Apple was the same when I was there for 17.0.0.0/8

I thought apple owned the 17.0.0.0/8 netblock?

They do.

Then how is it squatting?

Even the article defined it as IP space not owned.

From the parent article "I will define IP address squatting as “using IP addresses that are not RFC1918 defined and not your unicast space issued by a RIR”."

Unless this is meant to construe all legacy assignments as "squatting" which is a pants on head definition.

By analogy, domain squatting isn't using a domain that isn't yours, it's underutilizing a limited resource that's assigned to you.

Using IPs for internal networking doesn't necessarily mean under utilizing though; but might not be enough to justify such an assignment today.

I dont disagree, there might-should be clawback provisions for those legacy allocations.

But how do you define 'use' they could easily 'use' them by simply announcing them via BGP and null routing the traffic to the IP's they don't want exposed?

The end answer is still IPv6, where everyone can have as much or as little IP space as they want.

> But how do you define 'use'

Can they make a plausible spreadsheet showing use. But, clawback of IP allocations is very rare, even for allocations that were made with agreements allowing it. There's some high profile cases relating to fraud, but otherwise nope. Legacy allocations would be nice to clean up, but if it's not voluntary, it's not happening. And at this point, if it happens, it's probably going to be a sale rather than a return.

Yeah, I don't really disagree - I think the realistic future is IPv6 - even though my ISP doesn't do dual stack on its business circuits.

I feel like null routing would obviously not count as use.

Zero issues from my experience. The dish has a snow melt "mode", and I didn't have to manually clean it at all after a large snowfall.

I believe it converts those files to compatible formats when you transfer them off the device. The exception seems to be when you have macOS 10.13 and use Photos, the images and videos stay in HEIF and HEVC.

He's not correcting the use of a period, he's correcting the numbers themselves. 1:50,000 and 1:1,000,000 vs 1:10,000 and 1:50,000

It absolutely isn't hard to get music on Spotify. DistroKid (distrokid.com) is $20 a year to upload unlimited tracks to all the music services.

But, you're point about being able to upload "anything" to SoundCloud stands. It was a place for remixes, demo tracks, podcasts, etc. You aren't able to upload just anything to the music streaming services. (need album artwork, etc)

And your last paragraph is spot on. I'm surprised we didn't see them release their own mobile OS and phone /s

My wife and I did the exact same thing, except it was SF. We're very happy that we moved back to Toronto and Canada in general. It's our home (friends and family are here) and we didn't want to have kids in SF.

Can you elaborate?

Here's one example of what I saw.

Imagine you want to track every open and every click an email gets. Most of the email clients nowadays block that hidden image that is used to track openings. So, if a user clicks on a link, that obviously means that they opened the email and an email open should be tracked as well.

In order to do that, one might write a function that tracks opens and call that on the tracking pixel and whenever a link in clicked.

Well, that's not what happens on that software. When the, for instance, `linktracker.php` runs, it makes a HTTP request (think open('http://$HOST:$PORT/opentracker.php?uid=$UID&campaign=$campai...) ) to the `opentracker.php`, simulating what a browser would do, in order to avoid duplicating the code.

I read on multiple places that it's a total mess, probably he means that :p

Apple Pay has been a godsend for me. I carry one backup debit card and slimmed my wallet down to almost nothing.

In Canada, we've had contactless terminals everywhere for a few years, so it's very rare to find a place where I can't just tap my Apple Watch or iPhone to pay. There's no need to find a place to explicitly supports Apple Pay, it works the exact same way our credit and debit cards have for years.

The iTunes store currently works based on your billing information.

Spotify is also based on billing address

I feel like this statement could get used a lot on HN.