Yes. China’s great firewall mostly handles content filtering and deals with low hanging fruit. Getting around it is fairly simple, and the censorship is mostly focused on stuff that would otherwise be easily accessible by the broader population.

VPN is your obvious choice here. CCP blocks most public VPN providers, so you’d have to roll your own.

You can set up a VPN concentrator somewhere in the world, and you would be able to reach it. As far as I’ve noticed, they don’t block VPN as a whole, and default port should work fine - the reason for this is probably that VPN has many commercial uses that they don’t want to harm.

Source: I run a (work-related) VPN accessible from inside china.

Or when winning after rejecting the opponents draw offer

For some reason they didn’t reach out to me after I received my doctorate in Geopsychology at Abide University…

I hear the API development for alpha centauri is pretty far behind its peer.

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Note: I have not done any research on the topic, but I’m just theorizing based on what I already know, as it’s an interesting mental excersice.

Obviously the biggest problems will be uplink and power. Solar and a battery bank is the obvious choice, but other methods of powers can also work, such as a small generator in a river, etc.

Lead acid batteries are relatively cheap, and building a 12V bank out of car batteries makes sense as there is plenty of off the shelf hardware available to invert or transform 12V into whatever you need. Charging it from solar will be inefficient, but it will work, and there is also plenty of hardware for this (tip: boat-related shops can help you out here)

As for hosting hardware we’re of course dealing with the constraints of load vs power consumption. If you can go for something like a raspberry pi zero, you can run for days off of a single car battery with those cheap 5v cigarette-pkug chargers. If you need something more powerful, you need to scale up power accordingly.

As for uplink, the question is “How much” off grid we’re talking. I will assume that there’s at least GPRS coverage that you can connect to with a 4G modem, even if you don’t get 4G speeds. Plenty of off-the-shelf hardware available here. If not applicable, just substitute with whatever is available, be it CDMA, packet radio, starlink (eww), or anything else.

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Foxcon nets to catch jumpers in the US when?

Any way of having this study an existing database (or dump thereof) and build the graph? I have an oracle database that nobody understands, built by someone else, and I thought something like this could help…

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Derp, yes. Corrected. VLAN numbers are obviously not related to port numbers in any way.

Yes, but that’s done on the switch. Basically VLAN tags are applied in one of two ways:

Untagged (sometimes called Access) is something you apply on a switch port. For example, if you assign a port to Untagged VLAN 32, anything connected to that port will only be able to see traffic assigned to VLAN 32.

Tagged (sometimesreferred to as Trunk), on the other hand, is for traffic that is already assigned a VLAN tag. For example Tagged 32 means that it will allow traffic that already has a VLAN tag of 32. It is possible to assign multiple VLANs to a Tagged port. Whatever is connected to that port will need to be able to talk to the associated VLAN(s).

In your particular case, the best practice would be to assign two ports (One for each host, obviously) to Untagged 32 (arbitrarily chosen number, any VLAN ID will do, as long as you’re consistent), and all the other ports as Untagged to a different VLAN ID. That way the switch will effectively contain two segments that cannot talk to each other.

As others have said: It will work as you’ve planned it. The subnetting will keep these two PCs separated (If they still need internet, just add a second IP in your router-PC to allow for communication with this subnet).

VLANs aren’t required, but are more relevant when you want to force network segregation based on individual ports. If you really want to, you can add tagged virtual interfaces on these two separated hosts so that the others hosts aren’t able to simply change the address to reach these. The switch should ignore the VLAN tag and pass it through anyway. But again, it’s not really needed, just something you can do if you really want to play with tagged VLAN interfaces

I’m considering starting PS2 again because of this thread. But I have so much to re-learn ad I haven’t played in a decade, so I might as well start (almost feom scratch). I have a lvl2 toon named VanuStinks, I think I’ll use that for now.

I use fail2ban and a non-standard SSH port. 99% of this junk disappears if you run sshd on port 9.

Also, disable password for login - Only use keys.

Yeah, I was playing PS2 pretty casually myself. I started playing around the time I became a parent, so I didn’t really have time for more than a quick session now and then, except feom in the evening when I could focus on more squad level efforts.

One thing I enjoyed about the game was the random encounters with other players, such as getting a tell out of the blue from someone I had just killed saying something along the lines of “Nice kill. Kudos on your cheats or skills, whichever applies”

After learning that it’s very linux compatible these days (it wasn’t always like this), I might check it out again - I’ve found that BattleBit and Foxhole fills the same role for me, but not completely.

In which way has the game changed the most for the past 10 years?

Haven’t played PS2 in years. I really enjoyed it until they introduced the lattice system, forcing players into big battles. Me and the people I played with were mostly into guerilla warfare, capping behind enemy lines and generally being a nuisance. And for that, my favorite vehicle was always the skywhale.

I liked playing engi as it worked well alongside the skywhale. And if I was bored an alone I’d crash it into an unsuspecting enemy underground without shields and spam landmines all over before blowing up myself and anyone else around it.

I’m not sure, but I think I played Terran. They’re the ones who have the mossie aircraft, right?

Edit: Oh, and I really liked infil with stalker cloak + crossbow. It allowed me to be a real asshole, hanging out around enemy terminals. Someone not paying attention to their surroundings would suddenly get headshotted and stabbed almost at the same time, only for me to run off and hide somewhere nearby ready to do the same thing again once they’d given up the search.

Note: I think it’s been 10 years since I last played. The mechanics may have been reworked, so I don’t know if my old tactics are still viable.

DO NOT call the police. They will confiscate the server as evidence, and lacking any other suspect, you will be their primary lead. Police aren’t about convictions or justice, they want to consider a case solved.

By law, you are not liable. But because of law enforcement incentives, it will absolutely become your problem.

I’m hearing good things about Framework, provided you get the hinge upgrade.

If you need something beefier, personally I’m using a Lenovo Legion 7 (2024 version… that white one, bought it a few months ago), and I’m loving it. Linux Mint worked out of the box, but I chose to replace the stock wifi driver with a better one.

Hoard a copy of your work. Even if your new overlords are gutting and replacing it, ot might be useful elsewhere one day.

Source: Similar situation once upon a time. I am currently using on a daily basis what was once replaced in a different company.