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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Uhh he should know all the Elite hackers call it Tracer-T

Remember this blast from the past?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmv8quf_xM

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lmao i was gonna say elon's the type of guy to say tracer t

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

So, uh, as someone who's only ever read it and not heard it... how do you say it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

Trace Route. The *NIX equivalent command is traceroute, Windows shortened it to tracert.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

I always say "Trace RT" in my head so I remember how they truncated traceroute

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago