You underestimate how different some people's situations and priorities can be. For us, it's forking 10-20 USD (not a big sum of money) once a year by credit card (which isn't hard to obtain).

There are parts of the world with dire financial situations or simply outdated systrms that don't offer easy access to electric or international payments. There will be devs wanting to experiment with web services, but for them it isn't simply "forking over the bare minimum".

I won't reveal my location just for the sake of an internet discussion, but I lived in a country (It's not exactly a "3rd world shithole", but not a developed one either) where until around five to ten years ago or so getting a bank account with 'credit card' meant you 'made it'.

Why? If you weren't lucky and wanted to pay for something international, you needed a friend with the aforementioned credit card to do the transaction on our behalf. Buying on Amazon? Better make it worth before bothering our friend there. What if I wanted games on steam? The friend with credit card, or use an intermediary that charges an extra before they 'gift' the purchased game. And so on.

Now it has gotten much better, as fintech apps filled the gap offering virtual visa or mastercard payments, and the banks themselves started offering credit cards with lower quotas, but you have to remember that it wasn't available until a couple of years ago, or even still out of reach for some.

So what if you're a developer with no affordable access to international tx and want to experiment regardless? You find the ones that don't require payment.

Free market at work!

FYI, two letter TLDs are country/region/jurisdiction specific. There's an ISO standard for that.

• .tv Tuvalu
• .me Montenegro
• .fm (Federation of) Micronesia

Some countries append additional modifiers to classify their uses:

• .uk United Kingdom
• .co.uk Company
• ...

Three or more are generic (traditional or new)

• .com, .net, .org, ...

In some cases, Uncle Sam said "first!" and it stuck.

• .edu Education (MURICA)
• .mil Military (MURRICA)
• .gov Government (MURRRICA)

Just like what happens with Mali, what some silicon valley hipsters decide as a 'fun' acronym is just that, a fun thought. If the corresponding government decides to take away a specific domain, they probably can.

Hi Mike, I recently started working as programming intern for a company doing webapps. I've worked part-time gigs in a completely different field before, that means I got no certs, no job experience in IT to speak of, I'm not the young guy fresh out of school anymore. However, my interests have always been to break into cybersecurity and have slowly added some relevant knowledge as bare minimum... linux bash scripting, selfhosting, networking and etc. I've been checking out the certs usually recommended plus all the specializations out there and gotta say this is no easy commitment, but I do want to learn.

The thing is, what I'm currently seeing as intern is very different from what people in this field usually speak of online: For example, I was expecting the latest tools and whistles, but the company I'm at uses very old (10 years) frameworks for maintenance and support for corporate clients, windows only, proprietary stuff with very little documentation online. It gets... demotivating? It's still a job and I have bills to pay, but I'm wondering how many years of experience do I need as a regular web developer (if my contract is renewed, even) to even attempt branching into infosec?

I know this gets asked a lot. Sorry for the long text. TL;DR: just started as intern programmer, company works with ancient dinosaurs instead of latest stuff, years of experience needed to become hackerman (or jumping from first one to others shown here)?

I thought I had forgotten about it all. Now they're all back. I can even hear the piano from 2g1c slowly playing out. Help.

Resetting federation to threads.net is even stronger proof that this was done by a 'holds sporks so randum' type of script kiddies.

Google Domains, creating new ways to exploit users right before being sold off to Squarespace.

Vietnam flashbacks of shock sites.

MBA courses must include an obligatory session of secondlife's peniscopter so no one ever bothers coming up with another iteration of this clusterfuck ever again

Nothing wrong with that as long as it works for you.

I've seen similar stuff multiple times, often with misquoted statistics. What many miss is that context is as important as stats.

Federation-wise it would be better if new users spread out. Between clueless redditors and impossible ideal, I prefer if they at least made an account and check out what Lemmy has to offer. The curious ones will eventually settle down and even redistribute into smaller instances.