I played ps2 heavily for a couple of years. Fun game.

I remember organizing several squads to play tactics when the main zerg pushes were off doing random stuff. There was a lot of planning and tactics that had to happen specifically around guessing what the public players would end up naturally pushing for. Colloquially known as “the zerg”. Almost treated like a mass of self-organizing players, but in reality they were just individuals who happen to follow each other to random places.

Eg. leadership comms would be flooded with plans of “The zerg is pushing towards Tawrich, We should send Alpha and Bravo over to Zurvan to split the TR forces (maybe recapture that) and Charlie to crown to intercept backup/vehicle spawns. Delta needs to fuck off with pulling those tanks… get in the fucking building.”

Grass is a category of plants (over 10000 species). Americas had grass before Europeans came.

Right but my point is they would just submit the request to the host server. If the original is taken down then all the federated service will lose the comments as well.

Not how federation works. Let’s take a lemmy post as an example. If a server is federated with another and a new post is made, all subscribed servers are notified and a copy of the item is sent in that notification. If the original is “taken down” the copies still exist on the other servers and any deletion event is in ALL of their modlogs. ANY instance can “undelete” or revert the removal, or just ignore the deletion request all together (or roll back the database, or any number of operations to revert a change). The items doesn’t just go away. The “origin” doesn’t have all that much power to force other listening servers to do anything.

This also extends to comments. I run my own small instance with me and a few friends. My server never had serious downtime because it’s just us. Our access to larger instances never “vanished” even as their sites went completely down. The local content is effectively cached regardless of the state of the origin server.

If the host server just straight up ignores turkey then they’ll block all servers that host Mastodon

Good luck with that… There’s a lot of servers that can talk the same federation protocol. You’re not going to get them all. Forget all the normal means of bypassing blocks… you have so many fediverse and threadiverse servers to attach to in order to access largely similar content.

How would being decentralised make any difference

You sign up on a server that isn’t in Turkey and doesn’t give a shit to respond to turkish demands.

Now turkey can only control the servers that are within it’s countries, and has to submit requests to ALL of them rather than just one. And even then can’t remove you from the rest of the federation.

Now that I have a bit more time later in the day…

https://privacysavvy.com/security/torrents/safest-countries-to-download-torrents-and-worsts/

Switzerland Switzerland tops the list of the most torrent-friendly countries. Swiss law gives every citizen the right to download music, movies, books, and all types of copyrighted content as long as it’s for personal use.

Spain Spain is almost as safe a country as Switzerland for torrenting and filesharing users. The legal precedent was set in 2006 when a judge ruled that downloading, keeping, and using copyrighted files was fine as long as no profiting was involved.

Poland The legal status of file sharing is nowhere near as explicit in Poland as in the previous two countries. Instead, it’s more of a nobody’s land. No written law or official legal precedent refers to “personal use” as an acceptable instance of possession and use. However, there seems to be legal consent in legal opinions that point to the private use of copyrighted material as legal and acceptable.

And this is just the EU… You think ANY African or South American government gives a flying fuck? (Really the best you’ll find is that it’s illegal on paper but there’s virtually/effectively 0 enforcement).

You think most of Asia gives a flying fuck?

China as mentioned before only cares if you’re stealing from within China. Russia is the same in that they don’t care about outside companies but only if you hurt another Russia/friendly company.

To be frank, it’s only a handful of countries that actually care about international IP laws. You’re so far out in left field with your claims that it’s actually sad. It’s almost like you live in one particular country and assume the rest of the world is the exact same. When in reality the rest of the world really doesn’t care, like nearly at all.

There are no goalposts.

Yes you did. You switched from “supporting” to “illegal”. Which are two separate and distinct conception. Murder is illegal… How many people around these parts support Luigi? See… two completely separate topics.

This isn’t my opinion. It’s an incontestable fact that stealing IP is illegal in 98% of every country on this planet.

Cool. Then next time don’t talk about “support” when you meant “legality”. And further please cite the 98% claim, as I will definitely contest it. And be careful to fall into the trap for countries that DO care about IP laws, but only within their country (China).

There is no VPN on this planet which “supports” theft of IP.

So you think they setup these torrent help pages and don’t expect people to use torrents in an illegal manner? Do you think that the Windscribe page wouldn’t come up in a lawsuit if they were dragged into one to put some onus on the provider themselves for supporting their users in the process of torrenting illegal content?

You think these companies are just stupid? You think they don’t recognize that capturing this group of customers is valuable to them?

Which is absolutely not the same and you pretending that it is, is disgusting behavior.

I never weighed in on my thoughts on the matter at all. You have no idea if I support torrenting illegal content or not.

Truly infantile.

Says the person who’s failing to comprehend basic language and easy premises while claiming actual things that nobody else claimed.

There are currently 2-3 countries where torrenting IP isn’t illegal.

Why are you moving goalposts? You stated originally:

You’re going to be very hard pressed in finding a VPN that supports torrenting.

MANY support it. Supporting something in of itself doesn’t speak to it’s legality.

I know they’re not popular anymore, but PIA supports it, was taken to court over it, provided nothing (no log service, so couldn’t provide anything) and walked away clean. You don’t get that if what they were doing was illegal. And if they thought the risk actually mattered, they would have changed their policy to keep their company alive. But they didn’t. So they support it (about as much as anyone would care to support it) and have been tested by courts.

The sad part is… if you had read the OP, you could have done 3 seconds of research and found https://windscribe.com/knowledge-base/articles/using-windscribe-with-torrent-clients/… Which is literally the VPN service being discussed EXPLICITLY talking about configuring torrent clients. Wouldn’t creating pages to support users who are looking for configuration for this “illegal” thing be direct evidence that you’re full of shit?

I absolutely fucking beg you to stop embarrassing the dictionary by learning and using words correctly, and to stick to the topic that you literally brought up.

Well… You’ll at the very least wish that you had a car.

But it’s a good game. Try it. Find out. :)

Nope, it wasn’t… Even then though, the game is old enough that we can no longer assume that people have even played the game anymore. Kids are using the internet that would have been born after FO:NV. There are likely some 20 year olds on this site that have never played it because they would have been too young.

Fallout Vegas. Load up the game and go walk through Sloan right at the start.

Exactly, even in nazi Germany soldiers could refuse to kill civilians without very harsh consequences.

Tell that to my dead great uncle. Who was a conscript (german soldier), shot and killed on a train transporting people to concentration camps.

You know what, I can appreciate that. The difference though is that I don’t claim to be a scientist or leading expert in any of the fields I talk about. I also don’t tend to portray myself as an educator on ANY field… except for when I’m in the actual classroom teaching (which I don’t do anymore due to administration politicking, and I was in the field of IT). And when I converse online, I do it as a literal “rando on the internet”. Without my potential qualifiers in the vast majority of cases which doesn’t imply actual knowledge in anything.

This is part of my problem with him. He’s viewed as this amazing educator and scientist… That will put people off from questioning his assumptions/statements by default because as kids you’re taught to listen to teachers/educators. And he put himself in that position so I have no sympathy for it.

I have similar hangups with Bill Nye the “Science” Guy. Who’s only qualifications are Mechanical Engineer at Boeing. Yet for some reason people treat him as some amazing scientist in completely unrelated fields. When he’s not. And because he’s built that reputation and put himself adjacent to actual science for so long that nobody questions the nebulous and crazy shit that he says anymore.

Nye’s anti-nuclear stance being a prime example, flying in the face of what actual scientists have been talking about for decades (though debate-ably, now nuclear might be too late to the party to significantly help anymore. Though I think we should still be doing nuclear personally). Or claiming that he knew anything about Quantum Entanglement and through QE, time-travel because of blackholes… Also don’t forget that he was a willing spokesperson for Exxon to talk about how drilling oil is safe. Forget that it’s one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet, and burning any oil in any form simply isn’t safe and even pushed the “clean burning” (rather than less dirty burning) fuel, which as a by-product even releases more radiation than nuclear does (going counter to his actual complaints about nuclear in a huge way).

I dunno. I’m just tired of being “educated” by people with no qualifications. And when I bring up the obviously wrong things I see… all I see is the masses in love with the characters.

The worst part is that it’s factually untrue.

Hold anything up to your mirrors and look at it from the side. The item never actually “touches” itself because the glass is in the way. The reflection is on the backing that’s behind the glass.

And even more technical (and thus where I’d imagine a scientist’s mind would actually go), let’s say you remove the glass and just have the reflective backing. The moment you touch it, no photons are transmitting because light can’t get in there to make the image, nor can that image even be observed. So all you’re doing is kissing the backing. It “looks” like it from the aspect you can observe, but I would have hoped that a self-proclaimed scientist could differentiate between reality vs what amounts to partial observation.

For someone who’s supposed to be smart… he says the dumbest fucking shit that screams “I’m smart” but in the 15-16 year old way… what I used to see on Myspace profile headlines. I wish “experts” would stick to their actual fields of expertise and shut the fuck up about everything else. It’s hard to take them seriously about their actual field when they are provably stupid in others. Especially when they put themselves out there in the public the way that he does at what seems every possible opportunity.

The one that comes to mind immediately was when he tweeted: “FYI: An airplane whose engine fails is a glider. A helicopter whose engine fails is a brick.”

Forgetting that he could have just looked up literally any resource about helicopters to know that it wasn’t true. He seems to do a lot of “thinking” rather than a lot of learning these days. It’s the same stench as the sovcit folks reek of.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=y4Nc9PvmEt0&t=1m11s

While I get the premise of this “show”… he says one thing that stuck out to me “You shouldn’t follow me if you want to learn about astrophysics” @ about 1:11 for those the timestamp in the link doesn’t work. I’ve wondered if that’s because he doesn’t want to out himself as being stupid in his own field too. Not to say that he IS stupid… but I wonder when the last time he’s actually conducted any amount of research on something has been. If that was in the 90’s… Then he needs to retire the “scientist” moniker and call himself what he currently is… an influencer, or at best “educator”… which I’m only quoting because if someone takes him as an educator then they’ll be mystified when they see him get weird shit wrong that he speaks as if he’s knowledgeable on. I also wonder how much of his research actually still stands. But I’m not the person who can discern that.

Another example tweet of his "If there were ever a species for whom sex hurt, it surely went extinct long ago.”

WHAT? THE FUCK? For a good chunk of the HUMAN population (specifically women, though to a much lesser extent even men… [frenulum tears are a thing]) sex is a painful act. The guy looked at his own experience and couldn’t for a second imagine how that’s not the case for everyone. Forget looking at any other species on the planet… even looking at our own we see that this is completely fucking wrong. Now look at other species and you’ll see shit like the praying mantis and some spiders that kills and eats the male during copulation. Cats with barbed penises. Ducks with literal corkscrew shaped penises (where females have literal mazes as a mechanism to allow rape and still have a choice in which partner will sire offspring). Look up “Antechinus” too… the males copulate until death and the details of how they die is just sad.

I haven’t been able to take this man seriously for a very long time outside of “well he’s an entertainer”.

Edit: But this is shitpost community… so I’m sure me taking this somewhat seriously in my rant will equate to downvotes. I accept it.

It is… Looks like the textured plate from Prusa. Not even the “nicer” satin plate.

They’re both abrahamic religions… It would make sense that God (being the same supernatural being in both religions) would have the same definition under both religions…

Slow is better than broken.

You’re using cloudflare as your upstream DNS provider.

There’s long standing history where archive.ph poisons their DNS response to Cloudflare because cloudflare doesn’t let them snoop on users using DNS queries.

Months back I did a fairly exhaustive analysis on reddit.

And yet you made simple mistakes like assuming that nuclear reactors only last 40 years?

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/whats-lifespan-nuclear-reactor-much-longer-you-might-think

As the average age of American reactors approaches 40 years old, experts say there are no technical limits to these units churning out clean and reliable energy for an additional 40 years or longer.

When your assumption is flawed by literally a possible 50% (or more) of the nuclear reactors lifetime your evaluation is useless. Your numbers are useless without evidence or citation especially when you make easily disprovable assumptions from the get go.

as large scale battery tech is skyrocketing of late.

What magic technology have we invented? You realize that lithium ion batteries are 1980’s technology right? We haven’t made any significant advancements in battery technologies in decades. All we do is repackage it so we can charge/discharge them faster. That’s not capacity.

Yes it’s in the green (capital-wise), by year 10-15.

Yes, that’s what I said. Remember we’re in it for long term solutions. Not bullshit hand-wavy nonsense.

Compare that to solar roofs, solar parking shades, windmills that can often be installed in “spare lots”, etc.

Yes 100,000 little projects vs 1…

And I’m not even Anti-solar… after all it’s literally just second-hand nuclear production… But it’s just that. Second-hand, and why settle for “Second” when we can harness first hand? I’m just not dumb enough to assume it’s the answer to all our problems.

Not even close.

cheaper per kwh Solar is only cheaper per kWh if you take it in a vacuum. You need storage for times when solar generation isn’t sufficient alone… You know… the literal half of the day that the sun isn’t out. Solar + battery is not cheaper last I checked and won’t be for a while. Forget the “digging lithium out of the ground” since you want to bring up the next point…

doesn’t require digging radioactive bullshit We have enough in currently accessible stockpiles for a long time… like a really long time. IIRC from current stockpiles we could last until 2100… So we’d have ~70 years to plan for either digging more or figuring out breeder reactors.

better idea, no? No.

So best time to do it was 88 months ago… What the next best time to do it?