So for OVH I’ve got the EU side, but I’m not flagging that you could spin up in their US or Canada region by accident.

In effort not to create a large amount of work or overhead, I think the key concern is more what is considered sovereign - these large shops have core presence and edge presence. It is not uncommon that an edge use the features of the core which crosses countries; when I worked in a multinational, our Sydney DC was an edge to the Hong Kong DC core (think like a monitoring or backup system) so your data actually flowed through HKG pipes because Sydney is insanely expensive to have a DC in (size/space).

Spirit in my comment was more to that - spinning up in US by accident is a “given” to me, kinda obvious. An edge DC routing through a core DC in another country, well that’s a different matter. Can be invisible to the end user.

If you’ve still got the registrar list you clicked through

ICANN has a nice page, lets you filter it by country or whatever. There are a million of them, and some of them “feel sketchy” but many seem like generic, boring registrars.

https://www.icann.org/en/contracted-parties/accredited-registrars/list-of-accredited-registrars

I then used the DNSPerf data to dig into that layer, tl;dr 90% (guessing) are US controlled. I actually found more out there than what’s on this list but it’s really comprehensive of the big players in the DNS space.

https://www.dnsperf.com/

My “investigation” was all manual, dig through publicly available information and follow my nose. The DNS perf listing is actually how I even learned Bunny and Gcore existed.

Nice work! A question and a request:

ref: https://euvetted.com/compare?p=hetzner%2Covhcloud

(q) Looking at the Cloud & Hosting category, I don’t see a distinction for regional datacenters; for instance OVHcloud has a US counterpart and US datacenters (and Canada) along with all their EU stuff. Just sort of asking how that worked out in your investigations… even if it’s just Canada, it’s not in the EU yet. :) But more realistically say… Helsinki vs. UK or something.

(r) One of the things I spent time on but I don’t see reflected - Domain Registrars and DNS Hosting. I used the ICANN official list myself and just clicked a lot, and for DNS I found basically CouldNS, Bunny.net and Gcore.com as the “EU” (not sure if EU or general Europe). [1]

Bunny and Gcore are Cloudflare competitors so it’s no small work to build a full set of data like you have done for others, they all offer a lot of products under one umbrella. But CloudNS isn’t so it’s a crossover area between different types of companies based on singular… features offered?

[1] side comment, it might be interesting to see a mapping of domain TLDs - it’s well known about who owns/controls net. com, org but I think few realize that a lot of these new TLDs are all owned by single megacorps when you dig into Wikipedia etc. Your precious .dev is owned by Google.

It is, the ranges mark up the ammo (what business doesn’t) as they sell small quantities to a captive audience who will pay. Ammoseek represents the other end of the spectrum, ppl buying wholesale in larger quantities. Not represented are the hand loaders, typically sports-oriented going through a thousand a week in practice buying components at cost.

One I snack on with unsalted tortilla chips, the other I do not. But now I have to try it.

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top: found sister’s sunglasses. 1753% good boy.

bottom: influencer

I am not trying to stand out excessively. … I don’t want something commonly mispronounced.

Me trying to come up with a new domain name for a website. Also add “easy to spell for 5th graders” to the list because repeating it to someone on the phone is painful sometimes and they still get it wrong.

My immediate thought: the paperwork system of the world would fail. Correcting an extremely unique misspelled name (let’s say it’s two letters transposed) falls into that weird bucket of “close enough typos” that the OP would never recover. I’d be worried most about the financial systems screwing me over.

IMHO, best to change to something clearly different so that the paperwork world is given a clear indication of intentional change. Broadcast the intent loud and clear to force systems to change and not ignore it as “some stupid typo.” $0.02

edit: sorry replied to the wrong comment my bad, meant the parent

I see folks mentioning going back to their dormant LFM accounts. The Metabrainz Foundation has a project ListenBrainz, a more open FOSS style version; if you’re going to spin some scrobbling cycles maybe check it out:

https://listenbrainz.org/

(I stopped scrobbling years ago, privacy concerns)

Stars are just someone’s bookmark (me included) because there’s no simple “bookmark this because I’ll forget in an hour and want to look at it later when I have time.” If one trusts Stars, you’re literally trusting a bookmark that I didn’t put more than 2 seconds of thought into clicking because I have a bad memory. Many I know do the same.

I go straight to code history, show me what the commits look like. One can derive a lot about the project based on just the way the commit messages are written before looking at the code being changed. How the code is changed over time (process, communication, methods, etc.) adds more layers to the qualitative observation. I move on to Issues when I want to see how the devs interact with the users having problems, which is another story.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footgun

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shoot_oneself_in_the_foot

The dichotomy here is you can’t be famous hosting exploits on smaller forges. Gotta be on the big platforms where you can be starred and forked for social media cred to make news stories to impress your friends. IIRC I think HeartBleed (maybe ShellShock?) was the tip of this popularity iceberg…

dunno about anyone else but even when sock shoe repeat order, I need to stand and wiggle my feet before tying. gotta get that perfect fit

Oh my, that sounds bad. I wonder how many certs were up for renewal… thanks for sharing I didn’t see this in the news.

Feline leukemia (FeLV) snd aids (FIV) are a thing, I highly recommend a vet visit for tests before introducing to Paxton. A full blood test & vax shots, inspection can run $$, look around your area for rescue groups, call them and ask who they go to for care.

(adding to your info) I use Audacious on Linux desktop, it’s great at handling streams and has a nice interface, very configurable. I choose to keep it a minimalist “in the corner” style.

Soundcloud kinda took the same journey as Flickr - at first they had a solid hold on a corner of mindshare and people loved it and used it a lot. But then over the years conflicting mission goals appear and the site gets pulled back and forth, shedding a lot of users in the process. In modern terms, enshittification.

Eventually they make their way back around to possibly where they started, but by then they’ve lost all momentum and mindshare. Just like I never went back to Flickr, I just now tried to log into Soundcloud and it hit me with a “been too long since you’ve logged in, forced password reset” so I closed the window and walked away.

I have been a Transistor user for a long time, the releases are always solid - the dev chose to shut down external contributions (bug reports/code fixes) on their Codeberg repo a few years back, so you kinda get what you get. No shade, it works great. https://codeberg.org/y20k/transistor

https://www.radio-browser.info/

Shoutcast (Icecast) streams are still going strong if you’re willing to put in some effort uncovering ones for your genres. SomaFM is still going strong, Big Sonic Heaven is online, DecayFM, Voice of Doom, Dark Asylum, even public radio like CHIRP (Chicago) are pumping out streams run by humans playing new music.