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[–] 520@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

They'll try, I'm sure. Tesla and law abiding don't go well together.

[–] 520@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The League of Nations failed because it was toothless, and basically did have extreme veto powers built in for world powers.

Countries weren't abiding by their obligations to directly intervene with attacks on member nations when a world power was an aggressor because doing so would create severe political problems for them. To this end the UN have their own armed forces for such issues.

[–] 520@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe?

Lots of older games never get updated to 64-bit.

Besides the only operating system to not support 32bit code anymore is macOS, which even Valve treats as not worth bothering with anymore.

[–] 520@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] 520@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It's not specific to e-girls. Can be twitch streamers, bloggers, etc

[–] 520@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also the app is used by children.

It's not scary in any way though? Or inappropriate for kids in any way?

Calling it nightmare fuel is quite the stretch tbh. It's like calling a 6ft basketball player incredibly tall.

[–] 520@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This is war. You need to allocate your resources where they will be most effective. If a rocket is on target to hit ... A bunch of crops, then it's better to let it pass and use your costly defenses on rockets hitting things of military importance or civilian centers.

[–] 520@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep! The security guard is also given a bunch of rules to follow such as "don't let anyone outside of our neighbourhood (aka your local network) contact door 22", which will also determine whether messages get delivered or not

[–] 520@kbin.social 97 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

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 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What they mean is if you are a affiliated with a national government. You might also be a target if you are very very rich.

If you're an average Joe, they probably won't burn it on you.

[–] 520@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Apple trademark infringement suit incoming.

[–] 520@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In the long term it might have a bad effect on the market, as it further helps to cement Microsoft’s control over multimedia APIs, since game developers now have little incentive now to target anything other than DirectX…

However, there are others that would argue that Microsoft's control over multimedia APIs was fully cemented since decades ago, and developers have never had much incentive to target anything other than DX since then.

Back in 2014, Valve tried to bring Linux gaming to the spotlight by offering solid and targetable APIs for developers to port their games. This approach failed hard, and most games had serious deficiencies because most publishers would rather stick a half-assed DX wrapper (like DXVK only infinitely worse) than actually do the work for a proper port.

So, with only a handful of games and what did appear was usually worse than on Windows, releases stopped coming after a year or so.

This is why we have DXVK and Proton today.

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