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While some people might edit their host for nefarious purposes, I think it's wrong to attribute all of it to malice. Personally, I set the host file to use htt
by Raphmedia 10y ago
While some people might edit their host for nefarious purposes, I think it's wrong to attribute all of it to malice.
Personally, I set the host file to use https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts in order to block ads on every computers I touch.
I also often use software that manage the host file and ignore the default physical file.
- syntheticnature 10y agoThe relevant part of the GP might be "since these customers don't know what they're doing."
- wolfgke 10y agoRelevant (source: http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html): A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.” Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.
- lambda 10y agoEvery one of the cases I have had to debug in which someone had deleted the localhost entry was someone who had entries for blocking Adobe's licensing servers.