flashgnash

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Can someone demystify computer Ports for me? Please? Blocking, unblocking, opening, allowing, VPNs and their effect, what ports are and what they do, step by step, when you have to interact with them?

It’s the one thing when I’m configuring things that makes me wince because I know it will give me the business, and I know it shouldn’t, but it does, every time. I have no real idea what I’m doing, what it is, how it works, so of course I’m blindly following instructions like a monkey at a typewriter....

flashgnash,

A port is basically what it sounds like, a hole in your network to allow traffic to get to your pc

When you forward a port you send all traffic trying to get into that port to the computer you configure it to forward to. I believe forwarding and opening are synonymous, I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong

There are two protocols for transmitting data you can open/close individually, TCP and UDP. Depends on the application, some want one, some want the other, some can use either or some want both

Opening ports allows anyone with your IP address to get at your computer, which means they have a chance to exploit any vulnerabilities there might be in your os, networking stack, software etc, so generally it’s a good idea not to leave them open unless absolutely necessary

Personally I use tailscale to get around having to open ports, makes it as if they’re all on the same network

flashgnash,

We can use neurons. I’m not sure we’re very good at it but people have used them for small tasks

flashgnash,

But if we can train neurons to emulate human emotions and then put them into the neurolink, I can finally know what emotions are

flashgnash,

Can we train the neuron LLM to participate in a CoD lobby, that’s the real question here

flashgnash,

Think you might’ve commented on the wrong post

flashgnash,

I’ve always thought we have something resembling an LLM as one components of our brains, and the brain has the ability to train new models by itsself for solving new problems

flashgnash,

Cool idea, though existing computers are also an inorganic way to representing a neural net

flashgnash,

Most of the time if I see a game has a native port I force it to use the windows version under proton anyway

I’ve found proton generally works a lot better than the half-assed native port most companies put out

Bone conduction headphones?

I just recently learned that this is a thing that exists. I’ve had a couple audiology tests that use these weird headphones with firm rubber balls where normally expect to see the speakers; the rubber balls sit on your temporal bone, and there’s a metal bar the wraps around your head connecting them and giving them pressure...

flashgnash,

Someone at work does this, and I can never quite tell if he’s talking to me or is he’s on the phone when he starts talking

I had a pair of trekz titaniums before and wanted to wear them all the time but felt kinda rude if I were to talk to someone with them on

flashgnash,

Have you seen shokz open fit? They’re more the wireless earbuds form factor, those might work in bed

flashgnash,

The guy doesn’t have the one with the boom mic, it’s work related calls and the office is not big enough to go to another room

flashgnash,

Fortunately there are usually loads of them

But yeah it’s kinda annoying to see someone take 20 minutes with one

There’s usually a wave when all the old people in my area all decide they want to go shopping at once, though fortunately they tend to ignore the self checkout

flashgnash,

They’re always going to be able to have more self checkouts than manned checkouts, the more of them there are the more throughput so the faster you get in

flashgnash,

Man the post is a joke not everything needs to be about how fucked the world is

flashgnash,

Fair enough if you’ve had to do it as a job and don’t want to, personally I value my time higher than effort expended and in general self checkout is much faster than normal checkout

It depends on the machine, though for me usually I’m just trying to get it to go as fast as the machine can do

flashgnash,

Sainsbury’s has an app that lets you do that with your phone, I found it was slower faffing around with that than just going through the self checkout

Bearing in mind I also tend to buy 2-3 items at a time max and either way you’ve got to use the machine at the end

flashgnash,

Apparently those are being phased out now because they weren’t really automatic, just outsourced to people in india

flashgnash,

Nothing wrong with AI, it’s a tool that’s very good at specific problems

Tech companies just don’t know what is and isn’t a good use case yet

flashgnash,

All the best runs are

flashgnash,

True, you’d think Amazon would have the talent to do it though if they wanted to

flashgnash,

It’s a shame, because in concept cloud hosting could well be cheaper given they get the economies of scale

flashgnash,

I’ve found the best way to use python under nix is not to use nix for its packages because not all of its libraries are in nixpkgs

Requirements.txt and a venv still work on nixos the same way they would on a normal system

flashgnash,

And yet I keep feeding my opinions into the internet like a fool

flashgnash,

Ah right didn’t realise there was a nix version of it, will have a look

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