• @swlabr
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    78 months ago

    Perhaps I am too pessimistic but the first thought I had was about whether or not Anguilla is under threat from rising sea levels, which AI/blockchain shit is e/accelerating, so… ultimately an L if that were the case. My google fu was not strong enough to find out for sure

  • Steve
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    68 months ago

    I remember someone saying the only way to make (real) money in crypto is to run a conference, I imagine AI will be the same for some time

  • @bitofhope
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    58 months ago

    IIRC Tuvalu got something like a $1 billion as a one-time payment for .tv and I figure .io has been fairly lucrative for British Indian Ocean.

    I have mixed feelings about small island nations selling their DNS identity out like this but I guess milking tech dweebs for all they’re worth is in a certain sense cool and good actually.

    • @selfA
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      98 months ago

      I have never understood the .io domain name fad. “ah this site must do something vaguely software development-related, their name is glorksplush dot input output” what

        • @selfA
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          58 months ago

          I’ve only ever seen one other systems domain and it was something along the lines of awesome.systems and I immediately mentally declared war on it (a personal blog with articles relevant to my interests)

      • @bitofhope
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        58 months ago

        Shoulda guessed from the name “British Indian Ocean” it’s a region mired in the most heinous imperialist bullshit.

        I wish the colonists a very nice time and I hope very comical things happen to them from the point of view of the Chagossians.

        • @geriksonOP
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          78 months ago

          It’s a bit more involved than that.

          The part where BIOT is located is geographically close to Mauritius, which used to be part of the Empire. When decolonization happened, part of the principle was that the entire constituent part was to be decolonized. But at the time, the Vietnam war was happening, the US wanted the UK to contribute, the UK did not want to send armed forces, so the compromised by offering Diego Garcia as an airbase. But to do that, they needed to keep control over it, so they simply ignored the principle of keeping the decolonized territory intact, kept the Chagos, kicked out everyone who lived there, and there we are.