redn0vae

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   by redn0vae 1y ago

   Yes, everyone is pretty technical. The author of this article (ptag) spends a decent amount of time helping the people out who aren't as well-versed in infrastructure/networking.
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   by redn0vae 1y ago

   The custom jiggery pokery is the point. This is like telling someone to throw away their hobby car they work on over the weekends and replace it with a new electric vehicle because it'll, "Just work." The configuring things,
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   by redn0vae 1y ago

   Some people have just opened up their entire home networks, other people have VLANs set up and only share that VLAN with TPL. However, as written in the article, everyone knows at least a few other people on TPL and that interpersonal real
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   by redn0vae 1y ago

   This kind of defeats the purpose of TPL. Part of TPL is setting up your own network segment. There's a dashboard that shows who has what working. Part of the fun of TPL isn't just that your computer can talk to another computer, i
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   by redn0vae 1y ago

   This is exactly what it is. There's no weird file-sharing stuff going on.
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   by redn0vae 1y ago

   No games are played on TPL. It's more just socializing. There's IRC and stuff, and people host weird things. When you join TPL you get a generated LaTeX document with all your connection-specific details. That document breaks down