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[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 hours 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] 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 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] 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

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

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