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Perhaps they are confusing it with the San Francisco Armory, a historic building the NIMBY neighbors blocked from being converted into housing so a porn company bought it instead and turned it into a production company instead.
Not anymore I’m afraid. Sold in 2018 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Armory
Reading this felt like a trip through a portal into the nascent Internet in late 90s. I hope this never goes down.
Yes, this reminds me of 190 Bowery, a building in NYC that some photographer bought for $102k back in the 70s. He finally caved in though selling it for $55m in 2014. https://ny.curbed.com/2019/7/31/20732103/jay-myself-document...
I have a two-character .org. I've never, in the 25 years I've owned it, gotten a non-scam offer for it. (Not that I'd sell for less than change-your-life money.)
I owned a domain name similar to a popular email hosting service at one time and setup wildcard acceptance of all emails sent to it. The influx of typod emails was hilarious but overwhelming.
Importantly, one of those is bound to his iCloud account. During the holidays, he has an alternate "burner account", since his account can receive multiple reset requests per-minute for a couple of weeks. He estimates he gets 20000+ reset requests per year. According to him, it's just part of living his best life.
Am I wrong to guess that this domain is worth more than a million dollars? Rejecting that kind of money for making a point is… I don’t know, but it’s definitely something. Edit: not just rejecting money, but defending it in court!
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The requesting computer has a bit flip and requests the wrong domain. It even is not stopped by HTTPS depending on where the bit flip happens and how the software is written.
Is there any data to support the hypothesis that this happens often? I've never experienced it without being a human typo. I find it hard to believe in this day and age we have a single service that has high error rates no one notices.
Old defcon talk on this
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Have you ever met rms? http://www.jwz.org/hacks/why-cooperation-with-rms-is-impossi...
Reminder / warning: jwz.org redirects incoming traffic from HN to an NSFW image.
On second thought, I'd rather see the hairy nut in an egg cup than have to listen to RMS singing that.
Reading this felt like a trip through a portal into the nascent Internet in late 90s. I hope this never goes down.
> I hope this never goes down. I'm afraid it just has. Perhaps it'll go up again eventually. In the meantime, the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230106230031/https://gail.com/
Nice work, everyone.
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The requesting computer has a bit flip and requests the wrong domain. It even is not stopped by HTTPS depending on where the bit flip happens and how the software is written.
Is there any data to support the hypothesis that this happens often? I've never experienced it without being a human typo. I find it hard to believe in this day and age we have a single service that has high error rates no one notices.