The vast majority of internet traffic originating from Canada doesn't actually go through these lines. Do a MTR/traceroute to anywhere and unless you're on specific commercial networks, all of your traffic will be going through a US Internet Exchange at some point because it's way cheaper for your local greedy telecom.

Here are their ASNs:

• Greenland Connect: Tusass A/S (AS8818)
• St. Pierre and Miquelon Cable: SPM Telecom (AS3695)
• EXA Express: EXA Infrastructure (AS30740)
• Topaz: Google (AS15169)

Two are terminal links to connect isolated regions, the other two are commercial links not used by home internet users.

Companies can have multiple business lines.

The level of self-righteousness on that forum is hilarious, so it's nice when the achievement is appreciated for what it is.

Is your user agent set to a generic Mozilla? Some have harder challenges for certain user agents too.

I'm mocking you for insisting that the general public should use complex technical solutions because you think they're easy to deploy at scale.

I have a few qualms with this app:

1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue.

3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

Iykyk. This technical elitism is just generally really off-putting.

Plus there's limited permits for Haij. It's not like a free-for-all anyone since Saudi Arabia greatly cracked down on illegal unauthorized Haij pilgrimage facilitators. There's only so many pilgrims that small city can hold in a small span of time, and 1/4th of Haij pilgrims are domestic.

Oh awesome! So pleased to see Mistral AI integration for paperless-ai.