A TCP session is a unique combination of client IP, client port, server IP, and server port.

So you can use the same IP and port as long as the destination is a different IP or port.

This means that in principle you could use the same IP and port to connect to every IP address on the Internet using 65536 concurrent sessions. 😆

This wouldn’t help going to popular destinations, since they have a lot of people going to the same IP address and port, but for many (most?) of them you probably have some sort of CDN servers in your data centers anyway.

I switched like 25 years ago. For a long time I had a Windows partition for booting up games, until Microsoft stopped accepting my old licenses. Luckily I really didn’t care at that point.

Good luck Mayor Gergely Karacsony!

I mean, it sounds like you’re spending 12 hours a day in a polluted city so…

It sounds like you’re unhappy with your client? Maybe try a new one?

How much of this is an actual problem with coordinating between countries and how much just German rail having gotten incredibly shitty?

Would you please explain this more? I’ve not heard anything about this, but I am ignorant of many things.

In the distant past Facebook was a place that small parties and candidates without lots of money could organize and reach voters.

Now it’s just another propaganda tool for capitalists and fascists.

Intel dominated chip making for decades. This is more like restoring competition, I think.

I mean… it does seem less terrible?

Sorry I replied to the wrong comment in the thread.

Let me try to explain.

GPL was designed to give users access to the source code for hardware they control.

This worked pretty well until TiVo came up with locks that would only allow you to run kernels they signed. This was to prevent people from putting in cheap disks to their hardware.

So GNU came up with GPLv3, which closes the TiVo hole. It also tried to address the evils of software patents to an extent.

That works okay, but then people invented SaaS (software as a service). In that case the user doesn’t own the hardware, so companies don’t have to publish the source under GPL. Which meets the letter of the license and gives a big middle finger to the intent.

So AGPLv3 was developed to close that hole. With AGPL users must have access to any open source run by a service to provide them with that service, restoring the ability of users to see what the code is doing, and possibly forking and making their own version if it doesn’t do what they want.

I mean, I don’t like Mastodon much, but I never used Twitter so probably I just don’t get it.

Lemmy seems fine to me. I honestly don’t need improvements. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

AGPL is the superior license!

I’m not the person you’re asking but surely they just told the compiler to treat warnings as errors after that. No warnings can creep in then!

Do planes have to pay tax on their fuel yet? Asking for a friend…