That's the argument I heard when a defense contractor about why so many DoD systems specified Microsoft products, particularly Active Directory.

Of course, "following industry standards" relieves one of the responsibility of actually thinking about what you're buying, including life-cycle costs and security & quality of the products. In that way, DoD was no different than all the other CIOs. Microsoft understood that CIOs were their real customer, and did everything to convince CIOs that Microsoft (regardless of cost) was 'the least risk alternative."

Ubiquiti's Firewall rules have a 'simple' interface and a more detailed interface.' The Simple Interface lets me select 1 or more "apps", from quite a long list, along with a search mechanism. I'm -guessing- that might be tied to ASN. The more detailed interface allows me to choose from "Any", "App", "IP", "Domain", "Region" and port ("Any", "Specific", "List"). Again, the same list of "App".

That strikes me as the appropriate level of abstraction for someone who is not a network guru, but who has basic understanding of IP addressing, etc.

That's -1-. Let me rephrase: How many commercial products support this? Does pfSense? I spent some time on my Dream Machine interface looking at the Firewall rules. Seems they use this in the background, but I don't see a way to explicitly use ASN. And a Dream Machine is not exactly a 'cheap home router'.

This strikes me is a great capability. But if you have to 'roll your own', it's not going to be suitable for The Masses. And of course, someone who can and would roll their own router would also probably know other ways to accomplish this.

Hmmm... How many (home) routers/firewalls support blocking by ASN This does strike me as a useful feature, now that I've looked at it a bit.

BUT Meta also tracks people who have never had an account with them, on the off chance "they might later opt-in". See https://cyberguy.com/security/...

So the original poster's question is legitimate, especially for those who have never opted-in to any Meta product.

against Sharia
Yeah. But is the legal system of the Kingdom of Morocco explicitly derived from/dependent on Sharia, and with whose interpretations of same?

My sense from visiting Morocco was that it was not a strict Sharia legal system, but I do not know their legal system.

They all worked for the police department in Casablanca, Morocco.... (With apologies to the current Casablanca Police Department...)

Thunderbird? Something else?

(And anyone out there still miss Eudora?)

According to a friend who understands the math, category theory is quite useful for dimensions. There is an interesting article that argues for a Standard Unit for value: https://www.iqiipi.com/the-eig... I don't know who this (anonymous) author is, but all of the essays on this website are VERY insightful. (I particularly like the one on Agile and the one on 'bugs'. The one on Ada has a few minor errors, but generally gets it very right.)

Too bad there's not a moderation category of "+1 both Insightful and Funny". But yeah, someone please mod parent up.

A lot of the buzz I've seen about AI generated code has been along the lines of "you don't need to be a developer." Several people I know have talked about "I created an app and I don't know how to code." In that use case, it's not clear at all those people would know how to supervise an entry level coder.

At what point will we run out of space to put all those satellites, particularly into stationary earth orbit? And who manages traffic congestion? Next, let's worry about what happens if one satellite has a catastrophic accident (or is knocked out by an ASAT), and all-of-a-sudden, that orbit starts loading up with junk?

Enquiring minds want to know! (Particularly so I can short SpaceX stock...)

In all this vibe coding/agentic development/loop coding, HOW DO YOU KNOW the AI is doing something fundamentally wrong?

But the evidence is clear from this incident: What people "can do" and what people "actually do" are VERY different things.

I'm sure I'll get flamed, but this is why C (and other languages that don't provide mechanisms to BOUND the length of a string) are actively dangerous in The Real World. Look at the massive effort and time to mitigate this VERY COMMON AND WELL UNDERSTOOD vulnerability.