Brits that had `.eu` domains lost their domains due to Brexit [2] (unless they had some other EEA ties).
And if the Chagos deal goes ahead [3] and the British Indian Ocean Territory ceases to exist, then all `.io` domains might disappear too (although considering that `.su`/Soviet Union domains are still a thing, they probably would have stayed around).
[1]: https://www.404media.co/taliban-shuts-down-queer-af-domain-b...
[2]: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/registering-and-renewing-eu-doma...
Ouch, that must've hurt. Brexit is the most stupid thing that Britain has ever imposed on itself.
It's "Exceptionally reserved" "at the request of International Telecommunication Union (ITU)".
Although my gut feeling is that if the deal happens, Mauritius would probably ask to exceptionally reserve `IO` as well. Still, I'm not sure if I'd risk using a `.io` domain since it's not guaranteed.
The registry thankfully was able to sort it out and I was able to get it back and registered with a regisrar not currently being actively genocided.
I felt like a real dick, emailing people in Gaza in 2026 how to renew my domain.
pretty strict and apparently the Minister of that agency doesnt care that .af is a domain hack for “as fuck” in the west
2. Sell domain name that's against Sharia law
3. Retake it back when someone buys it, because it's against the law
4. Repeat and profit
Not enough allowance to fund a .com domain, had to use freenom / tk + cloudflare for my first years of self hosting
In the mid 2000’s, I moderated a domain name discussion forum in exchange for free hosting. “X forum posts per month = x gb of bandwidth”
My goal was to post enough for them to give me WHM access so I could try to resell it.
Those were the days.
I once mailed $70 cash (multiple months of allowance) to someone to code a MVP of something I wanted to build.
They ripped me off and disappeared.
And… that’s when I decided I needed to learn to code!
My parents were not happy when I told them I sent cash to a stranger. I remember having to do it in secret because they were very not okay with the idea that you can meet strangers online. Hah.
I think reason is I went to work, slung .NET and didn't think much about computers otherwise except occasional reading some C++ books for "fun".
Might be too old then. I used my parents speedy ADSL modem (4mbit/s down, 1mbit/s up) :D
I don't get how you get to be an IT teacher without knowing the most basic troubleshooting steps to get assignments to run.
Attendance typically correlates with classroom success.
Attendance avoids truancy proceedings.
One of the kids in my elementary school got a hat for perfect attendance through 6th grade.
I've never seen attendance shown on a transcript though, but you could fill some space on a resume with it, especially if you have the hat to show for it.
Executing the code in your head removed from the nuances of hardware, CPU architecture and compiler versions seems like a virtuous pursuit (?)
…and that’s how we got Java :p
And stuff like Pascal, too, so it’s not all bad.
That said, personally I’ve never understood Dreamweaver either. By the time I tried it, I’ve already got used to Notepad++ and writing HTML by hand, so I’ve just treated it as another text editor... and IIRC it just felt way more laggy than Notepad++, with a browser preview panel that took half of my 4:3 display. Maybe I’d discover some cool features if I’ve spent some more time in it? I dunno.
A lot of people (me included) used text editors to write HTML. The process was not easy, and the results mostly not correct.
HTML at the time was intended as an application of SGML. This is the first example of HTML from RFC 1866 that laid out HTML 2.0 in 1995:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<title>Parsing Example</title>
<p>Some text. <em>*wow*</em></p>
Worse, it was an extended superset (ha!) of SGML. At least 20 years ago, SGML::Parser would reject some valid HTML documents.
That said, it was really easy to type correctly in a text editor (especially compared to actual SGML), particularly one that indented and matched tags for you.
During this period I was berated by our studio lead for using new fangled technologies like CSS layout that could adapt to different sized screens instead of sticking to the trusty HTML soup Dreamweaver would spit out.
Most universities are unethical shitholes that can do basically whatever they want to gatekeep a diploma.
What they did say is that the school sometimes fails students to get more money — supposedly implying that this was not because they did not meet the passing criteria.
This does not preclude failing students when they deserve it.
It is ok to question of what makes them believe they would have passed the exams without this financial motivation for the school, but they were pretty clear IMO.
Western Governors University. Online 4 year degree. Classes are passed when you pass the "high stakes" (read: proctorio test). This means if you know the material, then you can pass a class in 1 day.
HOWEVER, when you do your final test, they only tell you pass or fail. They do NOT show you what questions you got right or wrong. If you fail, you have to wait 5 days and go through professor hoops. Of course, you naturally never actually talked to the prof. Its all online through ZyBooks.
But WGU benefits on failing people, and by hiding what you failed at. Because the longer you attend, the more they charge. Their response is basically "Get Gud Scrub but we're not gonna tell you how".
There is so much shady things about academic env that it doesnt sound scary
Ive witnessed situation where "hard" prof was teaching and many ppl failed, and then thry received "easy" prof and they passed
But they had to pay for exams and retake, etc
Turns out you save save as HTML and any links you put between slides become anchor tags.
Pretty neat, but hurt my soul to have all my classmates do that
Or just ineptitude, but I'm hoping for the former.
The schools admins told me he had tenure so there was nothing I could do.
Didn’t take me a whole year before I switched majors.
Later versions of Internet Explorer had compatibility mode, but it often wasn’t enough to get things working, especially if there was ActiveX involved or the security policies were restrictive.
Schools were especially prone to this due to their limited budgets among other reasons, and IT teachers weren’t normally the decision makers who could do anything about it. You shouldn’t assume that a random IT teacher had the authority to spontaneously upgrade a school computer that needs to be used for things besides that one student’s assignment.
However in this case, my friend just helped the IT teacher install Google Chrome on his computer and showed that the site rendered fine there. I don't know what sort of policies were in place but there were evidently no technical measures implemented to prevent people from installing a modern browser.
Full Color.
> God said 640×480 16 colour is a covenant like circumcision.
https://clotmag.com/oped/deus-ex-machina-deconstructing-digi...
He knew we were computer nerds so didn't really care about teaching us (we knew more than him anyway). And we didn't mind that he just sat there drinking coffee and reading a book, as it meant we could just play videogames for an hour. Good times.
We ended with a mini revolt against several teachers because everybody was failing those subjects. They had the energy of a Koala. Clearly burned out or unqualified ... Just going over the material like robots. When we asked to explain it better, it was just repeating the same lines like it was too much effort.
Think about it, how bad it is that students revolted and ended up going to the school director to complain about the sub standard teaching.
For a few lessons they actually bothered teaching. With attitude, because we actually dared to go over their heads for wanting a decent education. And for a short time everybody their grades improved a lot, as we finally understood the material the got thrown around. And ... then the teachers slowly fell back to their routing, and a few minor hints that if we dared to go to the director again.... We gotten all so tired of it, and gave up.
And end of the year, the school did not understand why so many students (like 75%+), all failed those specific subjects. It was a lot of students, over multiple groups. Its not like it was "bad apple" in one group, what i am sure was used as a excuse for the inter mediate results.
When the director finally showed his face because it was so bad (probably was going to result in a investigation from above)... Students already angry told the school director "WE TOLD YOU that this was going to be the result, but you did not want to fix the issues. There is no point having teachers that are clearly burned out or are blatantly unqualified to teach".
I left after that, it was just a waste of life studying. Ended up going autodidactic and made a nice carrier for myself. Yea, and that was our "western" education.
Then people wonder why our education is a disaster and blame it on smartphones (30 years ago we did not have those). Because it can never be the teachers and the top-down dictated goals. No no, must be the students that are dumb...
The teachers that had actually a lot of motivation (often the younger ones), guess what, people all had good scores in those subjects. Its like the quality of the teachers impacts the students ability to learn, shocking!!!
Teaching is rewarding which is why people do it, but you're asking them to take less pay for what is often a harder job - convincing kids to learn something when they have dozens of other things competing for their interest. The math aligns on the side with the teacher having the knowledge you would expect in this scenario - with a fair number of teachers not as much knowledge as one would hope they would have. On the students side, if they are bright then this is a soft-skill learning opportunity - how to navigate knowing more than your superior to the benefit of you both.
All of the market forces you describe are real, but they are partly sustained by cultural templates that make teaching a low-status job among those with technical qualifications and lead to an assumption that every teacher is either (a) internally motivated and doesn't "need" competitive compensation or (b) a washout from a more prestigious track and doesn't "deserve" competitive compensation. This affects administrators, policymakers, voters, and teachers themselves, giving us the status quo where teachers are paid and treated like shit (ask a K-12 educator about the most psychotic parent they met this year and whether admin had their back) so that even many people who love teaching gradually evaporate out of the field if they can.
I suppose I'm not even arguing that the material result is much different than you describe it, just that it's lazy, amoral thinking to frame it as a market quirk or the immutable nature of teaching rather than a slow-motion sociocultural trainwreck over which we can exercise some iota of agency. (One such iota might be to simply not say "those who can..." in earnest ever again.)
That first teacher died shortly after, she had terminal breast cancer. I miss her a lot
Almost 30 years, and every so often I still wonder about where that got him.
Haven’t had much issues but surely if could go back and i’d pick a different tld.
I remember publishing a website for a class on my .tk domain, the teacher couldn't open it and I almost got a failing grade because of it.