Tiny chance of that. When, and if, the the Milky Way collides with Andromeda, the chances are still astronomical that any stars actually collide at first. Shit might get really weird as the SMBHs start to come together and the centers of each galaxy eventually begin to merge, though.

That example was about how far things are from each other in our galaxy. The biggest problem is how much gravity is in play and how fast objects in the universe travel. An object like a planet and a blackhole only have a very narrow space to actually collide or have the planet get locked in orbit or a death spiral around a black hole. It’s more likely a planet would get accelerated and spun out on a very different trajectory when they get close together.

So, your hope of us colliding with a blackhole is very unlikely. It’s probably more likely we would get shifted into a different orbit around the sun or get kicked out of the solar system completely. If you were just wishing for hell and chaos, you would still get your wish in that regard.

Still, if we could survive the extremely deadly area around a blackhole, it would be kinda neat to fall into one. In theory, time and space is so wonky, we should be able to catch a glimpse of the end of the universe before we get crushed into an infinite point. Neat.

Their marketing department is lagging it seems. They are running Chinese language ads on YouTube to US audiences.

It has a still frame of someone skiing or snowboarding, a QR code and the Chinese language description. Wut?

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Of course I do, but its very conditional in your case. For the record, I did miss that you had port forwarding enabled already and read your post as if you were just trying to connect to the open internet and see any traffic going to some rando servers. That would be a very different situation.

How is the traffic proxied locally? Does the VPN client even allow inbound connections? Is a virtual interface configured for the VPN and is there an inbound port open?

What makes this situation conditional is that there are several ways your VPN client could be configured and it is my guess that it is the bottleneck in this case. If you tried every address that you could find and saw nothing, chances are, there is no traffic to be seen. Any stateful firewall will drop an inbound SYN or traffic not related to an established connection.

Your routing table may give some good clues as to where traffic is going as well. For example, the VPN client could be creating a local default gateway IP. Unless there is a split path configured, all traffic should be traversing that IP, regardless of what it is.

So, can you elaborate more on the route your traffic is taking? Listening on 0.0.0.0 can sometimes work, but usually a specific interface needs to be defined as well. In some cases, tcpdump setting the interface to promiscuous mode can break things.

Also, it’s a VPN. How traffic is getting routed in through the tunnel could be problematic. I have just been assuming that everything is fine up to the client you use and the computer sending traffic to inside your network is part of the VPN.

Ok, you are putting the cart a few steps before the horse here and put simply, you can’t just tap the entire Internet from behind your own Internet connection and “through” a VPN. (A VPN “tunnel” is a bit misleading on how traffic is seen in the wire, but that is still many more steps ahead.)

Watching pcap is cool, but you need a fundamental understanding of networks and network protocols before you can actually see more than characters of the Matrix and understand what you are tapping into from the start.

To kick off your own research path, start reading into the OSI Model, TCP vs UDP, traffic routing and subnetting. You need to understand where you need to be to see the traffic you want to see first.

Unfortunately, I can’t begin to answer your question without some foundation in place first.

Have you ever considered not paying attention to what people say back?

I have never considered doing that at all. It happens naturally in the middle of conversations.

Goodbye.

That is one aspect, yes. The indentations are brown, at least.

It is said, bitch! Don’t you listen?

I have spoken.

4.3 people are now learning Chinese.

It looks partially toasted.

Wut? Was he talking about the previous Ukrainian government, sponsored by Russia™? I can’t make sense of what he is saying, actually.

Not sure if that will help in this particular case, but that looks super neat anyway. I have been planning to build a custom modular synthesizer so I’ll try that out anyway. (Thankfully, it’s Kicad integration is free. Yay!)

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I am not up-to-date on Scotland’s news, but are those nicknames or are they both really named after fish?

Just what you would expect from the CEO of an AI company. Fucking idiot.

Having v-cache on one CCD is not an issue. It seems most of the scheduler issues have been fixed and that was just software. It would be nice to have v-cache on both, but it actually adds more complexity.

While young birch stems can taste almost minty, it’s not going to do much to attract honeybees. The chances of those being honeybees is minimal. It’s possible, but unlikely. If the bees have the opportunity, they will probably be camping next to fruit trees of some kind instead.

A bad trip isn’t fun even in the best of familiar environments. On the battlefield, it would lead to a very unpredictable situation in an already chaotic environment.

Psychedelics are so different from person to person, it could be extremely inhumane for some, but the exact opposite for others. In other cases, you might actually be improving the reflexes and eyesight of your enemy. (For example, my visual acuity gets substantially better and it’s much easier for me to identify shapes against camouflage as an example.)

If no combat action is planned against a drugged opponent, it becomes much more humane in that regard. That entire division would absolute out of commission but trying to capture them could become even more dangerous. It’s easier and cheaper to pin an enemy with a stream of bullets flying over their head, TBH.

Sorry, I am basically thinking out loud.

After thinking through a few scenarios regarding psychedelics, it would be pointless in most cases as the risks are higher than the rewards as its application would be extremely niche and would have to be combined with some other kind of deep psychological coercion. Otherwise, bullets and explosives are equally effective against someone who is drugged and someone who isn’t.

This goes in the “shit UM would say” bucket.