#internet
22 posts
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I left GoDaddy after 15 years and moved every domain to Porkbun with zero downtime
Medium Why I finally walked, how I picked Porkbun over Cloudflare and Namecheap, and the exact downtime-free playbook you can steal for any registrar move.
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Getting around site blocks in India: VPNs, proxies and one nasty VPN scam
X How to get back on Telegram during India's ban, why incometax.gov.in barely loads for me without a VPN, and a fake VPN sponsorship that stole a dev's creds.
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"index of: pan card": how a Google search exposes India's ID documents X A plain Google search turned up PAN and Aadhaar files on open servers in 10 seconds. Why open directory listings leak ID documents, and why I think security in India is a culture problem.
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I opened up my Oakter Mini UPS and it's not really a UPS X My router started rebooting at random a year after I bought an Oakter Mini UPS. A multimeter and a teardown showed why it's built to die just after warranty.
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Renewing my Indian passport online: an engineer's UX review X I renewed my Indian passport on the Passport Seva portal in Feb 2022 and reviewed the flow like a product, sticky pop-up and broken DigiLocker included.
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Back from Dead | Troubleshoot slow page loads & 503 errors of WordPress blog
BitSnapper How a slow, 503-throwing WordPress blog on GoDaddy shared hosting was traced to a bloated Jetpack postmeta table, and fixed by cleaning up the database.
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Back to the basics + rant against Godaddy! [Comeback] BitSnapper Rant about GoDadday's hosting transitions + detailed stuff I had to do to restore BitSnapper. To infinity… and beyond!
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h4rry p0773r - 7h3 ch053n 0n3 | /r/WritingPrompts BitSnapper A Reddit WritingPrompts story by /u/samwisegamgee42 where Harry Potter is a computer hacker and the Horcruxes are seven backup servers he must shut down.
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5 cool ways to surf blocked sites in your office/college BitSnapper One click process to unblock banned sites in Chrome, Windows, Android, and iPhone. Now you can watch youtube, download torrents without getting noticed.
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Project #3: Create a PirateBox (BitTorrent) | Raspberry Pi 2 BitSnapper Create your own low-powered always-on PirateBox using your Raspberry Pi. Let storm over the bits & bytes of BitTorrent as we know it. #KeepSeeding
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An Open letter to MTS | MBlaze Ultra WiFi | Delhi BitSnapper Discover why you should never consider using MTS Mblaze if you want to have a peaceful internet life. This is my open letter to MTS India.
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BitTorrent is dead, Long live the BitTorrent! BitSnapper Do not judge me from title! BitTorrent is the second best thing ever happened to me after Internet, but read on to let me rest my case and then we can talk!
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My experience with Den Boomband | User Review BitSnapper Read about my user experience with Den Boomband in North west Delhi. Should you go for it & finally relieve trusty MTNL from service? Find out now!
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Airtel 4G LTE Review | Delhi BitSnapper Read my Airtel 4G LTE review for New Delhi. Also learn how to get a 4G enabled SIM at your doorstep for free and configure it to enjoy 4G at 3G prices!
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How to block intrusive MTNL broadband ad popups in your browser? BitSnapper Learn how to block the annoying MTNL pop up ads which appears out of no where in your browser on bottom right side. Say no to shady practises by MTNL!
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An Open Letter to DEN Boomband | Delhi BitSnapper This is an open letter to DEN Boomband signifying about how discourteous they treat their initial customers & how they couldn't care less about customers!
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5 min read
Do you want the best search experience? Use DuckDuckGo! BitSnapper Discover why you should use DuckDuckGo & abandon google for the best search experience. DDG doesn't track you, provide unbiased results & a lot more.
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4 min read
Google Chrome! Stop eating my RAM :( BitSnapper Discover the behind-the-scenes reason for Google Chrome's memory leak which gobbles up your ram in background like a troll feeding up the attention on web.
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How to disable ads from uTorrent like a pro? BitSnapper Admit it! Web user like us hates ads to the core! They are just omnipresent. Discover how to disable ads from uTorrent & make p2p file sharing a breeze?
- Two websites I let die: TechSalvos and EventShare.in
A post-mortem of my first two sites: a gadget blog that outgrew its cheap hosting, and a tech-events site whose domain I let lapse, then tried to buy back.
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The Philadelphia Experiment - Most mindfuck ever! BitSnapper So I encountered this gem of original writing piece on reddit. Written by psycho_alpaca, The Philadelphia experiment is a superb read with a mindfuck end.
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How to claim 100GB on OneDrive if you are outside U.S.! BitSnapper Everyone loves extra storage, specially when it comes for free. Follow 6 easy steps to Claim 100GB on OneDrive even if you are living outside United states.
