Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name

• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I like how a whole community of academics and researchers worked out how to run a system which, even into the modern day which is kind of amazing, is largely disconnected from being abused by government and industry, and just runs according to what the people who need to use the system need it to do. You can get extorted for a fancy domain name if you really want to, but you can also go to Hostinger and get one for $5/year or something, because a lot of the core of the system is still pretty well-protected from being a cash-grab, through application of good governance and cooperation.

  And then, somehow Hexbear managed to find their way around that system and fucked things up for themselves, and now it’s all DNS’s fault that they stepped in a pile of doo doo.

  Never forget the architects of the internet were some of the vilest US MIC and Silicon Valley ghouls who ever lived and they are still in control fundamentally no matter how much ICANN and IANA claim to be non-partison, neutral, non-political, accountable, democratic, international, stewardshipismists

  Yes, John Postel and David Mills were some of the vilest ghouls and so on. There was nothing about them that could provide a good model for how to do effective cooperation and succeed outside the systems of ownership that defined computing and telecommunications at the time, no particular reason they succeeded so dramatically and gave you, ultimately, this space to post pig balls today, and nothing about their work and traditions that needs to be defended against any silicon valley ghouls in the modern day. You fucking dingbat. I started out sticking up for you guys because no one deserves to get victimized by DNS scammers, but I take it back, go fuck yourselves.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well, Postel has been dead since 1998 and Mills since 2010, so I don’t think they’re included in people still in control. So they’ve got that going for them, which is nice, I guess.

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    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Architects of the internet, they said.

      If they said the people currently in charge of the internet are an uneasy alliance of shadowy goons and idiots, afraid to openly break anything too irrevocably but occasionally trying to yank on the wires to see if there isn’t some way a little more money inside them somewhere, I would generally agree.

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      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The elders of the Internet?

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I mean… OK then just remember the IP addresses of the sites you use and don’t use the domain names?

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  • BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You do have a point there NaibofTabr@46.4.254.144

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    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      See? If you dont like DNS, you don’t have to use DNS, it’s not so hard.

      And IPv6 won’t be that much harder, it’s only… uh… 32 hex digits you’ll have to remember, for each website. No big deal.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yes, only 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:2e04:fe90. Simple!

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      • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Did you know we have these things called computer disks that can store information

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      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        And IPv6 won’t be that much harder, it’s only… uh… 32 hex digits

        I’m still salty that IPv6 is not 6 octets. Six. It’s right there in the name. IPv4 is 4 octets!

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    • infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      30 years ago we had to remember phone numbers, now ip addresses. We are going in circles.

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      • Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Your perspective makes you believe we’re going in circles. In actuality, we’re going down the drain…

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      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        At least they stopped dumping the yellow pages on my porch every year…

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• dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I mean unlike housing, you don’t actually need to pay for a domain name. There are plenty of free alternatives if you ill like paying for a TLD, and in lieu of that you could just memorise the IP.

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• GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If I didn’t know this was chapotraphouse I would consider it an excellent shitpost.

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• Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What is with the weirdly shaped emojis.

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  • m_f@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Over on the linked page? They’ve got custom “emojis”, which are just pictures uploaded by an admin. Lemmy has that feature in general, but it’s not used much on other instances. If it’s enabled on your instance, you can type : to select from all regular emojis plus custom ones.

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    • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I know, but why are they so big.

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