darklamer
@darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Asking for a chocaholic friend 4 days ago:
Greetings from Switzerland! First of all, I’d like to complain that the Swiss flag in the image is incorrect, the correct Swiss flag is a perfect square. Then I can attest that the diagram almost certainly shows the effect of causation.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 6 days ago:
Funny thing: before the App Store, the original plan for the iPhone was that all third-party apps should be webapps.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Well, sure, but Freedman only joined several years and editions after my copy of the book was printed so I only learned about him today and in my mind the book is still just University Physics by Young, sorry about that.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Originally from here: web.archive.org/web/…/1222026507616489472
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Have you read University Physics by Young?
- Comment on Thoughts on Cloudflare 1 week ago:
Do you all have important URLs with Unicode characters?
Yes.
I wouldn’t expect them to succeed 100%
Me neither, but I find that path to be much more likely to be successful than hoping that “people would have the opportunity to become familiar with the correct fingerprint over time and have a chance to notice a difference” would ever have any meaningful impact.
- Comment on Thoughts on Cloudflare 2 weeks ago:
For most security - centric websites, the right name is ASCII only.
Are you perhaps by any chance American?
I’m curious to hear if you think there is a better way.
I think a much better solution would be to shield end users from this problem entirely, by having all registries refuse to register such confusable names, as recommended by Unicode:
- Comment on Thoughts on Cloudflare 2 weeks ago:
But that line of reasoning presupposes both that the right name is in ASCII and that the user knows this. As soon as either one of those isn’t true, showing the Punycode no longer is of any help in determining which one is the right one.
- Comment on Thoughts on Cloudflare 2 weeks ago:
But how would an average user know that xn–googe-hof.com isn’t the right one?
- Comment on Thoughts on Cloudflare 2 weeks ago:
Note that everything outside of ASCII gets encoded in Punycode, so this also includes most languages written in the Latin script.
- Comment on Thoughts on Cloudflare 2 weeks ago:
I’m unsure how that’d be useful to any normal user. Let’s say the UI shows something like this:
A.com Α.com (xn--mxa.com) А.com (xn--80a.com)
What’s the user supposed to do with that information, how would showing the Punycode here help any normal user determine which one of these domains is the right one that they want to visit?
Helping users identify the right domain name and avoid being deceived is surely a very important thing to do, I just find it hard to see how having users read Punycode would ever be a practically useful way to achieve that.
- Comment on Thoughts on Cloudflare 2 weeks ago:
The problem with that line of reasoning is that it ruins what’s arguably the most important feature of DNS: providing human-readable names.
Using lookalike characters to deceive people has been a problem since long before anyone first got the idea to register paypa1.com but no-one ever seriously suggested abandoning human-readable names in order to avoid that problem.
- Comment on Thoughts on Cloudflare 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s not very user friendly of Lemmy to display the Punycode encoded URL instead of the human readable form. While only a fraction of all people on the internet are able to read Japanese, there aren’t any at all who are able to read Punycode fluently.
- Comment on From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban 3 weeks ago:
There’s absolutely no way that’s true.
- Comment on From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban 3 weeks ago:
Eh, I know US-bashing is really popular here, but it has to be at least a little bit believable to be funny.
- Comment on From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban 3 weeks ago:
What school has metal detectors and xray machines?!?
- Comment on Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month 4 weeks ago:
That’s a misunderstanding on your part.
- Comment on here there be lions 1 month ago:
What the fuck is bad::s supposed to mean!?
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 month ago:
Knives.
- Comment on Y tho 1 month ago:
The magnet dislikes you personally, that’s why.
- Comment on i just think they're neat 1 month ago:
Never wear a hat you haven’t grown yourself.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 month ago:
to more obscure and risky providers who don’t care about the law instead
There’s no need to go that far, there will still be plenty of well-known and trustworthy providers who care about the law but simply operate outside of UK jurisdiction.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 1 month ago:
It’s kind of sweet that they write that you need at least RAM 1500 to get these ads in your truck, so that the solution simply is to install less RAM in your truck if you don’t want the ads. (I’ve never owned a truck so I don’t know how much RAM is normal, but 1500 sure sounds like a lot.)
- Comment on What to watch next after ST: Voyager? 2 months ago:
Enterprise has by far the best production design in all of Star Trek, the starship feels real. Don’t miss that.
(Unfortunately most of the scripts are seriously bad, but don’t let that make you skip the show altogether.)
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 2 months ago:
When we’ve achieved Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 2 months ago:
That all depends on what you actually mean by “no other proximate reason”.
I think we all agree that the police should take immediate action if someone is driving the wrong direction against traffic, even if they’re doing nothing else wrong and are driving the posted speed limit, to take an absolutely obvious example.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 2 months ago:
The argument can literally be made that you’re driving dangerously no matter how fast you go.
Well, that’s certainly true also in every jurisdiction I’m familiar with, as it should be, common sense, really.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 2 months ago:
Where I live there are only upper speed limits on most roads except highways. On other roads you can drive as slowly as you want,
Are you sure that you really don’t have any traffic rules against causing a hazard or impeding traffic flow by being too slow? That seems both unusual and unsafe to me.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 2 months ago:
There are speed limits in both directions, in every jurisdiction I’m familiar with it’s illegal to drive both too fast and too slow, to exceed the posted speed limit or to drive so slowly that it impedes other traffic.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’ve had a couple of domains (including one .com) registered under a made-up name for several years, nothing interesting ever happened.