**Alex Vranas** · Jan 29, 2025, 14:10

Alex Vranas

Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

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#Netsec Professional. Whitehat #Hacker. #Demoscene spectator. Nerd.

I'm a fan of #Linux, #FOSS, #Decentralization (not Crypto), Crypto (as in #Cryptography), and #Socialism. Always #Antifascist & #Antiwar.

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**domi (networking witch)** @domi@1.6.0.0.8.0.0.b.e.d.0.a.2.ip6.arpa · Jan 29, 2025, 14:10

Jan 29, 2025, 14:10

domi (networking witch) @domi@1.6.0.0.8.0.0.b.e.d.0.a.2.ip6.arpa

According to all known laws of DNS, there is no way a fedi instance could be hosted on an .ARPA domain.
Even if you get ahold of a domain like this, it should only be used for PTR records - right?

The instance, of course, federates anyway - because DNS doesn't care what humans think is impossible.

**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Jan 22, 2025, 19:16

**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Jan 22, 2025, 19:16

Jan 22, 2025, 19:16

Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

U.S. Poltics

So the guy who calls himself "Kekius Maximus" and has a Pepe the Frog avatar threw a Nazi salute at a far-right anti-immigrant rally, and the ADL is calling for people to "give him the benefit of a doubt" and consider it an "awkward moment".

Neo-Nazi groups had no trouble understanding what his gesture meant...