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Comment on Accessing the internet through only google.com in ~tech
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slabs37 Link Parentssh proxy is a easy one to block, iirc it was blocked a few years ago even, we needed and still need to ssh through a vpn so the traffic was obfuscated and not killed. Currently useless sadly,...ssh proxy is a easy one to block, iirc it was blocked a few years ago even, we needed and still need to ssh through a vpn so the traffic was obfuscated and not killed.
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slabs37 Link ParentThe different bridges don't work, there was a time where some had ping but the connection was instantly blocked, there days there's no ping whatsoever. Psiphon is a classic, but also completely...The different bridges don't work, there was a time where some had ping but the connection was instantly blocked, there days there's no ping whatsoever.
Psiphon is a classic, but also completely blocked when used normally, conduit can't reach the server to get a list of users and is out of the picture aswell.
There was a time when there was a setup like http proxy -> dnstt server -> psiphon which worked, but the IP got blacklisted and i haven't found another one like it.
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slabs37 Link ParentThank you. Tor is blocked. Iran is whitelisting IPs, even if you set up a relay and exit node on a whitelisted IP the traffic is quickly recognized and killed.Thank you.
Tor is blocked.
Iran is whitelisting IPs, even if you set up a relay and exit node on a whitelisted IP the traffic is quickly recognized and killed.
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Accessing the internet through only google.com
Iranians right now are using a javascript based proxy to access the internet somewhat, it's what i'm using to access tildes. I thought it'd be interesting to share, we don't have access to...
Iranians right now are using a javascript based proxy to access the internet somewhat, it's what i'm using to access tildes.
I thought it'd be interesting to share, we don't have access to script.google.com but we do have access to www.google.com, so there's another method to access it and set it up.
Someone wrote a quick android app for it. link
It's limited from google's side as they've put a 20,000 requests daily limit on scripts, but it gets us online somewhat and... feels nice, to be able to have a way through.
We're also using github actions to download files to private repo's and download them from there (releases is still blocked, raw is not) which also seems to have a 2000 minute monthly limit.
From one side google colab also has Iran sanctioned so we can't access that, but that would be another way to get online aswell.
From another side we're also using DNS servers to tunnel traffic, but they get blacklisted after the user count goes up.
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slabs37 (edited )Link ParentHey thank you for saying this <3. currently it seems a combination of proxies and VPNS works for whatever reason. a vless proxy on the first layer, psiphon connecting through that on the second...Hey thank you for saying this <3. currently it seems a combination of proxies and VPNS works for whatever reason. a vless proxy on the first layer, psiphon connecting through that on the second layer, it is very DNS dependant. it's still around 1kb/s but that's well and truly better than nothing.
And with github open once again (atleast in Karaj, seems to be province based) i've managed to download files and stuff at a clean 1mb/s. so the internet situation is improving atleast (for me, not many people sit down and try whatever stupid combination and anything that they can think of)
I've shared this to whoever has had a urgent need, but i fear sharing it too much because it might get disconnected.As for life, it's been going, everythings price has increased multiple times yet again, last thing i bought was a coca cola, it was 80 tomans at the beginning of the war, last time i bought it for 100, now i bought it for 120, so that might be the last time i drink that for a good while. we've stock piled up on a lot of stuff so i haven't had to buy much else lately but they have gotten many many times more expensive aswell.
Everyone's mood is down and cautious, we've been jumpy today specifically because the cease fire could end at any time, and damn it's windy today and with its sounds i've had multiple spikes of adrenaline. it really empties you out after a while.
The ISP's are firing people and seem to be low on money, people seem glad to see it this way, because who buys internet when there is none? one of them (asiatech) has even given news that "We are NOT going bankrupt" so now we all think it is going bankrupt :]The daily dose of depression is still available in news website's comments, each day there's atleast two people who are putting comments that they are now fully out of business and have packed up and sold everything they had.
My university has told us to come back for saturday, as we have on-site learning in the hospitals these semesters, perks of having had chosen Nursing, yaaaay.
I very well expect to go, be there for a few days (maybe less) and come back after the war continues.
Atleast it'll be some travelling and seeing more sights.Oh yeah @CannibalisticApple had recommended photographing the nature here these days. I SAW MOUNT DAMAVAND FROM QOM'S HIGHWAY MORE THAN 100KM AWAY, not even my parents had ever seen it from this far.
I'm really not a good photographer and i really feel i need before and afters to show the difference in Tehran.
The mountains around Tehran are gorgeous and no one's seen them like this in a long long time, and that's while the city had heavy traffic like always! the government always blamed it on traffic...
I have taken pictures but i i doubt they'll be useful much, i hope someone else here has catalogued the weather.Thank you guys for being so welcoming
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slabs37 (edited )Link22/4/2026 Connected via a ~500 bytes per second vpn right now that someone on github sent, i got it through email notification. Thank goodness github sents those, and allows you to reply from...22/4/2026 Connected via a ~500 bytes per second vpn right now that someone on github sent, i got it through email notification. Thank goodness github sents those, and allows you to reply from there.
https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/586
I really really hope gmail stays open.Here's some more stuff i wrote down to help control my emotions.
On 18/4/2026 at night i found that github.com was completely open, from there i downloaded as many v2ray and socks5 lists as i could find
On 19/4/2026 i tested everything i downloaded, and from more than 50000, none worked, but some had ping!
So i started researching on github. I found a lot of tunneling methods written by Iranians that seemed to have been working a little while in this blackout, but no longer do.
I found a repo that was all people talking to analyse these things, from China's GFW to Iran to Russia to Pakistan and so on. I started talkings in the topic about this current blackout and found 'paqet', which seemed so absurd that i thought it unstoppable (make a non standard tcp packet from scratch, unless the firewall does a complete packet decode and inspection, it shouldn't know what it is, it's got no standard header)
That one seemed to have been working the longest, a Iranian had also come and talked there using this method weeks ago.While doing these, researching, testing, talking, i was feeling great, how i normally felt before all of this, i had taken notice of how i was feeling and enjoyed it a lot.
I began trying to find someone to set it up for me, but then i checked the issues page aaaaaaand a Iranian guy has come there and said its stopped working. Greaaat.
In the repo someone found 'ip tunnel' which seemed to be working, he tried to set one up but it seems to require a barebones server and didn't work on DigitalOcean's VPS.I had started to use github to download some files from the web. Using Actions to download them to a repo, then downloading them from the repo to my pc.
By the afternoon of this day, access to github was now all but blocked.
That was one way of communication, one way of getting files after so long, blocked again.A friends friend is a college professor and has the old filtered internet that we used to have, i had been, and still am, asking him to send messages on my behalf.
The extremely kind and friendly user fxgn had been trying to help me get connected again.
When github was open i has asked my friend to send fxgn instructions on setting up paqet and that he can come talk to me directly on github.It felt horrible writing out the next message to him to say that paqet no longer works and that i don't have access anymore.
Felt wrong to ask the friend to send that message afterwards aswell.
On 20/4/2026 After hearing the news that Iran doesn't plan to even go to the negotiations, i was filled with fear.
I tried to get connected to the internet once again, but this time trying to tunnel through the college professor.Found a way to make a virtual lan, got him connected, then setup a socks server on his end aaaaaand
I had 10kb/s. I was ecstatic! i loaded one web page with it, then nothing else loaded, the connection was all but killed.
No matter what we tried i couldn't get connected again.I don't know exactly how long i stared at that one web page afterwards, we had started working on this at 9ish pm, after i came out on the inward spiral of sadness staring at that one web page it was 12.
I'm writing this instead of sleeping right now.
By writing out what happened i managed to get rid of the crushing weight i was feeling, getting blocked two times after i had found something...
There was also news that VPNs are now being sold at a higher price suddenly, Guess they used to use paqet to connect aswell. I can no longer figure out what they may be usingEy i still have access to emails tho, lets see what i can still do.
CaniballisticApple's message comes to mind right now, i had downloaded the html of the tildes topic through github when i could.
In a forum-like-place where i never saw stuff like this (fortunately) it did feel weird to be the one to write these. Guess that comes with the perk of being an Only Iranian :]
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slabs37 Link ParentI had days where I was numbly sitting Infront of the SW radio trying to find news or something. I got parts of my life I haven't talked about online, plans for doing a study on aphantasia, working...I had days where I was numbly sitting Infront of the SW radio trying to find news or something.
I got parts of my life I haven't talked about online, plans for doing a study on aphantasia, working and learning in a hospital, university classes, electronics repairs, woodworking, coding, etc, that are all on pause.
I took care of two baby chicks this past month.Beat Saber stuff are my current excuse to go learn some new programs and make some random stuff since it's got a welcoming community.
Since I spent so much time on learning and creating stuff (in the realm of Beat Saber as i had chosen a while ago) it became the only thing i had to loose myself in.
That's my best way of handling the stresses at these times, loosing myself in something, games, books, art, anything that absorbs me.
After it was done i had two-three days of numbness, usually at these points i'd post it and get some feedback and the happiness that comes with having your creations get seen. After that the main goal of my days became finding a way to connect, and it seems right now i'm momentarily successful.I'm thankful i joined tildes, there's such a wide range of people here but it's not swarming, i feel bad rambling about these things on tildes since it really isn't the place for them, but i need an outlet and connecting to a previously un-filtered site is much easier than say reddit or discord.
Seeing Iranians outside Iran protesting on TV genuinely gives me a warm feeling inside.
The reaching out and the 'been thinking about you' are some of the brightest highlights i've had these days, it's interesting that in the three times i've now experienced internet getting cut lately, i always feel numb for one day after getting reconnected and i get the joy and energy the day after with it lasting a good while. I never knew how important being seen was to me.
From the bottom of my heart, with the outmost gratitude I can give, thank you. I hope I can do something as amazing for you guys in return too.Life's really interesting isn't it?
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slabs37 Link ParentI’m sorry my government is a war mongering bully. Does tor work for you? I wrote this on 2026/4/5 Do not apologise for the war, it had to happen, it's Iran's government that's doing to most damage...I’m sorry my government is a war mongering bully. Does tor work for you?
I wrote this on 2026/4/5
Do not apologise for the war, it had to happen, it's Iran's government that's doing to most damage to the people.
It's out right now that it's been the governments doing to stop rain clouds and causing the droughts, so they could dig tunnels and fill them with missiles.
Since the beginning of the war, we've had the most amount of rain i've seen in my 21 years of life, and the most that my parents have seen in the last 40.
I'm seeing sceneries in Iran now that i've only seen on Youtube in Europe before, so much greenery where was dry mountains before <3.
We all have gotten this suspicion that dispersing clouds was their doing now.
In these times every single news that says something is not related or is false, has been the exact opposite.
They've put out the news that "More rain has nothing to do with weather stations getting hit" and the suspicion grows stronger...A few of their missiles are failing to burn their fuel and are dropping from the sky after being shot back onto ourselfs and not exploding most of the time, and when they do explode on ourselfs they blame it on USA or Israel.
It's my government that I've been afraid of for most my life, police have always supported criminals more than normal people, criminals are safer and have more rights than normal civilians. It's from my government that I've always had to lie and pretend to about beliefs, that I have a second profile on my phone that's all pro-islam stuff these days.
It's this government that has been wasting God knows how much money on proxy wars and missiles and who-knows-what instead of anything for the people or infrastructure or anything.
Been filtering the Internet so that every single person in Iran uses VPNs and who knows how much money is wasted on them for the sole sake of being able to use the Internet normally.The war is genuinely helping us in the long run, it's helping the nature here, helping the people. I'm sorry it's caused disruptions in your guys' lifes with fuel prices going up. It's my government that had a scorched earth plan and is now executing it, please keep helping, we need the help, don't go let things be unfinished.
If these guys stay our lives will be even more hell, so many more civilians will be killed and lives will worsen even more, please help.
Tor snowflake is dependant on 192.0.2.x IPs and those are blocked
I wrote this on 2026/4/8 on the morning of the cease fire.
You've doomed us. You've doomed us all!These guys staying means every country is unsafe, they've found the achilles heel which is hormuz and they will use it.
These guys staying means they'll take out their anger on us... the citizens.
They aren't gonna spend any time and money on reconstruction, it's all gonna go towards more missiles or even trying to buy a nuke.
What i'm doing right now just writing this is essentially my death. If i post this while this government is still here and they run a check of me online i'm dead.I'm shocked at how much price inflation has effected you guys, how much have we been handling over here? We've easily had more than 1000% increase in the past 15 years and we've adapted, how bad do we have it when so little increase in price has everyone reacting like this? :(
Okay so some strikes continued and ceasefire was ignored before even 24 hours passed, interesting.
They took a bloody school bag to the negotiation?
Media work and false news is all these guys know, bleh
2026/4/14
in the middle of the cease fire currently, went to visit some relatives in Tehran from Karaj, we passed 6 checkpoints but luckily didn't seem suspicious enough to be stopped (even checkpoints in the middle of a highway goddamnit).On the mountain side they've put up a wall that wasn't there before... i think that's where a missile silo tunnel is.
They never did care about the people, but now they aren't even caring to look different than they are.
The people who are coming to work at the checkpoints may be people in need, they are paying them by the day, and with the internet getting cut, millions lost their income.
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slabs37 Link Parentsome hetzner IPs have ping but the old v2ray servers that were on them are gone.some hetzner IPs have ping but the old v2ray servers that were on them are gone.
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slabs37 (edited )Link Parenthetzner is accessible! the one i'm using is vless, using snapp.ir as host, port 80, ws transport, hetzner ip ws host, and a uuid, nothing more. it would mean the world if anyone could set one up.hetzner is accessible! the one i'm using is vless, using snapp.ir as host, port 80, ws transport, hetzner ip ws host, and a uuid, nothing more. it would mean the world if anyone could set one up.
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slabs37 Link ParentNo country allows Iranians right now, all of them kick us outNo country allows Iranians right now, all of them kick us out
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I have been gifted a tiny bit of VPN quota from a relative to allow me to upload my beatsaber creations. Its been the most important thing for me to put out, had found a very kind community, was...
I have been gifted a tiny bit of VPN quota from a relative to allow me to upload my beatsaber creations. Its been the most important thing for me to put out, had found a very kind community, was known-ish in it. I spent multiple weeks working on one of the projects i had planned, it was the only thing do to daily. Since it was finished life's been nothing after nothing after nothing. Fear, stress, depression, power infrastructure might get hit, planning for loss of power, loss of water, loss of food.
Constant stream of people asking for internet in news website comments. On the verge of crying 80% of the time.
I'm not gonna buy atrociously prices VPNs, even in this state people are scamming eachother with fake VPNs.
I miss life, life's been on pause for more than a month. the best describer of life is that it's on pause, that's all.
I was never at risk for depression, my friends who were now have it and struggle with it.
I have lost weight and gained a few more white hairs tho.
I love everyone and everything, i wish to get back to life.Will be seeing you hopefully in a better state.
-Pooya (slabs37)edit 2026/4/14:
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slabs37 Link ParentI suppose having a residential IP is a best case scenario. what's would be difference between using Tailscale compared to running a Wireguard or Shadowsocks server on a residential IP?I suppose having a residential IP is a best case scenario. what's would be difference between using Tailscale compared to running a Wireguard or Shadowsocks server on a residential IP?
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Comment on Joy of sharing a creation replaced by a longing sadness in ~talk
slabs37 Link ParentAAA i've giggled undignifiedly at watching you guys play this map and the others. i didn't know this is a thing! thank you for sharing it! this is awesome. My maps are me pushing my skills...AAA i've giggled undignifiedly at watching you guys play this map and the others. i didn't know this is a thing! thank you for sharing it! this is awesome.
My maps are me pushing my skills forward. also now i see how little feedback i had on the previous maps, I never heard from anyone about weird JD! also i'm seeing the accidental brokenness of Burning Sands again and it's annoying
And i have a giant smile hearing my name be recognized in the latest maps, you guys are awesome <3
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slabs37 Link Parentheh that's actually something i need to do for a future project, gotta ask a friend for help in a Discord server for collabing that requires phone number verification, and Discord has all Iran...heh that's actually something i need to do for a future project, gotta ask a friend for help in a Discord server for collabing that requires phone number verification, and Discord has all Iran numbers as invalid :)
I already go at things with a cautious mindset and keep my expectations at a minimum. For you it was frustration, for me it's turned from frustration to sadness to annoyance.
I'm sad you've also experienced this, i hope this is extremely rare.
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Comment on Joy of sharing a creation replaced by a longing sadness in ~talk
slabs37 Link ParentIt would help in a way of having a VPN for a month that i'd know works in all services i want, but in the 1-2 hour that i scoured VPNs i found what works for where (and i'm expecting these ones to...It would help in a way of having a VPN for a month that i'd know works in all services i want, but in the 1-2 hour that i scoured VPNs i found what works for where (and i'm expecting these ones to work for quite a while) the only place having a dedicated server for myself would be used is for twitch, which i already didn't use and have given up.
Thank you for the offer
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slabs37 Link ParentThank you. I'm trying my damn hardest to not let my inner child die, Thank you so much.Thank you. I'm trying my damn hardest to not let my inner child die, Thank you so much.
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Joy of sharing a creation replaced by a longing sadness
So I recently put out a custom map for Beat Saber that I had started work on when the internet was cut for 14 days 20 days in Iran to pass the time. Gameplay video of the map, Odysseus from Epic...
So I recently put out a custom map for Beat Saber that I had started work on when the internet was cut for
14 days20 days in Iran to pass the time.Gameplay video of the map, Odysseus from Epic The Musical
Everyone I sent it to enjoyed it a lot and I got the happiness that I needed.
One of them recommended to send it over to some twitch streamers as well because some of them have a bot that lets you recommend maps.I've never used twitch, I found a steamer, made an account, sent it in the chat and had my chat at messages tts'd in the stream. It was absolutely lovely seeing their reaction and it had made my night.
Then I noticed that my 'thank you!' messages didn't tts, huh weird. After watching them for a bit longer I thought maybe I'll send some other stuff I've made their way too. Aaand it didn't send, the chat message sent but the bot response didn't come, a bunch of testing later I found i was shadow banned.
A bit more searching and I found that VPNs are the cause. So changed from TOR to Express and tried again, no dice.
Made a new account with Express and tried and success! But only for 4 messages total, then shadow banned again.I got a friend's dedicated v2ray server and tried with a new account and my messages were sent again. So I went to a bigger streamer who was also doing the map requests and sent my map... Only to see I'm shadow banned again.
At this point the joy I had felt from seeing others enjoy what I made was gone, replaced by a familiar sadness, the same type of sadness I had gotten when the internet was cut and essentially a one way communication not too long ago.
It's a pain. these sites don't load without VPNs, I had already spent a whole hour trying different VPNs to get the 7mb map to upload to the site (and experienced like 30 errors in the process), then had to try out a bunch more to get the file to upload in Discord (with a bunch of VPNs I can only send messages, files don't upload), and then I experienced the happiness that came from seeing a live reaction and wanting to experience it more, only to have it wiped away.
I want to start work on the next project, i have so much in my mind that i want to put out into the world, but it takes time to switch back to the mentality of "I'm making this for myself and others may never see it" that I had to adopt to get back to creating.
Edit: seems a whole week has been removed from my memory, the outage wasn't two weeks
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slabs37 LinkIranians have a giant network of proxies for telegram, if the restrictions continue it wont be hard to bypass them for the Russians, just annoying. I am still sad that they might have to, having...Iranians have a giant network of proxies for telegram, if the restrictions continue it wont be hard to bypass them for the Russians, just annoying.
I am still sad that they might have to, having easy access to something for a long while and then having it taken away will be either saddening or angering depending on the person
From what i can tell i2p is dependant on i2p.novg.net, so no dice.