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Addresses change all the time. Especially big websites will have many addresses for the same name and depending who (or from where) someone is asking for the name, they will tell them a different address. That way someone from Europe will connect to a server in europe and someone in the US to an american server. And cloud providers will have hundreds of addresses that they reuse and rotate for many customers.

Also to reduce the number of name request, the DNS system will cache answeres (save the answer and use it again later). If I ask for the address of Lemmy.org, they then change their address and I ask my DNS server again, I will get the old outdated address again.

There is also the question of who is actually in charge of answering DNS requests to a specific name.

All in all there are a lot of moving parts and for some reason people seem to be bad at managing their DNS records so when something breaks, very often it is because of DNS. (But also because DNS is very fundament so any problem with DNS will have a big effect so it is more noticeable)

Huh I never knew milka got bought by a US company. Always thought they were german (which is also wrong, they were Swiss, but produced in Germany)

Everything should be encrypted, always. We live in a time where hardware for en/decrypting is so fast and cheap that they can be included in any device. If you send somethig through a it should be encrypted. If you send something over the air, it has even more reason to be encrypted. I see no scenario where it should not be.

HOWEVER! For law enforcement and other official governmental agencies I think all communication should have to be recorded. And failure to do so should have very high penalties. Transparency should happen after, not during the communication.

"Power tripping bastard" = a mod abusing their power, usually by banning people they dont like personally instead of bans because of actuall rules violations

It'd be a bigger problem (for the world) if we don't run out of billionaires

Just the typical efficiency of this government

Idiot. At least he just left some stuff and set off again without any contact to the islanders

marked M and H

M -> More: add one hour to the clock

H -> Higher: add one hour to the clock

Off topic, but how do you do that on Lemmy? In jerboa there is no option (that I know off) to browse another instance. Do you open your home instance in one browser tab and the one you want to explore in another and once you find a community you like you switch to the other tab and subscribe to it there?

Well there is the part where all AI is controlled and developed by a group of fashist billionaires that primarily use it to spread false information and further their power, money and influence while destroying democracy, self expression and art. They are developed by stealing, exploiting and destroying the environment.

It is completely reasonable to hate AI in its current form even when presented with a cool and actually useful use case.

I would also be interested if you dont mind

If your messager can't be used on a computer I feel sorry for you. Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram all have windows or browser clients