borari

Exactly. The only thing that I really have to add is that I personally draw the line between social media and other types of websites or internet services is whether the service is intended to be used anonymously or connected to a real identity. I’d further divide the anonymous stuff between whether they are intended to be used with handles or without an account at all.

Under that personal definition, I would not consider stuff like BBS, Usenet, forums, AIM, etc., to be social media.

I also wouldn’t consider Discord to be social media tbh, it’s a messaging application. If Discord is social media why isn’t iMessage?

Something like Twitter, BlueSky, or Mastadon could be social media depending on how you use them, but since many people do utilize them with accounts linked to their real identity I would consider them social media.

Then you have the obvious social media stuff like FaceBook, and LinkedIn.

Now that I’m typing this out, stuff like Insta, TikTok, Snap, etc., get weird. I would personally consider them social media, but tons of people use those apps with handles. Maybe in addition to the anonymous or real identity thing there’s also the consideration of whether the site or app is intended to connect you with people you know in meatspace or online.

Yeah, I guess the distinctions I personally use are becoming a bit meaningless now.

It also swings the other way. Young boys are getting red pilled by YouTubers and influencers like Andrew Tate and his ilk, and I would prefer those kids to learn who they are and how they relate to and fit into their community before being exposed to that sort of toxic content.

As others have said here though, the right tact here would have probably been to legislate away the algorithmic content feeds themselves instead of regulating kids having accounts. YouTube will still push related videos without an account, so I don’t see how this particular route helps at all.

With so much to make fun of him for, it kind of feels tacky to punch down on people that have to wear diapers to me, idk. I don’t think we should make fun of people for medical conditions, that’s a quick slide into making fun of people with disabilities etc.

But on the other hand he’s obviously insecure about it and I’m on board with bullying trump about anything he’s insecure about, so I’m stuck in this ethical quandary here.

His platform is simping to corporate interests. I guess it’s better than a republican though. Oh we also have the folksy harmonica bluegrass Democrat senator.

I’m a big fan of MikroTik for enterprise grade routers without the subscription/licensing shit, and at a much more affordable price than stuff from Cisco, Arista, Juniper, etc. I have my ISP router set up in bridge mode, so it just passes all traffic through to my MikroTik router. Then the firewall stuff is all on the Tik.

You can hook the server’s NICs up to the sfp+ switch, but still connect the ilo to the copper 1G switch. So you still have router on stick to sfp+ switch, then 1G switches both connect to sfp+ switch. If you want to dive into ospf or stp/rstp you can create loops, so wiring the switches to each other and all to the router, but theres obv some more configuration stuff to learn with all that.

Idk maybe I’m misunderstanding. In the spirit of the original article, you should add another server to your lab and run eve-ng bare metal on it so you can simulate huge network topologies before buying new networking gear and make the cops think your grow op is even bigger.

If you want data center vibes and grow house power usage your next upgrade should be an sfp+ aggregation switch for those servers, 1G switches, and your router. Then you can run copper DACs or even fiber if you want to get fancy.

This cleared up my confusion, thanks!

I’m familiar with reveng from a malware and security testing point of view, using tools like IDA, Binja, Ghidra, etc., so I was aware that decompilers are taking the compiled assembly instructions, then recreating Intermediate Language and pseudo-C stuff without debugging info or original function names and stuff, but I was missing the key point of game assets not being distributable.

I have literally never seen this box. I don’t use an app, I just browse to the site in my browser.

Ah, that’s good to know thank you.

I agree completely.

I think what seals it for me is that mods and admins can see how you vote, but the mod log just says “mod”.

Wait, what? Distributing decompiled code from a proprietary source is completely legal? Is that actually correct?

I was under the impression that the source code is copyrighted, as is the compiled build of the game, and that decompiling the game is a violation of the Terms of Service, which would make distributing it still illegal. I’d love to be wrong about this though.