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Five times ICANN deleted a ccTLD, and what it means for .io - Domain Incite

With the future of .io coming into question this week, with the news that the UK will return sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius, I thought it would be a good time to see how ICANN has treated disappearing countries and ter…
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Investigating why Steam started picking a random font

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Kind of reassuring to know my feelings on this aren't as much of an outlier as politicians want me to think.

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

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But once again "fuck what you peasants think, we're in charge now"

#FreePalestine #Gaza #Israel #UKPOL #Ukpolitics #Labour #Starmer


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Why don't we format Unix timestamps like we do with IPv4 addresses? They are both just 32 bit integers.

"Hey, what time is it?" - "Oh, it's 103.1.0.185."

It even works for time ranges!
"The conference will be held in 103.1.0.0/19"

#unix #time #ipv4

#unix #time #ipv4
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Raw flux streams and obscure formats: Further work around imaging 5.25-inch floppy disks

This blog is a continuation of our earlier collaboration (which can be found here and here). These posts focused on our first efforts to set up a workflow to image 5.25-inch floppy disks using a…
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Handing the Chagos islands to Mauritius means the sun will set on the British Empire (on the 21st of March 2025, when British Antarctic Territory passes equinox, assuming the treaty is signed by then): reddit.com/r/geography/comment…

Reddit - Dive into anything

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colonialism in scare quotes and calling protestors "tech bros" is an incredibly contemptuous way to describe a successful movement for independence. vanity TLDs associated with country codes are one of my least favorite fashion statements mendeddrum.org/@fanf/113244393…

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An interesting question arising from today’s deal to hand the Chagos islands back to Mauritius is: what happens to the .io ccTLD with the dissolution of the British Indian Ocean Territory? Presumably it passes to Mauritius, but do they keep it or scrap it, or change how the registry works?
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The only instance of an in-use ccTLD being withdrawn that I found in IANAs reports was .TP:

iana.org/reports/2015/tp-repor…

In that case, Portuguese Timor stopped existing in 2002, new registrations were stopped in 2005, and the domain was finally withdrawn in 2015.

Report on the Removal of the .TP top-level domain representing Portuguese Timor

www.iana.org
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Shout out to everyone on here who feels total dismay about the state of the world this morning. I can’t stand having to hear again and again that “Israel has a right to defend itself” and “has our full support”. I hope one day the havoc that this stance alone has wreaked will be fully recognised.

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It's all a colossal DARVO on the part of Israel and the tame media are regurgitating the propaganda.
PM Starmer says "We stand with Israel and we recognise her right to self-defence in the face of this aggression".
No, no we don't. The aggression has been disproportionately that of Israel and could be curtailed by cutting Israel's supply of arms and military support, not least that of the UK.

theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

British forces involved in defending Israel from Iranian attack, says Healey

Defence secretary says UK military ‘played part in attempts to prevent further escalation in the Middle East’
Matthew Weaver (The Guardian)
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"We've tried everything we can do to try to bring Peace to the Middle East, except stopping the supply of weapons....please dont be mean to us" -Western Governments

#Israel #Iran #Lebanon

#israel #iran #lebanon

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"Nasrallah was a combatant & a legitimate target. But the massive bombing of the densely populated Dahiya neighborhood in Beirut.. was a major war crime.

Those who argue otherwise must then explain why it would not be acceptable for Israel’s enemies to destroy IDF headquarters, which is situated in the middle of Tel Aviv near residences & popular attractions, and the surrounding area"
@MitchellPlitnick on the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah

#Israel #Hezbollah #Beirut
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Mitchell Plitnick on Substack

Thoughts on the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is an important development in the mushrooming regional war.
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#israel #Beirut #Hezbollah @Mitchell Plitnick

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Who could possibly have forseen etc (this is the CUPS vuln guy) x.com/evilsocket/status/101609…

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Nerds! My friend James needs your help to rescue #Teletext data from lots of old #VHS tapes.

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/my-…

If you can assist - please contact him directly.

I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know what to do with them

A story about data and a very foolish hobby
James O'Malley (Odds and Ends of History)
#vhs #teletext

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The railway south of Cambridge splits just south of the city, with one line heading to Liverpool Street and one, the faster shorter route, to Kings Cross or St Pancras. Ever since I learned the point where they split is called “Shepreth Branch Junction” I’ve taken delight in saying “we’re taking the Shepreth branch” as if this is some forgotten branch line bywater of the network rather than the main route to London. Conjuring the romantic from the mundane just from a bit of railway geekery. Adlestrop, or the slow train.

Shepreth itself is a bit of a bywater. Express trains, like this one, skip it and its neighbours Foxton and Meldreth, so if you want to partake of their delights — a safari park! A path through a field! Tech startups that couldn’t afford Cambridge! — you’ll need to take the actual slow train.

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And here's news of a huge treat for the 40th anniversary of Elite!

Ian Bell, co-author of the original Elite, has just released a bunch of never-seen-before original source discs for Elite on the Apple II, Commodore 64, NES, SNES (unfinished), Atari ST... and, amazingly, a prototype of Elite 2, which has never been released before.

Get stuck in on Ian's site: elitehomepage.org/fourty/index…

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #BBCMicro #C64 #NES #SNES #AtariST #Elite

Elite 40th Anniversary

www.elitehomepage.org
#retrocomputing #c64 #bbcmicro #retrogaming #atarist #elite #nes #snes

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Mark Moxon

@geolaw No, it is not open source. Ian Bell has released the source on his website, but there is no licence attached at all. It is still copyright code… but it is out there in the public domain, so who knows what that means!

It’s complicated, in other words.

This is how I interpret it: github.com/markmoxon/elite-sou…

GitHub - markmoxon/elite-source-code-commodore-64: Fully buildable source code for Elite on the Commodore 64

Fully buildable source code for Elite on the Commodore 64 - markmoxon/elite-source-code-commodore-64
GitHub
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So there's the answer: the radios and batteries were discontinued in 2014, Hezbollah tried to keep using them, the batteries gradually died, so they began buying cheap third-party batteries made by someone unspecified … which gave the Israeli sigint people the perfect way to put bombs in them.

It's not just your electronics supply chain you need to secure; it's all the consumables.
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Slightly embarrassing moment at work yesterday. There's been a bit of a bug going round various people in the office, so when a coworker walked in saying "ooh, I'm feeling a bit grotty today" I moved to jokingly make the sign of the cross to ward off the plague before stopping myself because I remembered he's Muslim.

I'm atheist, but societal Christian defaultism can always rear its head!

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A slightly unusual #RailwaysExplained thread today...

HOW IT WORKS - OVERHEAD LINE TEST TRAINS (SLIGHT RETURN)

A while back I did a thread on OLE test trains which you can read here: mas.to/@25kV/11089523444924623… More recently, SPL have put together a further iteration of the FrankenTrain™ to test the next stage of Midland Mainline Electrification (MMLE), & today they kindly invited me and a colleague on board to observe high speed testing of the new OLE between Wigston and Kettering North Junction.

#RailwaysExplained
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discovered to my great dismay that in many serif typefaces the alignment of “f” and “y” together is in fact deeply unsatisfying
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So I'm at LibDem Conference

There's been a tiny group of TERFs here, being horrid.

In response several hundred pro-trans rights LibDems made this happen:

#TransRights #LibDems

#transrights #LibDems
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Oh what a beautifully written rant

"The fantasy—and it is a fantasy—isn't one of space travel and exploration and some bright Star Trek future for humanity, but one of winnowing and eugenics, of cold actuarial lifeboat logic, of ever greater reallocation from the dwindling many to the thriving few. That's the world as Elon Musk and his cohort want it; Mars colonization is just a pretext."

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Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well.
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I'm having mixed feelings about this article.

On one hand it has very good points, about radiation and all the other issues with Mars.

But on the other hand, I cannot stop thinking about that one article stating that humans will never fly, published a year before the Wright brothers proved otherwise.

And on the third hand, I'm thinking of how Kim Stanley Robinson described the terraforming of Mars in his books.

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When Scots come to England, they stuff the cats and the dogs and the other pets with spicy oats and roast them. That's what they do! They call it Karmala Haggis.

I'm going to England today, but I'm Irish, so I chop pets up and boil them with spuds.

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I'd missed this astonishing Tory leadership rule.

The ability to extract huge sums from party benefactors tells us nothing about the candidates' ability to be prime minister or leader of the opposition.

But it ensures they'll begin their leadership in thrall to wealthy donors.

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