Ah, you're right. I had the F16 and F15 mixed up. whoops.

Not so fast, Sherlock.

xargs doesn't handle shell functions, only external binaries.

The article is more than a little disingenuous. A more appropriate title would have been "The F35 multirole strike fighter can't dogfight against one of the greatest air superiority dog fighting planes every designed".

The F22 is the competition for the F16. The F35 is the competition for the F18 Superhornet and the A10.

No shit the F35 can't compete against the F16. It was never designed to.

I currently have a web radio transceiver front panel application that works on Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, under Chrome, Firefox, or Opera. No porting, no software installation. See blog.algoram.com for details of what I'm writing.

The one unsupported popular platform? iOS, because Safari doesn't have the function used to acquire the microphone in the web audio API (and perhaps doesn't have other parts of that API), and Apple insists on handicapping other browsers by forcing them to use Apple's rendering engine.

I don't have any answer other than "don't buy iOS until they fix it".

Whether there's someone sitting on your line and grabbing your traffic or tampering with it is completely irrelevant because that problem exists in any case. By running your own resolver, you don't publish your queries directly to a third party on top of that and that's a good thing.

That's what you get when offering VPN access must include proper client configs because users are clueless and want to be "secure" by hitting a button.

I guarantee you that I could take the credentials of each and every one of these VPN offers, put them into my router and tunnel all my clients properly(!) without any leaks.

It's not the VPN that is flawed, it's the CLIENT SETUP. For people with a clue, that's a distinction.

On Kaspersky:

Put the bad actors out of business, and the threat disappears. No threat, no need for their software. Perhaps they were not openly collusive, but it isn't so difficult to imagine that they look the other way at the hand that indirectly feeds them.

If you alias rm to rm -i, what do you think rm -fr gets expanded to?

Could it be rm -i -fr in which case the -f overrides the -i anyway? Oh great sysadmin, can you clarify?

Indeed, you definitely do NOT want hundreds-to-thousands of servers doing an update all at the same time, or, worse, rebooting all at the same time. The first has the potential to saturate your network and bring the entire setup to its knees, and the second will blow your rack supplies. I speak from experience on the latter, having been the one who identified the issue with our weekly DB scrubbing procedure once the company I was working for grew to more than a half dozen servers.

You want to stagger things by a few 10s of seconds per server on each rack to avoid power supply issues.

What about files which don't contain a . character?

You mean in an amateurish way that can overload shell buffers?

Try

while read i; do ...; done < ips.txt

or

xargs ... < ips.txt

Pirates already have versions with these bugs fixed, widely available from various torrent sites.

There are already various emulators that do just that, and they are widely used for running legacy software on modern hardware.

It is just a way of trying to shirk his responsibility. Push it off on to the voters and then wring your hands as though there was nothing to be done. He knows, even if there was time, the voters would say no.