you know that "xn--" prefix for internationalised domain names?
til that the "n" was picked at random by feeding some stock market numbers into a hash function
In seriousness, I was linked this in the context of nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers so I suspect the reason for this charade was to make sure that no one was influencing the choice for nefarious reasons. But I'm not sure how anyone could possibly benefit from the idna prefix being xb-- instead of xn-- or whatever
@codl weird af
@codl what the fuck
@flussence I've changed my mind I don't want to play pachinko anymore
@codl :)-- prefix
@codl putting a colon in a domain name would fuck so much shit up
@flussence @codl google safe browsing?
@codl and it's bullshit in this context anyway since there's so few possibilities
you can get any of them with a normal NUMS like pi by just extending it arbitrarily, and with this stock rube goldberg by waiting
@unascribed they announced ahead of time what day's numbers would be used
@codl I guess these do have day granularity
@codl Huh, I've seen people use bitcoin for this, but I didn't know they did it with the stock market before.
cmon yall, you're telling me if you worked for the IANA you *wouldn't* set up weird little algorithmic pachinko games like this? be real