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A comment on Google I/O 2023.

Re:Google I/O 2023 by joshmanders on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:18PM (#35889541)
All I have to say is I'm annoyed the domain is io.google instead of google.io. I mean I get they gotta flex the notion that they have TLD us peasants don't get to use, but the conf's name is Google IO not IO Google.
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Re:Google I/O 2023 by c0t300 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:25PM (#35889635)
I'd say the .google is the biggest flex i've seen in a while, so why not just use it
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Re:Google I/O 2023 by TobyTheDog123 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:52PM (#35890846)
It's a faux pas to flex your own massive amounts of power in places where it doesn't really matter all that much. Then again, Google has pretty much embraced their role as a comic book villain these days.
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Re:Google I/O 2023 by zerocrates on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @06:44PM (#35894486)
There's some political baggage associated with the .io TLD since it's for the British Indian Ocean Territory, an area whose inhabitants were forcibly removed to build a military base.
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