Fue bueno mientras duró, pero hay otras opciones que no me piden una suscripción por tener push notifications.
Category Archives: Internet
Installing the tower
https://flic.kr/p/FPPGhU
Como cuando te das cuenta que hasta a twitter le vale 2 hectáreas de V… su propia app. #Fail
Al menos la app de Mac OS no ha sido actualizada para permitir escribir los 280 caracteres.
HTTP status in a nutshell
Going SSL thanks to letsencrypt.org
I’m just trying https://letsencrypt.org/ certificates, wich are pretty useful when you want to test something with a full certificate. This certificates expire every 90 days, so you have to renew them quite often, the good part is that they have a script (certbot-auto) that makes this automagically, I just need to add an entry in my server’s cron and that’s it.
TripMode
Just a small post about TripMode a small app (and kernel extension) that helps a lot to control which program is having access to internet, not only incoming connections but more importantly outgoing when you are on a limited connection.
Since a little more than a month I’ve moved to a place where the internet connection was not that good. I used do have 20Mb/s connection and was working perfectly fine, but when I moved here.. well.. the internet was pretty unstable and the bandwidth was like with dial-up modems.
TripMode help me a lot to let some applications use internet, example, Chrome, iTerm, SSH, and some other command line programs, but forbid others like App Store, Updates, the Photos Agent, Dropbox, etc.. of course I can allow any of them whenever I want/need. This to allow all the important apps to have internet, the most possible bandwidth.
That was in the small town where I was a week ago, then one week I didn’t have a landline and I had to use my cellphone internet, which is fast but is expensive, and TripMode helped to limit the internet usage, so I didn’t finish my cellphone’s credit. This was awesome
Note this is not a paid post, I just like this app and deserves my recommendation.
Apple, Why U NO Let me use your extension in Chrome?
Apple have this chrome extension so you can sync your Safari favourites with Chrome, but it is designed to run on Windows 7/8, bad luck for those that use OS X and prefer to use Chrome.
I also use Safari, but for my day to day I use chrome because of the extensions. If Safari could add good extensions that would be great!
Respectable the 4G in Tapachula
Although 20Mb/s or a cheaper rate would be better !
Now you know where this is going
So, you are familiar with Facebook and its news, Facebook is introducing 360 videos on the timeline, and as you would expect, those videos will be enjoyed a lot with an oculus rift.
I like the new look of Google Music
Grooveshark shuts down!
Its a shame since Grooveshark was my favourite streaming music service, basically because it plays well with other social networks like Facebook/Twitter but also because of the desktop app. Now I don’t know which service is the best, Google Play Music seems the best choice but I don’t know if iTunes Radio + iTunes Match could do it. The problem with iTunes is that it works only with iDevices and Macs, so my Android would be excluded.
Spotify is not an option to me, I just don’t like it.
Tidal is just too new, too expensive and does not offer anything new.
So sorry Grooveshark you will always live in my heart.
Is internet.org good for all of us?
Mark Zuckerberg has been traveling to South American countries to promote internet.org, a platform that pretends to give “free” internet to places where there is no internet or people just can’t afford it. What a generous guy? isn’t he?. The problem is that internet.org is not what they say, it is not a free internet service where you can consume that internet in whatever you want, I mean, it is not neutral.
First of all, internet.org IS NOT UNILIMITED AND FREE INTERNET access, and it is not charity. is just one mobile application that includes shortcuts to around 15 sites where obviously you’ll find Facebook, then Wikipedia, AccuWeather and some other local services depending on the country, but it is not a free internet service. This affects because it gives nototious preference to some sites, avoiding competition, but, okay, let’s call this an association and minimize the fact that they are putting themselves in a place where there is no competition, okay.. just, an association.
Also, internet.org does not come with all the infraestructure, it needs to use the one that an ISP already have in the given country, Claro, Telmex, Digicel etc.., where the service is “free” but only for internet.org and this “free” service is only available on such ISP, Iusacell, Movistar, Unefon, etc.. are excluded, they still need to pay for such service. This affects free competition again, because it turns the possible customers to only company that provide access to internet.org sites for “free”. But, again… just, an association.
Now, everyone else would say, well, at least it is “free” but no, it is not. Here in Mexico some Mobile internet providers offer what they call “social networks” for free, to start, Facebook and Twitter are definitively not the only couple of social networks, and WhatsApp is not the only one messaging platform, but okay, it doesn’t cost to you if you have to use them. In the case of internet.org the end user will not have to pay directly, yes you read well, directly, for the use of internet.org, Mark made some agreements with the government so the gov. have to pay to the ISP the expenses of such service. Now you know who will pay that service, You and Me that pay taxes. But also the user that can’t afford it, their taxes will raise or some other service will suffer a cut in the budget but in the end they will have to pay it.
Internet.org is sold as free internet access to people that need it and that part is plausible, but when it creates a monopoly for some sites, when it creates a monopoly for ISPs, and when people have to pay for something “free” wihtout even knowing then there is nothing to be grateful for.
For those that don’t care if someone else will have to pay for this, you will also have to pay, this is just a hook so you have to consume internet in your mobile devices (you’ll probably have to buy a new device from that carrier, so that’s one part of the business) with some other apps that are not part of internet.org and you’ll have to pay for that internet too.