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[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 2 hours ago

Not next year you don't.

Or, that is the clear pathway we are on if the people are not working on stopping it. I haven't been doing nearly enough.

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Don’t do this, these are professional washing machineologists.

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[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

https://chapo.chat/c/chapotraphouse?dataType=Post&sort=TopDay

https://chapo.chat/post/4468515?sort=Top

I did see the much more reasonable post from the site admin. That one was fine, I should have made that clear. I was mocking the users of the site freaking out, to broad and sustained applause, over how DNS is a capitalist plot when it is just about the furthest thing from it that exists on the modern internet.

I also thought it was funny that they found some GNU tool that was a replacement, but then freaked out minorly because in the docs it talks about some issue related to censorship of the Chinese internet, and we are not allowed to talk about that, that is a bad thought, it's not real it's not real.

Also, this is absolutely true:

As an aside, this site has a way better layout and interface than all the other lemmies. Seriously the most comfortable way to browse and it even works well on mobile.

I don't know why it hasn't been shared, or picked up by anyone else. Lemmy.ml if nowhere else. I never really browsed Hexbear on its own instance before today. It's a little bit garish, on purpose, but not overly much and it all fits together and looks peaceful and attractive. It is not "show me the UX equivalent of a pile of unvarnished planks" like the default theming.

Edit: Just in case it's not clear, I am fully and sincerely saying that Hexbear's theme looks really good. IDK what they did but they did a good job.

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[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 227 points 7 hours ago

Good. Get punished. Don't go along with it. If you start bowing and scraping so you won't get ejected from the oval office, then that will enable that much more the gradual evolution that will lead you along with many other people to get "punished" in ways that are far more severe. Like, barges floating off of Gitmo or working in the fields on a prison labor system severe. It is insane to me that people are taking all of this so lightly and going along with it.

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[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 21 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

They're not operating on logic. They listen to media which is shouting all this stuff at them, in a carefully engineered format which plays on their emotions and is carefully packaged to make it sound like the most logical thing in the world.

DEI is ruining America. They're hiring air traffic controllers who can't do the job, they're killing people crashing planes just because they got hired because they're black, same with the LA fires, something must be done, oh thank God Trump is going to finally fix it. That's about as far as it goes. Any kind of factual analysis about whether those things are actually happening or not, or even about is it internally consistent, gets aggressively thrown out the window.

"Like sure, small government, it's great and all, but you can't possibly be telling me the government can't mandate that the ATC controllers need to be qualified. Right? Is that what you're telling me? That's insane. You're killing people. Can't you see that's insane?" And then some kind of a rant that simply will not stop. You can either interrupt with enough force to match the emotional level, at which point it's a yelling match or you're being super unreasonable about it and nothing gets accomplished anyway, or you can let it continue. Forever.

The number of times I've seen someone successfully have this type of conversation is very limited. All I can really say is, it takes a bunch of times talking about it, not just once, and you have to be very strategic about both your overall emotional tone and empathy involved, and also the factual backing of what you're saying and when to knock down particular arguments (and stick to it, because they will instantly deflect to something else, before you're even done with half the first sentence) with something that will resonate with them factually.

You're going up against a professionally-produced machine which has produced a system in their brain that's self-sustaining with particular features that make it very hard to talk them out of, once they're in it. It's tough.

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[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 31 points 9 hours ago

UnitedHealth came to my house and kicked the fuck out of my dog, and then they took a dump on my TV. I really hate UnitedHealth. I hope the whole piece of land their headquarters sits on slides into the ocean, and personally, I'm so reckless that I wouldn't even care if a bunch of other buildings nearby got caught up along with it.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 8 points 10 hours ago

I think they now have to win the auction, though. It's $300 to renew for the year currently, and still rising, instead of the $12 it was going to be.

I do not think anyone should bid the price up. Hexbear may be a bunch of cunts, but all you're doing with that is giving money to some criminals who are much worse than the Hexbear people.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 7 points 10 hours ago

I found some people alleging the sav.com is sketchy about other aspects of their service. It wouldn't surprise me if they tactically overreacted to a single missed email, or a single expired credit card, or something like that, to squeeze their client for more money.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 12 points 10 hours ago

Unless the +1 year date is the registrar holding it for themselves to auction off, which seems equally likely.

Yeah, that's what it is. Whois actually explained it to me, and I didn't bother to read it the first time. I made an edit.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Edit: Okay, I figured it out.

NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the
registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is
currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration
date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring
registrar.  Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to
view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration.

So, as I had guessed, sav.com registered it "for them" for one year more than they actually wanted to register, and then when there was some minor billing issue, used it as an opportunity to do a cash grab. Fuck sav.com, is basically what I'm saying.

Previous comment, before the edit:

IDK what's going on with that web site, but it's wrong. Or, sav.com updated something to backdate the expiration or something else shady like that.

$ whois hexbear.net | head -n20
   Domain Name: HEXBEAR.NET
   Registry Domain ID: 2584175083_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois-service.virtualcloud.co
   Registrar URL: http://sav.com/
   Updated Date: 2025-02-11T17:34:08Z
   Creation Date: 2021-01-12T00:35:22Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2026-01-12T00:35:22Z
   Registrar: Sav.com, LLC
   Registrar IANA ID: 609
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse-contact@sav.com
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8885808790
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Name Server: NS1-EXPIRED.SAV.COM
   Name Server: NS2-EXPIRED.SAV.COM

I trust running whois more than I trust a web site. Like I say, I have no explanation why they would be wrong, but they're wrong. Maybe sav.com registers it "on behalf of" their clients, and sets the meta-expiration one year after to give them time to fuck around with auctions? Something weird like that? And then it's only paid until last month, and because a card had expired or something trivial like that, they decided to throw it into this auction process?

~~As much as I think it's funny to make fun of Hexbear, I don't think people should be celebrating them getting fucked over by criminals.~~

Edit: They're over on chapo.chat now, blaming the whole thing not on sav.com, or on themselves for choosing a registrar for an important server without doing due diligence, but on DNS itself and the architects of the internet. I take it back. Fuck 'em.

https://chapo.chat/post/4468515

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 9 points 11 hours ago

Where do you see this? Whois says:

  • Domain: hexbear.net
  • Registered On: 2021-01-12
  • Expires On: 2026-01-12
  • Updated On: 2025-02-11

That's also what sav.com says under domain details "Expiration Date."

Whois also says "client transfer prohibited." Fucking scumbags. Don't give them money.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 33 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Hexbear (edit: ~~is very much alive~~) was very much alive until my cached DNS values dropped out, and now they're dead. Looks like they're fucked.

It looks to me like sav.com is some kind of domain name scammer. They trick people into registering their domains with them by offering low prices, and then some time later once you've come to depend on the domain, proceed to some kind of abusive process like this where they'll let totally separate people (allegedly-real separate people) "bid" on your domain, and force you to pay whatever exceeds the highest bid, if you want to keep control of it. I honestly don't know how it is allowed.

It looks to me like Hexbear got suckered into registering with them, displaying the same savvy critical thinking skills that serve them so well in so many other areas. I don't think the domain expires until a year from now? Am I misunderstanding, or is sav.com just getting the jump on extorting some money from Hexbear? I realize it would be funny to jump in and bid the price up, but be aware that (1) you are giving money to some genuinely godawful people, quite a bit worse than just a bunch of confused aggressive pro-left people, if you win (2) you won't even get your entertainment until a year from now, unless I am misunderstanding something.

Edit: If anyone's curious, Hostinger has extremely cheap domain registrations: https://www.hostinger.com/domain-name-search

They also have an endearingly janky AI assistant that likes to pop up the most hilariously wrong AI descriptions of whatever domain you are registering, for no reason at all. It goes with the rest of their endearingly janky hosting service. I honestly don't mind it, I like them.

Edit: Guys, I am sad to report that they fixed the AI assistant. It now (still for no reason) displays back to you a summary of what you want to use your domain for, but they've fixed the AI involved so that it no longer gives suggestions that are hilariously wrong. It's just accurate and boring. I wish I had saved some of the ones it showed me way back when they first introduced it, because they were wonderful.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 327 points 11 hours ago

Watching Linus take a big public dump on someone who deserves it is one of life's finest guilty pleasures. It's like a Maya Angelou poem. You can tell he really cared, and meant it, and took some time to get it right.

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