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by wolrah 599 days ago
> As a personal note, I know I’m a bit of an exception for operating multiple IP addresses, but I need the flexibility to send packets with any of my source addresses through any of my ISPs. That’s critical for me, and if an ISP filters based on source, it’s a deal-breaker—I’ll switch to a different ISP.

If you actually have your own IP addresses this is normal and expected, but if you're able to use ISP A's IP addresses through ISP B or vice versa that has always been a bug that you are wrong to use.

If you are doing the latter this is firmly in the "reenable spacebar heating" category and I hope your ISPs fix their broken networks.

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maybe spacebar heating is a reasonable requirement after all and the joke was just that it's easy to get it wrong
https://xkcd.com/1172/

for those that need more context regarding the "reenable spacebar heating" comment