Piemaker93

32 | she/her | queer asexual

[memeuplift]

[unquietgravekeeper]

[nugbrownies]

Quick doodle after I got given a wonderful suggestion.

[beardedmrbean]

Congratulations on the cat

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[everythingfox]

He is the greatest helper

[littlegirlinvisible]

HAPPY PRIDE! 🌈

Interview with the Vampire (2022 —)

[flufflecat]

almost time

[radandahalf]

The time has come

Happy Pride everybody

[willgrahamscock]

[janawijete]

[phantomfray]

Grace arriving on Erid: "So I know i'm an alien and your scientists are probably like super curious about me, I just want to say you can totally do minor, noninvasive experements on me provided you run them by me first. You can totally take like hair and nail and blood samples, i'm willing to run a maze of two, everyone's been super polite in not asking for anything but I promise im not offended. Are you sure you don't want a blood sample? I swear i'm fine with it, want to scan my eyes and brain activity while I look at different colors? Heck pretty much anything short of flat out vivisection is on the table for discussion here. Please experement on me I really want to know what you find out."

The Eridian Governments: wtf WTF wtF???

The Eridian Scientists: *celebrating like they've won the intersteller lottery*

THREE MONTHS LATER

Grace, showing the beginning signs of appendicitis and clutching a bottle of local anesthetic: "Soooo, about what I said before about vivisection being off the table. . ."

[hailed-marys]

even if they offered to put in fake stars to mimic the earthen night sky, he'd still know the difference. it would probably just make him miss them more.

[vampirejuno]

Can you imagine being stuck in space completely alone with only the corpses of your friends for company, and the first living thing you meet after 46 years of that misery is a fucking weird alien creature who just rolls up with crazy advanced tech and goes "hi let's work together" and makes it possible for you to save your world through the power of friendship and molecular biology. AND THEN you find out that in this creature's language, its name means "mercy". Happened to my good friend Rocky btw

[wildminti]

Rocky's body is a machine that turns one (1) praise into 10,000,000,000 praises 💕💕💕

[assiraphales]

rocky always yells “enrichment for grace! enrichment for grace!” when he has a new invention to make the humans time more interesting on erid. grace, while appreciative, replies ‘I know I’m in a zoo enclosure but could we maybe not call it that? I feel like a bear getting thrown a pumpkin covered in peanut butter.’ rocky simply gives him a thumb, not wanting to explain that a significant amount of the population sees grace as the celebrity savior scientist who rocky keeps as a controversially young trophy wife and publicly lavishes in gifts

[virgil-is-a-cutie]

Love this bc Grace's age by their standards is very very young despite Grace being mature by his species standards

I keep imagining so many Eridians secretly calling Rocky a pebble snatcher lmao

[rika-mortis]

Life is beach

[essaimart]

☝️ one

[essaimart]

she needs a lot

[tipsandtrixx]

I think the best thing phm has given us is "crazy underpaid science teacher" biologist and "if it ain't broke don't fix it" engineer solidarity which is the real glue that holds STEM together

[ditzy-daydreamer1]

since Rocky sees through sound and movement and textures that means that he can best “see” Grace’s face when he’s laughing [taps mic] hey is this thing on. when Grace laughs wrinkles crinkle by his mouth and eyes and add more depth to his face for Rocky to see. is anybody hearing me