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Re:Voat Is Shutting Down on Monday December 21, 2020 @08:52PM (#25501997)
idk, the first three paras are pretty clearly an erectile dysfunction joke. It continues:

> One thing is true though, while I kept it up, it was glorious in many ways. It was the hardest[…], it was the biggest[…], it was bulging[…], it was throbbing[…]. It’s so great in so many ways that it has a list of haters who will be extremely aroused by this post.

> I know I’m going to get a hundred PMs from all of Voat’s hottest girls (Voat has some hot women, fact) with tips and tricks on how to help me keep it up. […]

Re:Poop: Peacefully Opposing Oppressive Puritanism on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:36PM (#23796791)
This whole thing is a load of nonsense, but this bit jumped out at me:

> Preferentially accept contributions based on the group identity of a contributor.

This is a straight-up straw man; nobody is "demanding" this or anything remotely resembling this.

Re:The Waypoint NDA on Monday June 22, 2020 @01:12AM (#23597465)
The literal very next sentence after the one you've quoted addresses that:

> Every copy of The Waypoint NDA comes with a certificate from the side proposing it, guaranteeing that the terms are exactly the same as those published on this site.

Re:Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:50PM (#22430270)
Another interesting solution to this problem is that used by plus codes [1]:

> The characters that are used in Open Location Codes were chosen by computing all possible 20 character combinations from 0-9A-Z and scoring them on how well they spell 10,000 words from over 30 languages. This was to avoid, as far as possible, Open Location Codes being generated that included recognisable words. The selected 20 character set is made up of "23456789CFGHJMPQRVWX". [2]

[1]: https://plus.codes [2]: https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc...

Re:What are these 100.x.x.x addresses? on Monday February 24, 2020 @06:07PM (#22409406)
I'm currently using ZeroTier for a similar purpose to what Tailscale seems to be targeted at.

The problem I ran into with ipv6 is that the OS (either macOS or Android, I don't recall which unfortunately) won't query for AAAA records when it does DNS lookups unless there is a DNS resolver configured that is reachable over ipv6.

ZeroTier doesn't provide its own DNS, so I'd manually entered A and AAAA records into Google Cloud DNS on a domain I own, but because of that quirk I wasn't able to use ipv6 since my Internet links at home and work were both ipv4 only.

Like so many others, these rankings seem to be far more focused on the LGB than the T.

Also, the site tells me that I'll get murdered or sentenced to death if I visit a given country, and then immediately below that displays an ad for flights to that country's capital city. I really don't think your CTR is going to be high on that particular ad placement.

Re:Tildes – a non-profit community site on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:05PM (#22113177)
I'd also like an invite!