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			<h1>Better whois privacy</h1>
			<p>Day 00199: Tuesday, 2015 September 22</p>
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<p>
	I looked the prices for <code>//st.</code> domain names again today, and it seems I was mistaken about there being a discount for multi-year registration.
	I was under a lot of stress when I originally bought this domain, due to the fact that I had just lost all my data and all my accounts, so I must have done the math very, very poorly.
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	I walked into the bank today to activate my debit card, and as expected, the teller told me to activate it by telephone and that the card could not be activated in-person.
	I explained that I had no telephone ans asked to borrow one from the bank, and surprisingly, she had no problem with this.
	Perhaps Banner Bank is more friendly than I imagine banks being.
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	I tried to listen to some audio files from my mobile, but it seems that my new mobile case&apos;s headphone jack hole is too small to allow regular headphones to be used.
	You either need to use ear buds (I can&apos;t stand ear buds) or you need to use some of the lower-quality discount headphones that have super-thin plastic around the metal of the jack.
	Those discount headphones are hard to hear, too.
	This is disappointing.
	It looks like I won&apos;t be jamming out on the go for a while.
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	I used rsync to send my website to <a href="http://wowana.me/">wowaname</a>&apos;s server, but later when I updated the site, rsync resent the entire thing.
	After discussion with wowaname, we found that I need to use several flags to get rsync to do what I thought it did in the first place.
	Now I know though that everything seems to work if I run the command as &quot;torsocks rsync --recursive --verbose --checksum --update --delete {source} {destination}&quot;.
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	I found a <a href="https://www.registerprivatedomain.com/">domain privacy service</a> that is independent of registrars.
	This offers a number of advantages.
	First of all, because you don&apos;t send them your information through the registrar&apos;s interface, you don&apos;t need certain pieces of information at all.
	No one need know your postal address or telephone number.
	This would allow me to register domains under <abbr title="Top Level Domain">TLD</abbr>s that require a telephone number and using regular registrars, if I decide I want to do that.
	Second, it is not possible for the registrar to disable your whois privacy at any point because they do not have your private information.
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