Have a phone just for travel. Different account. Only have things you actually need during travel on it. Turn on a cheap plan when you need it. If they ask for something just say you can't remember and let them keep it.
When I was a child in the 1980’s I was blissfully unaware that many adults around me were convinced the world was about to end. I went to school, came home to read and ride my bicycle, then went to bed. I didn’t really care the news existed or bother trying to consume it.
After reaching adulthood I wondered why the situation was now different. Why did I read so much of it? Why did I care? Was the news I was reading important or was this just a thing adults did and bandwagons are fun?
It took me a bit to realize the economics at play. The valuable part of the news transaction isn’t the news. Properly reported news is the relaying of factual data. The portion of our transaction that has value is my time.
I as a consumer have a fixed amount of time in the day to be presented with things I’m supposed to pay dollars to consume. “Cheap” news outfits dispense with the pretense and load me up with ads. “Reputable” news outfits can’t do that so they are forced to make the news itself be the thing I pay for.
But the news sites that want the most money have the longest time to publication and are selling editorials rather than facts.
What sane person pays for that with money, much less their time?
For as long as there is financial gain to be had from it, business and investment news will continue to be a profitable niche. Sports also seems to do just fine, I don’t personally understand Sports very well, but even from an outsider perspective, there continues to be a lot of money and emotional investment in Sports, and that includes coverage of Sports. Not sure anything else is safe, but they weren’t exactly in a safe position prior to AI either.
It is so trivial to do so you wonder why more people don’t. I’d imagine the passionate “dnssec is bad” rants some people go out of their way to post on every comment on this site might be a factor.
> I will 100% admit that sometimes you have to assume someone built their DNS caching resolver to interpret the TTL field as a number of days, rather than number of seconds.
I’ve run a min ttl of 3600 on my home network for over a year. No one has complained yet.
That's only because there's no way for service operators to effectively complain when your clients continue to hit service ips for 55 minutes after you should. And if there was, we'd first yell at all the people who continue to hit service ips for weeks and months after a change... by the time we get to complaining about one home using an hour ttl, it's not a big deal.
I think people are just doing a poor job of explaining how depressing it is that the bar has fallen so low. When you hear people try to say nice things about Google it sounds a lot like Stockholm syndrome.
We use git exclusively at work. This experience taught me to love fossil which I use exclusively at home. It is simple and has all the associated programs apart from the rcs part built in. I do not miss the git foot guns.
SLAAC is basically an IPv6 alternative to how DHCP works. With IPv6, you can either use DHCPv6 (ISPs deliver Prefix Delegations and Normal Addresses this way) or SLAAC (How one typically gets an IPv6 address on a LAN or route from a Link-Local address on an ISP).
Hopefully that's clear as mud ;) I would encourage you to go check out IPv6 if that was the intent of your original question. It actually makes more sense after you dive in, and can be pretty neat.
ULAs (Unique Local Address) are one often-overlooked part of which I'm an advocate.
I just replied to myself with an edit to the higher level comment. Sure, I use IPv6 with SLAAC. I'd never needed a separate daemon to handle it, though. I hadn't imagined that OpenBSD would pull that out into its own program, but I'm not at all surprised now that I've heard about it.
ah - gotcha! Yep. OpenBSD is big on the least-privilege principle, Which IMO is why it's pulled out into a separate daemon that only has the permissions and visibility to do what it needs.
Yeah, that seems like a very OpenBSD thing to do, and I mean that positively. It just initially struck me, like, "yay, I no longer have to install a ping daemon!" "A what daemon?"
> Any tool which is old enough will have a thousand ways to do something.
Only because of the strange desire of programmers to never stop. Not every program is a never ending story. Most are short stories their authors bludgeon into a novel.
Programming languages bloat into stupidity for the same reason. Nothing is ever removed. Programmers need editors.
So how do you design a language that accommodates both the people who need a codebase to be stable for decades and the people who want the bleeding edge all the time, backwards compatibility be damned?
You don't. Any language that tries to do both turns into an unusable abomination like C++. Good languages are stable and the bleeding edge is just the "new thing" and not necessarily better than the old thing.
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