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Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by newacct23 »

jgrahamc wrote: post #30
newacct23 wrote: post #27

edit: I'm in the wrong. Cloudflare allowed me to post the comment it just seemed like it was removed because of some delay. Since it seems Cloudflare doesn't like criticisms of the cuban government on their blog I'll repost what I posted here The paquete is censored and only contains harmless information with respect to the government. that is why they don't allow people to implement their own mesh network to create…

What are you talking about? There's a moderation delay before comments are posted. I hadn't got around to hitting Accept on yours yet.

Im sorry for overreacting, it seemed like it was deleted because the comment wasn't appearing even with the "awaiting for moderation" tag so it seemed like it was removed. Things relating to Cuba are personal to me.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by NocturnalWaffle »

shklnrj wrote: post #18

This reminds of the LAN we had in college. We used to use the software DC++ and then students shared the files that they had downloaded. You could access almost any file at 100MBPS.Someone was sure to download the latest episode of what you wanted to watch. If someone did not, then you went on the internet. Sometimes it was fast to download the file via LAN, than to transfer a file from pen drive to the computer. Thi…

Purdue? Purdue still has a strong community based of DC++. People have servers sharing 50+ terabytes of data, with designated release managers and bots to auto download new tv shows, etc.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by jgrahamc »

newacct23 wrote: post #31
jgrahamc wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you talking about? There's a moderation delay before comments are posted. I hadn't got around to hitting Accept on yours yet.

Im sorry for overreacting, it seemed like it was deleted because the comment wasn't appearing even with the "awaiting for moderation" tag so it seemed like it was removed. Things relating to Cuba are personal to me.

The only comments we don't post on the blog are spam. You'll find plenty of comments on there saying that CloudFlare sucks, etc.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by digi_owl »

dleslie wrote: post #10
roninb wrote: post #5

I wonder what the future of El Paquete Semanal will be once Cuba inevitably gets less ridiculously priced and more available internet access. As it stands, there could be a large percentage of users who don't even have NICs, as all you'd need for El Paquete Semanal is a USB port. I'm also interested in whether it's more of a loan/library service where this org has hundreds or thousands of hard drives that get loaned…

It will disappear. El Paquete Semanal is not at all unlike the combination of sneakernet and shareware CDs that I enjoyed in semi-rural western Canada, during the 80s and early 90s. We were crippled by long-distance fees, and very few FidoNet BBS' were available; IIRC, there was one in my local calling area, and it was hideously expensive. The local community bookstore started by selling shareware discs, in 5.25 and…

Still recall people bringing duffel bags packed with CDRs to LAN parties.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by barkingcat »

justratsinacoat wrote: post #14

Awesome article! Does anyone have any further information? A few things stick in my mind: 1. FTA: "You'd need to be downloading at over 11Mbps 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to get the equivalent of El Paquete" 2. The AV update is 4 days old, the offline copy of Revolico is 3 days old 3. The article as a whole implies that El Paquete Semanal is a regularly distributed, ~850GB weekly curated samizdata Thus: what the fu…

Sounds like a warez share - there's a curation group, and a large ftp server (with lots of people having upload credentials)

You give people a credit for uploading something (anything recent, has to not exist currently on the share), in order to get access to download anything from the ftp.

People want to get free stuff, so they contribute some small thing - like an antivirus update that you can download for free from the vendor websites, in exchange you get that camm'ed version of The Martian or whatever you were looking for.

The drive folks make a copy once a week from the main repository, and duplicates it onto portable hard drives.

It doesn't mean one person or even one group of people are doing the uploading and curation, just that one group is copying it down and distributing it (even then it might be a lot of different people doing each individual step).

Old school warez clubs function pretty much like I described. The better clubs enforce some kind of ratio - like for every meg you download, you need to contribute 500k (for 1:2) or 1 meg (for 1:1 ratio) - that really gets good stuff onto the sharing sites and people compete for uploading the best videos/movies/music/warez/games, etc - for community recognition.

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Post by Nutomic »

tuna-piano wrote: post #24

One super funny thing about the Wifi cards referenced in the article that I saw when I was there earlier this year. You are only able to officially buy the wifi cards at certain government offices. Of course, many of these have weird locations, long lines, and inconvenient hours. You also need to show your ID, and there are certain rules about the cards you can buy. Understandably, this has led to an underground Wifi…

I was in Cuba this January, and I didn't get the feel that this was illegal. We bought the cards on a busy street in Havanna with no problems at all. Also, we paid 2 CUC and were told the official price was 1 CUC.

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Post by robryk »

I wonder how much of that data is downloaded in digital form from somewhere and how much is digitized specifically for this collection (e.g. movies recorded in a cinema, magazines scanned from print, etc.).

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by jgrahamc »

robryk wrote: post #37

I wonder how much of that data is downloaded in digital form from somewhere and how much is digitized specifically for this collection (e.g. movies recorded in a cinema, magazines scanned from print, etc.).

Watch the embedded Vox video.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by lllllll »

Back when internet was really slow here in Spain I used to send CD's and DVD's filled with music, comics, films,etc to an internet friend I had from Greece(can't remember now how we met, maybe soulseek?), and he'd send me back his own curation of contents. This article reminded me a bit of those times. Too bad we are not in contact, we could have a laugh about it :)

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by williamscales »

shklnrj wrote: post #18

This reminds of the LAN we had in college. We used to use the software DC++ and then students shared the files that they had downloaded. You could access almost any file at 100MBPS.Someone was sure to download the latest episode of what you wanted to watch. If someone did not, then you went on the internet. Sometimes it was fast to download the file via LAN, than to transfer a file from pen drive to the computer. Thi…

We had this going at UBC as well. Since it was all internal LAN traffic, it didn't count against the 7 GB / day upload / download quota which was really tight if you like HD content.
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