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nticompass · 2026-11-10T20:44:16

Sometimes, I like to look though spam to see what's there and to see if anything in there is legit. I got this same email from "[email protected]" about one of my GitHub repos (that has nothing to do with AI, wasn't made with AI and hasn't had commits in years).

I didn't dare click on the links or anything, I wasn't sure if this email is really from Hanzo (or if Hanzo is even a real company).

nticompass · 2026-11-10T18:13:55

WHAT‽ I let my "first.last.name" registration expire because of the impending shutdown!

I did notice that my domain kept working past the supposed shutdown date, but I let the domain registration expire.

I'm so mad now! I assume there is no way to get my domain/email forwarding back :(

I suppose I could try to ask the registrar, but I highly doubt they can do anything...

(Edit: I'm not actually mad, but it was annoying to have to move accounts from my [email protected] email to another one)

mzajc · 2026-11-10T18:20:13

I don't know about .name specifically, but some registries have a grace period (or multiple) after which you can still renew it. It's worth checking if you're within the time limit.

nticompass · 2026-11-10T18:27:07

That's my plan. If they can help then cool, otherwise it's not really a big deal.

mixdup · 2026-11-10T19:34:44

They haven't actually stopped taking third level registrations, so get in there before the revised proposal gets submitted approved and implemented

Panda4 · 2026-11-10T21:03:22

I think they did. I tried to register one just now and couldn't

troyrollo · 2026-11-10T21:41:21

This is a registrar issue not a registry issue. There are registrars still allowing registration of .name domains as well as transfers in.

grimgrin · 2026-11-10T22:29:54

Any reason you didn't mention them? Seems handy. I couldn't find an example registrar accepting 3rd level name domains.

edoceo · 2026-11-10T18:22:28

First time ive seen ! and ? overlaid. Neat.

chch · 2026-11-10T18:27:09

For future reference, ‽ is called an interrobang!

And to show off another fun character, for languages like Spanish that start a question with an inverted question mark, there's also ⸘, the inverted interrobang.

Though I find the name some people call it, gnaborretni (interrobang backwards), much sillier.

serchinastico · 2026-11-10T18:47:40

Interesting! If we were to follow Spanish to name the inverted interrobang it'd be opening (and closing) interrobangs, not gnaborretni, just as we don't have nóicagorretni nor nóicamalcxe :)

murphyslaw · 2026-11-10T20:07:09

I assume you meant sgnaborretni?

BadBadJellyBean · 2026-11-10T18:24:13

It's called an interrobang. Never really took off but still available in unicode.

BoxOfRain · 2026-11-10T18:19:21

While it won't lessen your frustration, I applaud your use of the interrobang. That punctuation mark needs wider use.

nticompass · 2026-11-10T18:28:41

I'm not really frustrated, but it is annoying that I had to migrate accounts and stuff, but whatever.

And yes, I love the interrobang! Ever since I mapped scroll lock to "compose" on my keyboard, I've had fun typing all sorts of characters :)

blooalien · 2026-11-11T13:32:26

> Ever since I mapped scroll lock to "compose" on my keyboard, I've had fun typing all sorts of characters :)

I've used <Caps-Lock> as <compose> key for ages now, and <Scroll-Lock> as push-to-talk microphone activation key, since I never use either of those keys for their actual purpose anyhow. Is nice being able to easily type emdash and umlauts and such (as well as several common emoji and a bunch of other useful stuff) on a US keyboard.

lutoma · 2026-11-10T19:43:50

I have an auto substitution set up in iOS to automatically replace ?! with ‽ (Same for ellipsis, ... to …)

oneeyedpigeon · 2026-11-10T19:49:02

And, presumably, "!?"?

Spivak · 2026-11-10T18:23:43

It's a neat little mark but I don't think it has much of a chance being widespread because I think ?! has already won in real usage and doesn't have the fine detail problem. I think it has a better chance of becoming an official grammatical digraph than the merged mark.

sillysaurusx · 2026-11-10T18:29:37

Is there an overlaid ?? and !! mark? (For Chess.)

adrian_b · 2026-11-10T19:08:37

Besides interrobang, Unicode includes all 4 possible sequences of 2 "?" and "!".

  203C;DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 0021 0021;;;;N;;;;;
  203D;INTERROBANG;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
  2047;DOUBLE QUESTION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 003F 003F;;;;N;;;;;
  2048;QUESTION EXCLAMATION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 003F 0021;;;;N;;;;;
  2049;EXCLAMATION QUESTION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 0021 003F;;;;N;;;;;

zimpenfish · 2026-11-10T21:47:22

There's DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK[0] and also DOUBLE QUESTION MARK[1] if those will do.

[0] https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/203c/index.htm

[1] https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2047/index.htm

echoangle · 2026-11-10T22:23:44

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tremon · 2026-11-11T12:32:40

Those are not overlaid though. The overlaid doubles would look like ! and ?, respectively.

reaperducer · 2026-11-10T18:53:44

I don't think it has much of a chance being widespread

I first heard of it back when Usenet was still the hotness.

Apparently it's been around for close to a century, so if it hasn't caught on widely by now, you're probably right.

ahnick · 2026-11-10T21:30:35

> I first heard of it back when Usenet was still the hotness.

This is the first (and probably last) time that I will ever see the words "Usenet" and "hotness" in the same sentence.

Well done, sir.

saalweachter · 2026-11-10T20:04:42

It lost when computers overtook typewriters.

On a typewriter, you could type one punctuation mark, backspace, and then type another.

Even once computers added the interrobang to Unicode (or older systems), you either need to type in a numeric code, use a secret bucky bit, or select it from a graphical UI, none of which is worth it for more than the odd weirdo with a whimsical streak.

kevin_thibedeau · 2026-11-10T22:35:55

There have been video terminals that allowed overstriking glyphs.

_blackhawk_ · 2026-11-10T18:18:24

Definitely email the registrar. Maybe it might work?

nticompass · 2026-11-10T18:28:56

Worth a shot.

andunie · 2026-11-11T02:34:14

Basically every decision taken by a centralized entity with power over others results in these horrible cases of unfairness.

nticompass · 2026-11-05T19:35:25

It's a joke.

nticompass · 2026-11-03T13:56:29

(I didn't click on the link yet.) Is it a ThinkPad?

nticompass · 2026-10-29T11:53:10

So, it's "Papers, Please" but you're a firewall? I like it. Pretty cool.

Sander_Marechal · 2026-10-29T13:12:57

Papers Please isn't really about the act of checking things. It's about the stories and moral choices. A lot of copycat games miss that point too.

elevation · 2026-10-29T13:51:33

So this game needs a story arc where you become an accomplice to specific threat group to bring vigilante justice while maintaining plausible deniability by blocking some of their requests without letting your total numbers drop below a specific threshold?

Sander_Marechal · 2026-10-29T15:38:50

That would be pretty cool actually :-D

pwdisswordfishq · 2026-10-29T13:44:59

Why not both?

nticompass · 2026-10-27T16:13:24

I was driving from (Western) NY to Burlington, VT and drove past Fort Ticonderoga. All I thought of was Ticonderoga pencils. Later, I looked it up thinking it was a coincidence, but nope the pencils were named after the fort (because there was graphite found there).

Also, there is in fact a #3 pencil, not just the #2 we all are probably used to.

nticompass · 2026-10-20T12:21:35

When I moved into my apartment, I went to BestBuy and I was actually able to find a "dumb TV"! They had ONE in stock, it was Insignia (their house brand) and it was sold as "open box". I love it and have had no issues with it.

That being said, I use an Nvidia Shield TV Pro connected to it, and I had to do similar steps on that to replace the launcher and install my own apps. I use "ATV Launcher Pro" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.dstudio.atv...) personally, and it's great.

I also use "Send Files to TV" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yablio.sen...) so I can download files on my phone and send them to the TV.

probablyStimmed · 2026-10-21T06:38:29

If ad free is the only goal this is probably OK, but privacy is still an issue and on the shield you have to agree to google and nvidia’s agreement. I bet most people don’t read either one.

herbst · 2026-10-21T12:19:01

If you just run android anyway I got a very cheap xiaomi one that grants me basically all the permissions I needed so far via ADB

nticompass · 2026-10-20T12:18:58

What "project"? It's just some adb commands that you can run on your TV/streaming box to disable built-in apps and change settings. The rest are just Android apps that are safe/legit.

nticompass · 2026-10-15T12:34:49

"Geometry Force" sounds like it could be some old kids educational cartoon.

cubefox · 2026-10-15T12:50:49

I'm sure they wanted it to sound like g-force, the measure of acceleration.

nticompass · 2026-10-15T12:29:27

Does TP-Link just make buggy stuff, or are we just unlucky? I used to have a TP-Link WiFi 6E router, that I used as an access point and a switch (the "routing" was disabled since I use another router).

For whatever reason, that device would drop packets if they were VLAN-tagged. Other packets were fine, but anything to do with VLAN just didn't work. Took me a while to figure out that was the issue and it wasn't with the machine I was trying to configure.

I sold that thing on eBay and replaced it with a "real" access point (and a PoE switch).