darklamer

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The technicalities of usernames and underscores makes this seem more complicated than it really is:

"Without any evidence whatsoever we convicted a man named Joe Smith, because we had been told that there was some man somewhere named Joe Smith, who was suspected of being a criminal."

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/movies · 3 pts · 6d

Inbred Redneck Alien Abduction (2004) was not what anyone would call "good" but definitely "remarkable how much they achieved with so little money".

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/asklemmy · 7 pts · 26d

Salt has an essentially infinite "best before", so if you ever encounter a packet of salt with a "best before" less than hundreds of years into the future, you can know that it's a lie.

I have heard the term DNS a million times but don't really understand it.

Learn about DNS, it's the glue that holds the internet together, any time you spend on learning more about DNS will quickly pay off. You probably already know that it's what maps domain names to IP addresses and vice versa, but it can be used for loads of other useful things too.

(My own two favourite not well known but totally standardized really convenient things to use DNS for is to provide SSH host key fingerprints through DNSSEC and requesting letsencrypt certificates for host names without any webserver.)