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Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 43

I sure hope not, since allowing these as valid addresses completely contradicts a bunch of RFCs, and seems based on some rando Github project listing reserved ranges some people “think” should be made available for use and on a “moonshot” designated paper presented at a conference (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkernelnewbies.org%2FLinux_5.3%23A_few_millions_of_new_IPv4_addresses). That’s not very serious. They don’t seem to care about all the ways some of these have been used (private multicast addresses aren’t nothing to care about!).

Comment Tcsh forever! (Score 1) 462

Until I got rid of my Macbook earlier this year I was still using tcsh. That was the original shell for Mac OS X on release, and I kept using tcsh as well as keeping my personnalized .tcshrc file.

I tend to use bash on Linux servers or scripting, but on boxes I use regularly, I’ve switched it to tcsh.

Comment Re:Market leaders often favor regulation... (Score 2) 76

Depends on the regulations. The kind Microsoft favors and will push for through their army of lobbyists would probably achieve that.

But to many people favoring regulation of the tech industry, it means helping new entrants, stopping consolidation and preventing overreach. And most and foremost, any such regulation needs to be accompanied by real, significant trustbusting. Not this chicago school bullshit about ‘consumer harm’ but actually stopping corporations from becoming too big and breaking them up if they do. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook all have to be broken up. As well as Disney, Bell Media (in Canada), Sony, etc.

Comment Re:Removing it is the wrong solution (Score 2) 137

They are stating that this setting can actually be used to track you even more; it’s worse than useless, it is in fact detrimental to privacy. They also said they would step up built-in measures that should make tracking harder, which is definitely better than a useless flag.

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