Notices by Come On Giant Asteroid! (ve2uwy@mastodon.radio), page 2

@GossiTheDog

"Seized the domain name" may be overstating it. .af is the country code top-level domain for Afghanistan (much as .tv is for Tuvalu). The Afghan government has control over who can use that cc-TLD & they've changed the rules.

Now, of course, it's the *%W# Taliban, so it's not like they are going to be in any way sympathetic to… anything… but it *is* their ccTLD.

Since you can actually buy a TLD now (new & kinda breaks the hierarchical nature of the DNS…), just buy .asfuck.

@Gargron

Embrace, extend, extinguish. Let's hope that flows in the correct direction.

#TrustNoBillionaire

@va3db @zazzoo

There are actually commercial systems that use ~45 MHz for reasonably reliable long distance comm paths using meteor trails ...

https://meteorcomm.com/history/

@feditips

"have all-powerful leaders" ... OK, well, in some sense yes. What they have is owners & no matter how benevolent when the platform starts, eventually the Money People arrive & then everything becomes about "shareholder value". If extracting every last quantum of value from the company kills it ... well "free market" & off they go to do the same at the next place.

AFAIK (and may be wrong!) there is no prohibition against for-profit Mastodon instances. Same could happen at one.

@mattblaze 2023-03-14 is a perfectly logical ISO std (even for ISO).