[-] 520@kbin.social 96 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Imagine your computer is a big block of flats and your applications are all people who live in the building.

Mail sent to the building address alone isn't going to reach the intended recipient, because the postman doesn't know what flat to post it to. So they need additional information such as 'Flat 2C'

That's the basic concept of ports. It's basically additional addressing information to allow your computer to direct internet traffic to the correct applications.

When an application is actively listening on a port, it means that they are keeping an eye out for messages addressed to them, as designated by the port number. While an application is sending or receiving messages using a given port number, that port number is considered 'open'.

Now, all sorts of applications do all sorts of things. Some are for the public to use and there are some that are useful within trusted circles, but can be abused by malicious people if anyone in the world can send messages to it. Thus, we have a firewall, which acts as a gatekeeper. A firewall can 'block' a port, denying access to a given group of people, or 'unblock' it, allowing access.

VPNs are a totally different thing. They are literally middlemen for your internet traffic. Instead of directly posting a message to somewhere and receiving a direct reply back, imagine you flew out to Italy to use a post box there and receive replies from there.

[-] 520@kbin.social 78 points 4 months ago

Not to mention, they kicked out Russia for the war in Ukraine

[-] 520@kbin.social 176 points 4 months ago

Hermione mentioned in the first book that wizards tend to absolutely suck at things that are typically Muggle, like logic, so it follows that they probably suck at math too.

[-] 520@kbin.social 77 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Haha oh nooo. The official lore can be surprisingly fucking dark. Even in the games, the reason Jubilife exists is because wild Pokémon smoked an entire village. Burnt the fucking thing to the ground and gave the Galaxy Clan's commander PTSD.

Also in the beginning of Arceus, your rival has only just recovered from hospitalisation after they took a thunderbolt from a Shinx.

Then there are literal wars that break out. And some of the Pokédex entries. And the mangas go fucking dark too at times.

The losing your lunch money is just a game mechanic.

[-] 520@kbin.social 143 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That is literally how 'sigma' males came to be.

[-] 520@kbin.social 77 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The main use case of this is in porting. So if someone wanted to make a native port of their game, this library would make it potentially much easier.

[-] 520@kbin.social 103 points 6 months ago

This ain't incompetence, this is a power trip. She also called CPS on a mother for questioning her special education needs program

[-] 520@kbin.social 86 points 6 months ago

The internet. It's a fucked up place. Nothing like what the big players on the internet would have you believe.

So long as there exists a way for people to not get prosecuted, these things will exist.

[-] 520@kbin.social 97 points 6 months ago

As House Speaker, it is not your job to speak on behalf of God.

Perhaps leave that to the popes.

[-] 520@kbin.social 86 points 7 months ago

No, things aren't rosy. What happened under trump was a corporate apologist shitshow though.

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Ireland's data regulator confirmed to AFP that Meta has not paid any of the ₹2 billion ($2.2 billion) in fines issued since last September. TikTok also owes hundreds of millions.

[-] 520@kbin.social 91 points 7 months ago

All billionaires are cunts. All Nazis are cunts. Not all billionaires are Nazis.

[-] 520@kbin.social 91 points 10 months ago

Absolutely right. I don't care what you do in private but the moment you start depriving others of life and liberty for those same actions, well...I won't weep when the axe falls on that person

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