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Re: .io considered harmful

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Post by hurrdurr56 »

undersuit wrote: post #226
hurrdurr56 wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, oh yeah? W-well I am just so upset about historical injustice that I am boycotting ALL the TLDs. I just care so much more than the rest of you I guess. Yeah that's right, get on my level, shirtlords. I'm not "virtue signaling", I really care, like totally.

That was always allowed. What's your IP?

IP Addresses are very problematic as they were developed primarily by White Male Cis-Het Oppressors who undoubtedly incorporated their implicit biases into the system in order to cyber-colonize marginalized persons. They were developed in the United States which literally had legalized slavery for much of its history. If you use an IP Address you are literally supporting slavery and systemic racism. Wow just wow.

Re: .io considered harmful

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Post by pipeline_peak »

d0mine wrote: post #229
KaiserPro wrote: post #40

The article starts with "everything is FACT" then ends with: Every .io domain you buy funds a government committing crimes against humanity. Every .io domain you renew legitimises and reinforces the continued exile of the Chagossians. which is hyperbole at best, and bollocks at worst. .io isn't sold or owned by the british (or US) government Most people don't understand what .io is for, moreover the UK goverment has…

Try the same logic for e.g., .ru domain and see how it goes.

I don't touch .ru domains with a stick lol

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Post by zaphirplane »

evantbyrne wrote: post #111
KaiserPro wrote: post #40

The article starts with "everything is FACT" then ends with: Every .io domain you buy funds a government committing crimes against humanity. Every .io domain you renew legitimises and reinforces the continued exile of the Chagossians. which is hyperbole at best, and bollocks at worst. .io isn't sold or owned by the british (or US) government Most people don't understand what .io is for, moreover the UK goverment has…

The invocation of "colonialism" in tech discussions tends to be a pretty reliable indication that what follows will be gibberish.

The gibberish is people from former colonial powers justifying past and current behaviour. As an observation

Re: .io considered harmful

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Post by pingiun »

jihadjihad wrote: post #22
thih9 wrote: post #14

I wonder what’s going to happen with https://notion.so > Oof, sorry about this We chose .so when we were starting out (lots of other companies named Notion, and .so was available). Does it help that we own notion.com now? Automatic redirect for now, but we'll be switching to .com as soon as our engineering team has the bandwidth. Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/f6x9mk/why_the_so_d... (3 years ago)

I never really thought about the fact it was Somalia's TLD, or that it was (seemingly) a random choice because it happened to be available. I always thought it was a play on shared objects (.so files).

every two letter tld is from some country

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Post by leadingthenet »

cool_dude85 wrote: post #79
IceHegel wrote: post #69

This is so washed up as a take. Let’s go to mars instead of pouring energy into blaming the British for everything.

No argument, just "old news"? The British did do this. They ethnically cleansed the Chagos islands. Don't like it, argue your point.

...of people who were as native to the lands as the British themselves were, a minority of which were even born there, on an island where literally nobody owned any private real-estate to begin with.

Yes, this is exactly what ethnic cleansing means in usual parlance and is totally not hyperbole.

Re: .io considered harmful

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Post by evantbyrne »

zaphirplane wrote: post #243
evantbyrne wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The invocation of "colonialism" in tech discussions tends to be a pretty reliable indication that what follows will be gibberish.

The gibberish is people from former colonial powers justifying past and current behaviour. As an observation

There are valid and purposeful discussions about colonization. And then there's an awful lot of "decolonization" talk that is virtue signalling–or worse–a dog whistle. Calling out "people from former colonial powers" sure sounds like it falls into the latter.

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Post by yencabulator »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #155
mmh0000 wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a good point you bring up. It is evident that everyone knows the correct level of indentation is a tab character that is four spaces wide; you never use spaces for indentation, only tab characters. Any suitable programming language will immediately recognize a space as a typo and fail compilation.

The correct answer to the "tabs vs spaces" debate is tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment. This allows people to use any tab width they want and it will always look good. However, in the real world, attempting this won't work because there will be a minimum of 1 person in the team that configures their editor to convert tabs to spaces. Ideally, that person should have their PRs rejected and be scolded into fixi…

> The correct answer to the "tabs vs spaces" debate is tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment.

I for one would like to live in an era where we move beyond monospace text.

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #145
PhasmaFelis wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking at the page, I assume you mean that she's queer and vaccinated? (And not concealing those things)

Mainly the vaccination thing. Your vaccine status is utterly irrelevant to a blog. There is zero reason anyone would state that unless they have a strong moral belief about vaccination and wish to make a public statement that they are doing the correct thing as they see it. It's really cringe, like I said. I don't conceal which vaccines I get - if it's relevant to the conversation I have no problem mentioning it. But…

It might have been weird five years ago, but vaccination is actually a pretty reasonable thing to have strong moral beliefs about in a post-COVID world.

There's a lot of people who think "virtue signalling" (and also "cringey") means "saying things I disagree with out loud," and it seems like you're tending in that direction.

Re: .io considered harmful

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Post by zaphirplane »

evantbyrne wrote: post #246
zaphirplane wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The gibberish is people from former colonial powers justifying past and current behaviour. As an observation

There are valid and purposeful discussions about colonization. And then there's an awful lot of "decolonization" talk that is virtue signalling–or worse–a dog whistle. Calling out "people from former colonial powers" sure sounds like it falls into the latter.

Why is calling out convoluted arguments justifying horrible acts by colonial powers dog whistle ?

The submission is about a colonial power (uk) forcibly relocating the occupants of those Islands with the uk high court and court of appeal ruling it wrong; so Did the UN

You think this is virtue signaling dig whistle? Strange

Re: .io considered harmful

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Post by yrro »

jihadjihad wrote: post #22
thih9 wrote: post #14

I wonder what’s going to happen with https://notion.so > Oof, sorry about this We chose .so when we were starting out (lots of other companies named Notion, and .so was available). Does it help that we own notion.com now? Automatic redirect for now, but we'll be switching to .com as soon as our engineering team has the bandwidth. Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/f6x9mk/why_the_so_d... (3 years ago)

I never really thought about the fact it was Somalia's TLD, or that it was (seemingly) a random choice because it happened to be available. I always thought it was a play on shared objects (.so files).

FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain
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