It's not super useful for doxing by normies necessarily but you better believe ISPs also log which customer gets which IP and keep that historical data (because they can definitely send copyright notices for torrent seeding) and law enforcement can subpoena or sometimes just ask nicely for historical IP data.

And that's a dangerous thing when regimes come to power and want certain speech squashed, especially if you believe you're reasonably anonymized.

You're still clever. But also we share lots of common experiences which is a cool thing, not a personal shortcoming. But I get the feeling too.

Oh yeah, forgot about that.

Pretty sure that's what he gave as punishment for eating of the forbidden tree.

The largest war in human history, so far...

This is great. I'm saving this.

You beat me to it by 3 minutes. That's exactly what this reminded me of.

What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

That intro and general structure (AI loves bulleted lists but then again so do I) sure sound like a lot of the responses I've gotten. As always, it's hard to say for sure.