Hi there! A colleague of mine referred me to your post. I'd love to have a call and help with advice and coaching to reduce your anxiety of going blind. Since I published the post @ssivark mentioned, I got a lot of emails from developers who were afraid of going blind or who were actually like yourself and were going blind, so trust me when I say that you are not alone and people like you have pulled through. Since you value showing up and being independent, I'm certain you will pull through, too.
I had a colleague build my blog for me. I love his work because he created a clean theme, and it's very easy for me to navigate. I hadn't thought that it'd also be easier to read for sighted people. That's great to know!
Yes. I'm sorry for the confusing title. This has been pointed out to me and I agree. The reason it hasn't been changed is because it would change the permalink.
Sorry for not giving you the information you were looking for.
Well, I'm not doing anything political, so no one will catch me and kill me. I'm using it for exactly the same reasons as you, namely that the United States won't let me view some content, listen to some music and stuff. Even though I have to pay illegally to access this content (which is when I use my Canadian IP), I still am paying for them and must be able to use them.
I used another friend's credit card. There are some services here where some guy in another country who is originally Iranian will charge a fee to take your Iranian Rials and send them to a PayPal account, or go and pay for a service on another website on your behalf.
It costs extra money, but oh well. It's better than staying ignorant and not being able to improve and learn more.
So I need to convert AUD to USD to Rials and send them to an Iranian guy in the U.S. to pay for a Netflix account with a third party U.S. credit card and then figure out how to proxy my way through someone's U.S. Internet connection via a SOCKS5 proxy.
When you put it like this, it seems very impossible. But I've been doing the second part of it for two years, so if you need any help with that, just let me know. Haha.
Australia has a policy of capturing all metadata from ISPs. I suspect I might actually be more at risk of getting a knock on the door from our security agencies than you would be. And if I'm suspected of terrorism I can be held in jail for seven days without charge on a continually renewing basis.
Australia is not going to arrest you for using a proxy, unless you're using it to do something else illegal. Let's be realistic about the relative threat level in Australia vs Iran.
Yeah, because government agencies haven't been worried about Iranian terrorism in Australia since Man Honis took hostages in Martin Place and a teenager of Iranian background shot and killed a police accountant in Parramatta last year.
For myself, I know I'm not a terrorist, but transferring money like that looks mighty suspicious and it wouldn't be hard for the security agencies to get the wrong idea. They don't have to prove anything. Just ask Muhamed Haneef whether they make errors. Mick Keelty refused to even acknowledge the AFP treated an innocent man very badly. If you think a guy like the head of the AFP is this incompetent, then you should watch your step if you live in Australia.
It's not like I can defend myself in a court of law now, is it? Terrorism gets an end run around due process in Australia. And we've already seen how it can turn out - pretty fucking badly.
Exactly. I changed the article to better reflect these though. I'd personally get offended if someone actually meant to say something like this, and since I don't want people to think I'm making such a ridiculous statement, I edited the text to clarify.
And you're surprisingly smart, which you demonstrated through your gedankenexperiment. I'm glad that writing about my experiences has allowed me to read one paragraph of the thoughts of people so much smarter than me. These are brief glimpses, but they definitely humble me.
Wow, so many awesome software. You'd think that as someone who has used VPNs since the day he first connected to the Internet, I'd know all about these things! :-)
If you're up for going the VPS route, there's an awesome project called Streisand on github that automates the entire process that sets up the server with multiple VPN protocols as well as TOR bridges:
Please reach out to me on my website (https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/). I'd love to help.