Well, this blog is now in https://tech.iogirl.com, I adquired iogirl.com since i found the domain more relevant than girl.place. This blog was in linux.girl.place, and before that it was cat.princesa.company, and it even was zsh.li at 2019.

In my seek of the right domain I had moved the site many times, because first my philosophy was keep it simple, so I used the zsh.li domain, then I wanted to transmit more than just technical stuff, but something cute, feminine, so linux.girl.place, right now I wanted a dot com domain, these domains are very scarce and you will find very long domains nowadays.

I believe this is because I'm very influenced by my current major, accountancy, trying to valuate everything in economical aspects, Iogirl.com is a strong brand since is a short domain and transmits my relationship with technology too.

Also because I'm pretty interested in investment right now, another reason it's that I want to write about magical girl, I will do so in the domain girl.place

It had been a while since last time I wrote about technology. But this year I have been pretty active in technology. So here we go:

I just installed RHEL 9.3 as my main Desktop system, I got a developer individual subscription. Currently at moment of writing this text despite you are reading this thanks to Ubuntu and Debian, some months ago this site was still running on Centos, and back in 2016 this site was in a shared hosting that used Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Currently I just try to disconnect from the OS a bit, and use anything that has proven to be useful, currently I was having lots of issues with Debian and right now I'm working pretty nice in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I know that Red Hat is having issues with the community, and derivated distros are stopped to be binary compatible and they are more focusing in API compatible and I'm not sure about the future of these distros, so I think the most conservative and stable option is to use RHEL itself. If CentOS continued to be a RHEL binary clon as in the old days, I'd be using CentOS instead.

I believe this deserves a briew review, this is something unusual, at least to me, to see someone using CentOS, Rocky, Alma or Red Hat Enterprise as the main OS.

My decision is based only in practical reasons, I can install it in many devices and not worrying to much for version upgrades (RHEL supports last for 10 years). But also because Debian wasn't working to me as I was expecting it. I know that the issue might not be Debian but hey, Red Hat released this OS with this selected applications and it just works, and works well to me.

The experience is pretty similar to Fedora, I haven't used Fedora in years by the way, but you need complementary repos, RPMFusion, and Epel repos for extra packages and so you complete the installation. And now this distro is better than before thanks to snap and flatpack.

It reminded me when I used to download Fedora with Gnome 3, I knew a lot of things thanks to Fedora, how to use LVM, systemd, Gnome 3.

I mostly use the web browser, and a terminal.

It has been a while since the last time I used the pidgin Lurch plugin, the last time it was in Slackware.

1. Install dependencies

sudo dnf install git cmake libpurple-devel mxml-devel libxml2-devel libsqlite3x-devel libgcrypt-devel

2. Make the installation:

git clone https://github.com/gkdr/lurch/ cd lurch git submodule update --init --recursive make install-home

3. Now you can open pidgin and enable the plugin

The best, now you can also use it in finch, you have to reenable lurch there.

In both Pidgin and finch, you need to enable it in each conversation with the command /lurch enable, for more information type /lurch help in any conversation

I lost my domain rpm.li, but I got zsh.li instead. Did you know that the dot li domains has to be renew 15 days before the expiration date?

The blog was moved from pinkhat.rpm.li to pinkhat.zsh.li

Also cat.rpm.li was moved to cat.princesa.company and the public link shortener was removed.

The Screenshot in https://pinkhat.zsh.li gallery was removed and will be included again in a more traditional way.

The home page is now very minimalist and includes links for all sites.

I tried to include bitcoin based advertisement, but I didn't liked because it makes the load of the sites slower, Advertisement it's like politics and religion, polemic.

Lately I been working in increasing the efficiency of the site instead of creating content, but there will be new posts and content soon.

I intended to change the theme of pinkhat.rpm.li as the first picture, also I tried this:

This was the original:

It's difficult to choose between them, all of these 3 has their own charm, the first is cute , the second is modern, unique and vivid, and the third is simple, practical and beautiful.

I love so much all of these, but I will choose the first because I feel it's the real essence of my site.

Here is a snapshot of how my site looks in the end Snaptshot (January 16)

I use VPN for everything, I truly believe in Snowden and his words, furthermore I think that using VPN is important to avoid leaks of confidential information and what is more important for me, financial information; you know that I'm the princess of domains. By the way, I don't feel proud of it, I've been silly in a way and sometimes I feel bad for it.

Twitter didn't block my account for using VPN, rather Twitter blocked my account because I changed my ip too much. I'm using VPN with a very aggressive policy about changing my IP because I don't like the NSA and associates, I kind of hate everything that is against our freedom. For me Privacy is freedom, period. They didn't ask me if I would want them to collect my information for selling it and storing in the USA government database.

That is pretty freaking, Why I would want that organizations stores my information. I think that liking that they sell our information is stupid. I think that nobody enjoys the fact that them are selling our information.

If something don't like me I don't just say: whatever. I do something against it.

My resolution for twitter will be to use double VPN that is considered as military grade security. Or just only a proxy-VPN resolution.

It seems that I will be locked out of my twitter account until I contact with the support team. What is important to considerate is that if you're planning to use twitter with VPN, is using the same location or using a double VPN chain.

Soon I will post in my blog about VPN ;)

Today I learned how to connect via ftp with my remote hosting and wget ended being perfect while curlftpfs was really bad :c

Today I installed Apache, PHP and set up a WordPress local server to have a backup of my Linux website, also to be able to make this kind of backups.

I think it is very important to make different kinds of backups because it is possible that even the most reasonable and useful backup can fail at the moment.

Portable version (3.2MB) (format: tar.gz)

Resources Backup (69.3MB) (format: tar.gz)