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iiv··on Phishing with Unicode Domains
I have been aware of this since I tried to use Let's Encrypt with an IDN domain name. Back then, IDN-certificates were not allowed because of security concerns, but this has apparantly changed since then.[1]

I hope this will get fixed, but I cannot see how without limiting users who have IDN and want to use https. [1]https://letsencrypt.org/2016/10/21/introducing-idn-support.h...

iiv··on How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video]
When purchasing electronics haggling isn't really very common. The haggling comes when you buy in bulk. But you're right, if you buy things on a market in Asia; haggle!
iiv··on A quick look at the Ikea Trådfri lighting platform
Where I live (eastern Sweden) we all say "trådlös", so almost "trådfri". But IKEA have many names that either sound like gibberish or are just strange.
iiv··on Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
But what about the inventor of the transistor? I already don't know that name. (But on the other hand, I don't know many names)
iiv··on The story of the Ping program (2001)
I can confirm that it's not just you. There is a copy on googlecache[1]

[1]http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

iiv··on Building Tic-Tac-Toe in a Google spreadsheet [video]
That was fun, easy to understand and informative. He shows how he debugs real errors and builds a decent product pretty quickly. The only complaint is that his voice was drowned in music in the intro.
iiv··on “Hello, (real) world” in PHP in 2017
I think the word you're looking for is "satire".
iiv··on Pardon Snowden
> what about all the millions people in those countries that proudly claim to be "socialists"

What about them? I think it is widely spread that socialism is like, if not the same as communism.

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