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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Curious, what is SOCKS5 used for that regular wireguard cannot do? I’m only familiar with the use case of telling Firefox to connect through a SOCKS5 proxy, which may be convenient as a form of split tunneling - only firefox traffic goes through the VPN and everything else through clearnet - but wireguard can be configured into a split tunnel form as well with a bit more work, and works for all software not just the ones aware of SOCKS proxies. Is it for use on a system where your permissions are too limited to turn on wireguard but not so limited that you cannot change Firefox proxy settings?



  • Talescale is a VPN, “private network” is what P and N stand for. It’s just one with only forwarded ports and no outbound traffic. The question was are forwarded ports important, and yes they are. So important that some users pay for a VPN twice! Once for something like Mullvad with no port forwarding, and once for Talescale for port forwarding. It’s true it has benefits like static IP, but even on my commercial VPN I get the same forwarded IP and port when connecting to the same server, so I don’t want to pay twice.



  • In theory, the rich can just continue paying off each other spending money on rich people stuff. 80% of the economy consisting of activities like robot-staffed billionaire-owned construction companies making and selling super-yachts to oil billionaires, who made their fortune selling fuel to space tourism companies ferrying billionaire designer bag heiresses to the Moon. The rest of us can starve to death and the economy won’t even blink.









  • I’d be afraid for your SSD crapping out. I had CRC errors (not in Factorio) and I ignored them (after fixing the files). When I got a new SSD and copied my filesystem over, I had a bunch more hidden errors in long term files all over the place.

    Consider how old your SSD is, how heavy a load it’s been under, check the SMART report and self-test.





  • Capital letters give shape to lines of text on a page that make it easier for the eye to skim. Sure, they don’t add any additional information that the period does not already have (and proper names are mostly vanity), but try reading page after page of all lower-case. It will take longer and comprehension will be lower. This is the same reason why some letters extend above and below the line - makes decoding words easier by giving them shape.

    You can try it out yourself by saving this bookmarklet and using it to downcase a page! (Create new browser bookmark and paste “javascript:…” as the URL)

    javascript:for (e of document.querySelectorAll('*')){for (c of e.childNodes){if (c.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) c.textContent = c.textContent.toLowerCase()}}; void(0)
    

    Come to think of it, the ease-of-read effect does look more pronounced on a full page of text rather than someplace where every post is a single sentence.