signs of change as they are starting to enforce the digital border. https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/2180960/chinese-vpn-user-fined-accessing-overseas-websites-part-beijings-ongoing https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/2180960/chinese-vpn...
- paradoxparalax 8y ago
  Good datapoint. I opened it and I see that is probably some Hong Kong newspaper. I like Hongkonese people very much, one of my favorite people in the world, really. They are unique and so nice, if you know how to be friendly, of course. So... I started reading with attention, and her picture was actually pretty, ( for my taste, no cure for yellow fever)... ...But when She starts to call "Beijing" (!!!!!)...(sigh)... The little cop of some whoever place in GuangDong, I just stop reading right there, Not to waste my brain with the unlogic logic that was possibly coming... But, is an important datapoint. The Long winter is Coming, this summer has already lasted 8 years or so. But just 1 in a billion, but one by one you make a billion. But i read more and things like this, quote from her: "Many companies complained that their paid-for VPN services were not functioning for up to a week." Sounds weird. Is easy to make a point to any theory in China, because there is a lot of people there, you can get a lot of datapoints and anecdotes to make any point, right. If I want to make a pretty headline about the humanity hugest police crackdown on ICE(that drug the vietnamese girls like, and I have to say it is nice, maybe is Meth, I don't know , probably Australia is called Ice, In China is Called LIUBIN, and is the Drug Number 1 in China, The Drug of The People, so ........ I can write a book about that crackdown, right.......
rqs 8y ago
Are you sure about the SSH part? I have few VPS's outside of China, and when I trying to SSH them directly from China, the connection would only alive for few minutes before gone slow (20 seconds delay), and eventually went dark (All packet dropped). So I wrote my own proxy. It supports port mapping so I can map my local:2211 to server:21. When I connect to local:2211, the proxy will first connect to proxy-server (located outside of China) to establish an encrypted data stream, and then the proxy-server connects server:21. This way I can keep the SSH connection alive as long as I wish to. If you are using tools like Shadowsocks, you can use `ssh -o ProxyCommand ...` to ask ssh to go through Shadowsocks (Socks5 proxy).
- paradoxparalax 8y ago
  when I was in China, I was a happy user(not affiliated with them, by any means) of a certain "myssh.me" (www) and it costed 20 Kuai (maybe 3 USD) a month and was pretty fast, faster then any other VPN available at the time. But I just looked and this version of "them" was already taken down( this version was already SocialHarmonized, to use the chinese slang (colloqial term) ) Don't have time to find their new adress right now, but is like some torrent sites, change adress all the time, but the name is similar. Don accept imitations,... It should have a chat tool in the website, you send a message and they answer right away(sometimes half-day, when they are lazy) and they will arrange payment by Alipay or WechatPay, and give your passcode. The website should be well made and written in good english, and I think their logo was a horse, so if is not like this, is not the real myssh and is some fake imitator.

But with the crackdowns happening on VPN there still needs to be legitimate options. In my case I was an English teacher, and often we'd need to find resources from the internet for supplementary teaching materials. Can't have VPN on the school computers

paradoxparalax 8y ago
Well, then you already want too much, right? VPN will give access to the Kids in the school to Porn and who knows what. So.... China is still a dictatorship, right, It is not the Disneyland. But Even in England you cannot install a VPN at a school's computer......

alecco 8y ago

How many social points do they strike when they find you use a VPN?

paradoxparalax 8y ago
I really like your comment, I think is the best comment I have ever read in Hackernews, I mean, I say for the sake of Fun, not for work or science or knowledge,... ...But for Entertainment, for the pure Fun itself, This was the best comment I ever read, And this proves that Hackernews is still not going the way of the Dodo[1] (in this case, the way of Slashdot)... And proves that, sofar, alecco is the smartest (or at least the funniest in a smart way ) guy in Hackernews. There is a reason Professor Moriarty's bits always converge, and the reason was the Pure Fun, off course. I almost forgot to answer the question: The Chinese Cops use VPN's to watch Japanese Porn together with their wives and girlfriends, if they are not married yet, , because the Cops are not machines, so... I think they will let this one pass unpunished... Unless you are using a VPN to scorch the chinese President in public like I do: Xi Jin Pin is a Incompetent War Monger !!! I Want HuJinDao Back !!!!!!! So, in this case, if they catch me using my VPN to do what I am doing here, so I will loose a lot of social points, my friend, and I will... BEI HEXIE LE ( Get Harmonized ). Probably 1 full year in Jail, if they catch me saying what I am saying using a VPN. So I am a Brave guy , Right? 1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo
- dboon 8y ago
  very strange comment
  - paradoxparalax 8y ago
    Thanks for pointing. I went to read my comment above with Maximum Attention, too see why is strange, or If there is something strange on the my comment. So... Yes, there is something strange, thanks for pointing, dboon. Sounded like I want a Competent War Monger as my ruler. No, just to clarify, I want a Competent Not War Monger. Thanks.

cltsang 8y ago

This is mostly true. However, there are also signs of change as they are starting to enforce the digital border. https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/2180960/chinese-vpn-user-fined-accessing-overseas-websites-part-beijings-ongoing https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/2180960/chinese-vpn...

paradoxparalax 8y ago
Good datapoint. I opened it and I see that is probably some Hong Kong newspaper. I like Hongkonese people very much, one of my favorite people in the world, really. They are unique and so nice, if you know how to be friendly, of course. So... I started reading with attention, and her picture was actually pretty, ( for my taste, no cure for yellow fever)... ...But when She starts to call "Beijing" (!!!!!)...(sigh)... The little cop of some whoever place in GuangDong, I just stop reading right there, Not to waste my brain with the unlogic logic that was possibly coming... But, is an important datapoint. The Long winter is Coming, this summer has already lasted 8 years or so. But just 1 in a billion, but one by one you make a billion. But i read more and things like this, quote from her: "Many companies complained that their paid-for VPN services were not functioning for up to a week." Sounds weird. Is easy to make a point to any theory in China, because there is a lot of people there, you can get a lot of datapoints and anecdotes to make any point, right. If I want to make a pretty headline about the humanity hugest police crackdown on ICE(that drug the vietnamese girls like, and I have to say it is nice, maybe is Meth, I don't know , probably Australia is called Ice, In China is Called LIUBIN, and is the Drug Number 1 in China, The Drug of The People, so ........ I can write a book about that crackdown, right.......

rqs 8y ago

Are you sure about the SSH part? I have few VPS's outside of China, and when I trying to SSH them directly from China, the connection would only alive for few minutes before gone slow (20 seconds delay), and eventually went dark (All packet dropped). So I wrote my own proxy. It supports port mapping so I can map my local:2211 to server:21. When I connect to local:2211, the proxy will first connect to proxy-server (located outside of China) to establish an encrypted data stream, and then the proxy-server connects server:21. This way I can keep the SSH connection alive as long as I wish to. If you are using tools like Shadowsocks, you can use `ssh -o ProxyCommand ...` to ask ssh to go through Shadowsocks (Socks5 proxy).

paradoxparalax 8y ago
when I was in China, I was a happy user(not affiliated with them, by any means) of a certain "myssh.me" (www) and it costed 20 Kuai (maybe 3 USD) a month and was pretty fast, faster then any other VPN available at the time. But I just looked and this version of "them" was already taken down( this version was already SocialHarmonized, to use the chinese slang (colloqial term) ) Don't have time to find their new adress right now, but is like some torrent sites, change adress all the time, but the name is similar. Don accept imitations,... It should have a chat tool in the website, you send a message and they answer right away(sometimes half-day, when they are lazy) and they will arrange payment by Alipay or WechatPay, and give your passcode. The website should be well made and written in good english, and I think their logo was a horse, so if is not like this, is not the real myssh and is some fake imitator.