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Just yesterday, there was a talk by representatives from Ukraine and Germany about how and why they use DNSSEC:

<https://www.icann.org/en/engagement-calendar/details/icann-t...>

teddyhon Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution

HTTPS will not protect you from a bad/compromised mirror.

teddyhon Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution

I’ll just note that you had to go back more than 20 years to get that short list of complaints.

teddyhon Microsoft's Canada timezone troubles leave admins fixing calendars

For past events, you can certainly store them as UTC and (possibly implied) location, provided that you also have a historically accurate database of all past time zone changes, so that you do not report that a meeting took place at 9:00 when it actually happened at 10:00, but the current time zone rules (at that location) are not the same today as they were on that date in the past.

For future events, you have to store them as location + timezone-naive dates and times, a.k.a. local time. Since if a meeting at a certain location is scheduled at 9:00, which is currently at 02:00 UTC, and then a timezone change happens, and UTC 2 suddenly means 10:00 at that same future date and location, the meeting will still happen at 9:00 local time. You cannot store future events as UTC only.

teddyhon Anthropic's IPO Filing Warns It May Be 'Imminently' Close to RSI

Why does God need a SpaceX?

teddyhon C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Stairs, Levels and Levelling Up (Part 11)

No program using sprites and sound could be written in only Commodore 64 BASIC. But large parts of Sword of Fargoal was indeed written in normal Commodore 64 BASIC. I remember (from some time in the mid-to-late 1980’s) being surprised when I managed to crash the game and getting a BASIC error message.

teddyhon Why Don't We Live in an Art Nouveau World?

Like those paper cutouts of lizards that people put on walls in order to fascinate cats.

teddyhon C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Stairs, Levels and Levelling Up (Part 11)

IIRC, the 1983 dungeon crawler Sword of Fargoal was written in real Commodore 64 BASIC.

teddyhon It's the memory latency, stupid

The same applies there, except he hasn’t made a second book.

teddyhon Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

Via <https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt>, <https://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt>, some Python and some regexps.

(I don’t know anything about Unicode case conversions.)

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>)