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Rust LanguageWe got an email from the Serbian Registry of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS), the organisation that is responsible for the `.rs` top-level domain.
Looks like they are a big fan of Rust. 😊
Lindsey Kuper@rust I plan to start prepending "Being fully aware that we have no control over how the Universe works or what the future holds," to all my emails.
Adrian Sampson
Frank Quednau
Heiko
Marijke Luttekes
Walter van Holst
Luis Villa
gavi
Kern
Bahco@rust In this case it seems to work out alright, but in general one must be careful with country TLDs and their registrars, witness what happened to queer.af. https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/12/24071036/queer-af-mastodon-taliban-shut-down-afghanistan
Diego Elio Pettenò@Bahco @rust it's a nitpick but *geographical* TLDs.
.eu has its own set of problems.
https://flameeyes.blog/2018/04/10/the-dot-eu-kerfuffle/?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon
Lego Frog@rust Well that's awfully charming of them.
Rachel Rawlings@rust That's nice AF. Not nice .af, of course....
wolfkin@rust oh that's just cute.
Terence Eden
Clayton@rust giving countries ownership of TLDs seems like a dumb idea. I guess it's nice that the current government of Serbia supports you using .rs. Hopefully they stay in power, for your benefit.
guenther@craftyguy yeah because random for-profit companies in random countries are generally much better at serving the public interest than publicly owned infrastructure with democratic oversight.
@guenther who says the governments controlling TLDs are democratic? And even if they are today, they might not be tomorrow. .af, anyone?
Also, no where did I call for for-profit companies to manage TLDs, so I'm not sure where you got that from 🙃
Joe ❌👑@craftyguy @rust As the alternative would be to give either the US government, or whoever can pay the most money, or whoever is chosen by people originally set up by the US DoD and then spun off, control of top level domains, it doesn't seem so bad to me.
Julian Nyča@craftyguy @rust You don't know nothing about who's in power in Serbia at the moment, do you?
d@nny disc@ mc²@nyca @craftyguy @rust i don't believe it's widely known that the government of serbia is quite literally fascist and bent on territorial expansion, for example, and often allies with russia https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/112145756723113036
d@nny "disc@" mcClanahan (@[email protected])
we do realize the government of serbia is super fascist right? everyone is aware of this? are we ok making this political alliance? https://social.rust-lang.org/@rust/112140223447505474
@nyca @craftyguy @rust or at least as a US citizen i wasn't aware of that until i started following a montenegrin activist
Peter Brett@craftyguy @rust I think it's a perfectly reasonable choice that TLDs that are literally the ISO country code of a country should be controlled (directly or otherwise) by that country's government. If you don't like it, there are many non-country TLDs to choose from.
kjetiljd@craftyguy You erroneously assume that RNIDS is a governmental entity. It is not. https://www.rnids.rs/en/conference-co-founders/co-founders-and-authorised-representatives
Nemo_bis 🌈@kjetiljd Agitprop listed as one of 132 co-founders, how adorable.
ellie@rust This makes me happy 🥰
Riley S. Faelan@rust It's RS for it's the Republic of Serbia, or Republika Srbija.
arcayr@rust yo this rocks.
@rust Wow, that's genuinely awesome. Greetings from Serbia. Makes me happy to read that they were so welcoming.
Pxl Phile@rust that... is an amazing positive email. Congratulations in finding unexpected friends around, I guess
Mulbox@rust based
jailandrade
categulario 🐍 🦀 🦎 🇵🇸
Mister Moo 🐮@rust I kept waiting for it to get mean and it never did.
Alex Willmer@rust ccTLDs that are also programming langugage file extensions
.am Armenia, Automake
.as American Samoa, ActionScript
.cc Cocos (Keeling) Islands, C++
.gs South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Google App Script
.ml Mali, ML
.mm Myanmar, Objective-C++
.pl Poland, Perl
.pm Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Perl module
.py Paraguay, Python
.rs Rust, Serbia
.sh Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Shell
plus many I've no doubt missed
.am Armenia, Automake
.as American Samoa, ActionScript
.cc Cocos (Keeling) Islands, C++
.gs South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Google App Script
.ml Mali, ML
.mm Myanmar, Objective-C++
.pl Poland, Perl
.pm Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Perl module
.py Paraguay, Python
.rs Rust, Serbia
.sh Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Shell
plus many I've no doubt missed
Joachim Jablon
Aleksandar Vacić@rust Serbian RNIDS is (so far) one of those rare truly great things here in Serbia.
the hatter@rust Aww that's lovely, I remember when more TLDs had a human touch to them.
mika@rust as a part of this *problem", I love that a single .rs domain can express both my nationality and the country I come from!
Dr. Quadragon ❌@rust This is so neat!!!!
@rust Whaaaat! This is so nice! Thank you, Serbia!
wakest likes your bugs ⁂@rust this it the best email
Juan Nunez-Iglesias@rust I’m jealous and sad that the Paraguayan government does not feel the same way about Python. 😂
jstm ausm paralleluniversum@rust damn never seen a registry be that nice!
JulianWgs
Manuel Landesfeind@rust ... or could it be that they know exactly how the universe works. And that they realize that they make a fortune selling all the .rs domains. A fortune they cannot make by selling domains to their population of about 7mio people. 😉
Whatever it is... the letter is very lovely 😊
Whatever it is... the letter is very lovely 😊
Serjor@rust somehow that email has restored a little bit my faith in the humanity
Evan Prodromou@rust I love this!
varx/tech@rust I still don't want to trust a .rs domain overly much, but... that *is* a lovely letter, and it's delightful that they sent it!
lord pthenq1
@rust nobody else appears to be saying this but the current serbian government is literally fascist, allies with russia, and hates queer people https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/112145756723113036
d@nny "disc@" mcClanahan (@[email protected])
we do realize the government of serbia is super fascist right? everyone is aware of this? are we ok making this political alliance? https://social.rust-lang.org/@rust/112140223447505474
@rust also see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Serbia
jnfrd Jan@hipsterelectron @rust tell me more about my fucking neighborhood. 😢
What about trying again on mars without musk or any other idiot?
@hipsterelectron @rust also. Those asholes are part of the (censored) EU. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Hungary
(I mean the government. NOT the people)
Many Colors, Many Forms, Many Flavors, Maybe More@rust Great! So when are yall going to move everything from io. over to rs.?
Hyde 📷 🖋 
Anthony Cowley