Posts by Brie@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #B44qNqgnCVvpvUTEuW by Brie@mastodon.social
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       @stacksmashing My personal hell version of this is keeping forgetting about systemd timers and just getting pissed when I don't find what I'm looking for with crontab
       
 (DIR) Post #B54tLuuYsW286YCGNk by Brie@mastodon.social
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       @netblocks while this isn't technically incorrect from your point of view, "near-total disconnection" in practice isn't as rough as you make it sound. Iran is a country where VPNs and techniques to go around the blocks have been used by average citizens for years. I can confirm that my non-tech-savvy family has been reachable during the whole period including video calls except for a short period at the start of the war.
       
 (DIR) Post #B55aMvn7O87v9VRfJA by Brie@mastodon.social
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       @liaizon @netblocks This could be the case, as their village is reasonably close to a border. All I know is that they got this working on their own using local and cheap technical means (definitely no money to use starlink but I imagine starlink endpoints might be part of a proxy chain), and that we are reaching them using apps Bale and Soroush. I'll ask my partner as I don't speak farsi, but I got the impression that they were regularly talking to friends and family deeper in the country too.
       
 (DIR) Post #B55aMwfi79nNsozGOu by Brie@mastodon.social
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       @liaizon @netblocks so apparently if you registered on Bale or Soroush with an Iranian number (which my partner did earlier) then the block lets the traffic through. They've confirmed that no VPN is involved and that they can talk to anyone with local internet access in Iran on these apps.
       
 (DIR) Post #B8mdV6PM0PR2E9IFxw by Brie@mastodon.social
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       @vwestlife I come a bearer of bad news