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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Good video... but a nearly 2 minute ad in a 5 minute video? ~40% ad? Wow.

Not counting yt ads as I block them. I'm considering starting to use sponsorblock, this is too much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Nix just calls the *.nix files, it's still go under the hood. PKGBUILD is similar to the flake.nix and package.nix files to me, but I have no experience with nix.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think that may be an American thing. I've never seen one here in Europe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I can see it without login

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My general view is similar, yaml is better if it should be written by humans, json is better if it should be written and read only by a machine. but hyprspace uses json for configuration, so I don't really understand cellardoor's comment

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

They are users not developers. An academic or civil engineer who uses a CFD simulator usually has not enough programming knowledge develop such a complex application. The employer has not enough funds to pay for developers (see, they use a pirated software). Paying for developers is still more expensive than buying an already developed product.

Just look at the state of FOSS CAD software. There are some, but they are very-very limited compared to proprietary alternatives. Most people don't care, they just want to get the work done. Not everyone is a programmer, even if it looks like that from our lemmy bubble.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

In the Register article they didn't copied from the source that the scientists were from Egypt.

Flow3D has different academic and research licenses: https://www.flow3d.com/academic-program/

  • There is a free research license available, but it's only for 4 months. It's short, researches can take much longer than that.
  • There is a free teaching license, but it can have limitations for using the software outside education. It may be forbidden to use outside classes, so it's possible that they had a teaching license, but they couldn't use that for research?
  • There are licenses for full departments, but it's available for selected countries only.

It's strange that they went after these scientists. In 2nd and 3rd word countries software privacy for work is still common. Everything is cheaper, but software prices are the same as in the US, so they pay relatively more for the same tool. I found that a normal license for Flow 3D can cost USD 100k. According to a quick search civil engineers get USD 2000 yearly in Egypt.

Usually American software companies don't really care about piracy by individuals in these countries. The rationale is that it's better for them if they use their software without payment instead of using a software from another vendor without payment. They go after bigger companies, at least that's my experience.

That's why this story is strange to me, or at least something else should be behind it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)
what:
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# At least you can have comments unlike in json. Who need comments in a config file anyway.
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Or port forwarding. You have to open a udp port for wireguard

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

AUR packages ending with"-git" or "-svn" always pull the latest commit from source. The version number means that was the last time the packager had to change something on the PKGBUILD script, not the actual version which would be installed.

Where should I look? Where were these talks? I'm interested.

Edit: I found the whitepaper about hole punching: https://research.protocol.ai/publications/decentralized-hole-punching/

It says it connects to a "Hole Punch Coordination (DCUtR - Direct Connection Upgrade through Relay)". So for NAT traversal to work, you need a third party, this relay. As I expected. I guess you can self host this, but than you could just host a wireguard server. I guess if you are on a locked down network where you cannot connect to any relay (e.g. how the Chinese Great Firewall works technically they could block it) you can't initiate a connection behind a NAT.

Nonetheless it seems interesting, but no magic here. Maybe the big difference that the relay servers are distributed, so no central authority to block easily.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Interesting, it's on AUR, I will try it.

So it doesn't need any port forwarding, and works on CGNAT? How the "NAT hole punching" works? Both clients connect to something on IPFS?

Afaik, for DHT with torrent, clients need to know at least one tracker, what is the "tracker" here? Something on IPFS? Who am I sending my IP addresses?

How much overhead does this add to speed? I love with Wireguard, that it's barely noticeable, really close to p2p speeds, OpenVPN was awful in this regard.

 

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20492449

As per the linked FAQ,

What platforms will Sid Meier's Civilization VII be available on?

Sid Meier's Civilization VII will be available on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam (which also supports Mac and Linux) and the Epic Games Store.

The Steam store (preorder) listing shows all three platform icons so I’m guessing they’re not just talking about making it work with Proton.

No mention yet of Aspyr (who ported Civ 5 & 6) as far as I can see.

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