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Only the author knows about his motives.

Your point seems to be that the author should not have written the blog post and done a PR instead.

My point is that whatever the authors motives are and whether he did a PR or not, his blogpost was informative to me and has value on its own.

You could open the PR and it would also be faster than writing all these comments here about opening a PR.

That's not the point, it is not the author's duty to do that and him pointing out Microsoft's wrongdoing is meaningful at least to me because I will be more cautious if I'm ever being approached in a similar way.

I recently switched from 4a to 8a because google killed 4a's battery with a recent os update. Other than 8a being bigger and heavier I don't notice much difference and I think 9a is going to be the same story.

The idea of client-side "cookies" existed even before CS:GO. I remember in CS:S the server was able to change game variables set on the client. I wrote a script for a CS:S server that would fingerprint a cheater by setting an obscure game variable to a unique value and so being able to identify the player through that even if they had a different steam id and ip. It seemed to work well for a long time for getting rid of the most common cheaters but of course the most commited and capable ones with RE skills will always be ahead of the game.

Where do they poop?

A bit tangential but is there a service or self hosted solution that would take a list of IPs and then keep scanning them periodically and alert me if any new ports have suddenly open?

I use it to watch youtube, because youtube on FF causes way higher cpu load and battery drain on my windows laptop.

FF is great, only two things left I go to Chrome for are DevTools and watching Youtube (lower cpu usage, lower battery drain).

I wish there was a huge decision tree covering all possible scenarios for flight delay/cancellation, it is very hard to know exactly whwt to do in such cases.

Carlton City Hotel Singapore, I arrived there in the middle of the night with a printout from booking.com of my (already-paid-for) reservation.

The staff said they don't have my reservation, told them to check booking.com, they replied they do not have access to booking.com, a third party manages that for them which was unavailable at night. In that moment I realized I was putting way too much trust in that website. I was able to pay for a new reservation and later got the booking.com payment refunded. Luckily the hotel was not fully booked...

Similar story here. Some years old IG account, logging in maybe once per month. One day few months ago instagram decided to deactivate my account and wanted my selfie to get it back. I never really used the platform so I'll just stay without.

How does one get started? How does one get the necessary experience without taking unnecessary risks?