Mastodawn

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@bitsavers/116346860152891077

I can confirm; the number of ways my parents could reach out to me is decreasing. I can give them a call, but the calls from their side aren't reaching me. My primary email cannot interact with their primary email, but at least emails from their secondary email reach mine, and vice versa. The Russian government can read our email correspondence this way, of course.

The VPN is getting actively erased, and there are even rumours of criminalising the use of VPN services, so my parents are afraid of using one. It's even more interesting with the government basically mandating the installation of a government MITM&MDM software on all the mobile devices.

Things are grim. Gotta ask my dad whether he has any interest in returning to the HAM radio circles :D

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Northern Scrub 1d ago

@nina_kali_nina this was a little while ago, so I don't quite know if it still works, but one of our foss community members was using something like this to get access to discord in Russia. The means and intensity of internet censorship seems to differ betwren oblasts(?), and it didn't work for everything, but it might help them access a message board that you can share with them. Maybe set up a little private forum or smth. You might eben be able to set up an element call instance and be able to video chat with them

https://github.com/Volodymyr156/GoodbyeDPI_Valdik

GitHub - Volodymyr156/GoodbyeDPI_Valdik: GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)

GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows) - Volodymyr156/GoodbyeDPI_Valdik

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crzwdjk ✅

@northernscrub @nina_kali_nina I think this stuff needs constant configuration and tweaking to stay ahead of the blocks. My father (who is a sysadmin) can figure it out, my grandmother (who is almost 90) cannot.