Notices by Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@niu.moe), page 2

@tn5421 @mray
well IIRC beam.pro got it down to 8s even without their FTL magic...

do you think the overhead of creating a torrent would be that high, even with small piece size like 64kB?

@mray yeah but the thing is, it's not a normal torrent.
It's an ever-growing torrent, with the seed adding new pieces at the end all the time.

The seed doesn't want to send one piece more than once (because bandwidth costs), and needs to send each piece to a different peer, so that they can trade between each other.

But because of that, each peer receives pieces in different order, so if you have n peers, then each of them will need a buffer of n pieces.... unless the network is very quick... yeah maybe this can be made faster

@izaya @gudenau
eh, forgot the link
https://allegro.pl/oferta/drukarka-iglowa-oki-3321-7465636116

@izaya @gudenau
hmm looks like you can buy an LPT one for 100 PLN (~26 USD)

@izaya @nonetrix
>haven't pushed that code

lol xD

>multiple concurrent users but I haven't written any form of access control

well, that IMO counts as one user logged in multiple times

@izaya @gudenau a few years ago my parents had an old dot matrix printer that supported both serial and parallel port. I wish my mum hadn''t thrown it away...

@clacke @brandon @remram44
>Possibly "terminal" might have referred more to screens and keyboards separate from a main computing machine, and "console" might have referred more to a screen and keyboard considered part of a main computing machine.

This, plus console was used only by admin... or so I've heard.

I'd imagine the console would be in /etc/securetty, display bootlogs and bootloader prompt, etc.

@kaniini regarding replying - anyone was able to enumerate and fetch all Sophie's as:Public posts at all times, right? The only thing Alyssa's reply did was give them the idea to fetch it?

@izaya @nonetrix
Just read most of its code... doesn't seem to have pipes. Also, looks like a single-user system.

@izaya @nonetrix
PsychOS or PsychOS2?

@izaya @nonetrix
Is plan9k still around?

@izaya @nonetrix
>netcat
>unencrypted
shouldn't that be port 23 instead of 22? :P

@redsPL cute

@leip4Ier well I can imagine kids randomly copying money and then getting in trouble... maybe even on a scale that would make enforcement impractical.

I don't approve of DRM like this, but I understand why the governments would do it.

@leip4Ier well, it looks close enough, I guess you could use such printed money to fool a shop assistant at a local grocery, or sth... I've only seen one shop with UV lamps for checking money authenticity, and never seen them use those lamps.

@leip4Ier there's also the EURion constellation which printers supposedly detect and refuse to print in color.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

@leip4Ier
IMO communicating over text is definitely different than talking. Not better, not worse, but has some pros and cons.

As you've already said, it doesn't make you anxious, which is one
advantage. Another is that people are not expected to reply immediately, and have an option to think twice before sending a message.

OTOH, text doesn't convey non-verbal information. And while some people (probably me) fail to notice a lot of non-verbal information even when talking face to face, most of the time it's at least possible to tell if the person is joking or angry.

A few years ago, I remember using a lot of emoticons with very specific meaning to convey some of that information, and it worked really well, but it looks like it kinda faded these days...

Until 4 years ago I too lived in the middle of nowhere. I met my best friends on the internet. Because, it's indeed hard to find someone with common interests nearby.