I actually prefer using FIDO2 as a second factor only cos I use YubiKey which can only store 100 RKs.

Omnipotent ≠ Intelligent

Two people scored the same after the first five. They were the… sixths.

It’s a near miss of biting my tongue every time.

It’s safe cos there ain’t much data to mine /s

KILL

Pardon my ignorance but is this actually banned on some dumbass platform?

And how do they update that IP list? Manually? If you set up your own overseas server, it’s gonna be ok for a few days for sure. But they update the block list automatically so people had to e.g. use CloudFlare websocket as a jump host to avoid switching providers every other month. Of cos CF is mostly blocked these days too so it’s probably just easier to offload the work to those VPN operators you mentioned.

Universities are a different matter. They use Edu network and there used to be no censorship at all in Edu IPv6. Nowadays it’s still relatively easy for them to get exemptions for their labs and whatnot.

Oh I never felt so alive!

If they are truly ‘identical’ down to every atom, unless we are talking about spiritual things, they are simply all the same?

Most conventional VPNs, e.g. OpenVPN, WireGuard, AnyConnect, PPTP/L2TP, IKEv2/IPsec, etc., actually don’t work in China. Technology-wise GFW is quite sophisticated and conventional VPNs are not designed for censorship circumvention anyway.

You’ll have to use things like Shadowsocks or V2Ray, which is out of the reach of most people.

wireless electronic price tags

I’d rather not… They already use these to implement dynamic pricing based on stock levels, best before dates, etc. Only a matter of time before they feed surveillance camera data to the system to take the appearances of nearby customers into account. (I wonder if it’s already a thing in those no-register stores in the States? They can probably also pull in your shopping history, search history, etc?)