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This is the kind of thing users could have control over if they use their own operating system, correct? Are custom ROMs like LineageOS configured to check for this kind of thing?

What kind of overhead does bhyve have? Is it on the order of KVM?

I got roped into writing network drivers for a research project back in undergrad.

The actual work to be done was fairly straightforward; the difficulty was collecting all the different undocumented hardware APIs and figuring out how to use them. :P

I often wonder about the kind of research done in computer science--how much is it influenced by the kinds of things that easily get you a Ph.D., versus the kinds of things that are useful but less apparently flashy.

A lot of the PL students at my school are extremely wary of doing any follow-up work on ideas that have been published before, even if the implementations of those things are obviously shoddy and don't really demonstrate that the idea works. There's a lot of novelty chasing, which is part of what's pushing people to include deep learning in their work, since it often allows them to claim novelty, even if their results aren't very good.

Using a SIM card on a recent trip to Mexico, where net neutrality was never a thing, was really interesting.

Cell service plans come with separate tariffs for regular data and "social" data, which works only in the walled garden of Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Insta, etc., and the "social" data is much cheaper.

Even though the positive reinforcement was not as draconian as stuff like this, where they're obviously trying to dissuade use, it was still pretty creepy.