Let’s wait to see the perfs? From my understanding of the specs I don’t regret building my new pc earlier this year.

How do you know that beforehand? Last I went it was basically always an expectation even out of strictly the food game...

I don't doubt I'd get the brain to handle the load or die trying... Somehow the dedication in UO felt more rewarding than current systems. Lemme do 1000000 potions to level alchemy and bake 100000 breads.... it was so open.

Ultimate online is still by far the game where I have my fondest memories. I could really go for another round of that…

It's not unknown to have a lill' jar at the countertop for tipping though. But yeah it's definitively not the obnoxious crap like in the US.

That’s raw…

Aren’t like most of the lemmy population in world’s 10% richest? It’s something like a yearly income of 50k isn’t it?

As someone responsible for this exact topic in a european ISP you are absolutely wrong on most accounts.

And that's not even touching the purpose for which we collect connection metadata ; the collections containing this level of details is not provided to authorities on a global level, They would need a warrant to force us to do any disclosure on an individual level. We use some of that sort of data internally for the management of our infrastructure for which I fail to see how anyone would take offense in given it's from the perspective of our border routers and not on an individual basis.

Maybe you want to take your fear mongering and related advertisement to elsewhere?

Are we legally required to log connection metadata to the level allowing general identification of VPN usage?? where are you getting that from?

I’m on a budget so this year it will be a simple slab. Next year I’ll put tiles in. I looked into led inserts and all but those will have to wait. I have foreseen technical conduits for those and outlets.

I have a whole… wish list… from the missus which includes pergola, jacuzzi and all but I’ll have to remind her of the notion of priority :)

I’m so far quite happy with the adventure though.

The bushes are from right to left a very ancient boxwood, lilac, currants, raspberry and then it’s mostly thuyas which we inherited from the previous owner and which I am considering to drastically reduce or replace as it’s taking a whole lotta room.

any users experience traffic shaping (throttling) when their ISPs detect heavy UDP traffic (like torrenting or IPTV) via standard VPN ports, whereas standard HTTPS traffic is generally left alone.

We don't do shaping at our side bar some specific temporary instances to mitigate DDOS attacks. Even IPTV we won't shape otherwise we stop being mere conduit and no one at ISP side wants that for very obvious juridic reasons.

Furthermore, even if the ISP only keeps metadata for internal routing and infrastructure management, those databases still exist. In an era of constant data breaches, many privacy-conscious users prefer that their connection logs simply show them connecting to standard CDNs (via TLS obfuscation) rather than persistent connections to known VPN datacenters.

As stated we don't store that information relative to our customers (unless they us to do so) but from the perspective of our border routers so there should be no concerns.

See we have this wonderful GDPR thing that keeps me fed and allows me to enforce a whole lot of privacy practices at work.

I apologize if the post came across as fear-mongering; that wasn’t the intention. Your perspective from inside the ISP infrastructure is highly valued here!

Maybe start with another title then? Something more at content provider side who are absolutely not bound to our european regulations and have commercial interests in shaping, geoloc & other...

Heyyyyy bro I’m there with you!

You’re not alone.

Here’s a point though; to build vertical experience as an expert I’m starting to suspect that one would be less subject to changing companies.

Whereas leaders have no need to stay in place and change more often.

And one typically increases their compensation package much faster via changes of employer.

Just my thoughts contemplating that I just reached the low bar on my function band as a coe lead after 8 damn years into the function. Loyalty isn’t rewarded.

Crazy to see that you feel the need to downvote my answer...

I have two… I kind of see… I’m not claiming expertise but « matey » isn’t on his first trip…

For me it’s a tale about loss of ownership in a dematerialised world. No one is going to cut a piece of my dining table because I own it and physically have it entirely at my side.

I’ll never own (my locally installed) Spotify nor the songs I listen to. Though for the later I have vinyl alternatives which no one is touching.

Most cyberpunk read today.

How that shit is not illegal is beyond me. Gambling is already predatory but outside of sports and in fucking armed conflicts is abhorrent.

Not that actually doing it isn’t absolutely horrible but wait till you have children, at about 7yo they invite 8 of their friends in your house and it’s pouring outside.

The idea of sedating them will eventually come in mind. Then obviously you’ll discard it.

And come the moment of cleaning the mess they inevitably leave you’ll wonder if you should have done it.

As an outsider I fail to understand why the reason to close shops is so critical. Can’t they just say « fuck it we’re done here » at any point in time? What’s the point on pinning the closure on fictional crime level?

Is there a legitimate reason why « we » globally care about their opinion ?