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teddyhon Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

There have been some additions since 2018 when this article was written; here is the current list, from what I can tell:

  ㍳ │ 003373 │ SQUARE AU │ AU │ Australia
  ㍴ │ 003374 │ SQUARE BAR │ BAR │ Bar, Punto 2012 Sociedad Anonima Promotora de Inversion de Capital Variable
  ㎈ │ 003388 │ SQUARE CAL │ CAL │ Google
  ㏄ │ 0033C4 │ SQUARE CC │ CC │ Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  ㏅ │ 0033C5 │ SQUARE CD │ CD │ The Democratic Republic of the Congo
  � │ 01F12D │ CIRCLED CD │ CD │ The Democratic Republic of the Congo
  ㎝ │ 00339D │ SQUARE CM │ CM │ Cameroon
  � │ 01F190 │ SQUARE DJ │ DJ │ Djibouti
  ㍷ │ 003377 │ SQUARE DM │ DM │ Dominica
  Ǳ │ 0001F1 │ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER DZ │ DZ │ Algeria
  ǲ │ 0001F2 │ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH SMALL LETTER Z │ DZ │ Algeria
  ǳ │ 0001F3 │ LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ │ DZ │ Algeria
  ﬁ │ 00FB01 │ LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI │ FI │ The Republic of Finland
  ㎙ │ 003399 │ SQUARE FM │ FM │ Federated States of Micronesia
  ㏿ │ 0033FF │ SQUARE GAL │ GAL │ Galicia, Spain
  ㎇ │ 003387 │ SQUARE GB │ GB │ United Kingdom
  ㏉ │ 0033C9 │ SQUARE GY │ GY │ Guyana
  ㏌ │ 0033CC │ SQUARE IN │ IN │ The Republic of India
  ㎏ │ 00338F │ SQUARE KG │ KG │ Kyrgyzstan
  ㎞ │ 00339E │ SQUARE KM │ KM │ Comoros
  ㏎ │ 0033CE │ SQUARE KM │ KM │ Comoros
  ㎾ │ 0033BE │ SQUARE KW │ KW │ Kuwait
  ㋏ │ 0032CF │ LIMITED LIABILITY SIGN │ LTD │ Binky Moon, LLC
  ㎃ │ 003383 │ SQUARE MA │ MA │ Morocco
  � │ 01F16A │ RAISED MC SIGN │ MC │ Monaco
  � │ 01F16B │ RAISED MD SIGN │ MD │ The Republic of Moldova
  ㎎ │ 00338E │ SQUARE MG │ MG │ Madagascar
  ㏕ │ 0033D5 │ SQUARE MIL │ MIL │ United States Military
  ㎜ │ 00339C │ SQUARE MM │ MM │ Myanmar
  � │ 01F16C │ RAISED MR SIGN │ MR │ Mauritania
  ㎳ │ 0033B3 │ SQUARE MS │ MS │ Montserrat
  ㎷ │ 0033B7 │ SQUARE MV │ MV │ Maldives
  ㎹ │ 0033B9 │ SQUARE MV MEGA │ MV │ Maldives
  � │ 01F14B │ SQUARED MV │ MV │ Maldives
  ㎽ │ 0033BD │ SQUARE MW │ MW │ Malawi
  ㎿ │ 0033BF │ SQUARE MW MEGA │ MW │ Malawi
  ㎁ │ 003381 │ SQUARE NA │ NA │ Namibia
  ㎋ │ 00338B │ SQUARE NF │ NF │ Norfolk Island
  № │ 002116 │ NUMERO SIGN │ NO │ The Kingdom of Norway
  ㎀ │ 003380 │ SQUARE PA AMPS │ PA │ Panama
  ㎩ │ 0033A9 │ SQUARE PA │ PA │ Panama
  ㎊ │ 00338A │ SQUARE PF │ PF │ French Polynesia
  ㏗ │ 0033D7 │ SQUARE PH │ PH │ The Republic of the Philippines
  ㏚ │ 0033DA │ SQUARE PR │ PR │ Puerto Rico (U.S.)
  ㎰ │ 0033B0 │ SQUARE PS │ PS │ Palestinian Territory, Occupied
  ㎺ │ 0033BA │ SQUARE PW │ PW │ Palau
  ₨ │ 0020A8 │ RUPEE SIGN │ RS │ Serbia
  � │ 01F14C │ SQUARED SD │ SD │ Sudan
  ℠ │ 002120 │ SERVICE MARK │ SM │ San Marino
  ㏛ │ 0033DB │ SQUARE SR │ SR │ Suriname
  � │ 01F14D │ SQUARED │ SS │ SS │ South Sudan
  ﬆ │ 00FB06 │ LATIN SMALL LIGATURE ST │ ST │ Sao Tome and Principe
  ㏜ │ 0033DC │ SQUARE SV │ SV │ El Salvador
  ℡ │ 002121 │ TELEPHONE SIGN │ TEL │ Contact data
  ™ │ 002122 │ TRADE MARK SIGN │ TM │ Turkmenistan
  Ⅵ │ 002165 │ ROMAN NUMERAL SIX │ VI │ Virgin Islands, U.S.
  ⅵ │ 002175 │ SMALL ROMAN NUMERAL SIX │ VI │ Virgin Islands, U.S.
  ㌽ │ 00333D │ SQUARE POINTO │ ポイント │ Amazon Registry Services, Inc.

teddyhon It's the memory latency, stupid

From what I understand, it is mostly the very rigid and prescriptive attitude which the average reader gets from his book, which, if you listen to him talk, was not his intent. He even published a new 2025 edition of “Clean Code” to try and fix this, by making the text less self-assured. So while he may or may not be responsible, he did not intend it.

teddyhon ICE wants its mask back, and hired a company to ask

That’s the source code for the icepi.cx web site, not the information itself.

teddyhon Commodore 1600 VICmodem

I came to say the same thing. “How many baud was it?” is the immediate question anyone familiar with modems would have, but it is nowhere in the text. Only in the image of the advertisement does it say that it is 300 baud. Because people who would want to buy one would want to know.

teddyhon If IPv4 were land

Yes, that was my point.

teddyhon Patrick Stewart has died

Plays a melancholy melody on a flute

teddyhon If IPv4 were land

It’s a draft RFC.

teddyhon If IPv4 were land

> IPv4 is old, very old. But how is it broken?

It is broken for you by upstream NAT and CGNAT.

teddyhon Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements

See also “Peelian principles”: <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peelian_principle...>

teddyhon Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements

Requesting people to behave ethically might be unrealistic, but it is never unreasonable.

teddyhon Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content

Links or it didn’t happen.

teddyhon Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements

> It's a thankless thing

<https://www.little-gamers.com/2001/12/13/372>

teddyhon Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content

You won’t get a usable reference. Approximately nobody who complains about Wikipedia ever gives links, or even article titles.

teddyhon Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale

Just turn the desk upside down. Now he has a 1:1 scale globe on top of his desk.

teddyhon I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

YOU USED TO BE ABLE TO FIND INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET. i sound insane right now because the internet is a store but it used to be a library

— <https://kind.social/@wehpudicabok/117317910370913792>

teddyhon "Musk" Documentary Pulled from Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week

As now multiple other comments in this thread seem to show, “this issue” seems to be entirely that a four-hour documentary that nobody went to see was cancelled by theaters.

teddyhon "Musk" Documentary Pulled from Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week

Well, no, I frequently hear, especially from Americans, that unless it’s government action, then it’s not “censorship”, but “consequences”.

teddyhon FreeDNS

(Repost of <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21035982>)

teddyhon FreeDNS

> Free services are never free. It is only free because someone else is paying.

That’s what “free” means. Otherwise, nothing is “free” except maybe sunlight.

teddyhon Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans

A month ago Dusty found half a pie in this bush, so every day until the end of time we must closely inspect the Magic Pie Bush.

— <https://x.com/ChrisBramwell/status/950819881120825344>

teddyhon Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

My advice is: Find a small registrar in your jurisdiction, as reasonably close to you as you can find. I think this is good, actionable, advice. If this happens to be the same jurisdiction and area as my company, you will find it.

But as I have written elsewhere¹, my company’s home page isn’t even available in English. You are most likely not in our target market.

1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21437951>

teddyhon William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace

Remember the gorilla arm.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html

teddyhon A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the tale of Otto Z

> Carbon dating corroborated these claims – […] was produced no earlier than 2015

I was not aware that carbon dating could be this accurate.

teddyhon Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

But they are big, and compete on price – it’s even in the name! Which makes my second paragraph applicable.

teddyhon Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

I have worked at my current small company for more than 10 years, and the company itself existed for more than 10 years before I started working there. Companies which take significant outside investment are doomed to die trying to get big, but not all small companies are like that.

A small company might also fit all their employees and infrastructure in the same jurisdiction as yours. Which will make any legal trouble magnitudes simpler to handle compared to an big international company. (This is also simplified by also choosing your domain TLD:s to be similarly aligned.)

teddyhon SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president

> I think that the relevant patents remained classified until 1975.

If they were classified, they can’t have worked as patents. Patents, by their nature, must be open and available for others to read.

teddyhon Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

Like I have said previously¹ about choosing a registrar: If you have regular backups, and if some downtime is not really a problem, it might be fine to use web site hosting, e-mail (and in extreme cases even DNS hosting), from some fly-by-night el cheapo provider. But your domain name registrar? Pick them carefully, don’t skimp, and make sure they have good support. Because when things go pear-shaped, you really want to be able to actually talk to someone to change your web server or e-mail DNS records (or even DNS servers) to somewhere else.

Big registrars can’t afford any support costs since they prefer to squeeze the price down as far as possible, and therefore they prefer to simply lose or outright drop any customer in case of any and all problems. Conversely, small registrars may charge more, but have better (i.e. actually existing, and sometimes even dedicated and personal) support for when things go wrong, and have a vested interest in keeping you as a customer.

A small registrar might also be so small as to know you personally, which will help monumentally against any social engineering attacks.

Full disclosure: I work at such a registrar, but you’re probably not in our target market.

1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32095499>

teddyhon PalmOS Lemmings

There was also a version of Lemmings on the HP48 calculator: <https://www.hpcalc.org/details/530> (incidentally by the same author as Alpha Waves, a.k.a. Continuum)

teddyhon RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes

> At some point a few years back

Turns out it was on January 28, 2025 – 20 months ago: <https://internet.nl/article/release-1.9/>

teddyhon The history of development of Norton Commander (2011)

I came to Unix from an MS-DOS background, where I used Norton Commander a lot. I used to keep an older version of NC – which would fit on a floppy – with me at all times. But on Unix, I ended up not using any of the clones; not even Midnight Commander, which was a key-for key clone, and should have fit me perfectly. It turns out you, or at least I, just don’t use Unix the same way as I did MS-DOS. When I need to manipulate files in any quantity, I use Emacs and its dired-mode.

See especially the “wdired-change-to-wdired-mode” command, now available on the usual “toggle read-only mode” keystroke C-x C-q – it’s magical.

(This has been an 11 year old repost of <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9474384>.)