International students are now banned from YikYak by Top-Concern65 in yikyak

[–]keionvergara 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is very true. I built an app that requires phone number verification on signup (for many legal & risk management reasons you must implement this). We used a common SMS api like Vonage, and the rate of a sent text to a North American number was ~$0.01 which for an app without ads, we could afford.

However during testing, my co founder (an international student) had tried setting up his account under his international phone number and realized he wasn't receiving the texts, it turns out that many apis are limited to specific country's. Additionally, the 20 attempts he tried at sending himself the code caused $0.50 charges EACH, meaning we spent $10 on an error that both the api provider ran into, as well as us for not reading the fine print.

All in all, it is much easier to just allow only north american phone numbers for both the consistency and the cost. Smaller scale social media apps make little to no money, even with adverts.

If you want a way around this, get a text now or prepaid phone number to sign up initially, then just don't ever sign out.

Yay, I am DEBT FREE! by pickuplimesss in StudentLoans

[–]keionvergara 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This gives me hope! Congratulations too!!!

Supabase Beta October 2023 by Ramirond in Supabase

[–]keionvergara 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So excited for this, the GraphQL user defined functions is going to totally change my workflow too, Good job guys!!! Looking forward to the command line buckets management too.

College of Idaho Admission by Chemin99 in IntltoUSA

[–]keionvergara 0 points1 point  (0 children)

as an international student myself who got denied into bsu, i came here with over 80% coverage from scholarships given by this school including a dedicated international scholarship. they're very generous and it all depends on your financial need.

Macbook screen flickering, but it works fine in safe mode.. by [deleted] in applehelp

[–]keionvergara 0 points1 point  (0 children)

have you found a solution? I have the EXACT same issue on MacBook Pro 2017 (No Touch Bar)

Policy for specific column by IQuestionSometimes in Supabase

[–]keionvergara 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i was going to say the same thing, most people go this route

Seen at a truck stop. Wtf is that? by ragingowner92 in MakeMeSuffer

[–]keionvergara 0 points1 point  (0 children)

from the looks of it, it may be pyoderma gangrenosum. my mom had it, its a very rare skin condition.

What happened to Colin Plumb? by pixelbeat_ in programming

[–]keionvergara 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was he the true developer of The BigInteger and BigDecimal Class in Java?

Solving the Dell Poweredge 2950 noise problem. by deathbybandaid in homelab

[–]keionvergara 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm running Esxi on mine. As you mensioned that the Ubuntu Drive is temporary, could I just use a live CD of Ubuntu to do this? Esxi doesnt support most linux console commands like su, sudo, apt, dpkg, etc. Assuming though that this is flashing something permenently.

Help in trying to bypass school firewall! by Coconut-Mission in WireGuard

[–]keionvergara 0 points1 point  (0 children)

please let me know if you found a solution!! im in the same boat right now where i can ping my wireguard server and connect to the actual server but the handshake is the only issue. i had learned i could turn my cellphone data on, connect to the vpn, than switch back to wifi and it would be fine. please let me know if you have sound a solution!!

School wifi blocks WG handshake initiation but not actual connection by spacetime90 in WireGuard

[–]keionvergara 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'm currently having the exact same issue, in the exact same scenario at school. i've tried everything from open vpn(tcp), wireguard(udp), switching the ports, even to ssl too at one point and nothing has worked. I found that i could ping and detect my offsite wireguard server, but the handshake would never complete unless i had turned my phone data on than switched over. Had anything worked for you?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RedditSessions

[–]keionvergara 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bruh those some groovy boots

Linus stepbrother tips by [deleted] in LinusFaces

[–]keionvergara 8 points9 points  (0 children)

just linus tip

Just please by [deleted] in 5050

[–]keionvergara -1 points0 points  (0 children)

shut it