fiasco

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[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There's something important missing from most of the other answers. There's a lot of different kinds of network and internet traffic. Web browsing, email, instant messaging, online video games...

By formal standard, certain port numbers are designated for certain functions. Web traffic happens on port 80. Incoming email is sent on port 143, outgoing email is sent on port 456 or 587. Something like Discord will have a specific port it uses for both sending and receiving messages. Word of Warcraft has certain ports its uses for telling the server when you cast a spell, and for the server to tell your client when you take damage.

So yes, ports are like PO boxes at a post office, but the analogy doesn't quite capture it. Port 80 is always web traffic, and this is important, since your web browser requests pages on port 80, just as a web server returns web pages on port 80. The web server probably has other ports on it, like FTP (ports 20 and 21) or SFPT (port 22). If you connect to a web server on port 80, that means you're asking for its webpages. If you connect on 20, 21, or 22, it means you're trying to transfer files to it.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 3 points 2 years ago

Alternatively, Shia LaBeouf appears from the edge of the map and starts chasing the king impostors. But their legs, they're caught in a bear trap! Gnawing off their legs, limping toward the cottage, now they're on the doorstep, sitting inside, Shia LaBeouf, sharpening an axe, Shia LaBeouf.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel the other thing missing from all this Discourse is, IBM made UNIX. If they want to act all proprietary, why don't they abandon Linux and return to their own operating system?

That's right, because of the enormous amount of free labor they get from the open source community.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 2 points 2 years ago

At the moment I'm trying https://gpt4all.io/index.html, a big part of the problem is that I just haven't had a lot of time to deal with it, and the model parameter files are large downloads.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've used it a bit to try and work on my Spanish. That is, using it as a sophisticated chatbot. Unfortunately it's still quite frustrating for that: I figured I'd ask it to play un juego de rol (a roleplaying game), and it kinda sucks at it. I'm gonna give it a go with an open source alternative, hopefully they're less aggressively calibrated toward being tedious and awful. It's just, getting an open source language model running takes a decent amount of time and effort, so I'm sorta midway through that.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 2 points 2 years ago

Don't forget: congress checking the power of the supreme court is an unacceptable violation of the principle of checks and balances, at least if you ask John Roberts about it. Luckily he's totally unbiased on this issue.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 2 points 2 years ago

"Plagued by visions" just sounds like a particularly obnoxious middle manager.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 4 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't surprise me.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure this article is a really bad attempt at satire. Or if there is a point, maybe it's that... the fact that there have been things in the past that are not just fads (like SQL), that means that current things that are fads (like blockchain) are in fact not just fads?

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 4 points 2 years ago

It's older, but The Longest Journey is good. Unfortunately, the final game in the series kinda sucks.

While it's an ensemble, most people would agree that the main character of Final Fantasy VI is a woman—they just might disagree about which woman is the lead.

I also liked the first Xenosaga game, but again, it's a series that goes pretty badly downhill.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 4 points 2 years ago

Ah, le fumé monsieur.

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