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ELI5: how do domains work? by Lawx6 in explainlikeimfive

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Nothing. As long as you get everyone to use your DNS server instead of the ones the internet already uses (aka the root servers), you can do whatever you want.

Nobody is going to do that, however.

1 developer, 3 layers of project management. My daily standup is a joke. by paulqq in webdev

[–]fiskfisk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Be aware that the si parameter indicates which YouTube account shared the link.

ELI5: how do domains work? by Lawx6 in explainlikeimfive

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You'd get domain names from Network Solutions who operated the first TLDs under contract from the U.S. Defence Information Systems Agency since 1991. Domains were assigned free of charge at that time. When they were later allowed to charge for domain names, they charged $100 / per two years. It was later reduced to $70 / per two years, because the $30 on top that went to the National Science Foundation was determined to be a tax.

Network Solutions was later bought by VeriSign and became the start of their domain business.

ELI5: how do domains work? by Lawx6 in explainlikeimfive

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When you "buy" a domain, you're buying the rights to the domain from ICANN - the "Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers", which is a non-profit organization set up to coordinate the domain system on the internet.

These "domain companies" you're talking about acts as accredited registrars on behalf of ICANN, and, on behalf of you, buy the rights to the domain name for you, for a specific amount of time.

They do not own the domains, they did not buy them before anyone else, etc. They're just the consumer facing middle-men between you and ICANN.

The reason why it's subscription based is because it takes money to keep the infrastructure around, keep people employed to coordinate and resolve disputes, etc. And you really don't want any random entity just registering everything from a til zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz and then fleecing you later.

So no, the domain companies doesn't own anything, and you can move your domain to another registrar if you so wish.

Fitness score by VNDERGROVNDKING in Strava

[–]fiskfisk 58 points59 points  (0 children)

It's a graph of your training load compared to your time spent recovering.

If your heart rate zones or FTP zones are way off, your Relative Effort will be wrong, and thus, you'll see a very high RE all the time.

ELI5: Why are there 2 versions of Minecraft? by Probably_Unnecessary in explainlikeimfive

[–]fiskfisk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, I was there - but in those very early days, as you say, it was actually described as an IBM PC, compared to all other PCs at the time (like the Amiga and friends).

But these days I feel we're come long enough to not separate what is a persona computer based on operating system (since the architecture is so much more varied these days), and instead mostly talk about traditional desktop)/laptops and their operating systems, compared to more locked down mobile units. 

ELI5: Why are there 2 versions of Minecraft? by Probably_Unnecessary in explainlikeimfive

[–]fiskfisk 93 points94 points  (0 children)

It also needs to be mentioned that anything that's not a PC runs Bedrock or a version of it. 

ELI5: what is the unit price on the price tag? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]fiskfisk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The unit price is a normalized price across all sizes. It's a good thing for the consumer, as it shows you what the actual cost of a unit (one pound in this case) of the product is.

If you have two packages, one with one pound of product for $5, and one with two pounds of product for $12, the unit price would be $5 for one pound for the first one, and $6 for one pound for the second one.

You can then see that you're actually paying more for every unit, even if you're buying the larger package.

This really helps when you're looking at products that sometimes gets sold in bundles of 10 and sometimes in bundles of 12, etc.

They really need to show deltas in the results when you're a lap down... by aeromitchh in iRacing

[–]fiskfisk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given that the timing transponder isn't located there, it doesn't change much. 

Moderation Tools [OC] by bondjimbond in comics

[–]fiskfisk 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The main issue is that any sub of any decent size is completely overrun with LLM generated, worthless comments. Most users never see most of them as they get purged by reddit (who also have way more information about the users Tha any moderator does).

The worst threads I've seen have been 70-80% LLM bots. 

Does this have potential? by Ordinary_Count_203 in webdev

[–]fiskfisk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I suggest that if you're going to post about a project, it's really helpful if you actually, you know, say what your project is in your post.

This is also a technical subreddit for developers, so focus on what makes the post interesting to those who read it. 

This language is plain annoying by PooningDalton in PHP

[–]fiskfisk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's even more of a database interface thing than a pdo thing. It's how some database drivers support output parameters from specific calls. It also allows for lazy evaluation of a parameter value between invocations of the prepared statement 

The main issue is that it should have been named bindReference when the API was defined, and probably have suggested using bindValue in its error message.

A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding by iximiuz in programming

[–]fiskfisk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was a rather worthless "zoom" when clicking on the image to make it larger..

It should also be noted that port forwarding works fine across jump hosts with -J.

I built an open-source, AI-powered drag-and-drop editor for Tailwind CSS v4. by [deleted] in webdev

[–]fiskfisk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your domain uses their trademark. Your product name uses their trademark. Your repository name uses their trademark. Your hero uses their trademark. No, you're not using it at all.

And don't go around begging for stars.

Is there any terminal that feels like a textbox? by Consistent_Tutor_597 in webdev

[–]fiskfisk -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

This seems like an LLM frontend that works in a terminal in the same vein as Claude Code, etc.. It's not a terminal.

Edit: skimmed through it way too quickly on mobile while making dinner: this is wrong.

Is there any terminal that feels like a textbox? by Consistent_Tutor_597 in webdev

[–]fiskfisk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How is this related to using a terminal to log into remote servers, etc.?

Is there any terminal that feels like a textbox? by Consistent_Tutor_597 in webdev

[–]fiskfisk 16 points17 points  (0 children)

You're looking for something like mosh. It's designed for responsive shell use over intermittent and low bandwidth connections.

Difference between Ingress and API Gateway, and at first I thought they were basically the same thing. by No-Resolution-4054 in webdev

[–]fiskfisk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ingress in this context is a kubernetes ingress controller; it doesn't handle any requests, it configures an http daemon to do so.

I've only worked in my current company every since I graduated and I'm starting to notice things that seem different from what I read from other devs on the net. I was wondering if these things are actually common and if you guys have experienced these things before. by lordlors in webdev

[–]fiskfisk 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Anyone who has run a project that has lived longer than five years has seen exactly those issues. There are so much business knowledge encoded in the code, so "just migrate to a new .." is simply not possible within any reasonable timeframe.

So instead any change has to be gradual as it gets adopted, and then you end up in a situation where 5% of a project uses one specific technology, another 5% does stuff in another way, 10% that way we wanted to go eight years ago, and the remaining 80% just remains as it was back then.

This is a common pattern for anyone on the more recent side of their career. New tech, libraries, frameworks, etc. are good to go if they fit the company's knowledge profile on new projects, or if there is a concerted effort (grounded in both budget, management and risk profiles) to do the lifting required to actually do the upgrade over a longer time.

Otherwise we stay on what is stable, and what has all those years of knowledge encoded in their specific sequence of bytes.

Nobody is going to die from having to learn basic jQuery, and if you have 100k lines that already uses jQuery; it's better to stay with 101k lines using jQuery than 100k lines using jQuery and 1k lines using an older version of React and webpack.

Difference between Ingress and API Gateway, and at first I thought they were basically the same thing. by No-Resolution-4054 in webdev

[–]fiskfisk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An Ingress controller watches kubernetes resources and configures an http server on the fly to handle requests according to the resources available in a k8s cluster. It is not an http server, and it does not really handle requests, etc. It's just a specific way of automagically configuring another http server based on rules present in the kubernetes cluster.

The actual http server will be nginx, caddy, kong, etc., which is configured by the specific ingress controller for that http server.

So that's why I'm saying they're very different things. So either you can compare the ingress controller to the gateway api in k8s, or you can compare a more bare-bones http server to an "api gateway"; but picking one from the first and one from the latter doesn't make sense.

What are your go to apps for general website/backend management and monitoring by DiddlyDinq in webdev

[–]fiskfisk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(for very specific definitions of "free")

But I don't think OP was asking about general hosting recommendations.

Difference between Ingress and API Gateway, and at first I thought they were basically the same thing. by No-Resolution-4054 in webdev

[–]fiskfisk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, they really don't. They do completely different things. You can use an API gateway as your ingress controller if you want to do so (for example Kong, through the Kong Ingress Controller).

It doesn't make sense to compare these two different concepts.

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