This… Might not be as helpful as you think it is… My dad died 6 months ago, and If someone asked me what his name was and then said ‘that’s a nice name’ I’d feel like it was a superficial and bad reaction. My father was a lot of things, and for someone to sum it up in ‘that’s a nice name’ as a form of sympathy would make me pause and struggle to find a response to such a… Simple and child-like response. I feel like that’s a response you could maybe get away with people’s pets, but not a human loved one.

Ahh , case in point, downvoters to the rescue.

Yup, yup. Really sick of having to defend a fact that a color is red, because someone else calls it magenta and now I have to go back and explain color theory and try to have an airtight persuasive argument to ‘win’ for something as obvious as a color… Or Trump…

I’ve experiences this on Lemmy and have blocked the hexbear instance, but probably just gonna give up on Lemmy too. I think I’m over talking to people (or bots? Who knows…) on the internet. It’s all bullshit anyway, politics, memes, advertising, blah, blah that doesn’t actually provide any meaning or positive things to my life. I was a passive observer of the internet for a long time before getting more active on reddit, and then Lemmy. I’m so tired of having to defend my opinions and people trying to start arguments out of nothing, and I don’t care enough to research political shit to provide a truly airtight argument before someone tears it apart, or whatever else other fight someone is trying to start on any given day. At one point I was arguing about something with someone, and we both had the same position: “Trump is bad”, but for some reason they were really going after me, even though we’re on the same side, because i was consuming “too much conspiracy news” thinking that the 2024 election was gonna get violent from Trump’s supporters. Really just over the social aspect of the internet in general, to be honest.

Ahh, okay. That makes sense. It made it seem like there was a whole pipeline and build environment that worked to deploy these branded buttons to your website and it seemed like it was waaaay too over engineered for a bunch of buttons.

Can someone explain what this is, and why it has to get deployed? It looks like branded buttons, I’m really failing to understand what in that has to get ‘deployed’?

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Agreed, I fixed it.

Very true, I just kept saying WiFi router, because for most people’s home networks, even if their device is wired, if they have a wifi router set up, their WiFi router is usually their network firewall as well, so even if your gaming desktop was wired, you’d probably still need to open ports on your WiFi router to make something like a VPN work.

Ports are just ways for applications to communicate data amongst themselves or other computers, networks, internet etc. They’re represented by a number, and there are well known standards for certain ports, like HTTP web traffic is most commonly over port 80, HTTPS encrypted web traffic is usually over port 443, etc. The reason for ports is it allows the ability to lock down a computer or networked device from external communication (like computers on the same network, or the internet) and only allow certain applications to have outbound or inbound traffic and data communication, thus increasing security from malware, hackers, unwanted snooping, etc.

For example, by leaving the web browsing ports open, but blocking all other ports, you can communicate over the internet, but not share all of your images from your “Pictures” or “Documents” folders on your device, thus keeping you safe.

Every computing device, phone, tablet, etc has ports that can be opened and closed, even the Operating System running on your device, or even your WiFi router. When you’re reading articles about opening or blocking ports, its usually talking about how to open ports on your WiFi router so in incoming or outgoing application connection trying to communicate from/to internet and your computer can establish a connection through your wifi routers and not be blocked. Or how to open those same ports on your Operating System, so the connection can be established from the internet, though your WiFi router, through your OS, to the application running on your computer. Ports are usually blocked by default, and you need to open them, though the standard ones (like web traffic, port 80, 443 are usually defaulted to open for convenience sake)

A VPN, is a Virtual Private Network, it allows you to create a network of computers or devices that aren’t actually on the same network, for example, we could make a VPN between your computer and mine, and they would be able to see each other, transfer files between themselves, etc, just like we were in the same home, on the same WiFi. The VPN’s are established over a port, and use a port to communicate, so you’d most likely need to open the port on your WiFi router and computer to establish the connection.

Most of remote connections for business, are done through a VPN. When you work from home, but are able to see the internal resources from your company, a lot of times its achieved with a VPN.

The word “Private” in Virtual Private Network, means that that the connection is encrypted and people can’t see the traffic going between the devices in this ‘virtual network’ traveling over the internet. People can also use this to their advantage and use a VPN in other ways, such as hiding traffic from illegal behavior, such as pirating movies and music, from their internet provider. Their computer is connected to a random server connected by the VPN, they go to the pirate bay, request to download a movie, the request comes from the other computer connected in the VPN, and is sent to their computer, with their internet provider being none-the-wiser.

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