Masterofballs on Nostr: So I'm hanging out in China this week. I've been curious about the great firewall. ...

So I'm hanging out in China this week. I've been curious about the great firewall.

Let'svpn right now works very consistently.

It's what most people need when traveling here and they want access to their emails. It's actually Chinese owned funny enough.

I'm running a shadowsocks proxy server at home and it took seems to work. Albeit slowly. Ok for checking Gmail. Good for a emergency.

I have read that the greatfire wall can detect them and block them. Basically it sees a stream of a consistent encrypted connection and then will prod the port and if it can't make sense of it, it will auto block it. Probably better to run it on port 443 and limit traffic. And maybe set up some method of returning a basic HTML page if the correct handshake isn't passed in. But they do deep packet inspection with AI so the handshake should look like a regular page click. im not sure how that would look.

So I only will use it for emergencies.

It is interesting. A regular international sim card seems to be able to connect to Google just fine.

So much trouble to separate this part of the Internet and you can just buy a SIM card in Hong Kong and watch YouTube videos again.


In regards to China life, China village life is better than American poor life in many ways.

Less policing for basic things. If you have to take a piss no one will care if you just piss on the side of the road or in a bush. I saw whole families pissing right outside a temple with police not 50 feet away.

I agree people shouldn't be locked up fined put on a registry for such a basic human function. As long as there is no Ill intent.

You can sell anything you want anywhere.

It's a high trust society. People will sleep out in the open at spa's. Both men and women. With zero security.

In America if you were to try that someone would walk up to you and do something terrible to you. Perhaps poor soda on your face. Or try to rape you in the dark.

Most places outside of wealthy circles just don't have that level of trust.

While freedom of speech isn't really thing here if you don't get into a fight or cause a lot of trouble you might feel there isn't any laws at all.


Packages don't come straight to people's homes. They go to a designated home where they get paid about 1cent per package. Less actually. Because streets still don't have names. Houses no numbers.

That would be a really easy problem for local governments and companies to solve but no one has done it yet. I guess because there has been such a huge migration out of villages the last 20 years.