CombatWombat
@CombatWombat@feddit.online
- Comment on How does a game server differentiate between multiple clients on the same network? Do they even? 1 day ago:
The internet is an inter-networking protocol. Your modem/router gets a single IP address to represent the entire network, but it assigns addresses to each device internally. When it receives a packet from the wider internet, it performs a translation to figure out which internal address to route the packet to. There are headers attached to the packet that your router uses to keep track of which internal addresses to send it to.
- Comment on If I could a buffalo chicken chili kale salad would the show off my cooking skills? 2 days ago:
Whatever you do, don’t make something for the first time. If you’re looking to impress, adding an array of side dishes, like rolls, potatoes, steamed vegetables, green salad, fruit salad etc is much more effective than one really killer main.
- Comment on Is there going to be something about potato buns tomorrow? 3 days ago:
Well, you will now — a bunch of people saw this post and they’re gonna make it happen.
- Comment on A couple mates and I run askhistorians.lemmy.world. How can we get more people to post instead of myself all the time? 1 week ago:
One thing you can try is to set hashtags on your posts so that users from other fedi softwares can find you. Most of the woso folks I see in !nwsl@lemmy.world are mastodon users.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Are employers able to do that without having to deduct taxes?
No. You can pay employees their wages with things other than money, which is often called being paid “in kind,” but the person being so paid still owes taxes on the monetary value of their compensation. Being paid in RAM would be extremely inconvenient because you would still have to pay your taxes in your local currency.
- Comment on Why are there so many shit posts about beans? 1 week ago:
Iirc, fedi bean posting predates lemmy, but I have no idea where it comes from originally.
- Comment on Train from Warsaw to Chelm costs £9. In UK this 250 km journey would probably cost at least 10 times more. 1 week ago:
Ah, I see. I thought we were talking about the relative price of 250 km train tickets between countries and struggled to figure out how your screenshot fit. Thanks for clarifying.
- Comment on Train from Warsaw to Chelm costs £9. In UK this 250 km journey would probably cost at least 10 times more. 1 week ago:
Imma keep it 100 with you, chief: I’m not smart enough to understand what you meant by posting a screenshot of bus prices underneath my question about the relative train prices between the US and UK.
- Comment on Train from Warsaw to Chelm costs £9. In UK this 250 km journey would probably cost at least 10 times more. 1 week ago:
A ticket for the 278 km journey from Seattle to Portland tonight is $71, or ~5.5x this price. If you plan ahead, it’s like $27, or ~2x this price. Surely US trains aren’t cheaper than UK trains?
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 1 week ago:
It is exhausting. It would be nice to live somewhere with consumer protections, but shockingly those places aren’t particularly enthusiastic about taking immigrants from the US
- Comment on With all the bad news hitting the states all of a sudden, is there anywhere I can go online for good news? Instead of mourning all this stuff? 1 week ago:
I dunno if it qualifies as “good news” but you’re always invited to come watch women’s soccer !nwsl@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anyone out there? 1 week ago:
Oh wait… um… yes, here on the threadiverse you can gamble with your time! Will you see anything worth seeing? Maybe! And it’ll pay off at unexpected intervals in random amounts so you’re addicted! Mwahahaha
- Comment on Anyone out there? 1 week ago:
Uh… obviously our answer is going to be yes because all the people who answered no left and didn’t come back.
- Comment on This sandwich 2 weeks ago:
PWA is short for progressive web app. It’s the website plus a little extra browser magic so you can save it to your phone’s home screen.
- Comment on This sandwich 2 weeks ago:
The pwa
- Comment on This sandwich 2 weeks ago:
Also mildly infuriating is the lack of crosspost button so I can add this to !mls@lemmy.world — I guess it only appears when the post originates from a piefed instance?
- Comment on ¿Qué carajo es esto? 2 weeks ago:
Oh sorry, I didn’t actually read the post you linked and assumed it was his going away message. Another L for reading comprehension on fedi.
Rimu added a feature to Piefed a coupla-few releases ago to limit the number of upvotes and downvotes each account can give per day. The meter you have in your screenshot is how many of your quota you’ve used today; if you give too many you’ll get a little pop-up that has some “you’re doing that too much, come back tomorrow” message. The concern was that the cost of federating votes was disproportionate to its value – making the network connections and passing the events takes a lot of overhead. He set the quota to something where like 95% of users would never hit it, but bots and truly unhinged users like PugJesus and I do. I really do not want to sound critical of this decision – all development decisions are about tradeoffs, and if my instance goes under because Jerry can’t afford to run it anymore, I lose access to all my friends, not just one, so it isn’t like with a corporate social media where cutting costs increases profits, it’s just decreasing the rate at which they’re losing money. And piefed isn’t the only service that doesn’t federate likes the same as other activities – on mastodon, you generally only see likes from your own instance. Pug was just tired and disabled and in pain a lot and took the change hard because he’d migrated from instance to instance many times (which I have too, and I completely understand the frustration at feeling like you have to start over), and so he announced he was quitting fedi completely rather than doing it again. The fediverse is an extremely hard problem space to work in because there are very diverse use cases, and basically no money allocated to work on solving them, and this is just what happens when you have two well-intentioned actors trying their best.
- Comment on ¿Qué carajo es esto? 2 weeks ago:
I cannot tell you, in dollars and cents, how much money piefed admins are saving as a result of this change (and it is not to be understated that I appreciate their time and money), so I can’t offer any opinion on whether it was worth it, but I do know that the cost to me in user experience of not being able to vote on every post I see, and not understanding the majority of the historical memes I see, is not a small one.
- Comment on ¿Qué carajo es esto? 2 weeks ago:
Es la muerte de PugJesus. Descanse en paz.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
as they say, there are no trifles in this world
I don’t who has been saying this to you but I assure you they are wrong.
- Comment on Why don't smaller countries get together with other smaller countries and form a "bloc" that could go in the game of the big "Superpowers"? Instead of the US, RUS, and China all the time? 2 weeks ago:
Like CARICOM in the Carribean?
- Comment on Is it just the norm now-a-days for grocery stores to have lots of stuff on the shelves that's past the best-by date? 3 weeks ago:
Well, I mean, we cut a quarter million jobs from the federal government for bureaucrats who ensured our food was safe, so it’s not particularly surprising to me to hear there’s more unsafe food available for purchase.
- Comment on Grow your own 3 weeks ago:
You’ve never bought a tomato in a grocery store half as flavorful as the Cherokee purples I grow.
- Comment on Why didn't Luigi ManGioni go to trial? Why not get a better deal knowing the prosecution would have to pony up some serious plea bargain? 3 weeks ago:
Manifestly, the prosecution did not have to offer a better plea bargain, as Mangione pled guilty without being offered any plea deal.
- Comment on How come there is not a community for new mods to get in discussions with seasoned mods that is not adversarial? That way the newbs can learn from old guard and old guard learn from the new? 4 weeks ago:
That isn’t what !moderators@lemmy.world is?
- Comment on Feeling sad 4 weeks ago:
Oh honey, you’re gonna have so much more fun and be so much happier as an adult than you were as a child. Don’t worry about mourning your lost teenage years, your 20s and 30s were always going to be much better for you. Go out and be gay and atheist and pursue whatever makes you feel alive.
- Comment on Every time I take my kid to a playground 4 weeks ago:
Putting trees set back from the sideline would also improve the experience for the soccer players and their families, since they’d have shade to rest in while watching or at the half. Seems a bit “cutting off their nose to spite their face.”
- Comment on Crazy cheeks on that guy 4 weeks ago:
Кошки все-таки «ня» мяукают
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 5 weeks ago:
This response was always a bit flimsy on social media where the goal is to be social, but it lost all its venom when every search engine was intentionally gutted to drive traffic to llm-based products.
- Comment on Lemmy or Piefed? 5 weeks ago:
Mostly because I didn’t know mbin has had that feature for ages.