In America there are only two parties. The Republican party is actively hostile to the interests of black people, if not explicitly racist. Since the Democrats - while not generally taking any actions to, you know, improve anything - are not. So like 89% of black voters choose Democratic candidates.

The Supreme Court recently ruled that it is not illegal to change voting districts to prevent the other party from winning. A simple example of that might be taking a city and dividing it into three sections, each of which extends far out into the countryside. Now no single section has a majority of city voters.

In the latest rulings, the Supreme Court also ruled that anyone in such a district must prove that it was done for racial reasons, and not for a pure partisan power grab. States all across the South of the US immediately rewrote their election maps to favor Republicans.

This ends up taking away black representation. Some states have 40% black citizens, and will now have 0% representatives.

Sure seems racist, but the people in power say it’s not.

The chocolate brand Tony Chocolonely in the Netherlands has uneven pieces. It’s to remind us that the world is unfair.

An almost inevitable result of venture capital, IMHO.

I mean, you can get rid of NAT and subnet your systems in a logical fashion. That’s pretty awesome.

I use ULA for my WireGuard tunnels, otherwise it’s all public IPv6 (mostly lightly firewalled).

I’m fine with SLAAC, even for servers. I just manually update my DNS with the server addresses when I set them up.

I give money to LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Armbian, the Wikipedia, and so on. I don’t have to, but it shows my appreciation, and maybe helps them do more in some small way.

Very minor note. The blog mentions that the attacker was unlikely to have gained anything by Monero mining. However the Monero page itself says:

Monero can be mined by both CPUs and GPUs, but the former is much more efficient.

https://www.getmonero.org/get-started/mining/

Maybe it’s time to disengage from Lemmy if it’s impacting your mental health so much. Take care, comrade.

I’m basically okay with that? The average age where people first have sex has been rising, but it’s still less than 18.

Kubernetes storage is the reason I was looking at Minio in the past.

I mean, people in a town I lived in were upset because kids from the next town over were using the public swimming pool. This was in northern Virginia, so not liking people from another village anywhere in the world hardly seems strange.

As a programmer I mostly hate AI written software.

But I do think it’s great that non-programmers can do a lot of things that they never could before.

There’s a bit about those on the Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.xyz#1.111B_class

There used to be restrictions on a hostname.

These had to start with and end with a letter or number, and have only letters, numbers, or a dash. (I heard that originally hostnames had to start with a letter, but 3M got that changed. This might be an urban legend.)

That’s a common restriction for a name still.

Things get funky when you want non-ASCII names - like if you want a cyrillic or Greek name - as registries often limit the allowed characters to limit “isomorphic attacks”. That’s where you use symbols that look the same to trick people into thinking they’re going to another site, like using a 0 instead of an O, or a l instead of an I.

None of this will apply to the XYZ domains that give you a number.

One other issue that might impact you is if you try to connect using only a numeric name. Some tools will interpret such a name as an IPv4 address. Easily solved by using the full name, but weird and confusing if it happens to you unexpectedly. 😅

Seems like someone already did this:

https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/20565

Maybe upgrading will fix it?

Self reply as a follow up.

I use nom.es for DNS experimentation. These are like $3 a year or so, and work fine.

I miss DotTK, which was dodgy and didn’t support DNSSEC, but was actually free. 😅

I would not expect any issues.

From the point of view of DNS, a name is a name.

You can never tell what weird restrictions any given software is going to place on you (there were a lot of forms that did not like TLD with more than 4 characters, 20 years ago or so). But it’s only $1, so worth experimenting, IMHO.

Please let us know if there are problems!

I am never sure since I am American so know lots of Spanish from osmosis. But of course in any large European city there will be plenty of people who know enough English to help out. So yeah, he probably approached every interaction with stereotypical British arrogance and annoyed the people who would have been happy to help him otherwise. 🙈

My parents’ house had such a room! I always thought it was weird to dedicate a room as a shrine to some mythical guest who would someday come and honor it with their presence.

I believe it.

I worked with an Englishman who has lived in the Netherlands for more than 20 years without learning Dutch.

We had a work trip to Madrid, and he went the weekend beforehand for a short vacation. I ran into him on Sunday night and asked him how it went. He said it was terrible, because he’s a vegetarian and couldn’t eat anything because nobody spoke English. He didn’t know what to order or how to ask if something was vegetarian. He was outraged that nobody spoke English. In Madrid. The capital of Spain. 🙈