• @[email protected]
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    1512 days ago

    I assumed it was a shitpost, instead it is a real tweet. What a time to be alive.

    Jokes aside the only real reason I can fathom for the collectibles company to call their mother is because they had used it as the contact number in the registry. I would be surprised if this was some kind of intimidation tactic instead of just miscommunication - in the sense they probably just wanted to legally intimidate the itch’s owner not their immediate family. They are not 2K /s.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 day ago

    Can I just point out this was standard practice for debt collectors like 15 years ago? Seriously they’d try to call your job, your family, neighbors and if they could, even friends to harass you to collect on the debt they bought rights to collect.

  • @[email protected]
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    1032 days ago

    What will happen to itch.io when the British get rid of their overseas Indian Ocean territory? Can they keep the .io Top Level Domain?

    • @steventhedev
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      662 days ago

      Once the treaty is signed, the .io cctld will phase out over 5 years.

      Unless ICANN get greedy and grant an exemption.

      • @nixcamic
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        212 days ago

        Could Mauritius choose to keep .io? The income it would bring in would probably be bigger than their GDP.

          • @nixcamic
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            42 days ago

            Yeah but they UK has like 5 other domains besides .io

            • @steventhedev
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              21 day ago

              ccTLDs are based on the ISO two letter country codes - it’s deferring the responsibility for cleaning up the British mess to ISO

              • @nixcamic
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                218 hours ago

                But why did the Indian ocean territories ever have an ISO country code, they were never a country? It doesn’t make sense that a territory should lose its TLD just cause it changes countries.

                • @steventhedev
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                  117 hours ago

                  Half grandfathered in from a period when UK was a commonwealth, and ANZAC were not technically independent.

                  ISO-3166-1 has a lot of “countries” that aren’t actually independent - but useful to have codes for because they are geographically distinct.

      • @[email protected]
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        112 days ago

        Couldn’t they just move .io to a different category? Or are TLDs never reused once they lose their original designation?

        • @[email protected]
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          152 days ago

          Couldn’t they just move .io to a different category?

          Specifically the issue is that two letter TLDs are reserved exclusively for countries/governments. So far only one exception has been made to this rule, .su for the Soviet Union. So another exemption is certainly possible.

          • @[email protected]
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            162 days ago

            Meh. There’s also .UK, which is not the country code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland… that’s GB.

            We also have .EU, so this stuff is all pretty flexible in some sense.

          • @DreamlandLividity
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            122 days ago

            As I understand it, the .su was not really an intentional exception as much as it happened before the strict rules were written down.

          • @captainlezbian
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            42 days ago

            It is weird to imagine a world in which glasnost kept the union together and we have active .su domains around. I imagine they’d be less suspicious than .ru in our timeline but not a lot less

        • @AA5B
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          32 days ago

          They’re not just country codes, but match a list of two character country codes defined by the UN

        • @[email protected]
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          2 Letter TLDs are always country codes (and ccTLDs are always 2 Letters long). So moving them to another category is technically possible, but unprecedented and improbable.

    • @[email protected]
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      142 days ago

      Well Russia still kept .su after the USSR dissolved, so why not? It’s a convenient source of income.

        • @[email protected]
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          412 days ago

          it seems like they’ve always been on clearance everywhere. they must be insanely cheap to produce

          • @asteriskeverything
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            402 days ago

            I do NOT get these things. They have creepy beady eyes an the nature of the product limits opportunity for details and distinction so they all look pretty generic! You might even NEED the box to tell you what it is. Soulless garbage being mass produced for landfills and seemed to outwear their welcome at least 5 years ago…

            • @AA5B
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              82 days ago

              Plus they’re too breakable. My kids have a few and they break if you knock them off a table

          • Pope-King Joe
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            132 days ago

            Pretty sure they’re just slightly higher quality 3D printed vinyl figures. Probably cost pennies to make.

          • smokebuddy [he/him]
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            82 days ago

            My favourite is seeing the ones that end up at Dollarama, last time it was a whole shelf of Marvel’s Eternals and Shazam Fury of the Gods

        • @Buddahriffic
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          72 days ago

          I’ve seen stores with walls of funko pops on display. I’ve never seen stores with gaps in their walls of funko pops, or evidence that they are moving many. Were their sales ever really that great to justify the amount of inventory they’ve produced?

          My own interest has only gotten as far as “Oh hey, I recognize that character. Yep, they’ve got a bunch of Naruto characters, or at least generic funko pops with clothing like those characters wear. I wonder what else this store has.”

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    You got me. 🙄