orangeboats
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- Comment on Today, it has been 6 years since The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser 2 weeks ago:
Indeed. I would love to have a “modernized Morrowind” experience – an RPG game that really nails the role-playing part of RPG, but without the cheesy parts of Morrowind like the unintuitive combat system – but all of us know that it’s just not gonna happen.
- Comment on The Pack 3 weeks ago:
The reason why English sounds so different from its relatives like Dutch and German.
- Comment on Pdf partee 1 month ago:
But personal files are… personal?
Research journals are published. Public.
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 month ago:
Also remember it was built with tools from the 70s. Which is probably an advantage
Definitely an advantage. Even without planned obsolescence the olden electronics are pretty tolerant of any outside interference compared to the modern ones.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 2 months ago:
This also explains why VPN is a possible workaround to this issue.
Your VPN will encapsulate any packets that your phone will send out inside a new packet (its contents encrypted), and this new packet is the one actually being sent out to the internet. What TTL does this new packet have? You guessed it, 64. From the ISP’s perspective, this packet is no different than any other packets sent directly from your phone.
BUT, not all phones will pass tethered packets to the VPN client. Mine doesn’t! In this case, TTL-based tracking will still work. And some phones seem to have other methods to inform the ISP that the data is tethered, in which case the VPN workaround may possibly fail.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 2 months ago:
Not sure if it’s still the case today, but back then cellular ISPs could tell you are tethering by looking at the TTL (time to live) value of your packets.
Basically, a packet starts with a TTL of 64 usually. After one hop (i.e. from your phone to the ISP’s devices) the TTL is decremented, becoming 63.
What happens when the ISP receives a packet with a TTL value of 62 instead? It realizes that your packet must have gone through an additional hop, for example when it hopped from your laptop onto your phone, hence the data must be tethered.
- Comment on Madden should not be 70$ 10 months ago:
And a guy sitting in their office biting nails all day is somehow much more valuable than the people developing the product. Sure, if you would believe in that.
- Comment on Madden should not be 70$ 10 months ago:
If I follow your search terms, the first Google result is this. If the data were to be trusted, then most of the employees are absolutely paid much less than the “top positions”.
- Comment on Madden should not be 70$ 10 months ago:
Where did you pull those numbers from, then?
- Comment on Madden should not be 70$ 10 months ago:
I am pretty sure we don’t need to raise every employee’s wages. Some of the upper management who sit in their offices biting nails, for example.
The point is to reduce the wage inequality inside a company.
- Comment on Madden should not be 70$ 10 months ago:
Cut the CEOs’ pay and you’ll be able to get both