It redirected me to: https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?embedded=true&url=h... Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
On mobile this surfaced as trying to download a file called "viewer", couldn't see the url. Def weird
Same for me on desktop.
.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
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#322https://hccf.onmy.cloud/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/dot-self.... > Everyone entitled to a subdomain at no cost How are you going to pay for the (substantial) cost of running a TLD without registration fee revenue? Is this a loss leader for other services? Are you operating on a 100% donation model? > No parking, squatting, or reselling How do you plan to tell the difference between a parked/squatted domain and one in…
> How are you going to pay for the (substantial) cost of running a TLD without registration fee revenue? Is this a loss leader for other services? Are you operating on a 100% donation model? We plan on operating the domain as a public good and are actively seeking sponsors to help fund us. Think of it as a similar model to ISRG and LetsEncrypt. > No parking, squatting, or reselling Our rule of one person per subdomai…
> Our rule of one person per subdomain will hopefully prevent this at scale
No it won’t. Spammers will just pay thousands of random people in poor countries to create their domain.
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#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
Core memory unlocked Not enough allowance to fund a .com domain, had to use freenom / tk + cloudflare for my first years of self hosting
In my case, ignorance unlocked. I never heard of tk and I remember 36k modems so old enough. I think reason is I went to work, slung .NET and didn't think much about computers otherwise except occasional reading some C++ books for "fun".
> In my case, ignorance unlocked. I never heard of tk and I remember 36k modems so old enough.
Might be too old then. I used my parents speedy ADSL modem (4mbit/s down, 1mbit/s up) :D
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#324I actually think this is a really good concept. There is no perfect solution for what they're trying to do, but I think they have most of the things covered. Offering one free per person is nice, it can be tricky to enforce but I think doable. Regarding privacy, even right now ICANN rules require a real name and address for the domain. This project comes at the right time when because I see a lot of interest growing…
> it can be tricky to enforce but I think doable
It’s not doable at all. There are millions of people that don’t need a domain but would be happy to be paid $5-10 by some random scammer to hand over their domain.
Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
#325I actually think this is a really good concept. There is no perfect solution for what they're trying to do, but I think they have most of the things covered. Offering one free per person is nice, it can be tricky to enforce but I think doable. Regarding privacy, even right now ICANN rules require a real name and address for the domain. This project comes at the right time when because I see a lot of interest growing…
> it can be tricky to enforce but I think doable It’s not doable at all. There are millions of people that don’t need a domain but would be happy to be paid $5-10 by some random scammer to hand over their domain.
That's true. But I think it's the same case as a bad actor owning a domain for himself. They still need to do some policing so it doesn't pull down the whole TLD
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#326Remember when the .tk TLD became free 20 years ago ? Every hobbyist took one, then scammers followed, then Facebook and antiviruses started blocking it. I remember publishing a website for a class on my .tk domain, the teacher couldn't open it and I almost got a failing grade because of it.
RIP .tk. Those were the days.
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#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s getting so bad. My wife is in a remote school where they fail students occasionally to squeeze a little extra $$ out of them.
I’m sorry your wife failed some classes, but it’s probably not because the school wants some extra money.
How are you so sure?
There is so much shady things about academic env that it doesnt sound scary
Ive witnessed situation where "hard" prof was teaching and many ppl failed, and then thry received "easy" prof and they passed
But they had to pay for exams and retake, etc
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#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
What were these "troublesome parts"? The whole point of HTML's design is that it's incredibly easy for a human to write correctly.
> The whole point of HTML's design is that it's incredibly easy for a human to write correctly. A lot of people (me included) used text editors to write HTML. The process was not easy, and the results mostly not correct. HTML at the time was intended as an application of SGML. This is the first example of HTML from RFC 1866 that laid out HTML 2.0 in 1995: Parsing Example Some text. *wow* Using an HTML editor…
> HTML at the time was intended as an application of SGML
Worse, it was an extended superset (ha!) of SGML. At least 20 years ago, SGML::Parser would reject some valid HTML documents.
That said, it was really easy to type correctly in a text editor (especially compared to actual SGML), particularly one that indented and matched tags for you.