Replicator apologist (they're just little guys)

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.

Stargate (1994)ㅣHappy late Valentine’s Day to those of you who celebrate <3

(Timelapse below)

For a start it is so harrowing knowing there's absolutely nothing they can do, SG-10 are just dead even though they're Right There and still trying to save themselves and this whole scene makes that feel so real, SG-10's deaths feel tragic in a way that doesn't happen for background characters a lot of the time in media (esp. 90s scifi)

Which makes a perfect backdrop for THIS CONVERSATION which is just so informative of both Sam and Jack's characters.

For Jack this is a reminder that while he's pragmatic and cynical a lot of the time, he so deeply cares about the people he works with and always puts them first, some theoretical scientific advancement isn't worth watching this tragedy play out. He spends so much of the early seasons being the "it sucks but we have to put the mission first" guy because he HAS to be that person but little moments like this one remind us he really really cares.

And for Sam, she's tunnel visioned on the impossible physics of the whole situation they're in, her mind's going a million miles an hour trying to explain how they're possibly witnessing time dilation play out in front of them, and she just completely forgets that there's real people out there dying on the other side of the gate. She's not even considered that they're watching a tragedy, she's zoned in on a problem and completely ignored everything else. And I'll bet she HATES that she suggested keeping the gate open. The moment Jack reminds her she's immediately agreeing with him, because she knows it's right, and she feels so guilty about it but she just didn't think.

Stargate sg1 + text posts part 7