grandkaiser

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[–] grandkaiser 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I actually am not sure what folks are talking about. Even in the most soul crushing places I've worked, the bosses still (reluctantly) give PTO. I've worked all over the USA from retail to military to Mom n pop shop etc, PTO has never been "do I get PTO?" It's "how much PTO do I get?"

[–] grandkaiser 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Riding a horse while drunk is illegal in most countries. Horseback riding and booze are not exactly new...

[–] grandkaiser 1 points 2 days ago

squirrel kombat was one of my favorite games as a kid

[–] grandkaiser 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] grandkaiser 9 points 1 week ago

As someone who went to school, teachers are far from exempt from believing incredibly stupid things.

[–] grandkaiser 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh certainly. Power storage is a real problem, especially with up-down renewables. I just didn't understand why you were saying oil can't be produced but hydrogen can. Synthesizing oil for power storage is a terrible idea 😄

[–] grandkaiser 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So, if you want to be a registrar, it is a considerable responsibility, cost, and effort. It also doesn't solve the original problem. Users will still go to companysite.com because that's what they think it is. Trying to tell users to go to companysite. would be damn near impossible without giving a quick DNS 101 lesson. Also, your SEO would be fuuucked. Good luck selling that to any exec. As for your concern with the Internet choosing to go with delegating domains, it's actually critical to how we run DNS. Imagine if every single lookup had to contact the root servers. Every single email. Every single ping. Icann would have to be the size of Google. This also means that requirements for being a tld would be significantly reduced which would greatly compromise the Internet if any of them went rogue.

[–] grandkaiser 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Neither is hydrogen.

[–] grandkaiser 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Hm, so to explain the problem better: I work for a large organization that has many sites. Part of that is managing all the names. We have over 500 domains and 75% of them are defensive domains. For example, if I have companysite.com then I also must have companysite.net and .org and .co and so on and so forth. They all redirect to companysite.com

[–] grandkaiser 4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

We absolutely can 'make oil'. Been doing it since world war II. Synthetic oil is extremely common.

[–] grandkaiser 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

how do gtlds make your work much, much harder??

Since you've shown vague interest in my field, allow me to elaborate!

gtlds add a ton of complexity to managing DNS. Every new gtld means more configurations to deal with, which makes things way more prone to errors. On top of that, they make monitoring and security tougher since we have to constantly watch for threats from an ever-growing list of domains—more phishing, more typosquatting, more headaches. It's also a pain when systems don’t play nice with certain gtlds, leading to random bugs or outages we have to troubleshoot. And let's not forget the user confusion. People are used to .com or .org, so we end up fielding extra support requests, trying to explain what these domains even are which means I have to explain repeatedly to executives to NOT use some gimmicky gtld for their new site. When users are upset because "thewebsiteimanage.hot" is a porn site, thats a huge problem. Defensive domains are a nightmare and get worse every time a new gltd is created.

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