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kijedaon Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

Yes, the revised version that alternated through the translations was posted a week ago on Monday. It was revised to no longer do that on Friday based on reasonable feedback that it wasn't the best idea for accessibility. Now all the translations are presented together, but your preferred language will be bumped to the top based on your browser language preference.

kijedaon Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

Cloudflare is the latest in a number of different CDN providers we've used to serve this over many years. I guess the question is, why is it important not to use a CDN?

kijedaon Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades

I think what you describe is exactly right, it has organically become a service and it is maintained with that in mind. That doesn't mean you shouldn't be clear about what its for and what should be avoided. Otherwise it is setting up an implicit contract that it will service those needs without limitation which turns it into an even bigger dependency.

kijedaon .an, the TLD that ceased to exist

https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-chagos-archipelag...

kijedaon .INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-davies-internal-tld-00...

There are certain circumstances where private network operators may wish to use their own domain naming scheme that is not intended to be used or accessible by the global domain name system (DNS), such as within closed corporate or home networks.

The "internal" top-level domain is reserved to provide this purpose in the DNS. Such domains will not resolve in the global DNS, but can be configured within closed networks as the network operator sees fit.

This reservation is intended for a similar purpose that private-use IP address ranges that are set aside (e.g. [RFC1918]).

kijedaon Not all TLDs are Created Equal

The US Government ended its involvement in IANA when it moved to an international oversight model in 2016. IANA is operated by Public Technical Identifiers which is an affiliate of ICANN, and ICANN provides all of its funding. Governments have a say in how ICANN operates through its Government Advisory Committee, at which all governments — including the US — have a seat.

kijedaon FunctionTrace: Graphical Python Profiler

The license is a bit perplexing at https://gitlab.com/mbryant/functiontrace/-/blob/master/LICEN...

It says it is licensed under Apache License 2.0, but also under "Prosperity Public License 3.0.0" which limits use for a commercial purpose to 30 days.

kijedaon Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs

It would appear to be in the final stages of standardization in the IETF: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122b...

kijedaon The maddening mess of airport codes [video]

Your first suggestion almost perfectly articulated UNLOCODEs, e.g. "US LAX" https://service.unece.org/trade/locode/usk.htm

kijedaon Ask HN: What's the Cheapest TLD?

Some TLDs like .tk (Tokelau) are offered for free.

kijedaon ISO name change for Türkiye

Are you sure its not in reference to "Greek" the language, rather than "Greece" the country? "el" is coding for Greek in ISO 639, IANA language subtags, etc.

kijedaon What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing?

... and .hm and .nf.

The history on why some external territories are coded is because an international standard is the basis for the two-letters used for these TLDs, and that standard is used for other purposes. Far flung localities are often coded due to things like physical mail delivery or customs boundaries which utilize the same standard.

Why does .eu exist? Essentially because "eu" was coded for the European Union to facilitate "EUR" as a currency code when the Euro was introduced. ISO 4217 currency codes derive from ISO 3166 country codes.

kijedaon What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing?

ICANN is finalizing a policy that will govern this question. In short, if adopted, 5-10 years after the country is removed from the ISO 3166-1 standard it will be removed as a TLD.

https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/ccnso-propose...

kijedaon Google owns TLDs: .web .meme and .lol

It may seem like a pedantic point, but these top-level domains are not owned. They currently have registry operation rights which does not confer permanent ownership.

kijedaon Example Domain

It was about 80Mbps earlier this year: https://twitter.com/kjd/status/1405887961791569924

kijedaon Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

LA: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-15/coronaviru...

kijedaon LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in traffic

I don't think it is so simple. I live in LA and can't practically use public transport to commute, but I've lived in less dense cities that have far more effective public transport because the routes are designed better. LA's bus routes feel almost randomly placed, I'm used to having bus routes deliberately serving as feeders to train routes, and timing the schedules so that buses arrive for a swift transfer and you are never waiting.

On my commute to work I see buses from half a dozen different agencies, the fact that every individual city in the metro area seems to run its own bus service is probably another piece of the problem.

kijedaon Choice Hotels Suffers Data Breach, Exposing 700k Customer Records

700,000 records from a chain with 7,000 hotels, per the article. How do you know you're a victim of this breach? Assuming each hotel on average probably has occupancy of at least 100 rooms, it could account for just a single day of reservations across their organization.

In short, it seems too early to assume if you've ever stayed at a hotel you are a victim.

kijedaon Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services exporters at all-time high

Isn’t an O-1 visa designed for situations like your friend?

kijedaon Amazon wins ‘.amazon’ domain name, aggravating South American region

Zhongguo also has .中国 and .中國 as top-level domains which would presumably be more intelligible to Chinese speakers.

kijedaon Why do airlines still mislay 25M bags a year?

Baggage claim in most airports around the world is behind some kind of one way exit point so you need to have been a traveller on a flight to get access to the baggage carousel.

It is also not uncommon in places where petty theft is high for you to have to show your baggage receipt matches the baggage tag before you can take it from the baggage handling area.

kijedaon Why do airlines still mislay 25M bags a year?

This assumes an even distribution of likelihood this will happen, which is far from the reality. You can proactively reduce your risk — don't check in late, watch to make sure the check-in agent actually puts the tag on until you see it go down the conveyer belt, don't book tight connections, book even more generous connections in complex airports when you have terminal changes across the airfield from each other or airports with a poor reputation for mislaying bags on connections, use transfer airports that have been explicitly designed for rapid transfers (e.g. MUC). A general rule of thumb is if you are going to have to uncomfortably rush to make a connection, your bag is even less likely to make it.

Plus, should your luggage get waylaid, there are other things you can do to hasten its recovery: have a fairly unique bag that is unlikely to be mistaken by another traveller as theirs, clearly label your contact details inside and out in case the paper tag gets ripped off.

kijedaon Amazon customers will be able to return purchases to any Kohl’s store in July

It was pretty straightforward. The return counter was right by the front door where you'd typically do other kinds of returns or exchanges, and after returning they give you a voucher for a percentage off purchases at Kohl's that day (20% off if I remember correctly).

What is odd is my most recent Amazon return they did not offer that store as an return option, instead my nearest drop off point was an Amazon Books location about 15 miles further away. I'd assumed the Kohl's experiment was over.

kijedaon First-ever DNSSEC root key rollover

No, this only impacts configuration on the validation side, not signing.

kijedaon Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

.中国 is the country-code top-level domain for China, and has its own set of country-specific rules that they have devised.

Emoji is illegal according to the IETF IDN specification. Some naive clients allow it (i.e. don't follow the standard) but ICANN rules prohibit registries allowing registration of labels that are disallowed by the standard.

kijedaon Facebook Locking Out GDPR Users Until They Consent

Unfortunately for my gym, their service is to offer exercise equipment and they don't need to charge me a subscription in order to provide it. They need to do that in order to make money, which is a completely separate issue.

kijedaon WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May

A big factor is that ICANN is comprised of multiple stakeholder communities of competing interests that have to come up with consensus to make new policies. Refining the model of what is published in the WHOIS has been the subject of working groups in ICANN for over 10 years, but consensus was never reached because you had a huge spread of opinions that never converged. Privacy advocates argued for no WHOIS, whereas interests from law enforcement, security research and intellectual property arguing for full disclosure.

kijedaon WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May

WHOIS the protocol is not the problem, it is the data it is used to publish. Then GDPR-related mitigations required would be the same whether you are publishing with WHOIS, RDAP or something else.

Also, ARIN only has allocations made in North America. Plus, ARIN only covers North American allocations.

kijedaon Python API for Zero Day Phishing Detection Based on Computer Vision

This entire project is less than 20 lines of code:

https://github.com/phishai/phish-ai-api/blob/master/phish_ai...

kijedaon The days of .dev domains for testing code are over

These don't strike me as comparable scenarios.

In the case of .dev, it didn't even appear in the weeds of usage when the DNS root servers were measured for traffic to identify potential new TLDs usage conflicts in the real world (e.g. https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/name-collision-0... p22). Even if .dev were in significant usage, that traffic was not reaching the domain name system. The complaint seems to be fundamentally to be about the pre-loaded configuration of Chrome, not the DNS.

In the case of your regex, it would breaks millions of production domains in used today and fail in a wide variety of scenarios. It is only understandable in the context of someone who hasn't done any cursory research into the topic.