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by rafaelm 12y ago
I am now using the SD Card only for booting the system and run everything of a USB flash drive following this [1] HOWTO. Since I rarely reboot my Pi, the SD card barely gets used. I never had the SD card corruption issues before, but I move
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by rafaelm 12y ago
I always think about all the time I wasted on IRC or playing Doom/Quake/Duke Nukem back then or building crappy sites on Geocities. I always think if only 15 year old me had looked instead in to trying to make money off the intern
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by rafaelm 12y ago
I don't even know how much time I spent on IRC (dalnet) and when I discovered my local ISP had a Quake server it was huge! We used to play Duke Nukem or Doom 1 vs 1 via a direct dialup connection, but playing agains 20 other guys on a
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by rafaelm 12y ago
I see lots of recommendations for Uniregstry and I created an account with them, but I'm still a bit wary since they are practically a new registrar. I know Frank Schilling is a co-founder so I'm going to give them a shot any way
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by rafaelm 12y ago
It seems like they did not even test the new system. I participate in two of the most popular domainer forums and there are stories of people losing domains they had in their accounts, double and triple charges to credit cards, whois privac
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by rafaelm 12y ago
Sure I would be glad to! Sending you an email right now. I am actually just starting a translation service for web sites, apps, documents and basically anything that can be translated. Thanks for letting me shamelessly promote my services h
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by rafaelm 12y ago
This is great! Every time the world cup, eurocup, american cup comes around, me and my friends start a "quiniela" as this friendly betting game is called here (and elsewhere in the spanish speaking regions). I always think about c
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by rafaelm 12y ago
I am also looking for a new registrar since Moniker has turned in to a shadow of it former self. First, the customer support took a nosedive. Now, they redesigned the site and its a mess. The Namecheap redesign is also a bit messy. They hav
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by rafaelm 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote Due to personal circumstances, I had to quit my previous job recently. I am not the typical candidate looking for work here since I'm not a programmer or a designer. I'm looking in to freelancing as a spanish
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by rafaelm 12y ago
Facebook cloaking is pretty huge right now. Even more so now that they've started cracking down hard on affiliate ads. Still, everyone knows that when you are cloaking it's just a matter of time before your account gets banned. F
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by rafaelm 13y ago
Moniker claims that they have never lost a domain. I've got several domains (over 50) registered with them and never had a problem in almost 8 years. Many of them belonged to high traffic sites that might be desirable to thieves. I a
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by rafaelm 13y ago
I know there's a very slim chance you are going to see this comment, but could you give me more information on what course you took? Thanks!
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Conversations – Open source,encrypted XMPP client for Android(github.com)
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by rafaelm 13y ago
I've had this one bookmarked for a while, but unfortunately haven't gotten around to reading it: http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html Don't know if that's easier to read though.
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by rafaelm 13y ago
I want to thank the Tunnelbear guys, they've made their service free for everyone in Venezuela during the protests, to avoid government internet censorship (which is about to get worse since they are now meeting with the ISPs to implem
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by rafaelm 13y ago
This definitely interest me. I've used Linux for hobby projects for ages now (I remember messing around with slackware and fighting to get sound and my winmodem working), but I've never seriously learnt how to really use it. I&#x2
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by rafaelm 13y ago
I think the internet is back up in most parts of the country, I have some friends in Tachira and it seems that things are back to normal, for now. The govt keeps running small tests like last week when they blocked twitter images for a coup
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by rafaelm 13y ago
Actually many of these images are being planted by venezuelan intelligence services to discredit the protests. We have no need to post fake protest images, we have plenty of violent images, no need to make them up: https://www.yo
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by rafaelm 13y ago
I thought that was only for using the web on phones, but I just saw that it also works with Twitter and any app that supports proxies. Thanks! This is one of those times when I wish there was a simple, secure messaging app for everyone. I d
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by rafaelm 13y ago
Unfortunately this is not the first time this has happened here. We've had worse protests with many more dead and nothing happens. Maduro is just reading the script Chavez left him for whenever anything goes wrong. There's this au
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by rafaelm 13y ago
Yes I have been spreading Tor for a couple of days now. I started in my office and friends. Last night one of the biggest Venezuelan twitter accounts retweeted me too, so many people are aware now. I need to find a similar solution for mobi
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by rafaelm 13y ago
The press is being censored in a different way. The government is not giving them the dollars they need to buy paper for printing (there is a currency exchange control and no one can buy dollars without govt approval). There is no truly &qu
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by rafaelm 13y ago
They also forced the cable operators to take the only TV channel actually informing about the protests off the air (NTN24). Right now twitter is working normally, but the govt keeps running these small tests, taking websites offline, in pr
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by rafaelm 13y ago
Actually the black market rate right now in Venezuela is even bigger. Around 650% The official rate is 11.3 Bs/$ (or 6.3 depending on what exchange the govt decides you fall under.) The black market rate today closed at around Bs.85&#x
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by rafaelm 13y ago
They even support the Venezuelan Bolivar, which is under a very strict currency exchange restriction (venezuelans can only spend $300 online per year). I'm guessing that this will still be charged in dollars, but still its very impress
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Venezuela asks Twitter to block black market dollar tweeters(reuters.com)
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by rafaelm 13y ago
You are not far from the truth. Those companies owned by government officials and their friends get to buy dollars via Cadivi at the official rate of Bs.6.3 per dollar, while everyone else is stuck buying at the black market rate of Bs.50 p
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by rafaelm 13y ago
Yes, it's enforced by the government. Same goes for those travelling abroad. You get a maximum of $2500 per year for travel. The govt office in charge of the control is called cadivi.
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by rafaelm 13y ago
McDonald's has become so expensive here in the last months that it's sometimes cheaper to eat in a relatively decent restaurant. I don't eat in McD but a friend recently had a chicken sandwich, fries, coke and a sundae for c
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by rafaelm 13y ago
The distortions these kind of controls generate cannot be explained to someone who lives in a normal economy. Here in Venezuela, it's much better to go in to debt (get loans to buy stuff like refrigerators, TVs, etc) than to use any

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