> Like at some point we have to be like DNS being a service provided by the system to apps was mostly a historical accident or an idea for a network model that

> Like at some point we have to be like DNS being a service provided by the system to apps was mostly a historical accident or an idea for a network model that never really panned out. I think that I prefer the network model where I the system owner have control over what the programs executing on my behalf are doing on my system and my network. I really don’t want to be presented the choice of binary blob A, binary blob B or living without Internet access. > I would have loved to see the alternate universe where your typical unprivileged app has no direct access to sockets and routes all requests through a system service that handles all the application-layer protocols and encryption. Ditto.