14th_cylon
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- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 20 hours ago:
man, there is a lot of ominous babbling without actually saying anything of a substance. while you specifically say “i am not having a psychotic episode of anything like that”, it is not really clear whether you can be the judge of that. please talk to a professional if you can.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 day ago:
basically, yeah. internet is network of computers spanning all earth. intranet is smaller network of computers. intranet is often more private network under more centralized control of someone, with limited access from outside, that can be operated for example by some corporation or university, accessible only for employers or students (possibly using vpn to remotely connect to the network).
www. is the name of the service - http is a protocol it uses.
e-mail is the name of service - to access it, lot of people use http protocol if you use webmail, or imap or pop3 protocol if you use some dedicated client (like thunderbird, outlook, or others). smtp protocol is used to send the message to another mail server (you may have also been asked to configure it when manually configuring some dedicated e-mail client).
ftp, ssh, bittorrent,VOIP telephony using SIP protocol, IRC are other useful services. all these services can be run on network of any size, internet or intranet.
for example majority of modern doorbell systems are running on sip protocol and they are basically small VOIP phones running primarilly on a limited intranet in one specific building, but, due to nature of what they are, they often have an option to forward that “call” into any other telephone number in case no one picks it up at home.
small web-developers routinely run their own web-server of their own desktop, which may only be accessible locally, from that one computer or their small home network, to test the web pages they are developing. whether it is still world WIDE web is funny academical question then, because that web is not very wide in such case.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 days ago:
at similar age, a teacher told me there can’t be polygon bigger than 360-gon, because that would be a circle. i wasn’t of course in a place to fight with her, i just thought “wtf, how dumb is this bitch?”
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 days ago:
no, the internet is not the world wide web. www is just one of many services provided on the internet and it can be used on the intranet that is completely cut off from the rest of the world.
there is a terminology question then if it is still really the world wide web or rather small web, but the fact stays that services provided on http protocol and internet are not the synonyms. same as mcdonald is not asynonym for “a restaurant” even if specific person may not have visited any other restaurant in their life.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 days ago:
it is why kobe bryant helicopter crashed. the pilot lost in a fog thought he is going up, when he was just accelerating down really fast. there is air crash investigation episode about it.
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 1 week ago:
Learn to program.
you probably missed this part:
I don’t reckon I could study something for college, write a book or poetry or learn a foreign language, as I couldn’t concentrate.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 1 month ago:
and how many ads do you think all these now gone power users were displaying and consuming? 😂
- Comment on US education 1 month ago:
The requirements for home schooling in the US vary wildly from one state to the other and can be almost devoid of any practical oversight in some circumstances. In most cases, parents have autonomy to choose their curriculum
yeah, this is the surprising part for me, but i guess in the land of individualism it makes sense. thank you for the answer
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 1 month ago:
you are forgetting that reddit is not just coders and sysadmins.
people writing comments about - i don’t know - sneakers, might not care about the reddit drama at all. and all comments are helpful as AI training material - don’t succumb to the biased idea that only what interests you is important or “helpful”
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 1 month ago:
There is not a company in the world that is happy to ignore 1/100th of their revenue disappearing
except we are talking about USERS disappearing, not revenue. it is likely that revenue actually increased, because x+n (where n > 0) people paying more than zero generating more than zero is bigger number than x generating zero.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 1 month ago:
they will appear as deleted, but they are not really deleted, they still have them in the database and still make money selling them 🤷♂️
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 1 month ago:
That’s less traffic, which is less ad money, which comprises the vast majority of their revenue.
and how many people do the same thing you do? they don’t really care about 1% of dedicated users…
- Comment on US education 1 month ago:
as a person from across the ocean, i don’t get this. why would there be need for some different curriculum for homeschooling, and why would the choice depend on the parent? how is it possible you just get to chose? don’t you have to comply with some general standard? here, home-schooling is extremely rare, but if someone undergoes it, they have to use the same textbooks as everyone else and from time to time pass some exams in school to be sure the kid is not behind its peers.
- Comment on If you had 1 dollar and 24 hours what would you do? 1 month ago:
we did the same, but that was 30 years ago, i wonder how that game translates to today’s world. probably not very well.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if the police seized your electronics (for an unrelated investigation) and found out you have a lot of pirated content, what would happen? 1 month ago:
Not limited to any specific jurisdiction, just want to know what happens in general.
this is all about the jurisdiction. in my country, downloading anything is not illegal, what can be illegal is sharing stuff you don’t own.
so in your case, nothing would happen, not because of the pirated content. (i mean if they really wanted to get you and all they had to work with would be your disney collection, they would probably try to prove you shared/sold it).
- Comment on How would you take 'stfu' from a stranger online, provided what you said wasn't meant to be funny? 2 months ago:
i am not native speaker as well, so it is sometimes hard to judge the nuances. in the old days of the internet there was a saying “be conservative in what you say and liberal in what you hear”. so maybe do that. or don’t care at all and just move on 🤷♂️ sorry i don’t have anything better.
- Comment on How would you take 'stfu' from a stranger online, provided what you said wasn't meant to be funny? 2 months ago:
To me it still literally means Shut The Fuck Up, and whenever I see it, my immediate reaction is that the person on the other end actually meant it exactly as rude as I have always perceived it all my life.
even if they does it mean exactly as rude as you perceive it, does it really matter? you will never be liked by everyone. so if it is situation where you can just shrug your shoulders and leave, it may be time to do it and don’t take it too personally. the person on the other side can be 7 years old. if it happened in real life, would you spend time discussing with him?
if you see a person with a sign about the end of the world coming tomorrow looking moderately insane on the street, in real life - do you go to them and try to convince them they are not right, or do you just shrug your shoulders and move on with your life? and why do we often act differently online?
to be clear i am not trying to be holier-than-thou here, i’ve been guilty of exactly this many times myself, but it is at least useful to be aware of this in retrospect.
- Comment on Travel reporter accuses Hyatt of $500 smoking fee scam 2 months ago:
Why did he pay? Or does the hotel have access to his card and can charge whatever they wish at will?
- Comment on Are display sizes always measured in inches? 2 months ago:
meters for horizontal distances, such as
not really. distance is measured in (nautical) miles, speed in knots (1 knot is 1 nautical mile per hour)