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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 11:36:00 JST silverwizard
   Creating a 256 TLD in my home and placing a server at 192.168.90.256 just to piss of house guests
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     purple 👊✊💨 (purple@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 12:10:14 JST purple 👊✊💨

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     @silverwizard@convenient.email last week aws assigned me an instance with an ip ending in .0
     
     i was thoroughly fucked with. (even though this is fine and doesn't break any specs)

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 12:10:34 JST silverwizard

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     • purple 👊✊💨
     @purple We used to do this in the MSP I worked for, and clients got mad
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     purple 👊✊💨 (purple@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 12:12:55 JST purple 👊✊💨

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     @silverwizard@convenient.email hell yeah

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 12:45:01 JST silverwizard

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     Welp - it's working

     silverwizard@chaplin:~$ dig 192.168.90.256 ; <<>> DiG 9.18.28-1~deb12u2-Debian <<>> 192.168.90.256 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59721 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;192.168.90.256. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: 192.168.90.256. 3600 IN A 192.168.90.53 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.90.1#53(192.168.90.1) (UDP) ;; WHEN: Wed Oct 16 23:43:09 EDT 2024 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 59 silverwizard@chaplin:~$
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 12:57:55 JST silverwizard

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     nmap will accept it, dig will accept it, firefox refuses to open 192.168.90.256, even if I straight up type: 192.168.90.256/
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 13:37:59 JST silverwizard

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     • me
     they wont assign one. Can't is a different story. @me
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 13:38:01 JST me

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     @silverwizard I always assumed you couldn't have a numeric TLD for exactly this reason.

     I'm sure it'll break some obscure piece of software somewhere.

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     Christopher M0YNG (m0yng@mastodon.radio)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 20:36:17 JST Christopher M0YNG

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     @silverwizard for extra fun it should only be available over ipv6

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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 21:47:43 JST me

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     @silverwizard I see my prediction held true (though it's not exactly obscure).
     RE: convenient.email/objects/2c704…
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 21:48:06 JST silverwizard

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     @me slightly not-obscure, made by some AI company
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 22:28:24 JST silverwizard

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     I believe we call accepting this domain "Going Postel"
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     Steve Lord (stevelord@bladerunner.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 22:32:52 JST Steve Lord

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     @silverwizard this is brilliant on every level. I applaud this.

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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 01:12:13 JST me

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     @silverwizard I thought they were an ad tech company.

     ...same thing these days, though.

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