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Re: Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs

#31

Why do you use a TLD that is commonly blocked?

Kind of crazy to me that anyone would block an entire TLD. This timeline is bizarre. How often and with what services do you find zip blocked? Genuinely curious

this timeline is bizarre because someone allowed TLD with common filetype name be created

ideally it should've been killed the moment it was created to become a lesson for everyone else

Re: Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs

#32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of crazy to me that anyone would block an entire TLD. This timeline is bizarre. How often and with what services do you find zip blocked? Genuinely curious

this timeline is bizarre because someone allowed TLD with common filetype name be created ideally it should've been killed the moment it was created to become a lesson for everyone else

That ship sailed when ".com" was created.

Re: Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs

#33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of crazy to me that anyone would block an entire TLD. This timeline is bizarre. How often and with what services do you find zip blocked? Genuinely curious

this timeline is bizarre because someone allowed TLD with common filetype name be created ideally it should've been killed the moment it was created to become a lesson for everyone else

so I guess you would also support killing another TLD with a common filetype:

https://ohmyz.sh

Re: Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs

#35

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My employer blocks it on our work computers. Looking around it seems like this is commonly done because one of the main uses of the .zip tld is to spread malware by faking links to zip files using "/" look alike characters and other URLs that look like download links to zip files.

Well by that token we should probably also block the .com TLD since that is actually an executable file suffix.

Modern 64-bit Windows doesn't execute .com files, unless the user installs an emulator or something.

Re: Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs

#37
post #36

The mobile experience is horrible otherwise really awesome.

Thanks for the feedback - horrible how? It works fine on my Android but someone else said similar that uses iPhone, just not sure exactly what the issues was

I'm on Google pixel 10 xl, everything could be nicer in general, the chart isn't very smooth when scrolling around etc

But the main problem is I can't seem to reliably click on a node, it works occasionally but if I find one I want to click on, it either takes ten taps or some I couldn't just open what so ever.

Re: Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs

#38
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback - horrible how? It works fine on my Android but someone else said similar that uses iPhone, just not sure exactly what the issues was

I'm on Google pixel 10 xl, everything could be nicer in general, the chart isn't very smooth when scrolling around etc But the main problem is I can't seem to reliably click on a node, it works occasionally but if I find one I want to click on, it either takes ten taps or some I couldn't just open what so ever.

Ahhhhh I'm guessing that's a Device Pixel Ratio issue I completely forgot to consider (EG rendering 4x pixels than it should makes it slow, and the nodes smaller). I'll play around with it, thanks for the heads up

Re: Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs

#39
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My employer blocks it on our work computers. Looking around it seems like this is commonly done because one of the main uses of the .zip tld is to spread malware by faking links to zip files using "/" look alike characters and other URLs that look like download links to zip files.

https://luke.zip/posts/zip-defense/ I get asked this a lot, so here's my defense!

I had little opinion on .zip but this convinced me to go figure out how to block .zip tld. Why would someone risk all those attack vectors when there is so much available on the many other tlds. I could see myself getting caught by many of them.
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