Garbage article. Do people even read this stuff before upvoting…
.io considered harmful
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#232Now I want to put a banner on my .io website to remind visitors of this story
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#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm just happy they are talking about it all! It's good to learn about things outside your main domain, especially with something like world history/geopolitics. Can you give examples of the gibberish? Genuinely fascinated to know what you are referring to. This kind of stuff in particular can be pretty disheartening to learn about in general, and I find misinformation/pathos around it can often come from resistance…
Hi there! I'm glad you're genuinely fascinated! Deciphering the meaning of words used by commoners can be totes challenging! I too enjoy learning things outside my main areas of interest, sometimes even conversing with people who exist outside the monoculture of my university program. I find there's a lot of misinformation/pathos around these beautiful people and their diverse cultures. Instead of using every word li…
Good rant, feels misapplied here
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#234I would go further and say this: Never treat foreign ccTLD’s (two-letter domains) as anything you can just register and use a domain in. You should only ever use a ccTLD of your own country or region you actually have your main presence in. Your domain name is often your most secure key to your entire online identity, and you want that to be on as a secure legal footing as possible. Older discussion here: https://new…
I anlway prefer using OG .com and .net for business/apps, and .org for personal.
These are all general purpose and open for anything. You gotta get creative with the naming though!
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
Weird. Also: > And so, Britain traded the land illegally. Whoa, strong claim. Probably backed by facts below? Nope. At the same time, Wikipedia: > In November 1965, the UK purchased the entire Chagos Archipelago from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). So, they bought it for 3 million pounds. Doesn't seem illegal to me.
There's an entire article here on horrific human rights abuses, and internationally recognized crimes against humanity. But you're going to dwell on whether the first initial island purchase itself was "legal" being a strong claim? Reevaluate your ethics. It's utterly irrelevant. Slavery was LEGAL.
we are veering deep into logical fallacies here. lets pull this back into why they suggested this point.
> But you're going to dwell on whether the first initial island purchase itself was "legal" being a strong claim?
The article is claiming to be entirely factual. but this assertion is not actually true, so it isn't factual.
> internationally recognized crimes against humanity.
Most crimes against humanity are internationally recognised, its just not by the right people. frustrating, but not relevant to the point. Human rights watch have asserted that it is a crime against humanity. which is a strong indicator that it might be. but its not the same as a legal ruling from an international court.
> Reevaluate your ethics. It's utterly irrelevant. Slavery was LEGAL.
But thats the main point, all of this was legal. just not moral to our eyes. To assert that the land was illegally traded was incorrect, and an appeal bolster the original claim that people who buy and use .io are directly and actively supporting a very bad deed. The land was legally traded, the people were illegal moved.
Now its fair to say that Mauritius wants the land back, and without them, I doubt we would actually have known too much about this whole affair. (small island nations have a history of forced exile). This tale isn't unique or indeed unusual. what is unusual is that its been taken to court and won compensation.
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#237This sounds like someone who couldn't buy their desired .io domain and now sounds bitter about it trying to spoil it for everyone.
It's directly at the bottom of the article: it is someone who could and did buy their desired .io domain and now feel guilty about it, having learned new things about why .io domains are the way they are.
First world problems...
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm just happy they are talking about it all! It's good to learn about things outside your main domain, especially with something like world history/geopolitics. Can you give examples of the gibberish? Genuinely fascinated to know what you are referring to. This kind of stuff in particular can be pretty disheartening to learn about in general, and I find misinformation/pathos around it can often come from resistance…
Hi there! I'm glad you're genuinely fascinated! Deciphering the meaning of words used by commoners can be totes challenging! I too enjoy learning things outside my main areas of interest, sometimes even conversing with people who exist outside the monoculture of my university program. I find there's a lot of misinformation/pathos around these beautiful people and their diverse cultures. Instead of using every word li…
Ah there it is. Thank you. You did almost well. But I think you kinda forgot your point halfway through.. is this a context size thing? Because, you seem to want to make a maneuver here where you want to 1. mirror a tone, and 2. say something about "PhD Students" and their bad faith. But, because of (1) both you and the gp have now also become PhD students, which really ends up confusing your overall conceit here (but congrats on your degree, I know its a tough road).
But, got it: "colonialism" is just a word that gets people riled up, like gp, and so the comment it just mocking tech people who talk about colonialism. Its not making any claims about what they say necessarily, just that they are saying it.
Thank you! Good luck meaningfully encoding information today ;)
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm just happy they are talking about it all! It's good to learn about things outside your main domain, especially with something like world history/geopolitics. Can you give examples of the gibberish? Genuinely fascinated to know what you are referring to. This kind of stuff in particular can be pretty disheartening to learn about in general, and I find misinformation/pathos around it can often come from resistance…
A fascination with history is good! I'm not entirely sure why people are downvoting. The only thing that I would suggest is learning about "historiography". As that's very important when you are learning about "contested" or "active" fields of historical research. History is always biased, and often is used as a way to frame the present, more than it is the past. to your point, Learning about the history of the empir…
Right, thank you for taking the time, I think I understood all this. I am not sure how it relates to "tech people" talking about colonialism, but rather simply outlines some more ambient context to it. Either way, thank you for the lesson.
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> If ICANN were to actually step in, all they would realistically do (which, logically, should address your concerns) is designate that .io now stands for Input/Output Highly unlikely. Two-letter (non-IDN) TLDs are strictly reserved for country codes. This would be a strange time to break that rule, and it'd send a really terrible message, i.e. "if your country's ccTLD falls into the wrong hands, we'll take it away f…
> Highly unlikely. Two-letter (non-IDN) TLDs are strictly reserved for country codes. What's a "country" here? .eu? .um?
Whatever ISO 3166-1 defines as a country.