Site Blocking Fallout Keeps GitHub Unusable for Some Indians * TorrentFreak
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GitHub remains partly blocked for some Indians even though an underlying court order was reversed many months ago.

Who cares if nobody can work, the important is that those illegal streams are blocked

  • SchizoDenji@lemm.eeEnglish
    1552·
    10 months ago

    When is it supposed to kick in? Because it sure hasn’t been done yet.

    Edit: Blatant misinformation

    While the underlying court order was reversed many months ago, some Indians continue to have trouble accessing parts of the website.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itOPEnglish
      661·
      10 months ago

      the main problems of those blocking orders, worldwide, not only in india, is that while blocks are immediate and done with no supervision directly in the hands of the copyright trolls, unblocks are slow and need 100+ approvals

    • sorter_plainview@lemmy.todayEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      Its been like this for a long time. I still find it difficult to access raw.github. the reversal is not proper as far as I can say.

      Edit: checked now, still can’t.

    • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Based on the other comments, they blocked the raw url.

    • sag@lemm.eeEnglish
      511·
      10 months ago

      Its still blocked including newgrounds.com. I have to use VPN to play Geometry Dash because sound of custom level are hosted on newground.

      Here a List of site which I can’t access without VPN

      • VLC Website
      • Raw Github URL
      • Newground
      • t.me : Telegram Links (but I can access telegram.dog and telegram.me)
      • ApkPure
      • jomoo99@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I’ve always thought that China’s complete disregard for IP is one of their greatest strengths tbh

    • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
      101·
      10 months ago

      The ONE thing I might have in common with the hexbear people is thinking China has the right ideas when it comes to copyright. Copyright and trademarks only serve to hinder innovation.

    • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
      15·
      10 months ago

      Git really should be married with bittorrent for large files. At the moment it’s GFS which requires large central storage, which doesn’t really fit with git. Should be maglinks.

      • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Or IPFS. The issue in this context is that bittorrent would treat each version as a unique collection of files and you can’t combine seeding of redundant files. IPFS has much better means to handle updates.

      • PlexSheep@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Git LFS exists, not sure how it works technically, but it’s what the AI people use for AI model VCS.

        • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          So does using maglinks, it exists in git-annex. It’s just the torrent client is super crap. Great idea, poorly implemented.

    • sorter_plainview@lemmy.todayEnglish
      221·
      10 months ago

      Oh fun fact, Govt also issued an order stating that VPN providers who won’t log information of users, can’t function in India.

      • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
        16·
        10 months ago

        That statement just screams “I don’t understand how the internet works”

          • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            Oh, so they’re aware the stated actions would have no impact on VPN accessibility beyond potentially restricting India endpoints?

            Either that or they’re planning to play server whack-a-mole with overseas private companies whom themselves have no control over access from India

            Edit: or it’s just a non-statement to misdirect

      • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        Bet they love Tor then…

        Though maybe faster to have a VPS somewhere else. Maybe do a VPN from there.

        They aren’t going to block ssh.

        • zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          31·
          10 months ago

          Hey do you know of a good ssh client? I’d like to spoof SNI using one but I don’t know how it is done with ssh/ssl

          • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Not sure exactly what you are after, but would stunnel4 do? You can use it to hide SSH with SSL and then use SNI so that a specific website name is SSH and others something else. You can probably do it with Apache or NGINX to if there is real websites too.

            Client wise, just normal ssh, but with a custom config for that host with:

            ProxyCommand openssl s_client -connect %h:%p

            Edit: NGINX : http://nginx.org/en/docs/stream/ngx_stream_ssl_preread_module.html

            Edit: Apache : https://trofi.github.io/posts/295-ssh-over-https.html

            • zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              umm, I got confused. Let tell you exactly about the use case. so on a site like this " https://sshocean.com/ssh-ssl " I create an account, and I get something like this: where do I insert this payload (what client for windows or Ubuntu)? and how do I insert the desired SNI that I want to be in front of my ISP? I know of http injector with whom the trick works on android, I mean ssh/ssl stunnel.

              • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
                2·
                10 months ago

                In your .ssh/config you want something like:

                Host my-ssh-ssl Hostname us01.ssh0.net User sshocean-p1r4t2br Password myparrot2 Port 443 ProxyCommand ~/.ssh/https-tunnel.sh %h %p

                Then you have a ~/.ssh/https-tunnel.sh something like:

                #!/usr/bin/env bash { printf “GET /HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:$1\r\nUpgrade:websocket\r\n”; cat } | openssl s_client -connect $1:$2 -servername $1

                That last bit, -servername is the SNI bit, if you need it. BUT I think that payload might be for port 2083. I think 443 might be just the OpenSSL connect directly.

  • Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.spaceEnglish
    24·
    10 months ago

    The main Github.com domain was still accessible but raw.githubusercontent.com, where code is typically stored, was blocked.

    Some days, like today, I regret commenting TorrentFreak out of my RSS feed reader.

    It’s kind of funny, but it’s also kind of scary that not having access to Github would probably significantly impact a lot of companies and services. It would definitely impact me.

    Oh well. We can always move to Sourcehut, right?

    • spiderman@ani.socialEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      nahh we would rather use vpn. i have been using vpn for github ever since they have blocked raw github user content.

      • naeap@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        So… What’s the purpose of the ban then?
        Is this but just totally stupid and implemented completely useless, because people in power can’t grasp what they are deciding on?

  • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
    214·
    10 months ago

    I read that Linux usage is much higher in India (I think ~13% vs 5% in the US, though the statistics are probably outdated). I am totally ignorant when it comes to India, so correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m wondering if the rise of Linux users has something to do with the government trying to limit access to Github.

  • ⲇⲅⲇ@lemmy.mlEnglish
    22·
    10 months ago

    I would block even more services from Microsoft, why not. Go to other git sources.

  • rhabarba@feddit.deEnglish
    2754·
    10 months ago

    Good news. Hopefully this will help to finally break the de facto monopoly of Microsoft’s GitHub and bring the distributed aspect of Git - away from gatekeeper platforms - back into the foreground.

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolEnglish
      562·
      10 months ago

      Based

      …but this will realistically just spawn some new mirrors and proxies because the vast amount of projects hosted there definitely won’t ever move away.

      Anyway, I am doing my part! (With my irrelevant profile)