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by hkalbasi 144 days ago
As an Iranian in Iran who is now connected, I have a request: Please tell google make colab available behind the safe browsing IP. Google's safe browsing IP is usually the #1 whitelisted IP in internet blackouts. Having colab on this IP allows tech people to ssh into their servers, and bootstrap connections based on the available protocols at the time.
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RandyOrion 144 days ago
There is a dedicated thread of record and anti-censorship resources of the Iran Network Shutdown [1]. Hope it helps.

[1] https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/561

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direwolf20 144 days ago
If this happened, they would blacklist it.
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slumberlust 144 days ago
In the absence of a perfect solution, we should do nothing? The entire scenario is a cat and mouse whack-a-mole arms race. I'd support doing something to give the citizens a leg up.
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direwolf20 144 days ago
You can run a Google Colab proxy on your website. Predictably, they will block your website because preventing access to wrongthink is more important than ensuring access to rightthink.
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bjourne 144 days ago
Doesn't using ssh from colab violate their ToS?
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gsf_emergency_6 144 days ago
On the small chance that cloudflare is also whitelisted.., you might want to try a cloudflared tunnel..

Good luck! i hope you will soon be able to call your congressman

https://archive.ph/2026.01.22-082913/https://www.aljazeera.c...

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