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IT Nerd of 30yrs and avid hobbiest of genealogy, geology and science in general.

  • sigh...

  • So a Borzoi, a salamander and a Chuthulu/Mindflair walk into a bar..

  • Not enough people go camping anymore, so the picnic basket market is no longer viable and they were forced to diversify.

  • So much winning!

  • Not really, Putin still blamed Ukraine drones for being in the area that prompted them to launch missiles.

    Russia launched missiles that hit or hit near a commercial jet and Russia, not Ukraine Drones nearby are the reason for the 38 deaths.

  • TACO

  • Oops, something went wrong.

    Rolling back updates...

  • Paramount does this shit too.

    If you have Ad Free Paramount+ you get 30s intro ads where you have to hit the >> or OK button to make it go away.

  • No, there's no direct port blocking involved because P2P can work on all ports.

    As such, the F5 BigIP identifies the packets themselves with the p2p protocol in them and blocks the packets themselves that are identified as P2P.

    This way, the only torrent traffic that may get through is the kind running inside a VPN. Even then though, we can identify encrypted torrents by other means (Deep Flow Inspection, trace the VPN traffic or directly monitor the student machines that are owned by the university).

  • He just works in 'mysterious ways' my child...

    runs and hides

  • 100% of all P2P protocols, literally are blocked by our University F5 BigIP by rule.

    All of them (including certain Lemmy features).

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_P2P_protocols

    When your IT has a small budget, you do what you need to do in order to mitigate the actions of the few.

  • I had assumed that people would figure that the 0.03 was part of 1.00 and not 100 but yeah, my bad. changed.

  • Policing this crap isn't trivial and not worth the effort.

    We just gave up and block 100% of all P2P traffic on both our university wireless and student wired networks.

  • Lets see, between its introduction in 1892 to its discontinuation in 2019 we can safely derive a global sales average of $273 million per year (accounted for inflation).

    2019-1892 = 127 years * $273 = $34.67 Billion.

    $966m penalty equates to a 3% deficit to its overall worldwide sales over the lifetime of the product. IE: Nothing.

  • Oh wow. What did they do to upset the spiders that much?

    My name is Inigo "Bogan" Montoya, the spider...

    You killed my brother, prepare to die...

  • Must have been a Cossack.