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  • I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Looking up camping tents, the vast majority have the classic pitched rain fly.

    But regardless, that style of rain fly is pretty new, so it’s irrelevant to the reason they were named flies in the first place. I doubt it was common for tents to even have zippers when the term rain fly was coined.

    Edit: Looking into it further, the term rain fly was coined before the term fly was used to describe the fabric covering the zipper. It looks like calling the fabric covering the zipper a fly came from using fly to describe the fabric covering a tent.




















  • Because best practices for connecting an unsupported operating system to the Internet are to not do it.

    Even if the OS is safe on the day support ends, a critical vulnerability might be found just a few days later. It’s also possible that an exploit has already been found that the bad actor is sitting on it until support ends.

    Even if that doesn’t happen, software developers are going to drop support for the OS and vulnerabilities found in those applications could be used to gain ingress.

    No amount of “being careful using the Internet” is going to prevent hacking if the system has exploits. If you context a fresh install of XP to the Internet, your system will be compromised in a matter of minutes.