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Re: Save .org

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Post by jancsika »

foxhop wrote: post #51

I think I give up on the Internet that we know today. I'm too tired to fight anymore. Monopoly ISPs with data caps, DNS rent seeking, the walled gardens, the internet of shit where I cannot walk down my street without getting recorded by every house with a "ring". I'm done with it. I don't want to partake anymore, I don't want to fight it anymore, I don't want to care anymore. Let the Google's and Facebook's have the…

> Monopoly ISPs with data caps

The fact that data caps ever gained traction doesn't reflect well on the old timers ability to explain and protect the true value of their creations for the wider public.

Which is weird because they were obviously able to do that with cryptographic algorithms which are way more esoteric.

It's like teaching a generation of craftspeople to build all the intricate parts of a piano but never noticing nor caring that for some reason they're all selling pianos that have a single key.

Re: Save .org

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Post by tenebrisalietum »

windexh8er wrote: post #16

I've been thinking a lot about the sheer downsides of DNS overall. We need something different. Something decentralized, encrypted, something not reliant on a protocol that hasn't kept pace with security and privacy and we need something verifiable that provides accountability. As others have said TLDs have become a racket. Only the priveleged and nation states have the authority to use the system as a funnel of ridi…

I liked Namecoin.

Re: Save .org

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Post by ceejayoz »

partiallypro wrote: post #27
thenewnewguy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Serious question, did you even read the page? Specifically, the part where it makes specific complaints about the 2019 .org registry agreement, such as the ability to raise registration fees without ICANN approval?

So it goes up by $1 or $15, how does that hurt non-profits? They aren't going to out price other TLDs, the market isn't that elastic.

> So it goes up by $1 or $15, how does that hurt non-profits?

In the aggregate, that's many, many millions of dollars going into Ethos Capital's pockets at the expense of charities and other non-profit organizations.

Who says it stops at $15, too?

Re: Save .org

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Post by Bnshsysjab »

exikyut wrote: post #79
foxhop wrote: post #51

I think I give up on the Internet that we know today. I'm too tired to fight anymore. Monopoly ISPs with data caps, DNS rent seeking, the walled gardens, the internet of shit where I cannot walk down my street without getting recorded by every house with a "ring". I'm done with it. I don't want to partake anymore, I don't want to fight it anymore, I don't want to care anymore. Let the Google's and Facebook's have the…

Sorry, you're not allowed to leave. Earlier today I was trying to Google a website I found on my PC a while back. (Backing up its disk atm, and don't use Chrome sync.) Clicked on an unrelated link, and was already in the process of reaching for the Back button when I realized I was looking at a cert failure (wrong domain in certificate). Heh. Idly curious I hit Continue... And was presented with my first > Content De…

Australia implemented anti piracy dns blacklisting in 2016, and had an additional dns filter for highly illegal content significantly before that.

I’ve never heard of anyone get arrested for low level piracy here, so I wouldn’t be all that concerned with requests that hit the piracy filters.

Re: Save .org

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Post by codemati »

exegete wrote: post #53

I can’t visit the site. First there’s an SSL cert problem and when I bypass that Verizon blocks it as malware.

Not sure why this is getting downvotes. I'm seeing the same - Chrome blocks it, then my work VPN does, with the following error:

"This site is blocked due to a security threat that was discovered by the Cisco Umbrella security researchers."

Re: Save .org

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Post by ehonda »

foxhop wrote: post #51

I think I give up on the Internet that we know today. I'm too tired to fight anymore. Monopoly ISPs with data caps, DNS rent seeking, the walled gardens, the internet of shit where I cannot walk down my street without getting recorded by every house with a "ring". I'm done with it. I don't want to partake anymore, I don't want to fight it anymore, I don't want to care anymore. Let the Google's and Facebook's have the…

Some of us are trying to keep it alive.

Re: Save .org

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Post by Bnshsysjab »

partiallypro wrote: post #27
thenewnewguy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Serious question, did you even read the page? Specifically, the part where it makes specific complaints about the 2019 .org registry agreement, such as the ability to raise registration fees without ICANN approval?

So it goes up by $1 or $15, how does that hurt non-profits? They aren't going to out price other TLDs, the market isn't that elastic.

It doesn’t have to be fair.

They could charge x.org $15 and y.org $150,000.

Re: Save .org

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Post by jcims »

jijji wrote: post #81
glup wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same. Time for a completely different stack / protocol? Like a cloud that is actually a cloud rather than corporate centralization with a side order of surveillance?

x.25 was my favorite

Haven’t seen that in awhile. Used to help run some EDI and PPP services hung off an x.25 node right down the road from CompuServe in Ohio. The PPP router didn’t even authenticate the user lol, just welcome to the network! I bitched about it for a long time before a demo changed minds.
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