Your timeline is straight up fucked. In short, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Imagine you are driving the bed

actually quite enjoyable, ty!

Enough to necessitate this meme.

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sometimes my brain’s just a can opener

wtf, one would be fine

makes it way funnier

Yes, that should be fine - water is the real danger here.

There’s no good reason to be using :80 even internally.

I get it, but you’re arguing in favour of negligent IT. If nobody dares to touch something, it is a liability.

using a rly bad word but pretending not to is kinda weird

This is really good, I just want to clarify one thing:

there are specific protocols that are traditionally used on those specific ports

Protocols are not ‘used on ports’, it’s actually the other way around: TCP and UDP are both protocols operating on top of IP, each with its own set of ports to help direct traffic, exactly as you explained.

There are other protocols, like ICMP or GRE, that exist quite happily without knowing anything about ports (ICMP has types and codes, GRE doesn’t).

Edit: I suppose it is actually a bit ambiguous because we also refer to applications (HTTPS, telnet) as protocols. I’m not sure if there is a standard way to differentiate when discussing other than just saying transport layer protocol / application layer protocol.

I agree with everything you said, except the “rather than” sentiment. It sounds a lot like the “stimulants don’t make people with ADHD high, it just makes them normal” folklore - this is not how anything works, though: people with ADHD can get high on stimulants just fine. Perhaps “getting high to cope” would be closer, but op basically said this in the post.

go ahead

I wish more people would publish their failures.

Agree.

Definitive proof that a hypothesis is wrong is just as solid a result as definitive proof the hypothesis is right.

Disproving a hypothesis does not offer “definitive proof” equivalent to proving one correct, as it eliminates only one scenario among potentially infinite others, whereas proving a hypothesis correct directly builds upon our understanding of the world. The value of disproved hypotheses primarily lies in guiding future research rather than providing solid, actionable results.

Oh no.

:(

Sorry, what?

If you’re having a party or whatever: touch *

That’s weird. Stop it.