[-] 520@kbin.social 90 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Lol nope! Republic of Ireland has been a heavily-Catholic country since its inception. It's lightened in recent years and some surprises do slip through but that ain't one of them.

[-] 520@kbin.social 97 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Imagine your computer is a big block of flats and your applications are all people who live in the building.

Mail sent to the building address alone isn't going to reach the intended recipient, because the postman doesn't know what flat to post it to. So they need additional information such as 'Flat 2C'

That's the basic concept of ports. It's basically additional addressing information to allow your computer to direct internet traffic to the correct applications.

When an application is actively listening on a port, it means that they are keeping an eye out for messages addressed to them, as designated by the port number. While an application is sending or receiving messages using a given port number, that port number is considered 'open'.

Now, all sorts of applications do all sorts of things. Some are for the public to use and there are some that are useful within trusted circles, but can be abused by malicious people if anyone in the world can send messages to it. Thus, we have a firewall, which acts as a gatekeeper. A firewall can 'block' a port, denying access to a given group of people, or 'unblock' it, allowing access.

VPNs are a totally different thing. They are literally middlemen for your internet traffic. Instead of directly posting a message to somewhere and receiving a direct reply back, imagine you flew out to Italy to use a post box there and receive replies from there.

[-] 520@kbin.social 286 points 9 months ago

Carroll found an IRL infinite money glitch

[-] 520@kbin.social 143 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That is literally how 'sigma' males came to be.

[-] 520@kbin.social 104 points 1 year ago

This ain't incompetence, this is a power trip. She also called CPS on a mother for questioning her special education needs program

[-] 520@kbin.social 90 points 1 year ago

The internet. It's a fucked up place. Nothing like what the big players on the internet would have you believe.

So long as there exists a way for people to not get prosecuted, these things will exist.

[-] 520@kbin.social 99 points 1 year ago

As House Speaker, it is not your job to speak on behalf of God.

Perhaps leave that to the popes.

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Ireland's data regulator confirmed to AFP that Meta has not paid any of the ₹2 billion ($2.2 billion) in fines issued since last September. TikTok also owes hundreds of millions.

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[-] 520@kbin.social 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

India has already had several MeToo-like movements (comparable in size and scope). Some people are even starting to turn to violence out of sheer desperation.

The problem there isn't what goes on behind closed doors. They don't even need to close the doors. They can do their shit in public and the only thing that will get anything done is nationwide protests, much like US cop killings against BMEs.

I fear you are right and that a revolution will be what finally tips the scales.

[-] 520@kbin.social 120 points 1 year ago

Good on the host for insisting on getting the guy's face fully on camera. That's some quick thinking.

[-] 520@kbin.social 89 points 1 year ago

Then isn't the correct solution to sue Nvidia?

It's a legal issue with a legal solution.

[-] 520@kbin.social 91 points 1 year ago

Absolutely right. I don't care what you do in private but the moment you start depriving others of life and liberty for those same actions, well...I won't weep when the axe falls on that person

[-] 520@kbin.social 167 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately if Matt Gaetz, who actually trafficked and had sex with a minor, is anything to go by, this will hardly shift the needle.

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Not asking for illegal activity stuff, but for pentesting/CTFs/red teaming kind of activities.

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