Gregory's Server
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Send me a private Mastodon message with a positive integer number, before the end of September 2022 (Irish time). Whoever sends me the smallest number that is unique (i.e. a number no one else sent), picks a charity of their choice and I will pay €10 to that charity (must accept PayPal donations). If you send more than 1 number, only the first one counts. Anything other than a single positive integer number (dates, fractions, equations, cat pictures, URLs) will be ignored. Boosts welcome. P. S. I'm going to publish the winning number and the total number of valid entries. I'm *not* going to publish the winning account details or the name of the charity they pick without their consent. "I hope when I die, that it’s early in the morning so I don’t have to go to work that day for no reason." #theShowerThoughts #theMeaningOfLife #death #work #iSuckAtHashtags @xpil ha ha, it sounds similar to what happened to me, that I came home after work and had the dismissal notice! ... although Year => Month => Day is even better, at least when it comes to sorting your archive folders.
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Bad address: https://www.аррӏе.com/ Good address: https://www.apple.com/ See the difference? Me neither. The first one is using Cyrillic charset, the 2nd one - regular Latin So, how to avoid getting shagged by the Bad Guys? Not sure about other browsers; in Firefox, you go to about:config, find the network.IDN_show_punycode option and set it to true. From now on, any URLs based on charsets other than Latin will be shown as hex codes. You're welcome. @xpil internationalized domain names (aka. IDNs) are a hugely difficult subject. On the one hand, yes they enable these kinds of attacks. On the other hand, speakers of languages using alphabets different than plain ASCII should have the technical ability to use their alphabets and scripts online in full capacity. There is no good, clear solution, still. Using punycode solves the security angle, but dramatically reduces usability for anyone using non-ASCII script. I.e. most of the world.  s/science/engineering/ History matters, the fucktards of academia invent nothing with their anus-licking theories.
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@xpil winrar haha! Haven't heard that name in a while!
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