finitebanjo
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- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 days ago:
The insinuation is that the USA citizens would learn and then somehow magically overthrow the world’s most powerful military.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 days ago:
There are bigger and worse threats than the USA out there, and it’s more beneficial to trade with the USA than to not trade with the USA. You could rationalize that the USA might be more likely to fix itself while sanctioned, make them realize their mistakes, but you would at the same time be severely lowing the West’s military capabilities in a time of eastern aggression.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 4 days ago:
Technically, men’s sperm takes some time between three days to two weeks as it travels up from the testees to the seminal vesicles, and before that it takes something like 72 days for sperm to be made in the testees via spermatogenesis (although this process is constant regardless of number of ejaculations), meaning that while technically a man could impregnate 9 women a day, realistically a man couldn’t because after the first few their viable sperm count would drastically falter.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 5 days ago:
The Java and Bedrock edition came bundled together for me. Maybe theres a way to redeem it somewhere other than the store, but I am still pretty sure its been the way I described ever since Minecraft was purchased by Microsoft.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 5 days ago:
I could be mistaken but I’m solidly sure the website redirects you to buy it on the Microsoft Store, which is also how it will be installed and launched.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 5 days ago:
To add to this, it’s exclusively available on the Microsoft Store, which has gotten so bad lately that I refused the terms on their most recent update and haven’t had it installed on any machines since.
- Comment on PC Master Race 6 days ago:
I’ve got a modpack that graphically overhauls literally everything and Skyrim runs fine. It came out over a decade ago and made on the same engine as FO:3, it’s probably hitting the upper limits of its resource requirements if it hasn’t already.
- Comment on PC Master Race 6 days ago:
It’s an old #23rd best card in the world, complete without the faulty newer nVidia cables and sockets, but yeah theres no way people need to spend $15k.
- Comment on PC Master Race 6 days ago:
I actually went with a 1080 that had more VRAM than the Ti version at the cost of slightly lower performance, but this unintentionally crashes some games and applications which are not made to handle more than the 4GB memory limit in some 32 bit softwares. It’s too powerful lmao. Someday we’re going to encounter a similar issue when cards regularly reach up to 64GB VRAM.
- Comment on PC Master Race 6 days ago:
I’m certain you can build a $15K USD computer, I bet Linus Tech Tips does it regularly, but idk who tf is doing that when an nVidia 3090Ti is only $1080 and is ranked #23 on PassMark.
- Comment on Pronouns history 6 days ago:
- Comment on Pronouns history 1 week ago:
I don’t often remember tunes but this one played in my head when I saw the image.
Dun dadundadun HEMAN
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 week ago:
They always could, they’re just more confident these days.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 week ago:
VPN will effect response time and that effect on response time is easily measurable.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 1 week ago:
It is, though. It’s one thing for some random artist to condemn the current admin, a totally different thing for a massive miliatary contractor to. That is a different standard.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 1 week ago:
Yes my entire point is that what they’re doing makes sense. It would actually be strange if the did anything differently given their position.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 1 week ago:
We do have to hold Microsoft to a very slightly different standard, because they’re a Military Contractor. They’re not going to risk hundreds of billions of dollars to take a stance and make a statement. In that sense, this should not surprise anybody.
- Comment on Anon escapes from work 1 week ago:
Care to show your math on that? I found this reference for human drag coefficients when I did my math but it does not mention any spread positions.
- Comment on Feel like I'm missing out on something 1 week ago:
You have to be a special kind of desperate to only buy 1 $15 Steak Chalupa
- Comment on Anon escapes from work 1 week ago:
You would need to fall something like 1,800 feet (550 meters) to reach terminal velocity. You would be falling for half a minute. There are probably only like 50 or less buildings on earth which qualify.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 week ago:
Incorrect. They can test against the recieving computer and any other relays they control on the way there. They can use that along with other information like number of packets, size of packets, and response time to determine, not with any certainty but with probability, where it comes from.
- Comment on You're so predictable 1 week ago:
Why did you write rnillion and not million?
- Comment on You're so predictable 1 week ago:
Jokes on you, I read the number and still went back to look for the letter.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 week ago:
If you can prove where people aren’t then you can prove where they are.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 week ago:
Yeah there was a cool paper on Delay Response method by AbdelRahman Abdou with Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University called “CPV: Delay-Based Location Verification for the Internet”.
The other method I mentioned, checking packet size and general direction, would require accessing data along multiple stops before reaching the other endpoint with which to compare the sizes of encrypted data packets and use that to identify what is traveling where, which either has not been demonstrated or the companies utilizing it haven’t admitted to it, yet. It’s not a stretch to think it’s happening, though, with massive companies like AWS and CloudFlare or telecom giants like AT&T.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 week ago:
You say what I described is impossible but it’s been demonstrated by researchers such as “CPV end of VPN identify location” by AbdelRahman Abdou with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University Ontario.
Furthermore, on top of that method, if a company has access to data from servers in multiple places along the chain between endpoints, then they can see that a series of packets of specific size are traveling in a specific direction, narrowing down the location of the other endpoint. A company like Amazon, whose AWS servers make up almost 30% of the internet.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 week ago:
Another thing that only very large companies can do is see the response time and compare packet size from different servers to narrow down your location, effectively defeating the VPN in a lot of cases.
Hypothetically, a specific amount of bytes gets sent to server B, response time indicates it was received 300 miles away which matches the response time of going from Server B to Server A where the user lives.
Of course it’s still important to use a VPN, if only because those big companies don’t want us to.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
By saying its only use is in Icelandish.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
That’s great except for the fact that it doesn’t answer the question and also in a way calls the person asking a liar.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 1 week ago:
You gotta be trolling, right? I guarantee you “women” aren’t the reason people disliked Velma. The Golden Girls ran for 7 seasons from 1985 to 1992, I personally really liked watching the reruns even in a seemingly random order.
The reason Velma upsets people because the entire show is meant to upset those people. It’s not a real show. It’s a shitpost that targets racial and sexual majority groups. I’m sure they could have made a show if they wanted to and instead they made a shitpost. It’s got the same appeal to the people who like it as white hoods have to the clan.