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🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦🤝🇪🇺 Slava Ukraini.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • If you’re doing a peer-to-peer (P2P) related activity, port forwarding is very important for improving speed or enabling the service at all. That’s because your router blocks incoming traffic from certain ports by default, ports that are used for a P2P connection. To get around this, you can ‘forward’ the specific port that is used for the P2P activity you’re using, letting your router know that the traffic you expect to see from a specific port is good to let through.

    You can simply leave port forwarding to your personal router, but if you want to stay anonymous while participating in P2P connections, then you’ll want to use a VPN service. If a VPN service doesn’t utilize port forwarding, then any P2P connections you use will either be straight up impossible, or very slow over the VPN. The P2P service you’re attempting to use needs to access a specific port on the VPN’s router, which needs forwarding to work properly. For example, you wanted to host a gaming server without giving away your actual IP address, then a VPN with port forwarding is desirable. The same can be said for torrenting.

    TL;DR: VPNS with port forwarding matter if you want to stay anonymous while using P2P services.


  • I kinda get it. I get interrupted by so much random bullshit during the work week, focusing on projects is hard. Much easier to browse social media at work, respond to email, get out occasionally to do chores, etc. Some light productivity, but deeper concentration is hard.

    Friday is usually my go-to project day. People tend to leave me alone enough so I can actually dig in. I’m content with my current situation so I don’t feel a need to work on weekends, but I can totally see how that might be more enjoyable. Not working the entire weekend, just a few hours on Saturday morning where no one will fucking bother me. Could probably get so much more shit done in way less time.









  • I always get super triggered at the “Do you have a best friend at work?” question that my old organization used to roll out during engagement planning. No, you motherfuckers, I already have a best friend. They don’t happen to work here.

    So I answer no every single time. And then in the interview afterward they go on about how “well, it’s not LITERALLY if your best friend works here. The survey just asks the question like that because blah blah blah…”. Trying to over examine what it means to “have a best friend at work”. To interpret that question in some other way to maybe get me to answer yes next year.

    I don’t care what the intent behind the question is, they will never convince me to not answer “no”, unless my best friend happens to join our team. I feel like they’re trying to gaslight me into feeling more connected to the team or some bullshit. Drives me up the fucking wall.