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synotna commented on The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database   muddy.jprs.me/links/2026-... · Posted by u/jprs
somat · 9 days ago
On the subject of "Things that should be in DNS" the public suffix list. Why on earth is data describing DNS trust boundaries not in the DNS? It's bizarre.

https://publicsuffix.org/

So here is my RFC to correct this deficit.

No public suffix records: suffixes are considered private trust them like you trust this domain. (I would like to invert this to suffixes default public and you mark them private but that conflicts with current practice)

TXT record 'v=PS1' suffixes under domain are considered public, treat as a trust boundary.

TXT record 'v=PS2 domain-fragment domain-fragment ...' suffixes under domain are considered public except for listed subdomains, those are private and under our control

and then let the ietf fight for a few years on why this does not work and how we need a huge recursive mess (cough SPF)

synotna · 9 days ago
For dmarc purposes it is moving to DNS, with dmarcbis the psd tag and treewalk will replace hoping everybody uses the same file and keeps it up to date
synotna commented on Not all browsers perform revocation checking   revoked-isrgrootx1.letsen... · Posted by u/sugarpimpdorsey
jofla_net · 6 months ago
Sometime last summer, I encountered a domain which WAS revoked. I was and am using Firefox, roughly v120, in Ubuntu and it threw up an unskippable error page, similar to those self signed pages in chrome. I did turn it off for hahas, in about:config, i believe it was an OCSP setting, security.OCSP.enabled to let me view the page.

However, this page, shows perfectly, so there must have been some differences between this and the domain I remember. Unfortunately, my domain has long since been reissued and I can't reproduce the block. The block also occurred in the latest Thunderbird for windows 7 interestingly.

synotna · 6 months ago
OCSP is deprecated for CRLs

Let's encrypt already EOLd OCSP

synotna commented on Show HN: I'm building a Product Hunt alternative, it's 4 days old   launching.today/... · Posted by u/mrsegev
synotna · a year ago
Congrats on the launch

Please consider fixing that middle click opens in a new tab

synotna2 commented on Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies   petapixel.com/2023/08/23/... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
hnbad · 3 years ago
I thought Australia would surely be in NATO and that would deter China from doing that but after looking it up, it looks like NATO and Australia merely have "deepened relationships" (according to an article from last year), whatever that means. Today I learned!
synotna2 · 3 years ago
Because Australia is not in the north Atlantic
synotna commented on Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe   back-on-track.eu/night-tr... · Posted by u/robin_reala
agapon · 3 years ago
No night trains to / from Baltics?
synotna · 3 years ago
New/improved rail links are planned/in progress as part of TEN-T which will probably help

https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/infrastructu...https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/infrastructu...

synotna2 commented on The Dutch benefits scandal: a cautionary tale for algorithmic enforcement   eulawenforcement.com/?p=7... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
EdwardDiego · 3 years ago
Are there more details on that somewhere? Feels like something that an investigative journalist (or, I guess these days, podcaster) would've dug right into the guts of.
synotna2 · 3 years ago
There is a very good book that covers it very well: the great post office scandal

Hard to read without boiling your blood

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synotna commented on Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?   cddo.blog.gov.uk/2022/11/... · Posted by u/robin_reala
smcl · 3 years ago
Ah good point, but the scenario in question involved both Ireland and Scotland leaving so "Great Britain" doesn't fit either.
synotna · 3 years ago
If both leave, then the predecessor to the Kingdom of Great Britain was the Kingdom of England

Wales was already part of England, as principality / having been conquered

Though "United Kingdom of England" could argue that they kept the Irish crown :)

synotna commented on Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?   cddo.blog.gov.uk/2022/11/... · Posted by u/robin_reala
Wildgoose · 3 years ago
I think it would become simply "Britain", seeing as "Britannia" originally referred to the Roman colonies of England and Wales.

"Great Britain" is the whole island (including Scotland).

"United Kingdom" would require continued Union with either Scotland or Northern Ireland.

synotna · 3 years ago
The predecessor to the UK before Ireland was the Kingdom of Great Britain, so would be correct to go back to afterwards

Of course to save money (and face) it probably wouldn't

synotna commented on Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?   cddo.blog.gov.uk/2022/11/... · Posted by u/robin_reala
smcl · 3 years ago
I think they'd continue to refer to it as such but to me it feels a little odd. The "United Kingdom" was originally a union of the kingdoms of Scotland and England, the latter having already conquered and absorbed Wales. Losing one former-kingdom of that union and maintaining you're the "United Kingdom" feels a bit dishonest, a little bit "Democratic People's Republic ..." :)

"The Kingdom of England and Wales" makes more sense but "KEW" and "EW" sound odd as acronyms, and will just lead to most of the world referring to the place as "England" (as many in the USA currently do tbh). That is, if they decide to keep the monarchy...

synotna · 3 years ago
United Kingdom came from the GB+Ireland, not England & Scotland

England + Scotland were the Kingdom of Great Britain

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