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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Programs that want to receive or send data across the network do so using a port. A firewall (in the sense of a firewall on your computer) is basically a program that sits between the rest of your programs and your network connection and determines what programs should be allowed out to the network and what incoming connections should be allowed to talk to your programs.

    This is “increasing security” by making sure you don’t let incoming connections talk to whatever happens to be running on your computer that might be listening for network traffic.

    I can provide a more ELI5 explanation if you would like it.





  • I do have issues with the fact modern Trek when they do things like put Elon Musk into dialogue alongside Zephrym Cochran and the Wright Brothers, or when they put the Jan6 riots into a video montage about the failures of humanity. It immediately dates the show in a way that 90s trek never felt dated, and it assumes it knows how people in the future will feel about today’s events. Look at how well the Musk reference has aged.

    I’m not saying you can’t reference current social issues and make a statement on them, I’m just saying that if you make the smallest effort to use allegory, even if it’s obvious, it will age better than literally showing modern footage.