Tor is an open network, and all Tor relay IPs are public, which makes it simple for repressive governments to block them all.
Meek is a domain fronting pluggable transport that censored users rely on to bypass these blocks. Since Amazon and Google have blocked domain fronting, only Microsoft's Azure cloud still works, but Tor hears Microsoft might block it next.
#introductions Hi! I'm Molte/North (she/her). I'm a #queer 21 y.o. woman, aspiring artist, studying social #anthropology. Currently living with my wonderful gf of 7 years π
I'm nerdy af, #feminist and #artist, using pencil, watercolor, ink and acrylics. I'm interested in social justice, anthropology/sociology, stationery & journaling, plants and regularly play D&D.
the "fork or gtfo" culture in foss is toxic and it's the reason why more people don't use foss alternatives most of the time: they don't have the options they want, so they turn to proprietary alternatives.
the fact that so many developers are stubborn to implement features that they "don't like" even if people are handing the code to them on a silver platter, and the users clearly want it, is really fucking annoying.
at Big Social HQ: > we need to moderate social media because law and decency < ok, but we can't hire humans for it because humans make mistakes < so instead we'll teach a machine our biases, so it never makes mistakes > what if our biases are part of the problem < *has already left for the golf course*
good morning ya cuties! let's do awesome shit today like hugging and drinking water and maybe even hugging water? who knows? the world is your meat-rock
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