I mean, some bird species have mothers that essentially drop their fledglings to predators to distract from themselves (and their insecurities), or just simply don't feel bothered to actually help raise them to maturity.
From what I gathered, the deep-packet inspection appliances they're deploying in Myanmar aren't working off terribly advanced rulesets. They only seem to be blocking obvious VPN connections since VPN protocols like WireGuard, IKEv2, OpenVPN, etc. make no effort to obfuscate themselves as being a VPN connection.
There aren't as many data points in Myanmar as one would like, but this Psiphon test from OONI seems to validate that even basic obfuscation is working in Myanmar.
Random phone checks for VPNs are definitely another level though, yikes.
The great firewall situation was always interesting, because if you would use a roaming Sim, then you will be able to access anything
Roaming SIMs work because the APN sets a network routing path outside of China.
Cool writeup. I remember implementing BBR many years ago when I was trying to bypass the Great Firewall for an extended stay. Helped deal greatly with the huge congestion on Chinanet backbone at the time, but it's less of an issue these days now that foreigners can use CN2.
This is a great find. I remember about a year ago, people were speculating that Air Greenland was going to become a partner of Air Canada - my hopes were dashed when that didn't materialize.
I'm surprised I guess, BRQ airport has seasonal connections across Europe...
Not sure that counts - there's like 4 hotels in the whole area.
I'd love to see that video if you end up remembering which vlogger it was.
Any advice you might have for wandering off the beaten path into some of these villages?
I think this kind of thing is mostly viable because of the strength of Japan's land transit system.
NGL I’m in this thread for hidden gem places because crowds are awful and part of the reason I don’t travel.
I completely agree with you. I didn't really want to obliquely complain about "tourism" in general, the same way that complaining about traffic is an oxymoron - because if you're stuck in traffic, you ARE traffic.
By the time that a hidden gem gets out, it isn't long before it gets overtouristed and the crowds ruin it for me. Think Portugal - amazing country, but I could already start to see the negative impacts that my presence and tourism was having on Lisbon because I was one of the many that started arriving once Conde Naste Traveler and all the other travel publications started pitching Portugal as the must-see hidden gem. I didn't feel like I left my comfort zone at all - pretty much everything catered to tourists in some way.
On top of that, because of frequent flyer miles, I do have the option to getting to some of these places pretty reasonably cheaply since cash fares to some of these places are pretty silly.
Basically. Keep in mind that these enterprise drives are often much better built and have much better QC than consumer level drives, so they can last forever. It's kind of like debating between a used 4-year-old Toyota Corolla and a brand new Range Rover.
People who are looking for direct integration between podcast players and SponsorBlock seem to be missing that a lot of podcasts these days that do have advertising in them oftentimes have dynamic ads where the ad audio will change depending on the day, the geographical location of the download, etc. So SponsorBlock can't actually account for what are essentially dynamic timestamps Whereas with YouTube you typically have fairly static timestamps that can be shared across a user base, only smaller podcasts are really going to be able to be captured by SponsorBlock unless someone discovers a way to mod an Android APK to essentially prevent the client-side compilation of ads and the original podcast audio assuming that there is a podcast app that does this on the client side.