Last few days before summer break. All my final projects are in and I’ve got one last final exam to study for. Home stretch. Just gotta make it a few more days.

Interesting that they bothered to make this considering KDE Connect already works on Windows

Yeah, good thing Lemmy is so much… better…

They were also neglected by the people who made the study the link in the post is talking about, so the study is still bunk and we should perhaps do another one

have a >1 ratio to download anything which is impossible by definition

They give you a bit of leniency after you first sign up. All that share ratio means is that you leave your computer seeding for a while after your download finishes, and when your torrent client has uploaded the file you got from them to e.g. 5 other people you can stop seeding it. They’re asking you to give back, is all. If you download a 3GB file from other people in the swarm and then immediately close the torrent before anybody can download it from you, after enough repeat times of you doing that, they’ll stop letting you download new files.

Trackers cannot read, and are not interested in, the number at the bottom of your torrent client, or your history with other trackers. They just care that you seed their torrents after you’ve finished downloading them so other people can download them too.

This study is bunk.

Researchers critiquing the paper found that middle-income Americans and rich Americans actually agree on an overwhelming majority of topics. Out of the 1,779 bills in the Gilens/Page data set, majorities of the rich and middle class agree on 1,594; there are 616 bills both groups oppose and 978 bills both groups favor. That means the groups agree on 89.6 percent of bills.

That leaves only 185 bills on which the rich and the middle class disagree, and even there the disagreements are small. On average, the groups’ opinion gaps on the 185 bills is 10.9 percentage points; so, say, 45 percent of the middle class might support a bill while 55.9 percent of the rich support it.

Bashir and Branham/Soroka/Wlezien find that on these 185 bills, the rich got their preferred outcome 53 percent of the time and the middle class got what they wanted 47 percent of the time.

https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-study

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Everybody always says this, but I’ve yet to talk to anyone who even has an anecdote of talking to a Gen Z person for whom that’s true.

at a restaurant, someone spills a load of ginger on my plate oh no I’ve been ginged

That’s fair actually. I was more worried about Minecraft hosts that allow you to upload your own game executable (which I sincerely hope don’t exist)

I know the names of three of those characters. I know more than that about one of them.

I BELIIEEEEEEEEVE THAT IN 1978 GOD CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE

prageru be like

wdym

Unless you’re using Linode or something other general purpose VPS which you have installed a Minecraft server onto, having to use anything other than a WebUI to exchange files with the server really strikes me as sketchy. A dedicated can’t-run-anything-else Minecraft hosting provider even giving random users SSH access is sketchy enough but requiring you to use it to update the game… that level of not having an IT guy is just a security nightmare waiting to happen.

Guessing by your comment that you’ve actually rented a general purpose Linux VPS and not gotten suckered into Honest Pete’s Discount CreeperHost. In that case, carry on.

if your hosting provider 1) is not yourself and 2) requires you to use anything like filezilla, get a new hosting provider

me after getting banned for violating rule 3 in a community whose sidebar contains two rules

where do you keep them

and that’s to say nothing of @[email protected]