My Diary |
(March 2020) |
March 31 |
IT & Communications Infrastructure Domains eu.org has ignored my request for free domain therefore forget this site and continue to purchase my 2 existing domains when their renewable days are approaching about 20 months later.
Websites The two sites - www.angelia.space and www.plutuse.com will not be reoriented. Nevertheless some changes might be made in the future.
Theology Yester I have written emails to seminaries in Austria, Germany, France, and Switzerland, expressing my wish to continuing the contacts with them and also my thanks for their previous helps and my wish for their wellbeing in the time of difficulty caused by the corona virus pandemic in the world. But untill today, only a German and French theologician has replied me, the rest have just ignored me. Although I have paid the admission fees to the Belgian university on Sunday last, till now no response was given, although I have although notified them in my email, after submitting my online documents of payment together with the resubmision of application for the theological studies at KULeuven.
Financials
Payoneer I have submitted a support ticket to Payoneer to add an extra US account on March 26, but they did not reply to me upto now. I am very unhappy with their services. Therefore last night I have asked them to delete my account, and this morning I have also removed my bank account connected to Payoneer in a fear that they might charge me for the removal of account. Their service is too bad, cannot bear it.
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March 30 |
IT & Communications Infrastructure
Anti-censorship Tools These days the shadowsocks and v2ray proxies are not working well, therefore I again have to look for better proxies.
Online Calls and Messages for Google Voice Verifications This morning I again checked all the sites that provide free sms receiving numbers, only to find out none of them are valid for passing google tests.
Websites The two sites - www.angelia.space and www.plutuse.com might be reoriented.
Financials
Credit Cards It seems there is no way to obtain a virtual credit card that can be used to register a free cloud account at Oracle, Google and other PAAS (Platform As A Service).
Payoneer I have submitted a support ticket to Payoneer to add an extra US account on March 26, but they did not reply to me upto now. I am very unhappy with their services.
Theology I have written emails today to seminaries in Austria, Germany, France, and Switzerland, expressing my wish to continuing the contacts with them and also my thanks for their previous helps and my wish for their wellbeing in the time of difficulty caused by the corona virus pandemic in the world. |
March 29 |
Planning I have modified a bit of my overall plan and added theological research and authoring as one of my lifetime goal. I need to write at least one book in this topic. In addtion, I shall also orient myself as a wealthy businessman, apart from being a academician, an linguist, and IT expert etc.
IT & Communications Infrastructure Online Calls and Messages for Google Voice Verifications I have checked at one website, only to find out none of the virtual or IP phone number can pass the Google voice test. There is no way as to buy a GV number.
Business I think I shall not confine my business activities to IT and languages. I shall expand it into any other area where I may have some kind of competences. I am not sure where they are, but I will try.
Financials Payoneer I have requested Payoneer to add one more US bank in order to receive founds from Google, but from March 23 till today, they still didn't approve my request.
Theology My friend has paid the admisson fee for me. Furthermore, I have decided not to take language tests at the moment, rather waiting for the results of the universities where one can attend classes in English and where they also not request for an English tests. If they don't approve my applications, I may continue with my efforts in other English universities with or without the needs of IELTS or TOEFL scores. Only when all the efforts in English universities fail, will I consider to consider whether or not to take German or French tests. Anyway I will continue with my learning and practices of English, German and French with emphasis on French.
Weather Today it rained from morning till late night - it was raining when I was writing this diary - therefore I was stuck at home and did not go for a jogging as usual. |
March 26 |
IT & Communications Infrastructure
Web hosting Last night I have accidently found that the online drives can also be used for hosting my websites and even with my own domains. Google drive, One Drive, DropBox etc can all host your sites in one way or other. Even code projects such as Github, Heroku can also do the job. But they all have their disadvantages, that is, they can only serve static html pages, no dynamic contents such as php can be loaded. Although Google drive may be able to serve dynamic pages together with Firebase database, its configuration is fairly complex. Anyway online drives and PAAS give another options to host my sites, once all free VPSs are refusing to work and I don't want to continue with the paid VPSs. Of course there are many free hosts to be available and several other options as well. So at the moment I will not try online drives.
Financials
Payoneer How Payoneer can be used to get a real, not virtual credit card while in China? |
March 25 |
IT & Communications Infrastructure
Online Calls and Messages for Google Voice Verifications I can't find virtual phone number that can pass the telecom company verifications. If they cannot pass the telecom company verifications, they can also not pass google voice verifications. Upto now I have only registered three number at textnow, textfree and textport, none of them are able to be used for google voice verifications. Some people are using some phone callings such as from Lycomobile, and Knowroaming, but many also complain about the inability of these sim cards to pass google verifications, therefore I dare not to use them. They are online sms platforms which declare that they can handle google verifications, but people are doubting about their services and don't propose to use them. These platforms include http://www.smscodes.io/, https://www.smsjiema.com/ and verifywithsms.com. Most people say that it's wise to buy a google voice account directly from people owning the account. You can buy cheaper ones from Taobao, costing about 10 RMB, and there are expensive ones at more than 100 RMB for each account, depending on the quality of the accounts. It is your own risks bu buying such accounts. And then you have to change the account setting or transfer them into your own google account. Therefore it is very difficult to get a google voice number if you're outside of US.
Domain Namnes There are absolutely no free domain names which provide the same functionality and features as a paid domain. The only free domain families are provided by freenom.com, but you don't own them. They can be removed any time, if you have achieved a certain traffic on your domains. In fact you're promoting freenom's business with a domain of no guarantee. Therefore absolutely not use freenom for your serious business. And eu.or provides only 2nd level or even 3rd level domains, for you are unlikely to secure a domain like yourname.eu.org, instead they only provide a domain like yourname.cn.eu.org which is too ugly looking and is damaging to your business. Apart from these two there might be occasional free domain offerings here and there but only for a short period, say a year, afterwards you have to pay a handsome sum.
Cloud Platforms & VPSs I have got two free VPSs now and my websites are now running on one of them. But I don't know how long I can keep these free VPS working. They can be stopped any time. Therefore I need to secure more and stable, long term free VPS or computing or hosting services. There are many stable free virtual, shared hosting services, but they have problems - they will prevent uploading of files containing certain kinds of keywords which I don't know; they don't allow certain kinds of files to be uploaded; ftp operation is slow and troublesome; downtime is high; browser viewing and downloading is slow, etc etc. Therefore I need a VPS or computing platform based VPS or similar thing to run my websites. In the past I have tried many PAASs (Platform as a Service), such as IBM Cloud Lite, Openshift, Heroku, and Cloudno, but none of them can host my websites. And now I am trying to host my sites at the free cloud platforms such as Google cloud, Oracle cloud, Azure and AWS. But Azure and AWS only provides one year free use, while Google's service only gives you 1 GB monthly traffic, which is far too small to run a website. I am wondering if I can build a site on such a small VPS. It looks like few people are using Google free cloud to build their websites. Therefore my choice is only for Oracle cloud always free version, which is long term, large traffic - 10 TB a month. But you need to have a US credit card and a US telephone to apply for the Always Free Account. Nevertheless I have managed to transfer Google Cloud Shell and another VPS into a proxy, for they cannot be used to develop web applications, as they don't have dedicated IPs, nor are they allowed to work continously, that is, they will sleep after a certain idle time.
Anti Chinese Firewall I am finally able to find a way to put Wireguard VPN to working, so that I now possess another powerful anti-censorship tools, which is faster and easier to use. Unfortunately there are too few free wireguard servers available. XX-Net is revived now and is able to be used to provide proxy for web browsing as well as ftp uploading. It can also provide a stable US IP which can be used for various purposes. Similar to this, FirefoxFQ is also working properly providing excellent experiences for Youtube proxing.
Financials
Credit Cards I have tried many virtual credit cards, such as Yandex.Money, but all of them failed in applying for VPS opening at various providers. Virtual credit cards are now not allowed to be used for applying for Oracle Always Free Account. But I am living in China and I am now having no chance to travel to the US to get a credit card. Therefore I have to workout other ways to get a real international credit card for that purpose. I have learned that the Payoneer system can be used to get a Master card, but it involves some difficult processes. Payoneer How Payoneer can be used to get a real, not virtual credit card while in China? |
March 24 |
IT Infrastructure IPv6 I have finally managed to configure IP v6 on my computer, so that I can also use it for developing websites and other applications on VPS only with IP v6 address. Telegram I have also succeeded in acquiring a telephone number from textnow.com and using this number I was able to register into Telegram, a popular message system boosting of privacy during information exchange. With Telegram I can collect many ssr and v2ray nodes for use as proxies. VPSs Further, I was able to acquire two free VPSs, one from evolution host, which is quite fast and the other euserv which is very difficult to handle, both ssh and ftp operations. With these 2 free VPSs, although I don't know when the free usage may be terminated, I have decided to dicontinue a paid service which is not that great. Payoneer And then the long lasting efforts of get an account number from Payoneer was also achieved, so that with IT I can do something important, such as owing a US bank account, although it is a virtual account. But with such an account I may be able to register at Google for a free google cloud platform usage. |
March 11 |
Mother's Memorial Day Today is the 4th year of mother's decease (2016-3-11-2020-3-11). Four years ago, my mother said bye bye to me when I came back from my walking in the evening around 6:30. Since then I am no more a happy man and life is meaningless. Time is running so fat that mother has gone already 4x365 days from me. How these seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks,months and years were past, is to me incredible. I am living in a nightmare, without hope. I miss mother day and night, but I cannot call my mom back to me. She is now sleeping in a grave cold, without shelter from sunshine and rains and wind.
Backup of Files I've rearranged my file and directory systems on my computer, so that redundancy of documents will be avoided, but now updating will take much more time, because I have to backup all files even if there are only small changes of files and directories.
Anti-GFW Measures Now I have finished my setting of all possible anti-censorship tools and no more further actions are needed. I just need to update some subscriptions and occasionally some tools, without the need to spend time on configuring a sophisticated proxy node in platforms such as Heroku, Openshift, Google etc. Even VPS is not necessary to build my own proxy nodes out there, because my current strategies are more tha nenough to combat the GFW blocking. |
March 08 |
Free VPS Nowadays there is no real free VPS service, unlike free hosting. I have today found a VPS provider which grants me a free VPS service but at the price of putting their website link on my site, and this little advertisement must not be on the bottom or side of my first page, so that it must appear in the middle of my page. Although it is damaging my image, however, at the present I have to accept this condition, as right now my site does not generate much attention.
Sport I have not gone out for jogging for a couple of days because my my busy task finding out ways of unblocking the Internet censorship. I need multitude of tools and ways to prepare for some failure in one or several tools. On the other hand, the coronal virus epidemic is still not over, therefore I have to stay at thome. But today I have finished my investigation and hence I have again resumed my evening walking. |
March 07 |
Anticensorship Technologies
From February 29 to today I have already spent 8 days in finding out ways of unblocking the Chinese firewall, for my various uses. Upto February 29 I have almost used up my tools for that purpose, and now 8 days afterwards, I have secured enough tools to circumvent any blocking mechanisms. Except a few remaining issues, this job is well done. |
March 01 |
Languages
Finished reading Ellison Invisible Man p451. Continue reading Eliot Middlemarch p1193.
Proxies for FTP Uploading for My Websites
Again spent the whole morning and noon till 14:00 to finalize my ftp uploading relevant proxies, because first I need to find workable proxies, and then they must be of sufficient rates of transmission and finally they shall support ftp protocol. And they are better of longer usage time. It is bot easy to find them. I have been searching through various ways, incl. 1) my paid vps server, 2) free shadowsocks and v2ray server nodes through subscriptions as well as through manual lookup, 3) registering free shadowsocks and v2ray accounts, but this is nowadays very rare, 4) find other unblocking tools such as geph etc. |