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People have a sense of humor, and this is a fantastic meta joke. Why so serious?
This site doesn't like jokey comments, so how are pointless jokey links tolerated? It's not like the linked to site is making a serious point in a light hearted way.
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Direct personal realisation, an increasingly take-no-prisoners approach to online abuse, and a considerable amount of evidence from elsewhere that such TLDs are almost entirely void of value. My router doesn't have sufficient resources to list individual hosts, particularly where widespread abuse is found. Plus it's just too much fucking work. BlueCoat Security (now part of Symantec) have been publishing a "Shady TLD…
These lists, it should be pointed out, are quickly becoming outdated as more folks sign up for new domain names. For example, there’s this on .xyz https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/exploring-xyz-another... and then there’s actual usage of it: https://abc.xyz (completely not mentioned...) If you want to know the most popular/relevant sites on a TLD, search google for `site:xyz` to see a small list... E.g. .link o…
Of course I also have a .com but it's not linked up to the .rocks because I'm lazy
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Considering most people in the world use Windows, dmg is pretty much irrelevant. They can only be opened/unpacked on Macs, so even if it contains a evil payload you won't ever got to it on Windows or Linux. Exe-files has much bigger impact and can be run through emulation on non-Windows systems. I'd say exe is a much better choice.
*Considering most people in the world use Android.
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Considering most people in the world use Windows, dmg is pretty much irrelevant. They can only be opened/unpacked on Macs, so even if it contains a evil payload you won't ever got to it on Windows or Linux. Exe-files has much bigger impact and can be run through emulation on non-Windows systems. I'd say exe is a much better choice.
My mental pronunciation mechanism cannot stop reading "dmg" as "damage"
That might even be useful when posting links to HN.
A similar site has been around for a long time: http://www.shadyurl.com/ example: google.com -> http://www.5z8.info/dogs-being-eaten_x2r3rq_5waystokillwitha...
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So a connection that doesn't exist cam hardly be encrypted now can it? Scnr But yeah I noticed this trend too in browsers, it's getting harder to get to the technical bits every time they try to make these warnings more user friendly. I usually switch to openssl s_client in a terminal at this point.
A general trend. I've been aware of it since Linus Torvalds pointed out that so called "ux-improvements" were actually ux problems back in gnome 2. UX-ers here (hopefully there must be a few ones from Google and Mozilla here): please help stop this long trend of dumbification. I'm not asking you to make it like bash and vim just to stop hiding menus, removing settings etc etc.