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.

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. 😅

I believe that the prosecution cannot call witnesses not on the list, but that the defense has more leeway?

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!

So if I went to see Trump talk in a crowd he’d say that he was resigning then turning himself in for his many crimes and would be issuing a full confession?

It’s tradition:

https://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=4053

Imagine how they must feel in Iran. 😞

My understanding was that radiation was harmful to wildlife, but less harmful than humans. So not exactly uplifting…

I’m vegetarian and I often feel like this at a restaurant.

The only time it is a problem is in Italy, when saying “no thanks” to the waiter’s magical special of the day is an insult to his family’s honor. I don’t dare say that I’m a vegetarian in Italy though, or they will decide to skip the delicious pasta or gnocchi or risotto or pizza or whatever and bring me a plate of vegetables. 😅

All I do:

• Run updates daily
• Disable password logins
• Run sshguard
• Daily backups to a cloud and off-site host

I think that’s it. I have my host exposed to the Internet. As far as I know, it’s fine.

BTW, sshguard is for the IMAP and SMTP that run on the host, which do allow password logins. But it helps reduce load from brute force attacks on port 22 (which are pointless anyway).

I’m much more worried about my son installing dodgy Minecraft mods, or my wife installing another app that she saw on TikTok. I really should put them each on a separate VLAN…

Just to be clear, you probably don’t want to take it during the flight.

This is amazing! My father lives near here and I can confirm it’s bleak. 😆

Is Israel green in the bottom map or not? 🧐

I use Wero for basically everything and don’t have any problems with it. Maybe I don’t buy from companies that are dodgy enough? 🤔

I love commenting, but not posting. 😞

That’s all true… although I’m a shitty vegan who eats a Fuck ton of soy. 😅