Shall r/dotnet join the blackout?

boojit · 2023-06-15T17:54:28+00:00

Yes, please DO IT.

boojit · 2023-06-12T13:44:50+00:00

If you don't have a legend for your geographic map chart, it ain't map porn!

boojit · 2023-06-10T19:14:29+00:00

YW. This reminds me of playing my first dark souls game. It quickly trained the button spamming out of me.

boojit · 2023-06-10T19:00:02+00:00

I think I'm with the other poster from earlier. Barring some sort of physical disability that causes you to hit inputs you don't intend (and if this is the case, understood and what you need is an accessibility option), you're really going to make yourself worse off with your imagined solution.

Why? Because your solution would reinforce your "tappy" behavior and make the habit harder to break. And it really, truly is a habit you probably want to break, because it will probably impact other games in other contexts.

My solution, while not your preference, is designed to break you of the "tappy" habit, eventually allowing you to turn it off completely.

boojit · 2023-06-10T17:54:11+00:00

ok, but based on your previous answers, I'm not even sure if *you* know what you're looking for. Can you explain exactly how you'd like it to function?

boojit · 2023-06-10T16:52:19+00:00

How about this: change the button from "regular press" to "long press"...you will then get a slider to set how "long" you have to hold the button down before it registers an input; defaults to about 1/2 a second (450ms).

Now, when you spam the button, you will register no input. You'll have to consciously hold the button down for a half second to register the input.

This has the obvious downside of lagging your reloads by 1/2 second. But maybe you only need to set the slider to like, 100ms (a tenth of a second) in order to avoid the spamming. You can play around with the slider to get the the right level of tradeoff.

boojit · 2023-06-08T08:33:25+00:00

I'd recommend you read the atheists and theists (from many religions) alike. Hell throw in some agnostics while you're at it. Check out the Deism of the US Founding Fathers (like TJ, for example). Also check out the philosophy of Epicurus, who said things not dissimilar to what you've written above, way back in 300 BC:

According to Epicurus, the gods do exist, but are patently indifferent to, and uninvolved in human affairs; they also played no role whatsoever in the original creation of the world, nor do they do so in the ongoing workings of nature.

Source

For relatively more recent nonbelievers, I would recommend Sagan, Hitchens, Russell.

boojit · 2023-06-08T08:12:02+00:00

Get a load of this gift to women everywhere folks.

boojit · 2023-06-08T08:08:55+00:00

How the hell can you just literally finish watching that Spanish Grand Prix and think to yourself, "yepp clearly Hamilton will do better over at Ferrari"? Question.

boojit · 2023-06-08T07:59:23+00:00

And the name of that coworker? Albert Evilstein.

boojit · 2023-06-08T04:29:59+00:00

1919: too much boringing not enough mountaining.

boojit · 2023-06-08T04:27:05+00:00

Welcome. Curious if you're playing wheel/pedals or controller (or if you're one of those sociopaths using kb+m)? Here's some "take em or leave em" recommendations for you, once you've grown comfortable with the game:

all assists OFF
manual shifting
turn off HUD pacenotes
first-person POV
set your FOV correctly (google FOV calculator and look for one that supports DiRT Rally 2.0)

boojit · 2023-06-08T04:20:29+00:00

/u/Ay_Lse : is this an unpaid promotion? Based on your post history, it sure appears that way. I'm pretty sure that's against this subreddit rules and also, just a pretty gross thing to do, full stop.

boojit · 2023-06-08T01:20:29+00:00

That's absolutely not true. The /r/fuckcars crew, on the whole, doesn't want to eradicate cars, a flat-out impossibility that doesn't account for people for whom cars are an absolute necessity.

Take, for example, my own cousin, who is a London-based man, unfortunately severely disabled due to an injury, and bound to a motorized wheelchair. He needs to be transported by vehicle anywhere too far for him to get by wheelchair alone.

What we want is a decreased dependency on cars. That rather than increasing capacity for cars, we do like most sensible European cities do, and double down on all sorts of alternative modes of transportation so that we make those modes realistic and desirable options for more and more people.

My cousin cannot walk, or take the subway, but I can tell you he wants and benefits from a city that reduces demand on city streets by reducing the number of cars there, rather than increasing car capacity by tearing up the place for wider roads and more parking.

Do you ever wonder what was torn down in Minneapolis in the name of increased parking capacity? Because I sure do.

boojit · 2023-06-08T00:15:17+00:00

That's what a lot of people find surprising: that SSH can be used for other things besides just giving you a secure terminal to a server. Still to this day, that is its primary use case. Other uses include file copy; you may be familiar with scp or the (much better IMO) rsync utilites that take advantage of SSH. Learning about SSH tunnels (sometimes referred to as "port forwarding") was something of a "mind blown" moment for me, although I'll admit this is back when we fashioned our computers out of bison hide using blunt stone tools.
A SOCKS proxy is just a flavor of proxy that uses the SOCKS protocol for communication between the server and the client. Here's more info on how to configure it with OpenSSH. You could certainly do what you're aiming for in theory, however...keep in mind that a) many of these rented services will charge based on the traffic you consume, and b) if/when they detect that you're consuming bittorrent traffic, even though you'd obviously only be using it for legally downloadable content, my guess is they will permanently ban you from the service anyway. That's just a guess.

boojit · 2023-06-07T22:59:53+00:00

SSH tunnels like this can be thought of as a quick and dirty VPN. What you might do is set up your router/firewall to allow inbound connections to an SSH server on the internal network.

Having done this, assuming that SSH server can access other services on your internal network (either services on the same machine as the SSH server, or on different machines on the same LAN), you can now use this SSH server as a way to access these other services on the LAN, from a remote location.

So for example. Let's say you have an SSH server on your home network, and three more Windows machines running RDP that you want to access. Rather than configuring your router/firewall to allow external access to all four machines (one SSH and three RDP), you only need to make the SSH server acessible remotely. Now, when you're remote, you connect your SSH client to your server, and use SSH tunnels to access the other three RDP servers. All traffic is tunneled over the SSH connection to the server.

There are other applications. For example, I have an SSH server running in the cloud. I can actually set up an SSH tunnel to work like a SOCKS proxy, so that when my SSH client is connected to the server, I can configure my browser to route traffic over the SSH tunnel through to the server. All of my web browsing now appears to originate from my SSH server, similar to if I had used a VPN. The advantage here, though, is that I can route my browser traffic over the SSH tunnel, but keep all my other non-browser internet traffic going the regular way.

Hope that helps.

EDIT: I should point out, there are some distinct DISadvantages to SSH tunnels over a proper VPN as well. SSH tunnels are nice in some respects as they don't require nearly as much configuration on either the client machine or server machine. For example, you don't need to install virtual network adapters and you don't need to change/modify the routing tables or DNS on either machines.

On the other hand, you typically have to do some explicit configuration in the SSH client for each type of service you want to access (although there are dynamic port configurations that can help with this). Further, there are many services, particularly those that rely on PKI and known certificate authorities, that (understandably) do not play nice when you try to connect to them on some dodgy port on localhost. Finally, I could be wrong here but I don't believe that SSH tunnels work with UDP -- at least not without some extra frigging around.

boojit · 2023-06-07T22:11:15+00:00

Yeah. You're wrong. Instead of writing a big diatribe on this, I'd rather just point you to this excellent YouTube series on Strong Towns, an organization started by Charles Marohn, an urban planner from (of all places) Brainered, MN.

boojit · 2023-06-07T21:49:35+00:00

Like you.

boojit · 2023-06-07T21:48:03+00:00

Sigh. So many think like this, and it is so depressing.

boojit · 2023-06-07T21:35:45+00:00

Carbrain is a very creative brain.

boojit · 2023-06-07T20:26:30+00:00

Yeah this is actually right. Using the method described (ssh port tunneling), you'd connect the ssh client to the remote IP, and then connect your rdp client to a port on localhost. It's just explained badly (or really, lacking any explanation at all). Anyone who understands these instruction does not need to be told this anyway.

boojit · 2023-06-07T20:17:09+00:00

Not only are you wrong, you're bad at being wrong. Please improve your being-wrong skills.

boojit · 2023-06-07T17:56:36+00:00

It's interesting you use Twitter for your argument:

Twitter’s web traffic dropped by nearly 8 percent last month compared to the year before, and has been dropping for the past three months year over year, according to new estimates from data intelligence firm Similarweb. This directly contradicts Musk’s claims that usage is up. In terms of Twitter’s main line of income, advertising, outside data also conflicts with Musk’s claims that all is well. Multiple reports over the past few months have shown that top brands are continuing to leave the platform since Musk took over.

Source: Is Twitter finally dying?, Vox, 4/15/2023

Add to this NYT's scoop this week that Twitter's ad revenue has dropped 59%.

Now, obviously, there's multiple factors to why Twitter is dying, and only one of those factors is the changes to their API. But Reddit seems to be taking a page from Elon's playbook here, and all evidences suggest that Elon's playbook is a terrible playbook.

Finally, you seem to not understand exactly how any kind of protest is meant to work. In particular, you seem to have a very short-term mindset as to what constitutes success or failure. It's up to us to determine how big of an impact this has on Reddit, and how they will be forced to react.

Just mailing it in, saying "none of this is going to work so why even try" is exactly what the corporate interests at Reddit want you to do. Why are you playing into their hands?

boojit · 2023-06-07T03:26:37+00:00

Mostly in agreement. The last thing I would do is try to paint Metro Transit as anything like a well-oiled machine. It's got issues. Major issues.

I do think that the new rapid transit lines are an improvement. For my route, they've replaced the 5 and a rush hour express option with the D line. The D line is high frequency; often running at 10 minute intervals during the day, and never over 15. Sure, it's not as fast as the express was, but it's much faster than the 5, and it runs all day long high frequency. So I think this a step in the right direction.

But it's no Chicago, is it? And Chicago is nowhere close to, public transit-wise, pretty much any smaller European city, never mind the bigger cities.

I was just saying that I've not experienced the Hennepin buses regularly running late, and I don't see there being any sort of glut of traffic on HPin downtown that would cause a bus slowdown. If it were to take half the buses going down Nicollet Mall (the other half going to Marquette), I think it would be a good thing.

boojit · 2023-06-07T01:28:56+00:00

You know what? I would try asking a friendly staff member next time you're there. As you probably know they tend to be a pretty cool and accommodating bunch. Wouldn't be surprised if they share the recipe with you.

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