Re:U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices
by dahfizz on Sunday December 22, 2019 @10:42PM
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I had a feeling that this was just an uninformed user, thank you for clarifying.
Re:U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices
by thaumasiotes on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:50PM
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You've described the same system I just said I didn't want. But I'm uninformed for complaining that I want something different?
> Applications (at least on Linux) have no idea what device they are using. They just request a connection to an IP and it's the kernels job to route that request correctly.
This is a bad idea. I want to connect the application to the device I think it should use. It shouldn't be able to find anything I don't tell it about.
Re:U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices
by nl on Monday December 23, 2019 @04:57PM
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>> Applications (at least on Linux) have no idea what device they are using. They just request a connection to an IP and it's the kernels job to route that request correctly.
> This is a bad idea. I want to connect the application to the device I think it should use. It shouldn't be able to find anything I don't tell it about.
Telling applications about resources is literally what the operating system is for. Both Linux and Windows let you do what you want.
In particular this sentence is complete nonsense:
I'm sick of the idea that Windows perceives an internet connection somehow, hides it from me, and automatically makes it available to everything that asks for "the internet". But I don't actually know how to do this. Someone is working really, really hard to make sure I don't affect who uses what device.
As usual, MS has pretty decent documentation on this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/mo...
I don't particularly like the GUI_centric nature of much of it, but the complaint itself is completely ill-informed.