amritananda

Yeah, doesn't help that the "video overview" is just an animated slideshow of benchmarks. I guess that tells us who the intended audience is.

ECH is bootstrapped using DoH. IIRC there's a TXT or other record that distributes the key used used for encrypting the initial handshake.

Just blocking DoH would probably be enough to force clients to fall back to regular DNS. This happens automatically for a captive portal with a whitelist. You could probably take care of clients with a cache by just dropping any connection without a readable SNI. I guess it depends on implementation, but I'd wager most clients would fall back to a non-ECH connection anyway (since it doesn't really add anything - you could just sniff DNS to figure out what domain the client is trying to connect to).

I'm assuming you'll have to configure your DNS to use the captive portal DNS which would defeat ECH. The only time I was able to get this working as a captive portal bypass I was using a hardcoded remote IP as my Xray host so DNS wasn't an issue.

You can also use it to get around captive portals where some traffic is still allowed. Some Airline flights where messaging services are free only check the SNI, so setting the Xray domain to whatsapp.com or something similar usually works.

This is good news considering the current state of government run IT services in Nepal (that the page to schedule a passport renewal appointment requires you change your local timezone or override TZ to Asia/Kathmandu should tell you the state of some of these services).

In having to interact with Nepali government websites I've noticed things like endpoints not even doing basic input sanitization, letting your run arbitrary queries on biometric data. Asking around the tech industry on how to report this it seems like this is a common occurrence. Someone even found a vulnerability that was apparently purposefully unpatched to most likely aid in corruption.

It might also just be the case that the hardware you have is good enough that the lag isn't noticable.

You should still be able to notice a spike in CPU usage whenever you force Emacs to redraw the frame by typing into it though.

I have never seen any diaspora have more contempt for their own people than Iranians. Thankfully more recent diaspora in the US are both more level-headed and diverse (coming not just from Tehran and a few other major cities but many other places and ethnic groups). I know an Azeri Iranian who was nothing but contempt for the regime (especially after thousands of protesters were murdered) but is horrified by what the US/Israel has been doing.

Diaspora communities are never representative of their home country. This is something I know from my own community, since selection bias leads to a very particular (and privileged) set of people with the means to emigrate, almost universally from a single ethnic group that is less than 11% of the total population. Perhaps you should consider whether the Iranians you know are representative of the Iranian population as a whole.

>The have so much less that they are forced to openly use their last and most powerful card for their survival

That is not their most powerful card. Their most powerful card is mining the Strait of Hormuz and taking out all GCC desalination and oil infrastructure. That would result in a global depression, and probably end the Gulf countries as we know them.

The delusional idea that one can affect regime change through bombing is the cause of quite a bit death and destruction throughout the world.

Maybe the problem wasn't the timing, but the fact that thousands of people were killed and millions lived in fear for the future for the past month? That's enough to cause most people to stand behind their government, no matter how reviled they might be.

No benchmarks, no information about training methods/datasets, template placeholder vibe-coded website. Waste of time.

Zionism existed since the late 19th century. It cannot be considered solely a response to the Holocaust. It was an outgrowth of the many nationalist movements that were occurring in Europe at the time, and even as far back as the 1920s the consensus was that the establishment of a Jewish state required a Jewish majority. This is clearly evident in the writings of people like Jabrotinsky and Herzl himself. I don't think any native population would take kindly to what exactly this implied.

>If it was simply to get their own state surely they could have achieved it by now

The PLO has accepted a two-state solution since 1981, for nearly 44 years. This is what Avner Yaniv called the "peace offensive", and is especially dangerous because it weakens Israeli attempts to deny a Palestinian state. The solution to this is simple: provocation to encourage extremist elements. Of course in 1982 Israel went a bit further and used provocation to set a precedent to invade Lebanon in an attempt to destroy the PLO entirely.

>Which means returning to their original homes (I don't see how you could do that without throwing out the Jewish 'colonists').

This is not what the right to return is. This is what Amnesty has to say about return:

>Where possible, Palestinians should be able to return to their original home or lands. If this is not possible -- because they no longer exist, have been converted to other uses, or because of a valid competing claim -- they should be allowed to return to the vicinity of their original home.

"Valid competing claim" includes the modern-day owner of the home.