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Some of these social benefits can also be had at your local library, without the fees. It's nice to just go pull up a desk in the library alongside students stu
by lwhsiao 8y ago
Some of these social benefits can also be had at your local library, without the fees. It's nice to just go pull up a desk in the library alongside students studying for exams, curious readers curled up in comfortable chairs, and professionals working on their latest reports. It's especially nice when the library has separate areas for quiet, focused work and open discussions.
- julianlam 8y agoLibraries are great for heads-down focused work, but I can't imagine doing sales calls at the library would be allowed. My local library blocks vpn and ssh, actually, so that makes it even worse.
- saagarjha 8y ago> My local library blocks vpn and ssh Where is this, and why?
- fimdomeio 8y agoIt happened to me once. They just blocked all non http(s) traffic. By best guess was to block people torrenting made by someone that didn't want to spend more than two minutes working on it.
- lozenge 8y agoVPNs, torrents and games all run over UDP and torrent software loves to saturate your connection. They could well have blocked all UDP (except DNS).
- derekp7 8y agoNot a showstopper, as you can tunnel ssh over https. Also there's the option of using your phone as a hotspot (thank you unlimited plans).
- Something1234 8y agoWait how? SSH runs on port 22, so how would you get it to switch over from port 443.
- slig 8y agoYou can configure sshd to use any port you want.
- mythrwy 8y agoAnd there are good arguments why you _should_. My ssh is never on port 22 and although I don't know that this would help much against targeted attack, logfiles are so much quieter.
- slig 8y agoMine as well. I don't see one good argument why one shouldn't.
- imhoguy 8y agoAnd even share port with HTTPS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8923092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8923092
- derekp7 8y agoTake a look at http://dag.wiee.rs/howto/ssh-http-tunneling/ http://dag.wiee.rs/howto/ssh-http-tunneling/ for one example. Essentially, you tell ssh to use another program to proxy the connection. That program (such as proxytunnel) connects to an http / https server on port 443, and issues a "CONNECT" method (such as "CONNECT anotherhost 22"). Then accept the status message, and pass the connection back over to ssh. You need to configure the target HTTPS server to allow that connect method to the target host / port, and it is advisable to protect it behind at least https basic authentication. And the best part of this, is that since it starts off as an SSL (https) connection, they can't even tell that you are doing a proxy (the "CONNECT" message is encrypted). It looks like a regular https connection at that point. The only thing they can do is either use a MITM proxy and require you to load their certificate (common in corporate and government environments), or do pattern analysis on the traffic.
- pokstad 8y agoMy library blocks VPNs too, but I just set my PIA VPN to use TCP over port 443 and it works fine. You just need your VPN to look like HTTPS.
- ralusek 8y agoCrushing* sales calls. Please, show some self-respect.
- ken 8y agoDoesn’t your library have rooms for patron use? Seattle Public Library has all kinds. They even have music practice rooms, with pianos and soundproofed walls. I used to go there after work.
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- throwawy912 8y agoYou misspelled homeless people.
- ravenstine 8y agoToo bad mine's a de facto homeless shelter.