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Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Support Self-Hosting (hccf.onmy.cloud)
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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why in the FUCK is this a PDF?

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I love how the comment section on their site just ended up being a format argument because of that, no interest in the actual topic lol

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

it's already got a paragraph of text, so clearly they can put text on their sites. PDFs are ass. I do not need to print this. Even then, HTML can be printed.

Like imagine if the rest of this Lemmy comment was in a PDF... Why the fuck would I do that? That's what this article feels like.

[–] jayands@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, give me a raw TeX file, or at least a plain Markdown document. Maybe reStructuredText, if they're feeling Pythonic.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

NOOOOOOO!!! This is a website! It has text prior to the PDF, just put the damn article there! The website clearly already supports HTML, otherwise we wouldn't be seeing anything!

(But yes, I still like those formats, I just think it should be a no brainer for a website to actually have it's contents as HTML.)

[–] DaleGribble88@programming.dev 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Epstein.didnotkillhim.self

[–] Archr@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

gofuckyour.self

Sounds pretty funny. Can't wait to see what is hosted there.

I would guess either 50-50 it is a meme site or pron. No in between.

[–] gemakey@lemmy.world 82 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like a great way to curate a list of homelab targets. I'm good, thanks.

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago

Was just thinking that it would be such a juicy target for so many things. I also shall pass on this one.

[–] nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 6 points 2 days ago

The comment by ksymph sums up my thoughts exactly:

The principles behind this effort are admirable, but I’m concerned about the practical implementation. Who is funding this? How will one person per domain be verified? Is self-hosting actually required, or can one use an external host; in the case of the former, how would it be verified, and in the case of the latter, what exactly does this tld accomplish that isn’t accomplished by free tlds, tlds like .me, or services like duckdns? Open source software clients as described are a major undertaking; why keep them under the umbrella of this tld?

I respect the goals here, and I want this to succeed, but this is a massive project, and without a clear plan I’m afraid this will peter out even if the tld is granted.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Given the context, the four "Follow Us" links going to proprietary services does seem somewhat antithetical to .self ideals.

At the very least set up a Mastodon account somewhere in addition to those.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

At the very least set up a Mastodon account somewhere in addition to those.

Yes!

I want to get a huge banner flag with this sentence printed on it, and pay someone to run past various offices with it each day.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

And label my hosts as “loners?” Why don’t I put a yard sign out saying “hack me?” I know security through obscurity isn’t security, but safety in numbers y’all.

[–] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

TLD's aren't the limitation... Public IPs are.. If it wasn't for Cloudflared, I couldn't run half the shit I run.

[–] ernest314@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 days ago (33 children)

in an ideal world, ipv6 would solve that problem...

😔

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[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I have a whole /56 of public IP addresses 😉

[–] Zier@fedia.io 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes these new TLDs are just odd. And the odder they are, the more expensive they are.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The proposal is for them to be free, restricted to one per person.

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the pdf says a sub domain. which is something that could be provided by a single domain on an existing tld.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 4 points 2 days ago

I interpret it as a subdomain of the top-level domain.

[–] cesco@discuss.aethelgard.space 2 points 2 days ago

Wow this is a pretty fantastic initiative. I think digital privacy and self-hosting are both really gaining steam right now and anything that helps that momentum is great!

[–] BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (3 children) 
upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: remote connection failure, transport failure reason: delayed connect error: Connection refused
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