Aceticon

@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Curry is the greatest dish of English cuisine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bo'le of wa'er⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In Portuguese from Portugal, one of the words for “queue” is “bicha”,

  In Portuguese from Brasil, “bicha” is a slang word for homosexual.

  So the common Portuguese expression to tell somebody one’s going to stand on a queue - “vou para a bicha” (literally “I’m going to the queue”) - has a whole different meaning for Brasilians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bo'le of wa'er⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He has blood on his bloody nose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Title is rule⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Explanation

  Mullvad just gives your machine an IP address from a range reserved for internal networks and which is not valid to use as a public IP on the internet, and then does NAT translation like your home router does.

  NAT translation just uses a gateway/router as a front on the Internet (thus, with a public IP address) for a bunch of machines with non-public IP addresses: if a connection comes from an inside machine to a machine on the internet it just replaces the source IP & port address on the outbound connection with its own public IP and available port so that if the external internet machine connects back, it knows which internal machine is supposed to receive that connection.

  So if you machine on the internal network side connects out to another machine on the Internet, at least for a while (until it purges than information from memory because it’s not being used) the NAT server will treat connections from that machine to it (remember, the NAT server is the one with a valid public IP address) as actually meant to go to your machine.

  However if a connection comes from a machine outside which your own machine has never before connected to (which is the case when you start seeding and you machine ends up in the list of seeders of a torrent), since your machine never connected to that one in the first place the NAT server doesn’t know which internal machine that connection is supposed to go to, so it never gets to that machine.

  The way to have your machine reachable by any random external machine when you’re using NAT is called Port Forwarding which is a mechanism to reserver one of the IP ports on the NAT server so that any connection to that port is always forwarded to a specific internal machine.

  Mullvad doesn’t support port forwarding, hence the problems with seeding.

  TL;DR What you can do

  After downloading a torrent, leave it seeding. Since during the download stage your machine connected with pretty much all machines in the swarm (even if just to check what they have available) the NAT server has them associated with your machine in its list so that if any of those machines tries to connected back the connection gets forwarded to your machine, hence requests from any of those machines to download blocks come through and get served by your machine.

  However new machines that join the swarm won’t be able to reach your machine because Mullvad’s NAT server doesn’t know them hence doesn’t know it should forward their connections to your machine.

  This is the same reason why if you just start seeding from scratch nothing ever manages to connect to your machine - none of the machines outside trying to reach yours is in the list that the NAT server has of machines your own has reached earlier so their connections to the public IP of the server don’t get forwarded to your machine.

  In my experience just leaving it seeding after downloading is enough to have at least a 2:1 seed to download ratio in most torrents, so if your objective is to give back to the community as much or more than you take, that’s enough IMHO.

  If however you just want to seed for other reasons, then you won’t be able to do it with Mullvad. Either get a VPN provider that supports port foward or rent a seedbox and use that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For a moment there I actually imagined a washing machine with a rolling drum full of dishes and glasses it …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta leave your comfort zone to grow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, ok, that makes sense.

  I suppose the only part that my post adds is that in my experience for native English-speakers the tendency to learn the language of the country they live in is less than for non-native English speakers who are also not locals, because - thanks to English being the global lingua franca, almost everybody finds it easy to switch to English when confronted with a person who doesn’t speak their local language well but does speak English well, which makes it a lot harder in the early stage to learn the language of the locals (you need to be really assertive about wanting to try to speak the local language).

  Certainly that was my experience in most of Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are from the US and stay there, English is the global Lingua Franca, the local Lingua Franca, the language of the country you live in and your mother tongue, and thus you will likely never learn a second language to fluency levels.

  Well, sorta.

  In my experience with British colleagues when living in The Netherlands (were you can definitelly get away with speaking only English), whilst some of them never really became fluent in Dutch, others would become fluent in it.

  You see, even with English being a lingua franca, many if not most of the locals (how many depends on the country and even area of the country - for example you’re better of speaking broken German with the locals in Berlin than English) are actually more comfortable if you speak their language, which make your life easier. Also the authorities will often only communicated in the local language (in The Netherlands the central authorities would actually send you documents in English, but for example the local city hall did everything in Dutch).

  That said, if you’re an English speaker you can definitelly get away with not learning another language even when living elsewhere in Europe plus I’ve observed that in the early stages of learning the local language often when a native English speaker tried to speak in the local language the locals would switch to English, which for me (a native Portuguse speaker) was less likely, probably because the locals could tell from a person’s accent if they came from an English-speaking country hence they for sure knew English whilst with me even if they recognized my accent they couldn’t be sure that I spoke English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am from Portugal - which is a very peripheral region in Europe, bordering only Spain - but do speak several European languages, and one of my most interesting experiences in that sense you describe was in a train in Austria on my way to a ski resort, an intercity train which was coming from a city in Germany on its way to a city in Switzerland just making its way up the Austrian-Alps valleys, and were I happened to sit across from two guys, one Austrian and one French, and we stroke up a conversation.

  So it turns out the French guy was a surf promoter, who actually would often go to Ericeira in Portugal (were at a certain time in the year there are some of the largest tube waves in the World, so once it was “discovered” it became a bit of a Surf Meca) only he didnt spoke Portuguese, but he did spoke Spanish.

  So what followed of a bit over an hour was a conversation floating from language to language, as we tended to go at it in French and Spanish but would switch to German to include the Austrian guy and if German wasn’t enough (my German is only passable) we would switch to English since the Austrian guy also spoke it, and then at one point we found out we could both speak some Italian so we both switched to it for a bit, just because we could.

  For me, who am from a very peripheral country in Europe, this was the single greatest “multicultural Europe” experience I ever had.

  That said, I lived in other European countries than just my homeland and in my experience this kind of thing is more likely in places which are in the middle of Europe near a couple of borders and not at all in countries which only border one or two other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience when I lived in Holland, compared to me my friends and colleagues from English-speaking countries had the additional problems in trying to learn Dutch that people would tend to switch to English when they heard them speak in Dutch (probably because they picked up from their accent that they were native English speakers) plus their own fallback when they had trouble expressing themselves or understanding others in Dutch was the “lowest energy” language of all - their native one.

  Meanwhile me - being a native Portuguese speaker - suffered a lot less from the “Dutch people switching to English when faced with my crap Dutch language skills” early on problem (probably because from my accent they couldn’t be sure that I actually spoke English and they themselves did not speak Portuguese) and my fallback language when my Dutch skills weren’t sufficient was just a different foreign language.

  So some of my British colleagues over there who had lived there for almost 20 years still spoke only barelly passable Dutch whilst I powered through in about 5 years from zero to the level of Dutch being maybe my second best foreign language, and it would’ve been faster if I didn’t mostly work in English-speaking environments (the leap in progression when I actually ended up in a work environment were the working language was Dutch was amazing, though keeping up was a massive headache during the first 3 or 4 months).

  That said, some other of my British colleagues did speak good Dutch, so really trying hard and persisting worked for them too (an interesting trick was when a Dutch person switched to English on you, just keeping on speaking in Dutch).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speak for yourself: I built on learning 2 foreign languages in highschool to end up speaking 7 languages (granted, only about 5 at a level of easilly maintaining a conversation).

  The more languages you learn and the more you use them, the easier it is to add more languages to the pile.

  Also, at least for European languages, because they generally are related, learning a few helps with learning others: for example, my speaking Dutch helped me learn German and there are even weird effect like me being able to pick up words in Norwegian because they’re similar to the same words in the other two or when somebody gave us an example of Welsh in a trip to Wales I actually figured out he was counting to 10, both because some numbers were similar to the same numbers in other languages plus there is a specific rythm in counting to 10.

  As I see it, the more languages you know, the more “hooks” you have to pick stuff up in other languages.

  That said, you have to actually try and practice them: for example, most of my French language was learned in highschool, so when I went to France or even Quebec in Canada I tried to as much as possible speak French, which helps with retaining and even expanding it so my French Language skills are much better now than when I originally learned it in a school environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s double funny because it’s pretty much the opposite of what it was meant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally the more money that depends on their systems being functional without errors or interruptions, the more an industry is willing to pay for devs.

  However in addition to that there is also the supply-demand effect: in demand specialists in rare areas get paid more than people doing the kind of work for which there are a lot more experiences professionals around.

  3D graphics programmers would benefit from the second effect but not as much the first.

  As a comparison, for example Quants (who program complex mathematical models used in asset valuation software for complex assets such as derivatives) in Investment Banking in London - thus who gain from both effects - about a decade ago had salaries of around £300k per year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not by chance that for example the Investment Banking industry pays a lot more money to developers than the wider IT industry - a system breaking down for an hour or two there can cost millions because, for example, trader’s can’t actually trade certain assets.

  Generally the more money that depends on their systems being functional without errors or interruptions, the more an industry is willing to pay for devs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If your income comes mainly from your work, you’re Working Class (even if you own you own business), if your income comes mainly from the money made by the money you have (in assets or even “investments”) you’re Owner Class.

  Certainly, modern politics only ever divides people in those two classes, with mainstream parties generaly only working for the good of the Owner Class which is how you end up with falling salaries in real terms and growing Asset valuations in the form of bubbles on all kinds of assets, most notably stocks and realestate (notice how most mainstream politicians see the rising of both stockmarkets and also house prices - tough of late, they don’t say it about the latter quite as openly - as being good things).

  The single greatest scam of modern Neoliberal Capitalism was making people who own their means of production but still have to work for a living think they’re not Working Class and hence Neoliberal Capitalism was actually working for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom with the real questions ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it might be enough wood to make a hoovel to live in that fits all the 2 m^2^ of land a young person can afford nowadays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One subscription to rule them all (Seedbox)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or if you’re running qBittorrent (either the full version or the server-only one which is probably best for a server machine) you can just bind it to the network device of the VPN (in Tools->Options->Advanced->Network Interface) and it will only ever run over that interface.

  This actually makes much more sense in a Pi since the qBittorrent server-only version installed directly without a container is way lighter than the Docker version and can be managed remotely via a web interface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the first kind is more common when you’re a beginner hobbyist and are just starting to learn to solder just using a run of the mill soldering iron and soldering wire, whilst the second kind at the very least requires some experience soldering and a steady hand, or some special equipment (an over for it and solder paste - which unlike solder wire spoils with time if unused).

  However you can make way smaller circuits with the second kind (even if using the bigger surface mount components) plus many integrated circuits only come in surface mount versions.

  Also the second kind can be wholly and easilly be assembled by machines (in fact the really small surface mount components are near impossible for humans to properly place), which is why if you open an electronic device nowadays you’ll see it’s almost or even entirelly made up of surface mounted components.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t really tell for sure but it looks like the purest shit (at worse 5%, possibly even 2%) rather than the run of the mill 10% stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How solar panels generate electricity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty much a required upgrade to be able to protect yourself from dropped or balistic nukes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How solar panels generate electricity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the salt used.

  If you check here on table 5 you’ll see that common table salt (NaCl) melts at 801º C.

  As for what’s used, in Chapter 2 of that paper they say “Molten salts consist of alkali metal or alkali metal halides and oxygen-containing salts”, no it’s not actually table salt for Generation 2 of those kind of power generators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How solar panels generate electricity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In all fairness, you need to install a magnet at the far end and keep pluging and unplugging it to generate power…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How solar panels generate electricity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually it does change, from what I read mainly in terms of what substance is used to capture the heat of the sunlight, which in turn has other implications downstream (for example, if you melt salt and the molten salt is used to generate steam, rather than directly generating the steam, not only does the efficieny go up but you can keep on generating power during the night as long as there’s enough heat left in the salt).

  Here is paper I found about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How solar panels generate electricity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s what they called a First Generation generator.

  The ones in use now will actually use sunlight to melt salt (than then is used to generate steam) rather than directly generating the steam which has way more capacity to store heat, so they have a solar conversion efficiency of between 38% and 44%, plus the molten salt can keep on being used to generate steam during the night until it cools down enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How solar panels generate electricity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are literally some kinds of solar panel to generate heated water for things like home use.

  They’re just boxes painted in black with a pipe with water also painted in black sneaking back and forth inside of it, rather than being photovoltaic panels.

  Were I live now - Portugal - something like that works fine even in Winter to generate hot water for things like showering.

  That said even during the Summer something like that won’t generate steam (or at least, not with enough steam pressure to drive a turbine), unlike what the meme shows, though there are solar power concentrators that use sunlight to melt salt which then boils water to generate steam for a steam turbine, but those use a ton of mirrors to concentrate sunlight into a central tower were the salt is being melted. (For example).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How solar panels generate electricity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is actually a Solar Power Generation system were a solar collector uses sunlight to melt salt which then circulates through pipes to a place were it heats up water to boiling and that steam then goes through a turbine thus generating electricity.

  However to reach those temperatures a simple panel isn’t enough so what you have is a ton of mirrors over a large area all pointing to a central tower were the salt-melting happens.

  Here is an example.

  By the way, this stuff actually has benefits over solar such as the ability to generate power at night (basically you don’t extract all the heat of the molten salt during the day and just keep using it to boil water to feed the steam turbine during the night), plus it’s still a bit more efficient than solar panels and like solar panels it’s also improving throught things like using different salts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mate, I’m in Portugal and of all the countries and people who made statements about this attack, the only one the news TV station I was watching actually played was the one from the Israeli government.

  These fucking assholes are very purposefully feeding the very “Israel and Jewish People are the same thing” that makes people thing that the sociopathic genocidal mass murdering of chidren done by Israel is a Jewish Thing, which in turn feed the real anti-semitism.

  To support a modern day white colonialist ethno-Fascist project (and the local Fascists who support it) these people are activelly fostering an environment were innocents are killed because they’re Jewish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3179: Fishing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo momma IS the boat!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This government has arresting people for demonstrating against that governments active support of the mass murdering of children in Gaza, so morally speaking, putting bananas ahead of people (even poor Brits who might actually need those free bananas) is mild stuff.

  Sometimes I suspect that making sure people suffer is their whole point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Santa is working on those lists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This poster Romans!