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The main defense against tracking used to be (in addition to more modern anti-tracking features) to configure the browser to remove cookies when exiting it.

With the big dialogs that one systematically finds at websites now, in practice you are being forced to accept those cookies, if only to avoid seeing those monster dialogs again.

So in practice the EU is massively driving people to accept permanent cookies. That's IMHO a valid reason to complain about GDPR.

The comparison is biased in that the author overemphasizes the differences between Linux distributions and FreeBSD. For example,

> An RPM is just a binary package. If you want to auto-install dependencies, you have to have a higher-level tool like urpmi or apt-get to do it.

To auto-install dependencies to a port you also need a 'higher-level tool': make. And RPMs do have meta-information. The text is full of this kind of statements.

Linux distributions use binary packages, and they do not have the concept of a base system with additional external software (which is installed under /usr/local in FreeBSD), but instead have things like systemd which IMHO is the foundation for a more modern operating system than the venerable post-4.4BSD base system of BSDs.

FreeBSD lost the train when they became entangled with the infamous M:N threading effort, and I'm using Linux since then. Linux kernel has improved a lot, although I admit that in its distributions I miss the ports collection (and perhaps the /usr/local distinction).

'Free' is a bit misleading: not opensource. Still good news that Windows got the codec.

Just a nitpick: you forgot to remove the final '?__twitter_impression=true' from the URL :)

Clickbait. No mention as to why specifically 2019, just some opinions on how "full-stack engineers" supposedly do not really need to know about Linux. Puts at the same level the knowledge about the details of the memory management subsystem and the handling of "log files"; also mentions a mysterious thing called 'the CPU instruction kernel'.

The same dubious opinions could apply to 2018 or 2015.

I'm not any of the two you asked, but given that @eigenspace is a physicist, what you are looking for (notations used, etc) is possibly here:

http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/html/Evolution.html#References

under "Recent Books". Notably "Clifford Algebra to Geometric Calculus" and "New Foundations for Classical Mechanics" by Hestenes.

PD: if you ever attempt to read any of those two, I'd advise to go to the latest (corrected) reprint.