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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37897811
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What an awesome website! Its literary a goldmine of good information on privacy tips!
The writer doesn’t want to rely on others services, but uses AI for artwork?
That’s a reputable looking domain if I’ve ever seen one
It’s a punycode domain, it’s how non-Roman characters in domain names are represented. Your browser will convert it to the actual Unicode characters in the address bar (and if you type them in yourself and hit enter, it’ll get translated into punycode for the actual request)
This is the Japanese katakana spelling out “Mariusu” so I’m guessing the author is called Marius
I’ve heard it’s a security feature not ro render unicode in the url because otherwise people could use Unicode lookalike characters to spoof a domain.
The problem with that line of reasoning is that it ruins what’s arguably the most important feature of DNS: providing human-readable names.
Using lookalike characters to deceive people has been a problem since long before anyone first got the idea to register paypa1.com but no-one ever seriously suggested abandoning human-readable names in order to avoid that problem.
Ideally they should show both side by side.
NGL that is a beautiful website
Yes, it’s not very user friendly of Lemmy to display the Punycode encoded URL instead of the human readable form. While only a fraction of all people on the internet are able to read Japanese, there aren’t any at all who are able to read Punycode fluently.
Don’t worry, you can instead visit this reputable URL: https://cheap-bitcoin.online/scanner-hijacker/malicious-payload/trojan_extractor_tool.msi?firewall=tamper&id=11aa4591&origin=spoof&payload=(function(){+return+undefined%3B+})()%3B&sessiontoken=spoof&useragent=inject
( https://phishyurl.com/ via https://chaos.social/@FlohEinstein/115212955110814540 )
The FQDN is only a translation lookup between a human readable name and an IP address, it doesn’t say anything about the trustworthiness of the content or its operators, it’s just a name. DNS exists for convenience not establishing trust.
What a beautifully designed website
Footnote: The artwork was generated using AI
Ehhhhhhh…
