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outline-apps
Outline Client and Manager, developed by Jigsaw. Outline Manager makes it easy to create your own VPN server. Outline Client lets you share access to your VPN with anyone in your network, giving them access to the free and open internet.
What I could not foresee is that after all these years, a friend of mine would also face the same problem. As for today, two great alternatives for this are a good match in my opinion. First, we have sshuttle and I absolutely love it. It helped me a lot during some time but it has a downside. It only works on top of SSH which is currently blocked by the only Cuban telecommunications company so we could not really use it. Second, we have Outline and this one is also brilliant. I have read a lot about it because it seems it's heavily used to bypass censorship and all it is is a wrapper around a very nice set of tools. It basically sets a shadowsocks connection and configures your device so it behaves like a VPN. This seemed to be the right way to go, but for some odd reason, it did not want to work properly on my friend's computer.
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proxychains
proxychains - a tool that forces any TCP connection made by any given application to follow through proxy like TOR or any other SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxy. Supported auth-types: "user/pass" for SOCKS4/5, "basic" for HTTP.
Not so many years ago when I used to live in Cuba, the only access to the internet I could use was using a Proxy set by the institution I was working for or the college I studied at. The managers on these networks used to restrict the contents you could access as hard as possible so at work you could not check Facebook or other social media, but that was not the main problem. Since Cuba is embargoed by the United States of America, several important resources like Docker images, Gitlab, and Google resources for coding in Android were all blocked for any Cuban IP. Conclusion: you need to use a VPN if you want anything done. Not being able to pay for a VPS (no such thing as credit cards in Cuba) I was heavily using Tor, YourFreedom, or even an SSH tunnel if someone borrowed me their access to a VPS, and many other alternatives to circumvent censorship. Most of the time, these connections ended up in being a socks proxy either on my computer or my local trusted network, and I could use them easily from my browser or on several applications using tsocks or proxychains. But the holy grail of this problem was to get all the traffic from your computer to be tunneled only using a socks proxy, and that I could not achieve. Until now :-)
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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sshuttle
Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling.
What I could not foresee is that after all these years, a friend of mine would also face the same problem. As for today, two great alternatives for this are a good match in my opinion. First, we have sshuttle and I absolutely love it. It helped me a lot during some time but it has a downside. It only works on top of SSH which is currently blocked by the only Cuban telecommunications company so we could not really use it. Second, we have Outline and this one is also brilliant. I have read a lot about it because it seems it's heavily used to bypass censorship and all it is is a wrapper around a very nice set of tools. It basically sets a shadowsocks connection and configures your device so it behaves like a VPN. This seemed to be the right way to go, but for some odd reason, it did not want to work properly on my friend's computer.
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Install badvpn-tun2socks. This application will tunnel all your data using a Tun network interface in Linux. To install it clone their repository https://github.com/ambrop72/badvpn and follow the compile and install instructions here.
