vocatus_gate

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by vocatus_gate 3y ago
He replied to a tweet of mine and I still have it bookmarked and screenshotted to this day. My GF didn't understand why I was so excited
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by vocatus_gate 3y ago
For a while, before TCP/IP really became "the" network protocol, IPX/SPX was also around and a lot of games used it. Red Alert 2, Descent 1 & 2, etc all used IPX/SPX.
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by vocatus_gate 3y ago
What the hell are you talking about
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by vocatus_gate 3y ago
"the harm the knives do" Ah yes, those famous knives that jump up and attack people, when they're not too tired from autonomously cutting steaks and chopping vegetables.
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by vocatus_gate 4y ago
I wintered over at Palmer Station. Drinking increased heavily during the dark months.
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by vocatus_gate 5y ago
I did the same thing, pulled up my pfSense config in a VM side-by-side with the fresh OPNSense install and manually ported everything over. Kind of a pain, sure, but I felt better knowing it was a fresh build and everything was where it sho
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by vocatus_gate 5y ago
I switched to OPNSense (fork of pfSense) years ago and have been very happy with it. Consistent, reliable updates, and easy to understand interface.
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by vocatus_gate 5y ago
One could argue they "earned" the wealth by taking an enormous risk and holding through crazy swings when no one else would. And ended up be rewarded for taking the risk, as they should. Along comes the people salty they didn&#x27
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by vocatus_gate 5y ago
I wintered over in Antarctica in 2016. Drinking definitely increased during the dark months.
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by vocatus_gate 5y ago
MobileCoin foundation website: "At MobileCoin, we believe governments have a legitimate interest in regulating the economic lives of their citizens." https://twitter.com/fluffypony/status/1379795248252080
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by vocatus_gate 5y ago
If you actually cared about privacy, you'd have just used Monero, and saved yourself 4 years effort building YAS (Yet Another Shitcoin). And no, speed is not the most important. As long as the user can see the payment incoming, it&#x27
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by vocatus_gate 6y ago
+1 for Palemoon, they do a good job of maintaining what to me feels like Firefox, before Mozilla started making all these bizarre and unwanted changes.
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by vocatus_gate 6y ago
Correct. If anything, tech workers like we find on HN tend to be more openly against Bitcoin (specifically) and cryptocurrency in general. The people I see buying it on /r/cryptocurrency are the ones posting "finally managed
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by vocatus_gate 6y ago
Zcash is not anonymous; cloaked transactions are optional and hardly anyone uses them (so they stick out like a sore thumb). It also requires trust that the founders aren't printing hidden coins (due to its flawed "trusted initial
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by vocatus_gate 6y ago
I'll try to use my elevator pitch: With cryptocurrency, you're right they're not an "investment" in the traditional sense. Right now more of a long-term gamble. In my opinion the value is in the network and the abil
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by vocatus_gate 6y ago
Reddit Is Fun app gang represent!
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by vocatus_gate 6y ago
Not necessarily, many sites are hosted on the same VPS, or the IP could just be one of 5000 CloudFlare servers serving up the page you requested.
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by vocatus_gate 6y ago
I ran a Tor exit relay from home for a few years, eventually had to stop because I kept getting blocked from sites due to having my IP address listed on the Tor exit node list.
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by vocatus_gate 6y ago
Tron's stage 2 debloat script will remove all the bloat apps. https://github.com/bmrf/tron/tree/master/resources/stage_2_d... I run the Tron project, it's open-source and these scripts are
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by vocatus_gate 7y ago
> The Antarctic environment is far less harsh than Mars and no-one maintains a permanent base there. That's completely incorrect. While a lot of the workers in the Antarctic program (I wintered over in 2016 as a station Network Engi
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by vocatus_gate 7y ago
Reduce it by a tenth?
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by vocatus_gate 7y ago
Same with OPNSense.
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by vocatus_gate 7y ago
Keybase is awesome, it's really improved over the years.
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by vocatus_gate 7y ago
I know you said you don't want to purchase equipment and keep it up to date, but the progression of CPU's and GPU's has slowed drastically in the last decade. I easily get 5-6 years out of my gaming rigs now, and build them
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by vocatus_gate 7y ago
Unfortunately there's still the cold hard reality of latency (NOT bandwidth; not the same thing) and barring some sort of quantum breakthrough, latency is unavoidable and that's what renders the streaming gaming experience unpleas
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by vocatus_gate 7y ago
Bandwidth has nothing to do with latency. A low-Earth orbit satellite connection could have 20 Mb/s bandwidth, but the latency on the round-trip for the packets could be 800ms, technically still under a second...but completely unplayab
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by vocatus_gate 7y ago
> Streaming games is the future, deal with it. So, so wrong. 1. Much of the world has heavy-handed data caps. Those aren't going away any time soon. Streaming two ways eats into that quickly. 2. Input latency is real, and super anno
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by vocatus_gate 7y ago
I'm consistently shocked how many people haven't installed uBlock Origin (a plugin for Firefox and Chrome). It takes about 3 seconds and you never hear or see an ad again.
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by vocatus_gate 7y ago
Install uBlock Origin, a plugin for Chrome and Firefox, and enjoy never seeing an ad on YouTube again. Takes like 3 seconds to install.
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by vocatus_gate 7y ago
No, you're correct. I stopped trusting WhatsApp after the Facebook acquisition.

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